9/10

Didn't venture too much into the postgame outside of the events and a dabble of the Battle Frontier, but this is an entry that further solidifies how dominantly good the DS Pokemon era was. This game improves every issue I had with DP outside of the battle pace. One of the best main stories and absolutely the most lore rich and interesting region in the entire series. Even after Legends Arceus I wish they did more with all of the cool shit they came up with for this game. The main trio of legendaries is so interesting and just cool as hell for the scale of a little Pokemon game. Bangin OST, some pretty great mons, great story and characters... as good as I remembered.

Pretty good and solid Fire Emblem experience without too many crazy things to explain about it. I do love the main trio and there are some really great characters in the cast of units, but the story is mid. I appreciated some of the challenge that a lot of these maps brought but the final map was kinda cheapened by only really being able to use Athos and a couple other of the units that could use the legendary weapons. Ultimately this is a solid game with plenty of replay value but when set against the rest of this series it doesn't stand out much. Poor Eliwood gets the short end of the stick, his son owns him

8/10

definitely one of the best pokemon games, johto as a region is jank and has some shortcomings and i wish more of the new mons were readily available in the game, but the absolute amount of postgame content and the general coolness of being able to go to kanto and get 16 badges is just way too awesome. it was awesome when i was a kid and its awesome now. i enjoy the main story and the simplicity of the adventure, the ost is fucking awesome and this is just such a nostalgic game to me and it still holds up, brilliantly. the level curve in johto and some of the weird decisions do hold it back but this is such a fun game. classic pokemon at its absolute finest.

being a little ass kid and playing this game just completely nonstop when this was a new and fresh adventure is such a precious memory i have it nearly brings tears to my eyes, every single one of my friends and i played this game religiously. finding all the legendary pokemon secret goodies, doing the cool ass events, fighting Red (which is still the coolest thing in any pokemon game ever) or just messing around and playing the game normally i will never ever forget. needless to say they cooked