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>60fps on GBA
>No loading screens (aside from interiors)
>Pretty big region with tons of side areas to explore
>Tons of variety within the enviroment
>Dynamic weather
>130+ new pokemon
>First games where trainers are actually somewhat competent team (compared to previous where people only remember Whitney's Miltank and that's it)
>A plot that actually exists and has a sense of urgency instead of cucked Team Rocket goofying around begging for Giovanni to return
>Introduced berries + berry planting
>Introduced Abilities+Natures
>Completely reworked the EVs system so that instead of just grinding infinitely to max out all the stats you actually have to be smart and dedicate where you want to assign your points
>Completely reworked the PC system making it so good that we still use the same exact one to this day
>Menu sprites for all Pokemon
>Secret Bases
>Contests
>Double Battles
>Literally went back,looked at how people used to talk about gen 1 myths like Mew under the truck etc. and built cool cryptic puzzles for the Regi trio (further fueling more myths like Jirachi on the moon and stuff like that)
>Dive underwater
>Extra stuff like the Trick House
>Seeing the Abandoned Ship for the first time while on Mr.Briney's boat, slowly realising you could actually go there on your own and explore that
>Autistically collecting all the ash for the special fortinure
>Amazing soundtrack that is so plastered in our brains that it immediately starts playing as soon as you see a screenshot of one of the routes [BRAPPA PAPPAAAAA PA-PAPAAA]
Not even metioning the Battle Frontier.
It's crazy to think how good we had it, how we used to get hyped for a new Pokemon game, you bought it and it actually was awesome
