


However, Game Freak added enough tweeks and additions to Pokemon Emerald to make it a worthwhile game to own and play. It wasn’t likely that Pokemon Emeraldwas going to make any huge changes to gameplay from the previous games anyway. I’d prefer to save my complaints about the third generation for the games that started it, Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. This was mostly due to so many improvements from Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal that had been thrown out for some reason, along with the introduction of the Erratic experience group, making raising Pokemon absurdly easy. Although I personally find the fifth generation to be much worse than the third, there are a lot of valid reasons why the third generation was so panned. Pokemon Emerald is part of the third generation of Pokemon games, which is widely referred to by fans as the worst Pokemon generation. So I bought it, the guide, and the GBA GameShark that I had actually come there for to begin with. It’d been a couple years since my first Pokemon game, Pokemon Sapphire had mysteriously disappeared, and since then I’d been playing Pokemon LeafGreen, but I was feeling a little homesick for the Hoenn Pokemon games. I just happened to be at Best Buy with a wad full of birthday/Christmas money I’d saved up and I saw it on the shelf. Let’s start at the beginning.Īlthough my personal rule of no-preordering never really counted for Pokemon games, I didn’t actually purchase Pokemon Emeralduntil almost a year after it came out. What? Doc’s favorite game, a 6.5 out of 10?! Why would someone rate their favorite game a 6.5 out of 10 instead of say…a 9 or a 10 out of 10, you ask. The Pokemon Emerald poster that’s been on the wall of whatever room I’ve lived in since I bought the strategy guide.
