>>46432287The style, music and palette are maximum levels of comfy. It really hasn’t even been achieved since, lotta really good games afterwards. Most agree that Emerald, BW2 and SM were pretty solid games. USUM would have been up there supplanting SM but they fucked up the Lusamine story for literally no reason and ruined the game somehow despite adding a lot of good looking new locations and features
I’ll say that for me, Crystal is max aesthetic and max comfy. Emerald is the most balanced region and Dex though, by a mile. It’s got interesting and believable biomes and weather. The trumpets make it fee orchestral which is great, the haters can blow brass.