Is Pokémon Emerald that much better than Ruby and Sapphire? 

What is your favorite thing about Pokémon Emerald?

Battle frontier alone deserves atleast an A. This is also one of the only pokemon games that would give you a reason to keep playing after the main story

I think the worst thing (and the game is still great and an overall improvement) was replacing Steven for Wallace as champion as we didn't need a water type a water type champion in addition to a water type gym leader

I think one of the reasons people rank Emerald so much higher on tier lists is because it makes R/S essentially pointless. There’s not really a reason to play them when Emerald exists besides a few exclusive Pokémon and a slightly different story (and a better champion but you can still battle Steven in Emerald anyways)

Sure the Rayquaza cutscene in Emerald was cool, but nothing will beat the experience of finding Sky Pillar in ruby and sapphire, being greeted with difficult puzzles with no idea what's gonna be at the end of the tower, only to finally be greeted with one of the coolest legendaries ever

Not only does the Battle Frontier make Emerald significantly better than R/S, I believe the Battle Frontier was the single greatest thing ever made in any Pokemon Game. This is the peak of the franchise for me.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, Emerald added field effects for a lot of abilities, like Compound Eyes and Flame Body!

I prefer emerald just because the font is better

"Why can't you catch Surskit/Meditite/etc in Emerald?" That's nothing new, making some Pokémon unavailable has never been limited to the paired games. Weedle/Ekans/Meowth/Koffing in Yellow, Mareep/Girafarig/Remoraid in Crystal, Murkrow/Misdreavus/Glameow/Stunky in Platinum, just to name like half of the lines you had to trade to get.

A few other tidbits: -New music. Kind of obvious and doesn't really effect gameplay, but I think a lot of the new music tracks are bangers, especially the Frontier Brain Battle Theme. -The Pickup ability was revamped and has a whole new items list based on level. -Pokemon Contests being isolated to Lilycove City. -New move tutors -The international releases removed e-Reader support, but you can still mix records to obtain these items. -The Trick House and Regi puzzles are a tiny bit different. -The best designed character in all of video gaming... SCOTT!!

Emerald also had a bunch of little quality of life changes, while most are pretty minor they do add up. - more bag space - when shopping, it now shows how many of each item you already have in your bag - when looking at TMs in your bag, it now shows the power and accuracy right there (in ruby and sapphire you had to click TM -> use -> select pokemon -> get to screen that lets you pick which move to replace and only THEN does it show the TM's power and accuracy) I know I am forgetting some but those are the ones I remember off the top of my head. There are also some changes in Emerald that I don't know if I agree with, or maybe could have just been handled better. For instance, the phone mechanic where you can rematch trainers and gym leaders is awesome, but I really don't like how it interrupts gameplay to force you to take the phone call every time it rings. And the obvious one, replacing Steven as the champion. Steven was so much better as the champion thematically and mechanically, replacing him with Wallace and making Juan the 8th gym leader was a pretty bizarre change. Steven being a super boss in the post game was cool I guess but it was way more impactful having him as the champion. The post game in Emerald is already so expansive with the battle frontier that the Steven fight doesn't really seem all that necessary. If Emerald just had the same Ruby and Sapphire post game but now with this new Steven fight, it would have made more sense.

Tate and Liza I remember in particular because of how more tactical their opening choices are. No longer can you sweep the field with Surf or Muddy Water, you need to counter Earthquake and Xatu being flying type isn’t affected.

Emerald was the only poke game where I maxed the in-game timer out. I also cycled the news crew so many times when I was a kid that they actually stopped rotating, and you'd just need to reload the route they were on for easy XP. Loved the game

There's something about Sapphire being my first ever portable Pokemon game, at age 9, that felt so full of wonder and excitement. I think I enjoyed my 1st ever playthrough of Sapphire more than Emerald purely because everything was so new and wondrous to me, even though I had the strategy guide. It was amazing. When I got Emerald 2 years later, it felt like a familiar world, and therefore not as impactful on my childhood. Emerald did wow me with it's cutscenes though, for sure! I remember exactly where I was in my old house (the kitchen) when I witnessed the Rayquaza cutscene. I never got into the Battle Frontier or Battle Tower much though, as I found them too difficult, and I enjoyed catching legendary Pokemon the most.

