I haven't actually played this recently at all. I was going through my R4 card to see if there was anything I wanted to add, and I saw this sitting there with my original games, and as I recalled the memory of this game I started tearing my hair out and writhing on the floor in agony as the voices of a thousand damned souls echoed the Pokemon theme in my head.
All in all, not a good way to get into the series imo.