>>24987047It's my favorite mainline game in the series. It keeps everything from GSC in
except the Odd Egg and a few cosmetic things from Crystal, fixes some problems like restoring Kanto locations, and then, after all that, adds even more shit like the Pokéathlon and rematches. Not perfect, the level curve is still bad like earlier mentioned, but it has some of the most content in the series.
It's become a recent trend on /vp/ to hate HGSS as a contrarian stance to ORAS hate, you should know.
I also agree that SacredGold and StormSilver are great hacks.