So far I've beaten Black, HG, Pearl, and now finally started Pokemon Y. HG is clearly the best, in my opinion. The plot lines may be a bit weak but the amount of content and specifically post-Elite Four things to do is so much greater than any of the other games, especially Pearl. Black has an ok amount of post game stuff to do, like fighting Cynthia and rematches with E4 and your rivials, but the second half the map doesn't really add much and honestly I dislike a lot about Black/White that brings my overall opinion of the game down. HG's safari zone is the best I've seen in any of them. Pearl's post game is just more following Barry around in the Battle Island or whatever until you get the fire legendary who is so dumb looking it's comical. Kind of odd to make the endless battle zone a canonical part of the plot, but whatever. I think I would have liked this game a lot more if I had got Pearl. Shaymin is easily my favorite Legendary or whatever that I don't remember from when I was a kid.

Y really has a great selection of Pokemon from what I've played so far, especially compared to Black and Pearl. I probably could build a handful of different sets of 6 that I would be happy with moving forward with where I am right now where as in B and P I felt like there was often only one or zero reasonable options for a type if you wanted say, fire or water on your team, either for coverage or just HMs (why doesn't Seimitoad learn waterfall in Black? Or Elecktross learn any water HM?) i don't know what happened in Pearl with it's awful pokedex but at least in Black you can say “Oh, well they're all new so you gotta give them a little slack for not having all their bases covered.” I will say Pearl had an excellent selection of ghosts, which I've always liked.

Trading and then importing all my dudes forward into Home took hours, and very glad I'm done with that. The only pokemon I lost were an Arceus, Darkrai, and my favorite of my three Shaymin, all of which I got from getting undistributed items hehehe. DNS exploits work perfectly aside from those three.

Last time I posted about this, someone wanted to see my clear teams, so here's my Pearl and HG ones. My first and rematch clear of the Elite Four on HG were both the same, just second was grinding for Red. Side note, I'm like 99% sure my HG is a bootleg, which is great because I'm not paying $150 instead of $30, but every time I shut down the game, I have to soft reset the system to get back into my save and I can't use the game corner or the game crashes.

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