Keep this one in your memories. On my most recent playthrough I felt like I was suffering from the insane degree of repetition. This game treats you like a child, and on a second playthrough this only becomes all the more obvious. Characters recap things that happened minutes ago multiple times in order to solve mysteries.

This botches an otherwise decent narrative with a surprisingly lasting conclusion. It's strange that you don't even become professional explorers until after you beat the game, but that's the saving grace of Explorers of Sky. If you're at all invested in what can be a pretty tedious gameplay loop (I can tolerate it in bits), the postgame is quite expansive and rewarding, perhaps the most so of the franchise outside of Gens 2 & 5. Pursuing legendary Pokemon is much more exciting in this game than doing so in mainline series entries.

There's a lot of utterly tedious defects to improve on, but there's enough here that's worthy of the heavy nostalgia and adulation Explorers of Sky still gets to this day. I love me a good adventure.