Best Game Boy Advance game that is not Pokémon

Depending on whether you want an original GBA title, a port from another system, or an enhanced edition of that title on a new system, a lot of these are some pretty obvious picks mentioned before. Personal favourite would have to be Aria of Sorrow, it's a classic I come back to every year whether it be in the form of the original release or a rom hack like Serenade of the Moon (I should have bought it from the flea market years ago before it became 120 dollars). The Advance Collection is a good port overall. Also many of these titles have better versions on either the PSP or another console Street Fighter 3 Alpha, Riveria, Super Robot Wars Original Generation, and Chain of Memories. If you're more on the platformer side, Astro Boy: Omega Factor and Super Gunstar Heroes are the kings of Run and Gun titles on the system next to Metal Slug Advanced. Most JRPG ports to the system either feel somewhat inferior due to the audio chip or performance or about the same. The SNES FF Trilogy, Breath of Fire 1 and 2, Mother 1+2, and the SMT trilogy. The funniest/most tragic example is Tales of Phantasia, they attempted to port the PS1 version to the console, but it hardly runs in combat and is still the only official version available to this day. The system was also a NES/SNES remake/port machine, with a majority of Nintendo's library from that era being there in some form, everything from Mario 3 to the first Mother. So there is overall a lot to play on the system, but there's also plenty of better ways to play these titles.
 
Technically all of them cuz Pokémon was never good.
 
As Rhythm Tengoku, WarioWare: Twisted!, Ninja 5-0, Gunstar Super Heroes and Astro Boy: Omega Factor have already got a shout out, I'm gonna go with this

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Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Warioland 4
Metroid Zero Mission
Metroid Fusion
Golden Sun
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Advance Wars
Fire Emblem
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team (edit: oops)
DBZ Legacy of Goku 1 & 2
DBZ Buu's Fury
MegaMan Battle Network
Medabots
Medabots AX
Final Fantasy 6
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
 
Aria of Sorrow still slaps.

It's kinda got a pokemon-like element with the souls collecting bit. I need to get around to grinding out 100% souls one of these days.
 
Aria of Sorrow still slaps.

It's kinda got a pokemon-like element with the souls collecting bit. I need to get around to grinding out 100% souls one of these days.
It was the first Castlevania game I ever beat :)
 
Superstar Saga, the Klonoa games on there, the Crash Bandicoot games minus Purple/Orange, The Spyro ones, definitely the Super Mario Advance games, Castlevania, all the Mega Man stuff, Sonic Advance, you know, everything everyone else mentioned lol. If you can stand how it plays, I really like Grand Theft Auto Advance, and Metal Slug Advance is really cool too.
 
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Riviera: The Promised Land
 
I failed to notice the isometric Spyro GBA trilogy if it has already been mentioned.
 
hard choice for me, but it's between these
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(if it were up to me i'd put mother 1+2 instead of mother 3, but then i'd be banished from the face of the earth, so i'll just hold my tongue for now...)
 
I don't think I would count main series Pokemon games as the best of any Nintendo handheld anyway.
 
I don't think I would count main series Pokemon games as the best of any Nintendo handheld anyway.
I disagree, but in recent years that would be true (for the 3DS and Switch).
Pokemon is at least the best games of the GB, GBC, GBA, and NDS eras.
 
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