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Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire remade Hoenn with 3DS spectacle and turned the Delta Episode into a lore flex.
Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire launched in 2014 on Nintendo 3DS. It remade Hoenn with 3DS spectacle and turned the Delta Episode into a lore flex. It sits on the canon-defining RPG backbone that decides regions, monsters, battle systems, and the assumptions every other Pokemon project eventually reacts to.
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Its 2014 release on Nintendo 3DS immediately became part of the benchmark fans used to judge its whole generation.
Why it matters
Mainline Pokemon releases are the load-bearing beams of the franchise. If you want to understand why the rest of Pokemon looks the way it does, these are the games that set the rules.
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