>>39582195I thought we were talking about the regions themselves, not what the regions had.
But still
>Poke-Ride eliminating HMsThis is true, however the region has a drastically reduced usage of HMs. Strength is only used when the rock is directly in front of the hole, removing the puzzle aspect entirely, Surf only lets you explore very small beach areas with I think one location in the entire game only being accessible by surfing, and I honestly don't remember if they even had cut. Taurus and Stoutland were alright, I like them better than the bike/search-item respectively, but I'd prefer if we got to ride our own pokemon.
>Changed the game for once with island trialsThey're literally just gyms, except there are less of them. Totems are a tiny bit harder than X/Y gym battles but not exceptionally so, the only one that was a speedbump for me was Mimikyu and that's largely because of the Haunters spamming hypnosis.
