>>50393385I love these gauntlet sections because you really begin to feel the wear and tear in your team as you're overwhelmed by platitudes but can't bring yourself to travel all the way back. It's particularly a punishment if you play while only leveling a single Pokémon, as your PP will eventually run out. The Cycling Road section is more of a shortcut and reward for players who explore the game and talk to NPCs.
Later Gens (at least until they stopped making sequences like this) would handle gauntlets better, such as Route 212 in Sinnoh having a shitton of optional content and itself being an alternate path.
