>>25082603Okay I need to elaborate, which I wasn't on purpose because this board does the same fucking song and dance for way too long but ok.
I feel no compelling reason to go play Emerald for the main story. The Frontier is good even if I only enjoy half of it, but the gym rematches, though the way they work is immersive, are underleveled for postgame standards a good chunk of the time and the maingame feels about the same
>But there's double battles with EXTRA MONSSave a couple, that's just some extra EXP yield from one-shotting with SE moves.
>But trick houseI tried to care. I tried, but I just kept thinking "I just wanna beat this game already".
>But gym/E4 teamsThe only major difference to me are the twins, and Juan. Besides, ORAS actually kept Drake's Emerald Kingdra while replacing the Shelgon instead of one of the two Flygon.
Meanwhile in ORAS sure I have to deal with May being an annoying as fuck shitter for the first bunch of the game or so but I've got the updated mechanics, and most importantly DexNav. I loved using it to get egg moves and found it to be one of my favorite features ever put into Pokemon.
Exploring mirage islands and past areas for lategame team tweaks is fun for me as well, though I don't appreciate the idea of grinding something up to E4 levels.
Victory Road having National Dex trainers was also something I found to be really cool. I mean Delta Episode is crap, and seeing the Maison again is a blunder, but it still felt nice to me.
There. NOW you know what I mean
I hope, I'm bad at explaining things now prepare for someone to post a greentext of there's no [x] and that I'm an apologist or some shit because I didn't hate one Pokemon game, when there's actually plenty I dislike. I was trying to avoid it, but now we can't stop it.
