CruelAndyThesis
1996
Dank
1999
Awesome aside from the horrible leveling curve and plethora of water HMs.
2002
Too much water
Bad Pokedex and it runs slow as molasses.
Fixed every major oversight in D/P.
Perfection.
Worse story than B1
2013
Weakest mainline Pokemon game
2014
Somethings better than Ruby, some worse.
2016
Also perfect
2017
Downgrade overall from Moon, and ~80% reused assets
2019
Game gets a lot of undue hate. Most fun I've had with a Pokemon game in some time. Has the best Champion battle in the franchise.
Nice upgrade from Red, still mired by pre-physical/special split.
Need a replay, but that level curve sucks something fierce.
Battle Frontier kino