>>51773549aight aight
>game balanceself-explanatory, just after the THIRD badge you get the ability to have two Pokemon with 600+ BST and broken ability
And coincidentially, this is where you have to face the weakest gym of the game - the grass one
>pacingfine I guess, it's just a whole lot of Team Flare battles back to back. still better than some of the other games eh
>explorationcool routes but nothing interesting 'till Route 16's lost hotel
Wouldn't hurt to have some kind of optional area to on Route 13 :^)
thass about it, game fucks up more a whole lot later really
between gyms 7 and 8