>>53127304It's one of the better routes, it's like route 119's brother even moreso than route 120, you just don't really notice it because of the way they segmented it.
If you ask me the segmentation is what makes this route really interesting though. Say what you want about road blocks but seeing cool areas that you can't get to yet really spices up the experience because it invigorates the imagination, which is a strong point of the series. It also helps that you can listen to the desert theme early.
Honestly this whole stretch of Hoenn might be my favorite, more so than even route 119 and route 120, probably more than any other route in the series.
There's just something so utterly fucking adventurous about finally smashing the rocks that blocked your way, venturing northward, passing a cool ass desert, then deterring to the west onto route 112, but, seeing that you can't get to Lavaridge that way, you head up the nearby volcano, through a steamy tunnel, then pop out the other end. From there you head over to an old lady's remote cabin for some rest before setting out again through a route of pure ash with the most serene ambient music ever, before, FINALLY, reaching another settlement, tucked way up in the northwest corner of the map. Then you head down, passed some unique canyon biome with waterfalls, into a cave that looks like the moon (with watefalls), then pop out the other end before finally reaching Rustboro where you're free to use the shortcut from earlier in the game to get back to where you were. It's just pure kino, it perfectly exemplifies everything that I love about the way Hoenn naturally guides the player around it's map, the whole thing truly feels like an adventure by it's very design.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKW-reR_jUQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct8BSxQN7CAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinu2ID1C78I truly love pokemon games and I'm glad I have hoenn to help me realize that. Which region is for you guys, anons?
