>>47512073Most Pokemon games can be beaten in less time than that. It mostly comes down to pacing, more than anything. Pokemon games have a pacing problem in general. I'd say RS or BW are probably what you should aim for, the former for people who don't like cutscenes and the latter for people who are more or less fine with them (it only gets worse from BW). As for postgame, yeah HGSS provides a lot, but we can say that DP and BW provide a reasonable amount, they're roughly in parity with each-other. SM tries but it doesn't do a great job. First versions will always struggle with this, RS has a lot of fucking nothing to do after you beat it, but Emerald has way more. But Game Freak now wants you to pay half a whole video game on top of the game you already bought to get that content, instead of just waiting for another game.
