Pokerouge is the most fun I've had with a Pokemon game in quite some time, it really understands what it wants to be. It's extremely replayable and encourages trying new teams and strategies in a way that mainline games do not. Playing Pokemon normally is too braindead, playing nuzlocke is too luck based, Pokerouge nails the difficulty here.

Thing is, the difficulty can really, really spike sometimes, like you will be on top of the world and then swept like nothing. Certain trainers have their teams buffed to a ridiculous degree, it's nothing anyone could see coming the first couple plays through.

But yeah it's goated, been playing it a ton these past couple weeks and hasn't lost any appeal. Just glad Nintedo hasn't put their ban hammer on it yet.