Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are a couple of games that form complete and faithful remakes of the Generation I games, so faithful that I'd even suggest to anyone looking to start somewhere in Pokémon near the start to just straight up choose an edition from the two and get going, not only is it the more refined, visually appealing and balanced version, it is practically nearly 1:1 with the Game Boy title just with a bunch of the quality of life features that came after it, as well as bugs fixed. It is so faithful in fact that you can pretty much take whatever I said about Pokémon Red and apply it to this game.

Without criticizing the content of this game itself, and having to pick at straws surround anything but the game itself, I can say that it is a nice time. The Game Boy Advance is a great fit for the simplicity of Gen I and its graphics, and overall the game is super colorful, way smoother and so much more faster to play, coupled with a remastered soundtrack and some new content to do, but nothing groundbreaking besides the changed things post-game that are a bit more of a hassle to do but whatever. Would've definitely benefited from some Gen II stuff like Johto Pokémon here and there, day and night cycle, baby forms or friendship evolutions, but I get that they really were through to making this Gen I but better at the time, and also a way to get some of those Pokémon out of there since the Game Boy couldn't communicate directly with the Game Boy Advance.