>>43547401I'm assuming you're referring to the route? I fucking love that route, it makes reaching snow point feel amazing. The snow thing is the one slow down mechanic I actually like in this game, it essentially has the same effect as making the route longer but doesn't waste map space. When I first played diamond I thought the route was super fucking long and that snow point was legitimately really far away but it's a relatively average route in length. It's good for flavor purposes an adds to the atmosphere, which matter a lot in pokemon games because without good atmosphere it becomes too obvious that exploration is literally just walking around and occasionally being interrupted by a battle
