>>35375583>need Rock Smash and Strength just to pass through simple caves>Mt. Coronet separating the region means you're constantly applying Repels just to bike through a 2 minute hallway lest you suffer encounters, bolstered by Gen 4's slow engine>Defog>complete and utter lack of good Pokemon variety, every DP team had Staraptor and Luxray solely because your pickings in the early game are so dismally bad>Defog again>climb up Mt. Coronet requires near every HM meaning you need a designated HM slave or have to give up slots on your starter>Rock Climb being a poor man's Waterfall>region's design is all over the place, you need to go back through Eterna after being the 1st Gym, then return to Eterna a second time to get to Canalcave which is way the fuck over on the Wast of Sinnoh for no good reason>DP required you to beat Maylene then go back to Hearthrome to beat Fantina, but unlike Johto, which was designed to have everything connected, the backtracking is stupidly tedious >Snow is vastly underutilized, when it is used, it's the obnoxious trek to Snowpoint, even Unova does snow better than Sinnoh>Utterly forgettable towns that add nothing but a gym like PastoriaOut of all of this, I think Defog (and HMs in general) and the horrible Pokemon selection are the most damning pieces of evidence for Sinnoh being the worst region. It's okay if it was your first game and you like it, but don't pretend it's actually good.
