Since it is one of the first and most popular Pokémon hacks, it doesn’t hold up against the modern roms which have much better structure and design. Its battling, traversal and unnecessary difficulty are criticized a lot, but I believe that it isn't deserved since when this game was released, it was a marvel that so much could be done in a rom hack alone. Safe to say it paved the way for all the new hacked ROMs to come and the story still holds up to this day.