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Festival Plaza is such an absolute mess of awful ideas that i'm convinced anybody that defends it is outright lying. Everything else in the recent games is merely a matter of personal opinion, but FP is objectively terrible.
>completely separate from the overworld
>have to hear people constantly warping in
>no PC at all in the Plaza, meaning that if you need to mess with PC, you have to leave
>if you leave the Plaza after connecting online to do anything you have to reconnect online, you can't just stay online
>takes longer to connect online, ESPECIALLY if you have activated Game Sync
>you can't connect online and play the game while waiting for a trade or battle, you have to sit in the plaza and do nothing
>unlike Join Avenue, has its own proprietary currency
>FC gain is absolutely pitiful, almost always being in the single digits
>almost all the shops in the Plaza are pointless. Items you can buy with pokebucks in the overworld and underpowered ev training facilities are everywhere
>the only useful shops are some lottery place because of an exploit and some level grinding shop
>the level grinding shop has a fucking level cap and costs a boatload of FC
>Just hit Plaza Rank 50? "I'll introduce a new shop to you. Stomp-Stomp House *."
>dye shops in general, why cant i just fucking buy the colors i want at the store? I don't buy white shirts in real life to dye them blue in my bathtub with berries
>can't ask a visitor about a specific piece of their clothing, it's picked randomly
>Battle Agency is a complete shitshow that's literally unbeatable past a point because of the fact the enemies go up in level but you can still be stuck with most of your team at level 50
>Agency partners expire if they're not active for long enough meaning that the second online dies this facility is 100% worthless
Every single aspect of the Plaza is broken. Everything else I hate about gen 7 is just opinion one that many may share, but it's a fact that Plaza is awful.
