In places?
It gave us screaming Charmander, the battle with Brock being a death of a thousand freshly-caught Pokemon cuts, and Red continually changing out his team so frequently was a nice touch, for what little it amounted to. The towns just being the exact GBA versions to scale wasn't a good call.
>>53618170Alas, this was painful. And yet it mirrors the experience of those who just powerleveled their starter.