>>47047176best waifus, fantastic scenery, good variety of wild pokemon, gym leader designs are solid. music is a bit lacking compared to gen 5 and 7 though, but pokemon masters fixed the gym theme. i also enjoy fairy types and the tears they still cause dragonbros, but their advent also made poison types useful so thats a plus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm7LM7a85kIits weaknesses are pretty bad though. annoying set of rivals, a do nothing champion who had no build up, the gimmick of the gen is pretty weak. a lot of genwun pandering, as well as a gen 4 pokemon being the posterboy for the mega evolutions, as well as the exp share making an already easy series even easier, though if you're playing pokemon for the main story challenge you're doing it wrong
This game needs it 3rd version more than any other gen and its the only one that didn't get it