I love the contest feature. I just hate that it’s moved all to Lilycove. I liked traveling from town to town collecting ribbons like badges

Probably the only thing I would improve upon Emerald is the cutscene with rayquaza. I feel like it should have ended on a double battle with yourself and rayquaza vs Kyogre and groudon, which would have served as a much better climax. The game builds towards the increasingly harmful actions of team magma and aqua, but it just being solved by rayquaza coming down and telling groudon and kyogre to shut up and stop couple fighting just feels pretty anti climatic and takes away the seriousness of the situation. I understand why they didn’t do this, cause the main purpose of the story was team aqua and magma learning the error of their ways, but I still feel weird about emerald’s story because it’s pretty good but it lacks a legitimate climax.

I love Emerald to pieces. After having played Sapphire before, I did not expect it to impress me nearly as much as at it did. It just went the extra mile every single time. And those hidden, surprise sidequest npcs made the game feel so alive!

Definitely my favorite part of emerald was the battle frontier. It was the reason for me even learning about EVs and IVs. It also has turned pokemon game from 30 hours to +300 hours for me.

Emerald was the peak for me, with Black/White 2 coming in at close second. SoulSilver/HeartGold and Platinum are tied for third.

As a person who only loves gens 1-5, thank you for making older gen content. Not a big fan of the new stuff except legends.

I remember when Emerald was released. It was a big deal. Everyone had played Ruby and Sapphire and then FRLG came along with some huge improvements to the postgame that everyone liked. I remember Emerald's upgrade was hugely anticipated. I myself played Emerald's J rom back in the day, because like many other people I didn't want to wait for the U version!

Emerald was my first official game and will therefore always subjectively be my favorite, but I think that it is still among the best games of the series. Off course it didn’t hurt that two of my top 3 of all time were available in this game in mudki and Rayquaza

Interesting decision to use the ORAS art to compare to Emerald (I suppose it makes the differences easier to spot from a glance). Going in, while I do agree Emerald is better than R/S, I would say the improvements are greater than Crystal to G/S but not nearly as large as D/P to Platinum. Also, Ruby and Sapphire still feel like entries to obtain alongside Emerald due to the different villain team you faces (along with Black/White, they are the entries that feel most justified in having different versions). 1:29 - There were also Pokémon given annoying relocation, such as making Mawile an end-game/Victory Road Pokémon. I had planned to use a Mawile in Emerald but ended up having to have one traded to me. 4:01 - The green look for May and Brendan does look nice and it kind of makes Wally fit in better with them as a sort of trio. 4:49 - I did particularly like the variety of trainer team ups you could get in these double battles through how they were positioned. In terms of Gym Leaders/Elite Four, the only downgrade I felt was having Wallace as Champion instead of Steven (though my younger brother did struggle against Wallace... with Emerald admittedly being the first Pokémon game he ever beat). 11:10 - Great analysis. As said, I still do think Sapphire and Ruby have their place (though ease of obtaining means the recent remakes are probably the go-to versions to play now), as I feel the story differences make them each feel more distinct than usual version differences. With Sapphire/Ruby being easier, I'd also recommend it more so for a younger or new-to-Pokémon player, whereas Emerald feels like the "for experienced players" version. My favourite part of Emerald is either the overall increased challenge or the increased Double Battle amount; can't decide between the two.

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Emerald is where the series peaked for me. I probably spent a thousand hours on this game, challenging the battle frontier and completing the Pokedex. I probably remember the script almost perfectly. And of course that Rayquaza cutscene was pure cinema When ORAS were released, I thought these games were really good, but they were not the Emerald I love (although flying to space on Rayquaza's back to fight against Deoxys is such a non-credible moment that my child self would have been crazy over)

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but I believe another incredibly important item is that with Ditto being catchable Natively, you can breed for more Pokémon a lot easier without needing Fire Red or Leaf Green. This is important because if you were like myself and started playing Pokémon later in your life (Emerald was my first game), you likely didn't have friends you could trade with. So having access to easy breeding with Ditto Natively was SO EXCITING because I could try to make better and stronger Pokémon while also Shiny Hunting!

the thing is that ruby and sapphire are already very, very good. emerald is just improving on an already a tier game. in my opinion, r/s are the second best games as the introduction of a new gen, right behind b/w

this video was a great idea, thank you for making it!

