Is this a good beginner friendly entry?
yes and it is the best game in the franchise
>>58828864Yeah why not
>>58828864Yes. It’s one of the worst games do you can only go up from there.
They're all beginners friendly, it's Pokémon. If you want an easy time though, just start with SV because they're the latest. If you want a deep dive, start with RBY and progress from there.
>>58828874>>58828869I mean I’m only emulating nintendo because my steam deck is being repaired and I cant play real games, I never even liked pokemon outside of hentai
>>58828864I feel the Kanto games are the most beginner friendly, but genuinely you can play whatever you want, the series isn't that complex.
>>58828878Sun/Moon is too beginner friendly. No one needs two hours tutorial then some of it (like the battle school) doesn't match ANY of the content you have to do later in the game.
>>58829052>Sun/Moon is too beginner friendlySM is harder than Platinum, so not really.
>>58828864They're all beginner friendly. But not sure why someone would choose Platinum as their first game in 2026. If you're willing to play the old games, you might as well start with RSE or FRLG.
>>58829090>pre special / physical fixNah, Gen 4 is the right start point. Has the right level of QoL over early gens while also having enough room for future QoL to appreciate it when playing later games
>>58829090>remakeshitthe best pokemon game to start with is Red/Blue. always has been, always will be.
>>58829108>muh splityou're bad at the game
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>stating facts is baitget better at children's games instead of being on /vp/
>>58829090RSE is not anymore beginner friendly than Platinum.
>>58829062Good joke.
good morning I hate the grand marsh
>>58829144I'm not recommending it because I think it's easier, I'm recommending it because they're the first game in the post-gen3 split.
>>58829164that's a really flimsy reason
>>58829090Personally I’d suggest Gen 6 games. Very casual and straightforward.
>>58829090See>>58828888I haven’t played a pokemon game in like a decade
>>58828888kys cringe normie faggot, Pokemon games are real games.
>>58828864Literally every game in the franchise is beginner friendly, it doesn't matter which one you start with.
>>58829118Wrong, the gen 1 and 2 games are obsolete.>Gen 1Buggy, unfinished dogshit that makes Bethesda look competent as a development studio in comparison.>Gen 2Gen 1 but slightly better.The definitive play order is:FLRG with a physical/special split patchORAS or Emerald with a physical/special split patch if you care about the badwrong lucktierPlatinumThen stop playing, because nothing after this point is worth your time. It devolves fully into poorly-written garbage where the game grinds your fun adventure of catching and raising pokemon for battle to a screeching halt every 5 seconds so you can listen to some poorly-written faggot npc whine about their problems
>>58829289>t.
>>58829289>Platinum over HGSSYou're a retard that wants story over gameplay, got it
>>58829213I just prefer reflex based games
I haven’t used any other pokemon besides monferno, got him to infernape and my damn phone died while I forgot to saveFuck
>>58830788Wait, that was your first playthrough of any Pokemon game and you just used your starter? Based
>>58831196Yup, I want a Lucario
>>58828869rare sinnohfetus
>>58829307Grim reminder:
How easy are the ORAS games?When the games are too easy I usually play with some rules to make it interesting, right now I'm playing Pokemon X as a poison type specialist for example, and for Alpha Sapphire I wanted to go for a Bug type specialist runThe problem is that this would be my first time experiencing Hoenn so a part of me wants to do a normal playthrough without Gimmicks, but that might be too much if the games are piss easy like X and Y.
>>58831515The originals were already easy, ORAS is even easier because of updated movesets/exp share/mega evos. If you want to use the exp share, you should raise two full teams. If you don’t then your levels should be in line with pretty much everything you fight
>>58828864Absolutely. It's decently challenging, but extremely hard>>58828869Fpbp
>>58831515just turn off the exp share and you should be good to go
>>58828874Dilate
>>58831400NiceYou can get a Riolu later in the game when you reach Canalave. Take the boat to Iron Island and follow the furfag Lucairo cosplayer in the blue suit
>>58831597So far I got to the water gym and lost because I only have one good mon
>>58828864Yes. When my son was five he started to get curious about video games as he sometimes saw me playing them. He was already a big fan of Pokemon from the tv show so I got out my old ds and Platinum and he played through it over the course of about two months. I basically just helped him with some of the harder reading parts. It's a perfect game for beginners. it teaches the basics, while also providing a good challenge to keep you engrossedIronically, that Christmas I got him a Switch Lite and Shield and he didn't finish it. He got bored around the fifth or sixth gym. He said it was too easy and got bored.
>>58831470>platinum still lost to thisGrim indeed.
>>58831740remakes always outsell 3rd versionsirrelevant
