>>28751258I respect your opinion, but desu I feel like Hoenn's approach was better: long and diverse routes. For example, Route 111 and 119 are the longest land routes of every pokemon game, and have most remarkable contrasting features (a desert and a rainforest respectively)
Hoenn is different from other regions. Other regions have gates separating the routes from the city, but not Hoenn, which has cities completely merged into nature (notably Sootopolis, Pacifidlog and Fortree).