>>43930155>three of these were lumped together in my "bay area"That's sounds pretty disingenuous of you to lump three locations together and call them one location. That would be like if I said Dark Cave, Union Cave, and Dragon's Den are all one location just because all three of them are caves despite the fact that they are all entirely separate locations
>I'm pretty sure Hau or Lillie takes you here but I may be wrongThey don't. I got to the third island and I never had to go to Hano Beach
>I only remember there being like 2 npcs and an item here, plus Oak's cousin but that's it.In SM, Trubbish is exclusive to there in all versions. In USUM, Minccino is also exclusive to this area. Also, there was more than one item. see pic related. There also three NPC trainers here in SM and four in USUM
>I don't remember much about this one, admittedly.Togedemaru is exclusive to this area in all versions. in Sun and Ultra Sun, Turtonator is also exclusive to this area. In USUM, Dedenne is exclusive to this area. Rhyhorn can be caught here via island scan. There also two NPC trainers here in all versions
I legitimately don't see how these areas have "nothing" to do in them despite the fact that they have the same things you'd be doing in the optional locations of all the older games, like battling trainers, catching wild pokemon, and collecting items
