>>46962490Gen 2 is the most soulful of all generations, that is regardless if you like the Pokémon designs or not but the region was truly packed with shit to do AND then you get another region to explore, it felt like a true sequel with a chance to revisit the old game's content.
Gen 3 in my opinion is a real good soulful game as well, with ton of exploration, with a plot that takes you everywhere and content that allows you to do a lot of shit... but it just cannot compare to Gen 2, objectively Gen 2 simply was the perfect sequel, Gen 3 is unrelated to the previous events in the story and as such loses some of that original charme.