If you like this trash you're just the swooshill of the 2000's
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>No connectivity to past gens despite Nintendo intentionally making GBA connectable to the GBC for Gamefreak and Pokemon alone
>Can no longer catch them all without buying like 5-6 fucking games (two of which are on a different platform, a home console)
>No endgame areas to speak of coming off of the Kanto endgame of GSC
>Gen 1 and GS has Stadium 1+2 as fully featured endgame challenges for the player and Crystal also had a built in battle tower on top of the option of PS2 endgame challenges, the only option for RS is a battle tower on a lonely island and the Colo/XD challenges which were also just towers (Colo wouldn't be out until a year later, so at launch just the shitty tower)
>First set of Pokemon designs to lean on gaudy colors and markings over a natural grounding in reality
>Regi puzzle was shameless bait to sell strategy guides
>Ugliest spritework
>Terrible soundfont
>Lost features like day and night cycle
>Dozens of design flaws like never seeing your rivals fully evolved starter or all of the useless double battle bait Pokemon you couldn't justify raising in the main game because of how uncommon doubles were
>Atrocious map design, water routes and caves the region, diving into featureless pits to try and find shit
>From an aesthetic perspective the map doesn't sell itself as a natural world, despite being a tropical island its populated almost exclusively by pine trees, the desert portion of the map makes no sense being there, all area transitions are instant and jarring
