>>38297904Hoenn's water routes were fucking terrible. The game's theme is land vs water, sure but half of it being huge stretches of samey water with random rocks, deep water and swimmers every now and then wasn't fun whatsoever. Neither it was to stop every few steps or so to reapply repel otherwise you got pelted by Pelippers. Meanwhile the land areas have mountains, a desert, that area being covered with volcanic ash, a forest, a jungle, a large flower garden, whatever the fuck you'd describe route 110 with, etc. Sure diving was kinda cool, but you moved at a snail's pace, there was no variety in wild Pokemon at all and it just wasn't enough to compete with the land routes, also the currents were fairly boring.
