Pretty fun as a nice challenge, as some who knows FireRed like the back of their hand, to go back to this one and try and beat it with all the first generation’s weird quirks, oddities, and limitations. Was worried I was going to need a lot of grinding, but my champion rival was a pretty easy feat, with limited healing items, to boot! Also just serves as a fun challenge because you have to account for Pikachu, a little guy with low HP and defense whose only real perks are its amazing speed and that it learns Thunderbolt naturally. I kept him leveled ahead of all the other teammates more and more as enemies became stronger and the little rodent held its own the whole way. ‘Red, Blue, and Yellow Versions’ are miracles in so many ways, and I feel like people like to dog on them, now, because it’s easy to look back at ‘Red Version’, in particular and go “wow, that game is ugly as shit and barely runs,” but isn’t that just the magic of game programming? Honestly felt like the 3DS version kinda had some porting bumps that made the game act odd (probably a result of tweaking some flashing lights and sprites when they ported this). I mean, at the end of the day I’m pretty proud of myself for actually going ahead and beating a Generation 1 game for the first time. Liked my team a lot, too, I don’t know how I keep finding ways to make the Kanto Pokédex interesting. Shout out to Fearow, the underdog MVP of my league run.