>>31213947God tier music and map design, and great fakemons
But the story is retarded, and the level balance is a fucking mess of Olympian proportions. Gym and named trainers are like fifteen levels above route trainers at all times. There's also some real poor design choices- take the psychic horse for example, it gets two branching evolutions but the unicorn is objectively better than the Pegasus. However, you don't get the unicorn until much later, so unknowing players would blindly evolve it into the Pegasus instead and miss out on the unicorn's insane special metagross power. The alternative is lugging around a shitmon until the mid 40's where you can finally find the fucking stone.
Or, how about the badass saber tooth lightning tiger fossil? Rock/electric special monster. There is a tm for a 100 accuracy base 100 special rock move. You might want to teach it that. Jokes on you, it gets it on level up probably just after you can get the tm.
The starters have awful level up moves but amazing tm learnsets, so it forces you to make major sacrifices to prevent your starter from being dead weight.
Oh and the psychic gym puzzle is insanely hard, combine the worst aspects of sliding ice tiles and Boulder pushing puzzles with the horrors of Tate and Liza's Emerald gym and it's still not as bad as that fucking mess of hours of trial and error
How people played this game before the translation fucking stumps me
