Yknow, DP Sinnoh’s Pokémon distribution isn’t even bad at first, the game introduces new, worthwhile Pokémon at a reasonable rate up until about hearthome, the problem is that, from that point onward, the game REALLY tries to spread out the few remaining mons in the dex to fill the rest of the areas, but there’s so few left that the area’s literally NEED to have their encounter tables padded out with repeat encounters. I don’t mind common encounters in and of themselves but the real problem that I think most people have with Sinnoh is that you can really tell they’re using common encounters to compensate the lack of Pokémon in the dex as a whole.

That said, a silver lining to this, and something I actually do appreciate about these games is that front loading the Pokémon availability like this allows me to use whatever options I AM given for most of the game at least. Having new mons introduced up until the late game sounds nice in theory but in practice it’s rarely very enjoyable.