>>47469096>you still have to look for it to discover their location when you play a new game the first time Slowly shuffling from one town to the next before the game slaps a sign that says Name Rater isn't discovery in any meaningful way.
>also encourages traveling back to the town they're in to use them. sw/sh has no reason to return to half the towns so you just visit them once and never go backWow, so instead of spending all my time in the Wild Area doing raids and capturing Pokemon and junk, I'll occasionally take the taxi to Ballonlea, spend exactly a minute renaming my Yamper to "Fredrick" then leaving to continue doing what I was before. Amazing!
No but seriously, if you WANT people to return to past locations you should use actual content and not basic bitch services that are done with in a blink and then forgotten about for another ten hours. Y'know, minigames, facilities, side missions with interesting rewards or even to simply expand the world and characters? Now I'm not saying every town NEEDS to do this (I used to fuck around entire regions doing menial shit because it was fun and atmospheric) but in a game with almost of it's emphasis placed on one location (the wild area) as THE place for most of your leveling, catching, and breeding, something as basic as "you can rename your pet" is not going to fix a town being a set piece.
