>>49174479Wrong. Hoenn is Shittnoh Lite, especially the water portions where you need three HMs (Waterfall, Dive, and Surf) and must fish or dive to find Pokemon other than Tentacool or Wingull. It's as if they were experimenting to see how much they can try the players's patience before coming out with Diamond and Pearl with its lack of Pokemon variety, environments with marsh, snow, and defog, Honey Trees, and all sorts of other mechanics that have no purpose but to try the player's patience. Forcing you to waste hours using Thief to get rare evolutionary items like Dragon Scale and Metal Coat, rather than simply making them available in the overworld, is also common to both.
