Is Hoenn the region with the most diverse environment in the whole series? There are genuinely so many different biomes it has to explore. It has a desert, an ashy volcano route, diverse caves, rainforests, an icy cave, underwater areas, a town floating in the ocean, a city inside a volcano, a town made of treehouses... I don't think any other region is this diverse.
>>59368767Too much water
Sooo, every region outside Kanto and Johto, because they ignore silly concepts like coherency to bullshit justify habitation for pokemon?
>>59368767Not so much biomes since other regions have quite a bit of variety as well, but it’s easily the region most willing to get a little fantastical with its setting. Fortree, Pacifilog, route 113, Mt Chimney, and Meteor Falls are good examples of areas that were a huge departure carom the more standard locations of Kanto and Johto prior, which helped the region stand out and feel like worthy of the jump in hardware capabilities. Curiously, they never really tried to recreate that experience in later gens, which left Hoenn feeling fairly unique to this day
>>59368767>>59368881Alola is probably the best at having an environment thats both diverse and coherent. It has as many biomes as Hoenn but without the retarded land/water split that makes the region nonsensical and untraversable. That being said, I still prefer the way Kanto, Johto and Sinnoh did it. The grass fields and mountains may be less exiting than the retarded mario level approach of later gens but they are comfier and more immersive.
>>59368767too much water
>>59369198Sinnoh is just as diverse while remaining coherent as hoenn. It's got an arctic north, the east has sandy beach areas, the southern chunk of the map is constantly raining wetlands with a thick swamp at the center, and a volcano/lava area in the northeast, all sitting in "natural" spots that logically flow into one another. If anything it's actually more varied than Hoenn because it has all of Hoenns biomes plus an arctic one that Hoenn doesn't really have. I will give you the towns though. Sinnoh towns are pretty separate from their environs and just fit a standard "town" template, whereas Hoenn towns will actually reflect their surroundings.
>>59368767>diverse environmentit's literally one of the most consistent
>>59371176Sinnoh's environments are pretty varied but they bleed into multiple routes, making it less varied. In Hoenn you go from volcano to desert to grassland to rainforest with no rhyme or reason. It is more diverse.
>>59368767I wish the desert was a little bigger, probably the only place in the whole map that feels kinda crammed, otherwise I like the diversity, no snow but it's supposed to be a tropical region, if anything it could be even more tropical.
