why the fuck was the gba port the best version of this game

this game in an abstract sense evokes the same indecipherable feeling to me as im blue by eiffel 65, where its like impossible to give this shit a measurable rating cuz honestly any score here could be valid, it kinda just exists on a different plane than anything else in this form of media. i will say tho its kinda soulless now ever since they gave it to microsoft

jank asf at a lot of points but idk how u can bring urself to genuinely hate this

if more of the music in this game was actually hip hop related id find this way more enjoyable; i give this an extra half star cuz i found out ninjamuffin rt'd one of my tweets in 2020

shit gameplay, good everything else

this game is a broken mess but i like that broken mess

this is kinda like an smt game a little bit

i got memed into playing this piece of shit cuz everywhere i heard people say this was one of the best platformers on the ps1

this game is worse than 06 and boom cuz its not even bad in a way thats entertaining its just soulless garbage all the way through

this kinda feels like if i played a saga game after blunt force trauma to tje head

long and boring slog with a few highs here and there

platinums iteration of sinnoh is one of the best regions in a pokemon game, taking all the cool stuff in the original diamond and pearl, and ironing out all the bullshit those games came with initially.

the main problem is how ungodly slow this game is, which is unfortunately bad enough to take away from the overall experience. on top of this, you gotta deal with sinnohs 9 billion hms, that are pretty much all required. you're gonna have to haul around at least 1 of tropius or bibarel to use as nothing more than an hm slave, just due to the sheer number of them (most of which arent even useful enough to have on team members you care about).

if you can get past this though, the games pretty fkn great. definitely one of the best experiences mainline pokemon has to offer.