Started out fine but then they hit me with the 1-2-punch of weird esoteric progression and Skeletor's CBT carnival. Normally I would just try to push past a difficulty spike like this but with how slow grinding is and how many many people online say that it's gonna keep being like this, I think I'm fine to call it quits here for the time being.

I always forget just how much I actually like the Gen 1 Pokemon games until I'm playing them.

At the end of the day it's still Tetris, but this particular version is pretty lacking. It's especially hard to return to versions without the bag system in place, as they feel so much more random. There's also practically no lock delay which makes it very easy to end up with pieces in the wrong place, and don't even think about doing any kicks or spins.