I’ve been trying to decide which version I should buy, hearing that emerald is the definitive but hesitant because of it being drastically more expensive. You have officially sold me! great analysis man :)

Luckily, the Hoenn pokemon left out of emerald are all catchable in XD Gale of Darkness and can be transferred over.

I love the emerald because of the animations in battles, that badass cutscene, the representation of the domains of groudon and kyogre (just look how balanced it is, there is a protruding land, shallow water, and deep water. They can both move freely to have a good fight, after the cutscene the shallow water is gone. What an attention to details), and the battle frontier. About those 7 missing pokemons, I think gamefreak wants you to play with other by trading, that's why there is no single official pokemon game that have all the pokemon.

Ah, i see you're a fellow OG Pokemon lover lol you're one year older than me. I thoroughly enjoyed this short video. Straight to the point and well put together facts about a classic. Well done

Most mind boggling thing is that they did not pass many of these important changes to ORAS. I did a run, where I would not use Exp share or Mega evolution and they where total pushovers regardless.

sapphire and ruby are better for farming rare candies since pickup has no level restriction on the item pool meaning you have a permanent 10% chance to get a rare candy per zigzagoon in your party

Well, you can catch both Groudon and Kyogre in Emerald on top of Rayquaza. The placement of the Contest Hall as one building late into the game and replacing them with Battle Tents to be the main thing that I think was a dumb change. Also, Feebas' location being very specific and randomized when the game feels like it is something that I wished was changed. I think the main reason to get a ripped copy of Emerald or just getting Sapphire and Ruby is due to Emerald cartridges going for over $200 while the others are around $50. This explains why people will just pirate these games.

Emerald is better than R/S but R/S are still amazing games. I personally wouldn't put Emerald an entire tier above R/S cause R/S still clears 90% of other pokemon games. I guess one tier higher I could understand, but any more than that is crazy and totally undervaluing the foundation that R/S established.

due to the lack of a nationaldex, ruby and sapphire allow you to trade pokemon from outside the regionaldex, from the beginning of the game. therefore they are the only gen3 games with the possibility to playthrough with any of the 386 pokemon. without cheating , that is. and only with two gbas and a link cable, so... yeah. emerald is still a great improvement. my favorite addition in emerald are probably the stat-reducing berries

not having the super ugly font from R/S is really important for me. all the text looks so incredibly ugly in R/S. like what happened there??

I hate that most of the improvements introduced with Emerald are not in ORAS. That's one of main reasons why I didn't like ORAS as a remake

Only 5 Pokemon were removed from RS, Surskit and Masquerain are just relegated to Emerald's postgame. There are also four more Pokemon that are only catchable at the Battle Frontier. RS's Battle Tower is also drastically different from modern battle facilities; the enemies all use wild Pokemon AI and aren't particularly challenging. Emerald's Battle Frontier was the first iteration of what we'd come to expect from battle facilities - not to mention that it also came with the opportunity to rent and fight against all of the Kanto and Johto Pokemon that weren't in Hoenn's regional dex. Emerald is also the first game that offers an IV judge, Nature inheritance, overworld abilities, EV resetting, and dedicated EV training areas for this reason. Emerald also has a revamped version of FRLG's battle facility in Trainer Hill, but no one ever talks about it

I remember everyone at my daycare had a gameboy and there was like a pokemon hierarchy with Gen3. I started with R&S and evolved to emerald and i remember you didnt know jack unless you played the first 2 gen3 games, and even then, i couldnt say shit to the kids who played earlier gens. We treated those guys like royalty lol. It was almost an honor to get traded a previous gen pokemon and kids were trading their lunches or even other GBAs. Some kids had 2 emeralds, 1 just to farm and reset. I remember one dude would literally just shiny hunt all day then he'd trade them for a legendary or masterball. Another guy traded his pair of jordans for a latios. Everyday we had battles, who had best pokemon for contests, who had best and biggest base. The pokemon league was just the beginning, the real fun started after you beat the game

Emerald's obtainable Pokemon rose! Emerald's graphics sharply rose! Emerald's battle system rose drastically!

R/S have a few niche advantages over Emerald. Specifically being able to use the E-Reader cards and being able to play on the GameCube via Pokémon Box. But 99% of players aren’t going to care about that.

