Play the gameboy games if you want a buggy game
Play rse if you want to play the peak of the series
Skip diamond and pearl and platnum because they are boring and the 2d weak point of the series
Play black and white because they're decent
i got stuck at the beginning when i first played, now i got past the house but i decided that if the whole game is where the hell do i go what the hell do i do then it will take hours and i'll need to search what to do whenever something doesn't make sense