>>43204694alola obviously has the problem of feeling small. that's both because the four island design causes you to run into boundaries all the time and because the routes are literally smaller than previous games.
but i like almost every route. they branched, they rewarded backtracking and they were pretty
the original games were too limited imo, so i would dock them points for being small, but USUM adds a few extra areas. most of them have water, actually. maybe they thought that was a weakness in the originals?
i know everyone wonders why there's no routes between the islands but i think it would've been boring as fuck holding right for ten minutes between each area.
tl;dr USUM alola had enough other shit to do that i didn't miss the water exploration from previous games.
