There's already a thread about Hoenn up. So let's make this one about FRLG.
FrLg are honestly trash. I would rather play RBY literally any fucking day of the week. If you're not gonna change anything with QoL improvements like breeding and new evolutions in the main game, ACTUALLY DONT CHANGE ANYTHING THEN for shit sake.
>Absolutely terrible music, partly the GBA's fault in general, but even then there are soundtracks that fare much better than FRLG's mangling of the GB classics. The champion theme is especially bad, where you can hear the GBA obvious fail to keep up with the amount of rapid notes the GB pulled off, replacing part of the descending madness of notes that makes the champion theme special with a faux operatic bit that sounds like ass cause it's the GBA
>Artstyle is atrocious. The gen 3 artstyle looks like cheap shit, literally the same quality as chinese bootleg games from the time. This makes Kanto look fucking awful. Kanto looks even worse because they decided the map needed to be basically 1:1 tile to tile with the GB game, meaning the game tries to give detail to a nonsense abstraction map to terrible ends.
>Gen 1 was designed around the unavailability of powerful moves and the lengths you'd need to go to in order to teach them to your Pokemon, which is why RBY has much weaker and tamer appearing encounters than much of the series, especially until much later in. This is completely invalidated in FRLG, which translates over Gen 3 learnsets 1:1, sometimes even improving them, they did this WITHOUT changing the encounters to match the improved arsenal. So now encounter design is a fucking mess, Charmander isn't even the hard start anymore because it gets metal claw FFS.
