>>32313357Linear as fuck, no secrets, even things that look like they might be secret areas are either unexplorable (fuck that lighthouse) or are just a small room with an item.
Scenery is pretty good but that's all it is, there's no substance to it. One of the weakest Victory Roads, there's nothing but malasadas on TV, almost all towns have a big square of nothing as if they were too lazy to put a house there, and by the way there's like five towns, Po Town doesn't change in post-game. Divided in islands so you never feel like you've traveled far yourself with your Pokémon, instead you just took a boat and explored a bit then took another boat and repeat. Battle Maison 3, most new Pokémon are rare and you encounter mostly Kanto shit. No diving in fucking HAWAII. Why. No Bellossom.
Pretty sure I could go on but I think you got the point OP, Alola is a malasada that looks and probably smells good, but ultimately it tastes like shit.
And somehow, it's still better than Kalos. Fuck Kalos.