>>47232099Let me explain this to you:
People like 2d games. It brings them nostalgia. 2d unironically looks higher quality than 3d, in many contexts.
These are the peak 2d games where the series started to be fully realized in battle. Crystal had the battle tower, but other than houndoom, starters, and tyranitar there was no good johto mons. There was also a lack of good moves.
Emerald has a new batch of pokemon, of which maybe 1/4th of lines are op. Almost every type was represented aside from grass (still had sceptile though) and bug (still had heracross and ninjask though.) really the only fault in emerald for in game battling was:
>no steel, bug, or flying moves>only 50 tm's>badly spread mons like sharpedo being a physical attacker.The only part of emerald i hate is all hoenn dark types suck (until postgame houndoom)
Gen 4 fixed alot of these issues. In fact almost every hoenn issue was fixed by new moves and physical special split.
Gen 5, was similar to emerald in the begginning with being focused on new mons but branches out towards black and white 2.
Overall gen 5 was the worst, but only because it lacked a battle frontier. The battle subway was still fun to go through a few times.
The battle frontier in gen 3 and 4, were perfect for their time, except battle castle. Fuck that place.
