>>58779893Love you for making this thread
I miss the way regular trainer battles were treated in Gen 2 and, to a lesser extent, Gen 3 and 4. What I mean is, I miss how, despite being weak fodder, they were treated as meaningful in their own right, with rematches that expanded their teams and sometimes particular niche uses like how some gave you items or called about swarms in gen 2, or how some held particular items that could be stolen, or gave tons of money to farm currency (like the rich boy/lady on route 104 in RSE or the Gentleman/Socialite on route 212 in DPP) or had teams of 6 mons to farm exp (like the breeders on route 117 in RSE or the collector on route 215 in platinum). It’s a small detail but things like this, among other things, made NPCs scattered around the world feel memorable, which, in turn, helped make the entire region feel populated with actual people.
>>58779967>>58779971>>58780082Ironically all things lacking in your very posts