In Gen 3 I played Fire Red, Emerald, then Ruby in that order When I got to Ruby it was obvious that I had gone back in time to an older game

One of the best (and often overlooked) things about Emerald IMO is the fact that some abilities now do other things outside of battle, like influencing what wild Pokémon you find, hatching eggs quicker, etc., that's not a thing in other gen 3 games. Very useful for breeding, which makes sense with the Battle Frontier. As for the bad stuff, I think level 70 Rayquaza before the Elite Four is just absurd. Of course you don"t have to use it, but the option being there at all is abusrd. I mean, level 45 Groudon in Ruby and level 40 Lugia/Ho-Oh in GSC are fine, you're not gonna solo the league just because you have one of those (except Kyogre but Kyogre itself is absurd regardless of levels). Edit: Ruby/Sapphire have the Meditite line and run roughly twice as fast on emulator. That's about it for positives.

I doubt anyone can confirm or deny it, but pretty sure the reason a few mons are not available is so you still need a copy of both Ruby and Sapphire to catch them all. Gen 3 is my favorite of them all but completing the dex in these games is a nightmare. I'd say the main reason why I never bothered to do it is because kid me tried to and had his hopes crushed by the gamecube / event exclusives mons, couldn't even get the diploma that ignores event exclusive mons since I didn't have Sapphire for Lunatone and I didn't want to reset either of my FRLG files for the third Kanto starter. Also the reason why you get only one of the Eon duo is so you can find the other through the Eon ticket from record mixing with a RS savefile that got the event. One of the biggest changes between the RS Battle Tower and the Frontier is that there's Open Level. My biggest issue with RS is that there's almost no postgame, and the main part of it, the Tower, has an insane barrier of entry because it has only Level 50 and Level 100 modes. If your team is any bit above 50, which is the usual since Steven's Metagross is lv58, you either have to swap to a new team or grind to level 100. When the highest leveled trainer pokemon in the game is said lv58 Metagross. Grinding from lv 50-60 to 60 is much better than to 100, and you get new rematches to help.

1:38 every third version omits some of the pokémon from the first two. this is to make it so that the third version doesn't just completely obsolete the first two versions and there's still reason to play/own them.

The Magma dungeon on Mt. Chimney is one of my favorite Pokemon dungeons, and it gives Team Magma and Groudon the climax they deserve.

I just wish that emerald had sprite animations that weren't 2 frames that shake for a bit :/ Like crystal, it had proper unique animations for all 251 pokemon on weaker hardware.

Ruby and Sapphire had to use the link cable to send the missing Pokemon to Emerald, Another thing Emerald that could use is the Wireless Adapter that made trading and battles easier especially with Firered and Leafgreen.

Fun fact. I (28 M) have still not played pokemon emerald. Played pokemon ruby like crazy tho

I played emerald first and when I played ruby a couple years later I was like wait where are the double battles. I feel like that is one of the best changes emerald made, along with the battle frontier ofc.

I was fortunate enogh to have played all 3 as a kid, owning Sapphire/Emerald and trading with a friend for Ruby. Emerald is just a masterpiece, pixelated era greatness 🙌🏼 thanks for the video.

Honestly yeah I personally rank it a tier above Ruby and Sapphire. It just adds a lot of small things, like the updated story and the updated teams and more optional double battles as well as the battle frontier

Great video!!!

Emerald is honestly one of my top 3 ever Pokémon games . And was the game that got me heavy into Pokémon

Emerald is not like Platinum compared to Diamond/Pearl cuz that makes everything INSANELY BETTER whilst Emerald does make things way better it’s not as colossal as Platinum’s additions

As someone who never liked battle frontier or don’t care about most post game content in most main line Pokémon games (I care about the main campaign way more than postgame content), I mostly enjoy Emerald for the subtle things that didn’t exist in R/S. More double battles, different wild encounters, abilities affecting the overworld and fixing the psychic gym in general. Tho tbh, fixing the psychic gym and having more double battles are the only things I miss when I play the remake cause besides that I prefer the remakes over Emerald, that and largely thanks to bringing back Steven as the champion rather have him stuck as a postgame boss that I didn’t know existed until like after the remakes came out. Also the remakes were the first main line games where you could catch a mythical Pokémon ingame without having to use mystery gift so that’s a huge plus for me even if it’s postgame content. That being said, I found it funny how so many people hype up battle frontier nowadays but back when I was as a kid, everyone including me hated it and most people didn’t start caring it until long after they stopped adding it because not enough people were using it. Sorry for the long comment

