Can't even begin to tell you how much time i put into Diamond and Soul Silver. Some of my favorite childhood memories are of playing these games with friends and family.
I actually started with yellow, then went to gold, then emerald, then finally diamond. Diamond however was the first pokemon game where i completed the Pokedex with some help from Pokemon coliseum, XD gale of darkness, and my brother and his copy of Pearl. This generation holds a special place in my heart.
I started with Diamond because my cheep-ass got one of those SD cards when I was little 😅 It had both Diamond and Pearl on it, but I only played Diamond because I think every game on it was in alphabetical order so it was the first one I saw and I knew Pearl was virtually the same and so never bothered with it.
@@nintunes I remember also being obsessed with Trace Memory on that SD card too; a visual novel game that just got a remake which I'm very happy about.
I started with Gen 1, played and loved 2 even more, skipped 3, and quite a bit afterwards nabbed a copy of Platinum... I loved that game so much, it was honestly a surprise to fall in love with pokemon all over again like that. Ahh... what a lovely time it was. I mostly played at nighttime so all the night themes are burned into my brain.