>>28213324Fucking this. Johto was just God tier exploration wise. The super rare Pokemon, day night cycle, optional islands and the day kids were reason enough that I'm not even sure if I found everything. And to top things off you got to revisit a reworked Kanto with all new secrets completely on its own.
Hoenn felt so unfinished and unsatisfying in comparison and to answer
>>28213265 It was the generation that a lot of problems to the games that plagued the series. Removal of backwards compability, no second region, no removal of general features like rebattling trainers, the radio, the phone, forging your own Pokeballs, no day night cycle, ugly ass Pokemon designs and it started the cancerous shit with the evil team always trying to control the box legendary forcing you to encounter it instead of figuring out how to find it all on your own. It didn't feel like Pokemon anymore and it's no wonder it alienated a lot of fans.
And on top of that Hoenn was a pretty bland region. The routes were not interesting and surfing and diving were a pain in the ass. All in all you got an incredibly bland and boring region that removed a lot of features that made Pokemon Pokemon, couldn't use your old bros and felt utterly lacking in total. On the other hand it split the special stat and introduced double battles, so that's good. But it doesn't even compare to how much it ruined the franchrise
