>>56056320It was two threads, I don't recall the OP of the second one but the first one was "presented without context" and had route 1 on it.
>>56056326>No you didn'tYeah, I didn't. Glad you acknowledge that other anons are against your position.
>Anon... what do you think deserts are?Okay. I get that you don't like Unova routes 4(2 only), 5, 9, 11, 15, and 16. They're paved routes that allow you to mostly sidestep the content they have. I can respect that opinion. I don't think they're the highlights of the franchise, let alone the game either. Even if I did, this is a fine opinion to have.
The problem with Kalos route 13 is that you're a hypocrite. You can actively avoid all encounters in the given area, which means that route 13 is mechanically very similar to those routes. It's even worse though, because it's much larger than any of those Unovan routes.
Not only that, but I lived less than two hours away from Sedona, Arizona at one point and just over that from the GRAND CANYON. Even further still, the Sahara isn't flat either, it has sand dunes. There is more to do in the fenced off restricted oil fields south of me than there is to do in Route 13. That is a PROBLEM.
There's no house, there's no store room, there's no construction site, an excavation site for the clay... Hell, if you wanted just a set-piece that didn't do anything and wouldn't have taken much effort outside of modeling, you could've had a sick ravine going through with a lava river at the bottom, and part of the geothermal plant built into it. It wouldn't have done much of anything, but it would've been cool and broken up the otherwise MASSIVE EMPTY AREA that exists in the middle of route 13 and helped reinforce that this is the place where the geothermal plant is.
Also it's not even a desert, it's a area where the ground is mostly red clay. Deserts are defined by rain fall and given that it's smack dab in the middle of a bunch of lush land, it has a lot of rain too.
