mustardoverlordam I the only one who thinks the remake looks like absolute dogshit
there is a very short list of improvements the remakes did
-revamped underground
-kept the new exp system
-kept the new learnsets
-HMs no longer required to be learned
-pretty good battle animations
everything else about the games is so lazy. there are multiple game breaking bugs discovered on day 1, route encounters and trainer pokemon + movesets are basically the same, same weird map flow that diamond and pearl had instead of the gyms being in order like in platinum. level curve isn't accounting for the new exp system imo. somehow fire types still hella limited - only options are chimchar, houndoom, and ponyta. i haven't passed valor lakefront yet so this is all that i have to say for now.