>>29935116>But the trials are essentially gymsstop
Gyms are not replaceable, gyms have their own atmosphere, design, puzzles, and it feels exciting to finally get to the leader after going through trainers. Remember finally fucking hitting the right teleporter and appearing next to sabrina? Or going through the weird mace shit and finding Giovanni?
Or going through all the kanto gyms again after johto and finding out blue is the leader of viridian city now?
All that excitement, gone, and replaced with what? Generic locations and lame fetch quests.
>Plus, after finishing an island's trials, you move on to the KahunaCool, and then you have a battle in the middle of nowhere and you get to fight 4 of them.
> The trials are just a refreshing new take on gyms.wrong wrong wrong on so many levels holy shit, pokemon deserves to go to shit if its average consumer is this clueless
>>29935397Not really, little to no environmental puzzles 7 hours in, it's just "go through generic terrain and obstacles you would find in any other overworld in any other gen and kill/collect thing", really shit.
Basically, imagine if in pokemon blue/moon mt moon is a gym, except much smaller, and you have to kill 3 zubats and then a giant zubat. that's the entire game.
