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the new pokemon were only there because they were otherwise unobtainable in gen 3. there was no real reason to bring them back, especially since they were all in the postgame.
More Pokemon is always a good thing. It's more Pokemon to find, catch, and raise, that can only make the game better. And the game was slightly light on Pokemon relative to its generation (there were less than BW2 and XY, and only a handful more than the 4th gen games and BW), it could've used at least a few dozen more Pokemon (and really it needed a Dex expansion besides the handful of cross gen evos they bothered to add in because the Hoenn Dex had the same issues as the DP Sinnoh Dex, but that's more something ORAS should've done for the first time than something that they didn't carry over from Emerald).
other than the battle frontier, i don't recall any new areas tbh. might be because i've only done 1 or 2 playthroughs of this game;
There weren't a lot of big, significant new areas (there never is in a third version), but there were a few areas here and there. There was Mirage Tower, which is where you now got the fossils instead of randomly in the desert. Then post game you could go to Desert Underpass to find the other one (also Ditto was there). You could catch Groudon and Kyogre in Terra and Marine Caves which was a wandering cave that you had to explore the region for. Then there was also the Safari Zone expansion which let you explore more of the Safari Zone and catch extra Johto Pokemon.
i've always preferred RS because Emerald made the story needlessly complex.
Nah, Emerald's made more sense because it split the two teams into event that made more sense. It never really made sense for Team Aqua to blow up a volcano. It never really made sense for Team Magma to have a base on the coast. It never really made sense for Groudon to be sitting in a cavern at the bottom of the ocean. Emerald straightened all of that out.
i don't remember what match call does
It's an upgrade over Trainer's Eyes that allows you to call trainers like the Pokegear Phone. That by itself isn't totally necessary (and kind of annoying), but there was also one other thing it allowed you to do that the Trainer's Eyes didn't do, it also allowed you to rematch gym leaders. Gym leader rematches with National Dex Pokemon is something that was sorely missing in this game.
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