Things that are awesome about RSE:
- Hoenn is the best designed region by far, with a variety of interesting routes to explore and many more towns than the standard 10. The only catch were the water routes, but repel exists and they're mostly optional.
- I love a lot of the new Pokemon. Many of them have awesome designs and there was much better variety in types and dual types, even before the first badge.
- While Ruby's and Sapphire's plot was a bit weak, fighting both evil teams in Emerald is awesome.
- They revamped the stat system to make it more interesting and customizable.
- They also introduced abilities.
- As a result of the last two points, competitive battling became much deeper and well-polished.
- Emerald introduced the Battle Frontier and still has the best version of it.
- Secret Bases are fun to design and fighting your friends in them is even more awesome.
- Contests are a fun minigame to work on if you're in the mood for them.
- Lots of fun and creative sidequests like the Trick House and the Regis.
- Steven is the coolest champion (except maybe Blue)
- Emerald has a cloning glitch
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Emerald >>> all other Pokemon games