Best pokemon game since gen2? (hexbear.net)

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Lemme emulate one, no romhacks pls until I finish a mainline game.

More detail: havent played a Pokemon game since the original Gold, so gen2. I hardly even know who the pokemon that are in Smash Bros are unless they were from the original 200.
I was just looking around at Heart Gold while seeing it while scrolling, and decided I'd like to download a newer game that I've missed out on.

So...where should I start? I've got about 20 years of games, if I were to pick ONE to play to get aquainted with the modern series without straying to much from the OG game formula, which one should I download?

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[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

highly recommend Sun & Moon as an entry point into the newer/3D stuff, early game can be kind of hand-holdy but it picks up nicely later on, instead of using HMs to traverse the world you ride on different pokemon which is cute and saves some move slots, but most of all the new pokedex is front to back absolute bangers, bar none the generation with the most hits and fewest misses

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