| MohammadBadir said: IMO the only games to come close to Emerald are BW. |
Eh, to me, those are some of the worst and the first time the series declined in quality. Only the story got deeper on a surface level. The lore wasn't as interesting and never really got fully explained, the region design was a step down from both Sinnoh and Hoenn, and most of the Pokemon designs were pretty blatantly based off of Gen 1 Pokemon concepts, which must be the laziest the series has ever been, design wise.
People complain that Garbordor is a "bad design" because its "ugly." I don't think that has any merit. The design is fine. The issue is that it's just Gen 5 Muk. Zebstrika is just Gen 5 Rapidash. Conkelder is just Gen 5 Machamp. Seismetoad is just Gen 5 Poliwrath. I could go on and on. It was an extremely underwhelming generation, with an above average story for a Pokemon game. And honestly, that's just because N was a deep and interesting character.
Everything else was pretty typical for a Pokemon game. Ghetsis wasn't as interesting as Cyrus. There were no admins with memorable personalities. The Shadow Triad weren't given any significant plot role until B2W2, where the only possible mysteries to their characters was deconfirmed. All the gym leaders had gyms that reflected their secondary jobs, but it's not like gym leaders never had lives before BW.
I dunno. I don't think they're that great at all. Not bad. Even good, but I think there's a noticable gap in quality between Emerald and BW, with Platinum and HGSS surpassing both.
