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Not my all time favorite, but I feel like ORAS needs some more appreciation
>Took the original's story filled with plotholes and filled them up to make sense
>Took the main antagonists and gave them depth and personalities
>Made Mega evolution work very well with the story
>Took one of my least favorite evolutions (Sceptile) and turned him into the badass I always knew he could be.
>Made contests super over the top anime cutscenes, and they're fucking amazing
>Condensed the water routes and extended the camera over them to make it feel like you're covering more ground
>Secret Bases and Blissey Bases
>Battle Resort might be poor man's Battle Frontier, but it gave us the best breeding facility the games have ever had
>Looks better then X and Y, despite being on the same exact engine.
>Has almost ALL of the legendaries in the game with a simple justification
>Updated it's pokedex correctly, including all gen 4 evolutions.
>Turns a blandass town into a complex, with a dark secret behind closed doors
>Expands on the backstory of a minor character in the abandoned ship
>Really good alignment of megas, design wise
>The pokedex of the original game is where pokemon started to Grow its Beard
>Delta Episode's climax where you get to ride RAYQAYZA INTO FUCKING SPACE AND FIGHT DEOXYS
>Despite what many people say about her, adds in a really good character that's basically a religious death seeker, who I'm convinced suplexed Archie
A lot of people aren't looking forwards to Sinnoh remakes because of this game, but honestly, so long as they include Platinum's pokedex, I'll be fine.