>>46516309>>they are still good games todaynah, anon. they're not a worst game of the year of anything, and there is very much a decent game at the core, it just needed a lot of polish to truly stand out. they are a legitimate slog nowadays, and not because they're long, it's because it's so slow to do /anything/ eg. battles, surfing, hell even just running or biking feels sluggish. the dex is shit and doesn't even integrate a third of the new mons brought in, and as much as the lack of fire types get memed on it is legitimately an issue with how unbalanced the dex is, it makes playthroughs feel samier. the postgame, while there's more there than the other paired versions up to that point it's still very clearly less than Emerald and even Crystal compares favourably. I would also say aesthetically it's very unfinished, there's some screenshots comparing tilesets between D/P and Pt. and it's night and day.
Like don't get me wrong, again, they're definitely not bad games, but there's like one reason to revisit the two over Platinum and it's getting shit like Glameow.
