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My love of GSC is probably mostly nostalgia, I played the shit out of it as a kid. I didn't care that it didn't look as good as Link's Awakening DX because it had a lot else going for it. I did think RS looked kinda like ass on the overworld even as a kid, but as an adult I realize if they tried to make a day night cycle it would not only not make the game look better, it would also make it impossible to see on the OG GBA. DP was alright at the time but I can't go back, too slow. I do think FRLG, HGSS, and the Gen 5 titles mostly get the overworld sprites right, and even DP looks okay in battle despite HP draining taking a billion years. XY can look alright in battle, but the fact that it slows down constantly and consistently makes it kinda suck, and the chibi overworld looks like garbage. At least SM looks alright all the time, although I've got a lot of nitpicks.
If you want my top games for gameplay, Gen 1 is alright for a play-through, and so is RSE (although Emerald has something more after the end), while HGSS/BW/B2W2 are better games to just keep playing after you beat them. Even ORAS and USUM have some stuff to offer that a lot of the other games just don't. It's a shame Platinum and XY have their thunder stolen to the point there's not much reason to play them anymore, but I don't feel bad about base SM because USUM is better in every way that doesn't involve Lillie (and I wasn't impressed with her in the first place).
