>>36314645I think one of the things I love the most from gen5 is the introduction of seasons.
Sure, they made them cycle too slow for a normal playthrough, and you'll normally see 2 if you're lucky during the maingame.
But still, I loved how alive the region felt thanks to them. Even when the changes were just in detail and not that important, that was still a change and you felt the world wasn't like a static painting.
Just like the day/night cycle: it may be just a palette shift, but nobody would deny that having it is so much better for the game's world than not. And just like it happened with the day/night cycle, at the time I was expecting they would slowly improve the seasons for the next games. What a shame.
I have only one complain to this aspect though: the scarcity of seasonal weather.
You would expect to see more rain in autumn, and definitely more snow and hail in winter. But they only gave those precipitations to the eastern part of the region (Driftveil to Opelucid), which are barely a 3rd of the game in BW, and like a 4th in the sequels. To top it off, it only happens half of the days of the month, so you have a lot of chances to go through those zones without ever seeing any drop nor snowflake anyway.
And the only place that gets a significant change with snow is Twist Mountain.
I don't know, I personally missed a second forest in the midgame, that'd get all covered in snow for winter, just like Pinwheel gets full of red for Autumn.
Still, it's probably my favorite feature.
The hell did they have to drop it for the rest of the franchise? It wasn't even a gimmick.
