>>34558273God, looking at these more "traditional" pokemon maps, where the routes and locations are clearly defined with a legend, really makes me miss them. The cluttered design of the alola "map" really bothers me, lots of locations blend together and it makes it hard to care about all the places that you'll NEVER go back to when they're just another section of blob on a map.
In order to make them work, they needed to expand the areas of alola MUCH more. Theyre too small with nothing to do inside them, nothing to remember most of them by for such an ambitious map. Sure, previous pokemon locations were nothing special (although still arguably more content filled/interesting than most alola locales) but they were clearly defined on the map, I remember every route because you could remember them as part of a 'skeletal' structure that fell on top of a map. Route X comes after City Y which is also connected to Route Z on the other side, the map always presented a clear sequence (even in the non linear ones) that alola moved away from without compensating in other areas.