I will NOT keep my mouth shut when emerald's battle frontier had a beautiful duping system 😤😤 you can't forget about that, OP Also I have a story from 2016. I was in the Marines and went training to 29 Palms and I remember being in the laundry room during my off time and I was waiting next to a Marine playing 3rd gen on his phone. He was struggling to get to rayquaza with the mach bike. I helped it out because I grew up with 3rd gen to where I last played it 2 or 3 years prior. It was awesome. He was stoked

For all it's faults I've put an staggering amount of hours into Gen 3 games, Emerald mostly. It's just so replayable

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If we talking about gen 1 - 3 crystal is honestly the one i run back to this day but when i did played emerald growing up cuzo had ruby so i did the 3 starter thing and man when i tell you one of the best experiences as a kid

“Is Pokemon Emerald that much bett-“ Yes, next question

Nice video!

great video!

Emerald also had the all the events in game. Eon ticket for the lati you didn’t choose, mystic ticket for ho-oh lugia, aurora ticket for deoxys and while unreleased outside of japan the old sea map for mew. Ruby and sapphire only got the eon ticket.

For me personally The Battle Frontier: There were interesting formats like Arena and Palace. EV Berries: Was useful coz this was when I started caring about stats, unlike in Sapphire where I just ungabunga'd through. Ditto and Smeargle: Just these 2 alone make up for the missing pokes from RS. I remember spending time creating TM trees after Smeargle became available. Everstone: More predicable way of passing Nature (though its still not 100% in E) Off Battle Ability effects: I found Compound Eyes very helpful for getting more Heart Scales for the Relearner. And it came just in time for the shards Move Tutor: Self-explanatory.

An Emerald gold card is probably the hardest flex outside of like world championship wins and whatnot. I dreamed of an Emerald Gold card as a 10 year old kid. I finally earned mine at age 23, and it’s easily my proudest video game achievement, nothing else even comes close, it took me over a thousand hours to get it. The people who think Emerald is bad never earned theirs.

One thing where Pokemon Emerald is beaten is that Ruby and Sapphire allowed the player to trade pokemon from FRLG to their game without needing the national dex.

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I don’t know if you ever got an answer but I have a theory on the missing Hoenn Pokémon in Emerald! Emerald was a revamp of Gen 3 that came out a little before Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness on the Gamecube in which all of the missing Hoenn Pokemon are all catchable letting you unlock the Hoenn PokeDex and get a Johto starter this way. I did a complete PokeDex of Gen 3 and you can complete it with one copy of Colosseum, XD, Leafgreen, and Emerald. (While LeafGreen and FireRed share the majority of Pokemon the only one not catchable across the other games listed is the Slowpoke family.)

If Ruby/Sapphire had the Battle Frontier I'd actually say they were superior. I'm not keen on the complete overload of double battles in Emerald in the main game.

Maybe it's just my own nostalgia speaking, but as someone who never really cared about the battle frontier or double battles, the fact that they changed the champion to be a water type trainer in a game with a water type gym, an enemy team themed sround water, and half of the map being water. 7.8, too much water, but ironically. Stephen deserved better

The one and only thing I loved about Ruby and Sapphire over is the contests. Simple and fun. But Emerald wins hands down, being able to battle Steven, receive Johto starters, and of course the best part the Battle Frontier.

What really makes emerald better then Ruby and sapphire is you don’t realize how limited Ruby and sapphire are until you play emerald

"Battling is the heart and soul of Pokemon" this statement is exactly why I think the newer pokemon games pale in comparison. They emphasize catching, but not the battling. Even the legendary battles are trivial at this point. There is no complexity involved in the games. Dont even get me started on the lack of puzzles or decision making during exploration, and the lack of involved route design. Its just not the same.

It’s not just a third it’s an important part of a game trinity for Hoenn region Gen 3

Emerald is much better because 1.battle frontier 2.new moves available from tutors in battle frontier 3.legendary trio obtainable 4.much more trainers to fight in the main path,means more xp available for training 5.both fossil pokemon available 6.ditto 7. Synchronize effect through ralts and abra helping to catch exact nature you want The only downside at these versions was the low level of the pokemon in the pokemon league in contrast with fire red and leaf green,solo the whole league with just swampert

The first gen 3 game I got was Emerald. Never bought it, I found it on the ground, partially trampled into the dirt at a cross country meet. I dug it out and popped it in my Gameboy only to find a 10-minute save file. Later, I got sapphire and gave it to my sister.

