>>35576830>That started way before ORAS. In DPPt there were those dumb route transition stations already. Hell, that was between Celadon and Saffron in Gen 1. It's been with Pokemon since the beginning.Let me tell you the difference between Hoenn and other regions:
Hoenn was designed from the ground up to have as few route gates as possible, to show off the hardware capabilities of the Game Boy Advance. Pic related is the largest section of Hoenn the player can cross without ever travelling through a gate.
To all the comments about Dexnav, Dexnav was definitely the best part of Hoenn, but like many good things Game Freak completely abandoned it next game, with seemingly no intention to ever use it again, which is a real shame.
