POKEMON MOON EMERALD ONLINE SERIES
Pokemon X/Y was probably the first game in the series that caused wide scale disappointment among the fans – everyone had some complaint or the other with it. (As for which one the best one is, you’re going to have to find that out for yourself now, won’t you?). Put simply, this list doesn’t rank Pokemon Red/Blue, Yellow, FireRed/LeafGreen, and Let’s Go separately – it just takes what we think is the best one out of those, and ranks that one. Instead, what we did was take the best representative for each campaign and used it as a stand in for all other games that are also based on the same campaign.
To be clear, we didn’t rank all of them – that would be insane, and also redundant, since so many games in the series are just slight variations of each other. And so, we decided to go ahead and rank the Pokemon games. With the excellent Pokemon Legends Arceus marking what looks to be the start of a whole new era for the franchise, this felt like as great a time as any to stop and take stock of the state of the franchise as it stands at the present moment in time. The series, that has gone on to become the most valuable media franchise of all time, has delivered a veritable cavalcade of games – and though there have been ups and downs (more downs than ups in the last decade, a trend that it took the total break from formula that was Legends Arceus to reverse), the mainline series of the games has always and consistently delivered, at the very least good, fun, and extremely compelling games.
Pokemon is now over 25 years old, and it’s been a hell of a ride.