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  • (Soul)Silver for nostalgia, Emerald for favourite to replay

  • Crystal is very special to me. I always felt like I was "wrong" as a child for not liking "girl things." It was the first game I ever played that offered a female protagonist. That was something that told me that I was okay the way I am. I know it's kind of silly, but it really helped me become comfortable with myself.

  • I played Gen 1 as a kid and didn't play Pokemon again til Black and White. It was an amazing leap to see the first and last pixel animated mainline Pokemon games, and both had their own unique set of 150 Pokemon. It's like a showcase of how much the series had grown.

    Incidentally, it was the last mainline Pokemon game I actually enjoyed.

  • Until Arceus came along and finally did what Pokemon should have been doing a long time ago, it was Pokemon Snap. Arceus is great, but it's also the bare minimum of what I think the series should be. I would hope that Palworld has set a fire under Nintendo and GameFreak's ass to get them to make something that actually brings the series forward instead of keeping it mired in game design from a bygone era.

  • I have a soft spot for Crystal, in terms of the official series.

    If we include rom hacks, Crystal Clear is great, and I'm really enjoying Pokemon Emerald Rogue these days.

  • I would like to say leaf green just because I played it later on and the little clubhouse you could make was cool, I recently started trying to replay one of each generation like yellow, crystal, and now emerald but man I just want to power through them but you have to grind to level up and i get sleepy

  • For me i would say silver for the nostalgia factor, Also silver (and gold) were compatible with the original black/white gb so Even more nostagic than Crystal

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