>>48962434They are much better than their original games.
>>48962460Would've been cool had it been a free post-launch content update, but the lack of a battle frontier doesn't mean these were worse, the originals did not have them. This is something people seem to struggle to keep in mind, they are remakes of the original games with up to date mechanics, trying to keep the experience as true as possible while balancing new things that came after the fact. Because people think "oh well, these games aren't emerald, they're dogshit," it creates a false comparison, which I don't think is fair.
>>48962468That's a shit take because the two regions literally border eachother, they're closer together than any other region comparatively speaking, of course it would have a lot of kanto influence.