>>53687648As many things i hate about SV, i love the region. You can literally go to any gym you want in any order if you get your ride pokemon upgrades (i recommend getting swimming first)
The gyms dont scale with your progression which sucks.
The trainers are optional and mostly stay by the route. The habitats for species are nice, a lot of variety for making a team early on.
Areas are pretty typical, you have your snow mountain, desert, wetlands (no sinking mud), grassy fields etc.
Trading sucks since theres no GTS.
I like it more than sword and shield mainly because the story is 100x better