For its time, the game is phenomenal. The characters are funky and your main character is awesome & just the coolest guy. XD improved a lot from this game but this game's mc is a lot better imo and since i played this before XD, it holds a lot of nostalgia for me so I'm biased to choose this over XD as my favorite.

If you play it for the first time presently, you might be turned off by the outdated graphics of the characters and town. The pokemon combat graphics (this goes for XD as well), is amazing though and i wish they adopted the models into the newer games of the main franchise.

I would buy a remake of this in a heartbeat. Hopefully with more locations to explore as well like they did for XD :)