>>37098202I loved firered's look. It had little shots like this for the entrance to each forest/cave. The textures and details in them were also very nice. Viridian forest, for example, has the best trees in any pokemon game. Those little craters, pools of water, and sandbars in mt.moon were great, and each cave had it's own color and texture. The cerulean cave especially was very nice. The outdoor routes in kanto aren't too good, though, especially the fucking fence maze east of fuschia.
In soul silver, I liked the caves too, but for their layouts. The only part that really *looked" nice is the autumnal forest at the ho-oh tower. Union cave, dark cave, mt. mortar, mt. silver, and cerulean cave were great.
Stark mountain in platinum was pretty cool.
I don't mean to ignore hoenn, it had some nice areas.
But when it comes to nice looking places, it's hard to beat unova. Damn near everywhere in that game is unique and nice looking. I still think the graphics and style of firered are the best, but unova takes the cake for overland routes and towns, if nothing else.