>>46270115>Sinnoh lacks good interconnectionWhat the fuck are you on about? Seriously? Sinnoh has normal interconnection, nothing fancy and it does have a few pan handles but so fucking what, Johto has them too, Kanto has them too, every region has them. You'll learn fly like everyone else anyway, and the game often let you go around dungeons after a certain point like with Eterna forest where you can go around it after getting cut.
>and its routes rely on gimmicks and HM spam instead of good layout and level designYou have whole actual secondary areas in Sinnoh that you can completely avoid or misss that actively encouragse you to explore for yourself, Johto and Kantos routes are all boring as shit with only a few detours here and there.
>but muh HMsKanto has them, Johto has them, Hoenn as them, the fuck are you smoking to think Johto is the odd one out here?
