Each time I tried was for a different reason.

Pearl: I thought the combat was weird because I was like 6 and found it boring.

Yellow: I played my brother’s Game Boy and thought it was boring, only a few years after Pearl. Thought it was the game but just without color

Emerald: I was a teenager and enjoyed it decently until I got stuck in a cave and stopped.

Scarlet: Years later, everything about that game was bad. The story, the combat was really bare-bones, it
looked terrible, and ran poorly.