I was on the fence about ever playing this game. I grew up on Blue Version and Silver, & later my all time favorite, Crystal. Which I still play sometimes today. I didnt like more than 252 pokemon, but I'll give this game a shot.

Just like Nintendo made separate games with exclusive pokemon to encourage either trading with friends or buying a copy of the opposite games, I'm sure Emerald was no different. Buy emerald, youre gonna need BOTH ruby and sapphire to complete the dex

Emerald is deserving of its top tier spot. Without accounting for the GC games, it offers the best gen 3 had to offer with so many added features and events.

Excluding several pokemon from emerald ensured that fans would still have to buy atleast two games in order to complete the pokedex. I cant think of any other reason than that.

While I definitely do agree that Emerald is the better game, and sure, by a good margin, I simply don’t like how marginalized the original Ruby and Sapphire typically are by the fanbase, because in my opinion, they’re still some of the very best games that gamefreak has put out for Pokémon. Of course, I’m very partial to Hoenn in general, but they all had such a sense of wild adventure and tropical-ness that really isn’t matched in any other games. From the locales, to the music (which is damn near perfect, in my opinion) and the vast, tropical map that is the Hoenn region, there is just so much character and uniqueness that is lacked in most of their games… and they never brought back the amazing diving feature, which I think is a shame, because diving and exploring the oceans is such an amazing concept… I mean, I know I’m mostly splitting hairs here, but I really think the original games are overlooked and under appreciated overall. I’d rather play any of the Gen 3 games over anything from Gens 1 or 6 onwards, without contest.

The Battle Frontier boss music will always be my favorite Pokemon music.

Although you get only the one you choose between latios or latias at first the other you receive through the eon ticket.

Playing Emerald now, I couldn't agree more. But I am insanely biased because Pokemon Ruby was my first game of the series (Gold was second?) and my cartridge has lasted my entire life. Definitely sentimental for the Ruby exclusive* Pokemon like Zangoose, Groudon, and Latios too.

The only change that i wish they had avoided would be placing those Battle Tents where the contest halls used to be. Ik they were supposed to be "training" for the BF but I'm sure they remained untouched for most players' playthroughs. On the other hand, I loved having Contest Halls in different cities-felt like an actual sidequest-and Emerald stuffing all the contests into Lilycove City made Contests feel much less significant 😢

In short words. Yes. Gen 3 is also my favorite gen out of the first 3 forsure! In order from 3-2-then first gen

I plan on playing Emerald some time soon, I can’t wait to see what the hype is all about. ORAS is in my top 3 favorite Pokémon games ever so I hope this game is as great as well

The omitted pokemon from Emerald that are available in Ruby & Sapphire would absolutely be to incentivise the trading aspect and keep that going.

What about the pokemon contests? I kinda enjoyed those for being such a different thing to do and it was soooo limited in emerald

It's essentially a remake, and released year after original, and for some reason its universally loved rathen than reviled for scam it is

1:29 so that you had to buy more games to complete the pokedex

I love everything about Emerald more except one thing. I hate that they removed Steven as champion so much that I have no choice but to choose sapphire and Ruby.

Emerald really carries gen 3. Still replayable as hell to this day. I love my gen 1 and 5 as well, but yeah, Emerald is probably my second fave game. Gotta probably admit HG/SS is probably objectively peak pokemon, but ORAS was also really good.

All I know for sure is that May went from having really short femurs and long tibias in ruby/sapphire to having really long femurs and short tibias in emerald.

The animations is one thing I miss about total conversion rom hacks like Pokemon Unbound. Yes, Emerald has its hacks, but they tend to be enhancements on the base game like difficulty hacks, and not complete overhauls, likely because the animated Pokemon make it a lot harder to do a complete revamp like Fakemon and additions outside of Emeralds bestiary.

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Emerald really has a better story. It can be reworked. The gameplay is still cool. Gym Leader rematches adds replay value. The overworld Ability effects are also fun to use like your Pokémon actually helping you hunt as training them. The DexNav from ORAS is a good feature.