Was this an objective improvement over RB or did it lose some

It's hardly different, but most changes were improvements. The only missing "charm" might be not being able to choose wonky color palettes when booting up R/B on a GBC.

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>>26747017
Clearly it's an objective downgrade because you can't fucking evolve Pikachu.

It's not as clear of an upgrade as, say, Crystal was to Gold and Silver, or any other third version, but it improves a couple things. It does change a few things that weren't broken to match better with the anime, but most of those things don't matter at all, so it's just personal preference.

If by "original charm" you mean nostalgia, that obviously depends on which you played first, or if you played all of Gen 1 in close enough succession for it all to be about the same for you.

>>26747044
Yes you can, just box it and unbox it.

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>>26747044

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>>26747064
That doesn't work.

>>26747017
>objective
pls stop shoehorning this into everything. its usually implied and it just makes it sound like you're memeing hard or a newfag.

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this is the better version

>>26747017
worst starter