>>44182560Galar is probably the worst of the lot, it's very boring to explore what little of it can even be explored and it doesn't do anything interesting, there's no real landmark locations you visit, yeah you'll see landmarks but you never really explore them, about the closest things would be Glimwood Tangle and Slumbering Weald which are more so on the level of Viridian Forest than something like Rock Tunnel, Whirl Islands, Mt. Pyre or Mt. Coronet.
In some regards though Alola is worse, at least with Galar it's pretty obvious they didn't give a fuck and went with the most boring and generic stuff they could, but with Alola there are some genuinely interesting environmental locations and so much stuff feels either cut out or cut down, like that Golf Course on Akala Island we never visit or Mt. Hokulani on Ula'Ula Island, Poni Island just comes off as a massive disappointment because the game makes it seem like it's going to be this great wilderness of an island but it's so pathetically small, Vast Poni Canyon was alright but it should've been a truly monstrous dungeon compared to what came before, ain't no Mt. Coronet that's for sure.
Kalos has that same untapped potential with its locations as Alola but at least almost every location got a good spotlight in the game, I think the areas I would've liked to have seen more were the cliffs on Route 8, the swamps on Route 14, the tundra of Route 17 and Frost Cavern and the marshlands of Route 19 (even though Snowbelle City makes no sense in relation to them).
