Finally finished this game after never being able to do so as a child. I got stuck on the last level and just never saw the ending as a kid lol so I'm glad I could do this for my child self. This game holds a lot of nostalgia for me so tbh I can't even rank it or look at it in an unbiased way. It was literally the first game I played I'm pretty sure and my cousin showed it to me. Everytime I went to visit I just wanted to play this and my favourite character was mother rogue (my gayness showed early I fear). As such I replayed security hall over and over. This game was still a lot of fun to play as an adult and the levels are pretty good. I know a lot of people seem to hate the treasure hunting levels but not me those are my favourite. The mech levels aren't as fun but they are still enjoyable. Raising chao is also really fun and I still have my first save file so I have my very old chao with wacky names that get a chuckle out of me everytime. I'm gonna try to go for all emblems and see if I can do it but I fear I might not be able to we'll see

I apparently bet this game some years ago because before I deleted my save file to play it the primal dialga icon was there however I had no recollection of anything beyond when you fight groudon. If I remember correctly I think I got stuck there as a child and then picked the game up again and must have completed it. With that being said playing through this game again was just so great. The music is awesome and I remembered it all. The story is just too good I was so invested and of course now as an adult I predicted some of the main plot twists it still doesn't take away from how good it was. I was literally a puddle of tears at the end and it just is a testament to how strong the writing is here with your partner character (which was mudkip for my playthrough while I was turtwig my fav who I had to reset about 10 times for). On that same note though as an adult the naiveté of the partner pokemon in not trusting grovyle when they went to the future after dusknoir tried to kill them annoyed me I fear. I understand for a child's mind there isn't much nuance and things are though of in black and white but I think a level of maturity that the rest of the game had could have been brought there. Also the multi attacks annoyed me so this game loses points for that I fear. Still great though and I will play it again eventually to do the post game but I'll probably just do it with explorers of sky since that has more post game stuff apparently so theres not much point to play this post game