>>34643282I'm one of those kids. It came out right as all my friends got back into Pokemon, at the start of high school. Shit was pretty fun; there were so many options in the main story so we all had different teams of our favorites. We got to trade and battle often, and a lot of people at our school were into it at that time.
I still remember telling my friends about the Hawlucha leak before release, and later the three mythicals when Smea datamined his game.