>>49510092There's literally dialogue in one of the quests where a little girl talks about how cool it is that Gyarados can fly through the sky.
>>49510320This.
It's a big step up from Swsh's Gyarados just clipping through the water, and turning 180 degrees on a point.
We still are nowhere close to what a cool openworld pokemon should look like though.
Gyarados should be flying out from waterfalls and patrolling the sky.
Graveler should suddenly bust out of underground tunnels to attack.
You should be able to be stalked by predator pokemon across the entire map until you reach a safe camp. They shouldn't get to the edge of their spawn area and just give up.
It doesn't need to come all at once necessarily, but it would be nice to see more steps in the right direction.
For what it's worth, I'm still enjoying PLA a lot.