>>27871250I think Whirlpool could have made exploring even more interesting; I am also SO HAPPY we didn't need another water HM, though. Diving is still one of my favorite things to do, and the music for it is just the best. I still remember the first time I found a Relicanth, I didn't know what it was and had to catch it immediately.
I might train one now, I realize I never have. Ahh, I'm excited to play some more now. That's one of the good things about most gens -- even in Kanto there's probably something we still haven't trained, and it's always fun to go back and discover a new bro.
>>27871573>some aspects of ORAS.I give ORAS a lot of hell for all the things they did wrong, but I genuinely did appreciate some of what the games accomplished. Sneaking around for rare pokemon was awesome and felt fitting for the region, and the opening moments of the game honest to god brought me to tears a little when I first booted it up because it just GOT ME in the nostalgia.
>>27871715Are you me? That's putting into words some of the things I feel about the region in general. It was so alive, and even when I go back now it's still so alive and there's always something to do and see.
The region really DOES evolve around you. The weather changes and evolves, berries grow and wilt, events come and go (does anyone else remember the Berry Master? The Rooftop Sale confounded me for years because I could never get it to happen.) Hoenn had daily events that kept you playing for YEARS, and in the case of Emerald the post-game content was literally bottomless with the Frontier.
That's why people get so bitchy about the current gens. It's all bike simulator online battles after the credits roll, and that makes me sad. Alola really, really has me hopeful though. They seem to be shaking things up, and I'm really hoping the region looks as remote and explorable as the big version of the map suggests.
I want to believe, /vp/.
