Why is your favorite Pokemon game your favorite?

[sc0lipede]

Black and White are my favorites, mostly because they were the first Pokemon games I ever played. I had no idea how the mechanics worked and my understanding of type matchups ended up being wrong, so I looked up a walkthrough online and beat it for the first time. Good memories.

 

[colours]

it's a tie between Emerald, Platinum, and SoulSilver, but i'll go with SoulSilver here:

- introducing the (admittedly odd but fun) pokeathlon, which i think, for me at least, indicates that there should be more playable mini-games that aren't contests. maybe i've been spoiled by mini-games because i've had a blast with them in pokemon stadium 2, but every pokemon game should absolutely have something fun to do outside of battling for the player to just wind down and enjoy.

- has battle frontier. sorry, i know people are sick of hearing about it, but i enjoyed it.

- has pokemon following you. more than this though, the flavour text that comes up when you interact with your pokemon is a highlight and really makes enjoyable.

- not that i put a whole lot of stock in this, but the sprites/general art style of hgss are something i definitely like.

- it's worth noting that there was an item that would let you listen to retro gen 2 osts which i think is hella underrated (although to be honest... i havent made as much use of it myself like i should but i definitely still appreciate its inclusion, regardless).

- my memory is quite hazy of this so i'm not 100% sure, but i vaguely recall you can get other games' legendaries in hgss, which i thought was pretty cool!

- had a lot of memories playing it with my irl friends (same with plat/emerald)