>>33049871Agreed,
Like some of the technology they experimented was cool. I had my first Wi-Fi battles on it, and you could store your team on a wiimote, but the game itself was so bare bones compared to every game before it. The intro to the series had little mini games, the 3rd gen had an entire story mode, then the 4th gen follows it up by... taking all that out. The game is almost unplayable if you don't have a 4th gen game to pair it with too, then you can only use the rental Pokemon that just suck so hard
HGSS amazed me with just how much content they packed in. Not just the 16 gym battles, but also being able to challenge the leaders again, an expansive battle tower, migrant Pokemon, daily events, a customizable safari zone, bug catching contests. It puts modern games to shame with just how much you can do.
And then PBR amazes me on the opposite end, by just how barren the game is. It's like hgss was gamefreak trying to do some fans after two of the worst executed games in the franchise
