>>2651302
>Half the library is shovelware trash like Mary Kate & Ashley games, Mr. Pants, and episodes of Sponge Bob. GBA is a kids' handheld.
The GBA has almost 1100 games, if I recall correctly. Around 30 of those are part of the video series, which arrived late in the system's life and were never its selling point or focus, or anything important besides an experiment.
It's harder to assess how much shovelware there is on the GBA, but you also have shovelware everywhere. Are the PS1 or the Atari unworthy of discussion because it's full of shovelware, too?
There are plenty of good games on the GBA. Ace Attorney started on the GBA. The Fire Emblem games are excellent. Knight of Lodis beats the original TO, in my opinion. Astro Boy is probably the best game Treasure ever made. Mother 3 and the Superstar Saga gems are great RPGs, not to mention the likes of MMBN. Megaman Zero is way better than ZX; so is Battle Network when compared to Star Force. Advance Wars are worth playing, Dual Strike didn't "eclipse" anything and let's be fair here, it pretty much killed the franchise. Circle of the Moon is not a rehash of anything, and is quite unlike any other Metroidvania. And you not liking the FF ports' translation doesn't make them bad, I guess you should just enjoy your 50+ bugs and lol so zany Woolseisms (which the GBA kept) in the SNES version of VI.
Also way to move goalposts, you went from "small library" to "yeah but I don't like it and it sucks". Don't like GBA discussion if it's ever formally allowed on /vr/? Don't participate, and everybody wins.