>>38650346to be fair, I could have posted the whole sinnoh map or even the platinum jacket but, as counter intuitive as it can seem to me, there are people who genuinely liked those so, I went for the longest "no bikes allowed" road in the franchise.
to be fair, I would have loved this as an optional remote location, make it twice as long, some interesting features here and there and a legendary or any interesting event in a nice area at the end but making it mandatory was a shitty idea and it only emphasized even more the natural sluggishness of the game.
but again, sinnoh don't do "optional areas", once you slogged through the story, you have visited everything that was available, all that was left was the tiny dead ends with just a potion that required twelve HM to go there. and that forge where you can catch the only fire pokemon of the game