>>32532020Route 23 followed by that victory road is the hest god damn final gauntlet in the entire fucking series.
-Those waterfalls and cliffs.
-That strength puzzle at the end of the road.
-The ancient ruins beneath the league mountain and surrounding forest.
-The dipilated fucling ruins of Ns castle in the post game.
I swear to god Unova might get a bit linear, but their world building and map design was some next level shit and not just as a Pokemon game, even as an RPG its got some serious cred. I am still trying to figure out how they went from that to XY, but SM was good in that regard as well.