>>49975608Its just a meme newfriend.
Anyways, OP is unironically correct even though he's posting bait. Gen 2's slower paced journey with generally low-power mons and more mons hidden behind exploration and sidequests is peak JRPG and if you play through it with some patience it really does manage to make you feel like a kid going around collecting weird yokai and having a generally good time.
I get why people don't like it ever since Gen 3 came out and shifted the gears back towards having each Pokemon be much more lethal and making the core progression more linear with optional exploration usually being tied to legendaries or other huge rewards, but a lot of the hate lobbied at Gen 2 is by people who genuinely don't understand why its designed the way it is.
