>>58589497It just feels really unbalanced. After getting the first badge you have to:
>go to lumiose>battle the professor, get KANTOOOO starter>go through route 5>deal with snorlax>do the palace shit>go through the short cave>go down the cliffs>go to route 9>ride rhydon>go through glimmering cave>finally go to cyllageThrough this, the levels of wild encounters and trainers aren't increasing much, so your party isn't really progressing. I've also noticed that of the pokemon you have access to, anything that isn't a route 1 shitmon or bug mon evolves relatively late, so almost nothing is happening.
It just doesn't feel great for me, I would have put gym two before the rhydon personally. Best analogy I can make is the stretch in hoenn between getting the petalburg badge and reaching fortree, but about doubled.
I am glad they put the daycare and berry farm where they did though, at least there's something you can get out of the time spent there.
