>>56198672>Erika>Game Corner Giovanni>Run over with Tea to Saffron>Silph Co.>Rival battle>Double battle with Ariana and Archer>Giovanni again for some reason>Sabrina>Marowak's mother.Thats six (6) fucking back to back boss fights, not including Marowak, with little to no content opened up until you beat them. Saffron has no grass or wild pokemon and the surrounding areas have already been unlocked. Second playthrough I tried to skip it to go catch pokemon because you can Silph Scope out Marowaks mother and Pokeflute Snorlax before Silp Co. but then, surprise surprise, a fucking invisible wall stops you and says "I should beat Erika and Sabrina" because God forbid we go out of order to go catch some pokemon and test out the team.
But wait, then I got to Fuschia City only to get ambushed by Brendan at Safari Zone and find out that the Gym is closed until I rematch Brock - Erika. This isn't gameplay its artificially making the game longer by making me fly back to 4 locations, swap out 2-3 mons, and redo shit I don't care about.
Oh, and VS. Seeker is "Banned huur duur amulet coin+VS Seeker is overpowerd" but then the game openly lets you gen your mons at the Pokecenter for free. So fuck taking a break to go rematch/test against some of the actually interesting fights like all of Routes 13-15 or the double battles. So it's just Showdown with extra, shitty steps.
Radical Red was made by an autistic retard with no concept of game design. I never drop it because its hard, I drop it because I hate the game.
