Genuinely makes me feel a little old remembering this game because it’s been over 11 years and I remember like it was yesterday:looking at the Pokémon website one day and seeing a trailer for this game, and thinking it was the coolest thing ever and anticipating its release. I saved up enough money to get it the day after it came out and then frantically played it for a few days before beating the main story(and then spending the better part of a year coming back to it to beat the postgame). For a long while at that point it probably was my favorite game I’d ever played, I can’t quite say that anymore but it’ll always have a place among my personal favorites.