>>46208066>Why would anyone praise this game as the peak?Because they drastically expanded on almost everything in the games before. That's what sets gens 2, 3, 4, and 5 apart from what came later - each of these takes things that were in the games before and reworks them, expands them, adds new features that tie into them.
In Ruby and Sapphire's case:
>made Pokemon more interesting by giving them Abilities>made each individual Pokemon more unique with abilities, a wider range of IVs compared to DVs, and the inability to max out all EVs>expanded on berries with tons of them, all with unique sprites and effects, and the ability to cultivate the berries you want instead of just grabbing one per day from a tree>expanded room decoration into Secret Bases, where you pick where you want it and can buy the decorations for it yourself>PC boxes are bigger and you no longer have to manually switch your box when it's full>the Battle Tower is now a thing in the paired versions themselves, the paired versions have some semblance of actual postgame content for the first timeI can go on, but I should note that I think gen 3 in general is the peak of the franchise, not just RS. As far as paired versions go, I actually think
Diamond and Pearl may be the best.
