>>21959938Kanto is fucking empty.
Like, REALLY empty. There is next to nothing left at all.
>Viridian Gym -- closed>Pewter Gym -- closed>Cerulean Gym -- closed>Cerulean Cape -- blocked off by giant rocks>Diglett Cave -- blocked off by giant rocks>literally any area east or south of Cerulean -- blocked off by a fucking fence you can see the pathways but there is no way to get around the fenceThey probably used some areas from Kanto for Kohto, but why let us go all the way to Cerulean and have NOTHING there save about a dozen trainers in the entire region? Why not just block it off at Viridian like you had it at the beginning of the game? I could've gone straight to Victory Road and I wouldn't've missed anything except a few experience points. To include it and have it be even more barren than it already is in GSC is just a terrible design choice. Brown let you go to Ilex Forest and the route above it, Azalea, and Slowpoke Well, but 1) they weren't in the original game it's based off, and 2) they had an in-universe justification for it by a monster of an earthquake happening and the places you can go to being filled with broken houses and debris, while the maps here are unchanged.
At least Viridian Forest is returned to its RBY/HGSS rendition, and apparently Cerulean Cave is back, though it's ALSO blocked off (I think I get access to it in postgame since it says I need a pass for it).
Oh, and Archen evolved. Archeops' sprite is marginally better than Archen's.
