>>51479932Kanto was already barren in gen 1, they had very little tileset diversity so they really straining their resources just to get the towns/cities to look recognizably different.
So the fact that gen 3 came around, with Hoenn being the epitome of visual diversity in the series at the time (Ashy route, Floral route, Rainforest route, desert route, an active Volcano, an inactive volcano, several different types of trees, a treehouse city etc) and then FrLg literally made the towns look even MORE samey than gen 1, you can bet your fucking ass it would piss people off. Cycling road isn’t even a fucking bridge still, in the same generation that has route 110. Nobody gives a fuck that things are technically more colourful than they were on a black and white system, or that it’s easier to tell what things are, when the region looks so utterly milktoast despite them easily having the ability to change that. FrLg were low effort pieces of shit
