>>48875118>Get told by everyone that Emerald is the pinnacle of Pokémon>Figure that there will be some awesome climax between Team Aqua and Magma, and the the legendary Trio of the games>Finally play it, find out it's the exact same as RS and that the "climax" just boils down to talking to Raquaza in the Sky Pillar (which has been changed to make the puzzle easier) and watching a GBA cutscene Don't get me wrong, I fucking loved Pokémon Ruby, and gen 3 is one of my favorite gens, but nothing about Emerald is that much better than Ruby or Sapphire. The climax was super disappointing and while being able to fight both teams was cool and made sense, they didn't really do a lot with it. It would've been cool if you had to fight both Maxie and Archie in a multi battle but that never happened.
And don't even think about saying "muh battle frontier" since emeraldchuds constantly spout why their battle frontier is the best without ever elaborating. I've even asked what makes it so good but I never get an answer, beyond people wanting to fuck picrel
