>>31338756>"Hoenn has too much water, fuck sea routes">no region since has had a mandatory sea route of any respectable length; the closest being Gen 4's route to Victory Road>"Sinnoh's too complicated and needs too many HMs to do anything">future regions are much more linear, and two of the three subsequent generations effectively abolish mandatory HMs altogether in some formI'm sure there's more, but fuck if I know.
>>31338812Mt. Moon was mostly tough because it was a marathon at a point where you were still taking off your training wheels. Rock Tunnel was dark and hard to navigate without Flash, and it was also longer and more convoluted.