>>59335951
>teached
Those games were just needed for the natdex completion and were fillers for Emerald's release.
In fact I swear they intentionally made the post game as dead as possible while testing battle facilities for Emerald, Sevii Islands were a nice addition with Rocket side quest that was a prequel to Johto's rebuilt Rocket. Other than that they really were a DLC for Hoenn. Also the Sevii "battle facilities" were shit, only the E4 rematches were great.
They were probably busy with Game Cube games too.

>>59335951
just play actual gen 1
or a gen 1 rom
or a frlg rom

>>59335951
Caterpie and Weedle only appear in like 3 areas, what are you talking about

>>59335951
>Every route is just Rattata, >Pidgey, Weedle, and Caterpie.
Mankey exists just fine early on, so does Zubat, Bellsprout, Spearow, Nidoran, etc.
>Any different Pokémon only have a 5% encounter rate.
Plenty of them have 25% and above, a good example is Ekans and Sandshrew on Route 4.
>Move Tutors can only be teached once.
That is stupid.
>No wild Pokémon are above level 30.
Not true at all
>The Exp. Share is locked behind Chansey.
Also not true, you just need 50 Pokedex, which is stupid easy

>>59336015
Move Tutors having only one use isn't stupid, it's meaningful. It means you are more attached to the Pokemon you use it on and more thoughtful about it. You need to destroy you context of fomo and competitive Pokemon in your head to truly appreciate how wonderful the old games were. Destroy minmaxing too. These games are journeys and you can make mistakes and you can achieve incredible boons, that's normal.

>>59335951
4 out of 5 of these points are blatantly false.
OP didn't play beyond Route 2.
Forcing move variety is good game design. I beat it without ever using any of the move tutors anyway. If you can't beat this baby game, you're bad at Pokémon. (Also, the past tense of "teach" is "taught".)
There are absolutely wild pokémon above level 30. (Also, "pokémon" is supposed to be lowercase when talking about the species and uppercase when talking about the company or the name of the game.)
What the hell do you mean the Exp. Share is locked behind Chansey? It's locked behind catching 50 pokémon, and Chansey isn't a requirement as part of that.

>>59335951
>average brain rotted Gen Alpha toddler hopped on Switch slop

>>59335951
>all routes are pidgey, rattata, weedle and caterpie
Xe unironically never made it past brock lel

I often hear people who criticize FRLG say that the abilities of the Pokemon in the game are just placeholders and overall don't make sense.

Is this a valid criticism or is it just cope?

>>59335951
Better than Hoenn being mostly Tentacool or Wingull

>>59335972
Holy hell I'm so fucking tired of every conversation about a game boiling down to "muh post-game facilities", it's always the same sticking point.
How about the fact that you could PLAY red/blue with some nice graphics, abilities and way less bugs? The appeal of this game is not some rocket science.