>>45340801There isn't any actual soul in the towns, a shame because the aesthetics of them were really great this gen, ballonlea, hammerlocke, stow on side, etc. all look pretty good there's just fuck all to do in them so you're there for like 5 minutes to fight the gym and then you leave and never see them again. If there were more sidequests or items/pokemon to get from specific npcs/environments it would be a lot better. Like a fishing contest in Hulbury for you to earn weekly prizes and get a chance to find rarer water/water-dwelling pokemon along with a little optional side dungeon in the lighthouse where you can find items and at the top is like a rare candy and a really good TR. That along with stuff already there like the restaurant quest would make it feel a little more fleshed out at least.
Maybe there could be a quest in Ballonlea to help find a rare galarian pontya for an npc, or to stop impidimp and a morgrem from terrorizing someone's house by battling them, rewarding you with an item and the morgrem having good ivs. Other stuff like Galarian Darmanitans in Circhester being activated by a ragecandybar, or solving a puzzle in the stone henge in Turrfield to get a Stonejourner would make these areas feel so much more memorable and soulful