>>49862203>>49862260While some regions like Sinnoh and Unova have some routes and dungeons better than everything in Hoenn, I felt like everything in Hoenn was consistently the best of any region. Just about every location past a certain point has an extra layer to it. An alternate path that opens up after you get cut and only goes one way. Routes that you get to sail through and technically can go the entire game without touching but hold a couple side areas including a partially submerged vessel that you need to dive through. A route split in two by a desert that you can't traverse on your first visit, an active volcano that you can ride up in a cable car and then bike down to get to a special town. Routes with waterfalls, jungles and weird paths that you can bike over and hop around on. Fucking invisible Pokemon blocking paths. A route on a series of ledges that takes at least three runs to get everything. Water routes with underwater sections that allow you to visit other sections above the surface that are normally blocked off. An entire city that you need to use this method to get too. A town floating on rafts between two islands in the middle of the ocean. A torrential path that also takes at least three tried to get everything, often more than that.
The 3D era never had anything close to this aside from the one time when they remade said game on the 3DS. What the fuck happened?