First pokemon game I ever played, still love this game to death. It does really show its age though in some places like the physical/special split not being a thing. And I hate to say it but the last third of this game being 90% water routes kinda sucks for trying to grind up certain members of your team.

All in all though i still adore this game, the pokemon it brought into the series, and the region as a whole. Just a bit hard to go from having played a lot more modern games to this.

9/10