>>41395571The wild area will never make up for the lack of routes.
It's pretty much the length of 2 normal routes from any other game, and you can completely avoid 80% of the area if you want.
Even if you do explore the wild area, what is there to do exactly? Its an empty wide open space masked with overworld models to make it look more impressive than your average route and cluttered with RNG Fest dens.
The exploration in the wild area can't even compete to exploring shit like Kanto Power Plant, Whirl Island/Tin Towers, Snowpoint Temple, Sky Pillar Giant Chasm, and for all that X/Y did wrong, finding Zygarde at Terminus cave was kino.
What unique locations does the wild area have for uncovering new pokemon, let alone the rest of the game? Activating a den for a 5% chance to spawn any one of the gigamax forms sure is underwhelming compared to actually exploring a cave and finding that Gigamaxed pokemon resting there. The wild area and Gigamax forms are linked together in how they're executed and they're both executed poorly.
