This game is the reason people like gen 4. None of the other third versions improve the originals to the extent this game does. Incredible postgame, much better Pokémon throughout the whole game, more interesting gym order, more available legendaries, even the watch games are better.

Has really poor Pokémon distribution, dreadful postgame after Emerald, and really obnoxious beginning. The region is pretty cool though.

Improves everything about R/S, especially the postgame.

Improves the game boy originals in every way, incredible.

Pretty good.

This game is too hated nowadays. The bugs rarely come into play in a regular playthrough, Kanto is still one of the best designed regions, and the Pokémon are simple, but fairly charming. The biggest thing this game lacks is a postgame of any kind, but they barely do that in any Pokémon game anymore anyways.

This official Nintendo game has baby’s first flash game physics.

Underrated masterpiece, and the best Mario 2D platformer.

Nobody would ever play this if they didn’t turn it into a Mario game.

There was potential to greatly modernize Mario 64 with a good camera, better controls, and new levels. Unfortunately, this game actually has worse controls than the original thanks to the dpad, and so it’s nearly unbearable at times.

All platformers basically need to play like this game, or else they will feel all wrong.

A great start but the series hadn’t quite got its footing yet.

One of the weaker 3D Mario games, but still fun.

The quality of life improvements made serves only to reduce some of the annoying grind required in the original. The graphical fidelity is phenomenal, but the art direction does suffer pretty greatly, this doesn’t really bother me but it is worth noting. I would consider this remake to be an overall improvement.

So much better than people give it credit for. It gets called Dark Souls Lite but the levels are honestly more consistently interesting than in Dark Souls, with shortcuts that you can find that help alleviate the time spent between runbacks. The bosses are no challenge at all, but due to the giant levels without checkpoints, that’s honestly a positive.