>>38010407>requires you to talk to specific people to progress in the story and sometimes gives you no indication of who, like how you have to randomly talk to Folley in the jail to unlock the Shadow Pokemon Lab. You basically have to read a walkthrough to playI was like 10 when i played it and i had no problem figuring out everything, and i didnt had internet.
>the Pokemon selection is so fucking small it was hard to form a cohesive team of Pokemon I actually wanted to useThis is one of the greatest things about the games, you actually have to think to make a team and change pokemons through the story, not just level up mindlessly, pokemon XD even had a battle simulator that teaches you everything about battles.
>bad level scaling highly encourages you to drop early game PokemonYeah, its kinda slow i think, but not that discouraging
>Lost easy battles because Shadow Pokemon will continuously go into Hyper Mode a ridiculous amount of turns in a rowIts cohesive with the lore, they were abused pokemon with their hearts closed, and xd gave Shadow pokemons more moves.
>Pokeballs are only available at ONE shop in the entire gameI didnt remember this, but i think you can buy balls on multiple cities.
>Can’t purify Pokemon until midway through the gameBut you can advance the process through battle and fell reward when the time comes.
>Had to frequently leave areas to heal due to lack of supplies because of low reward money, probably never had more than $20,000 at any given point Well, its an actually difficult game at some times.
>no reward for exploration; very few NPCs give items or have meaningful dialogue. A huge problem in XD as wellIm with you with the item part, not with the dialogue part, worldbuilding is important.
