@MrMister182 Went from forgettable small town to one of the few ACTUALLY big cities in Pokémon

@MrMister182 I quite liked the mall-esque design, very characterful

@MrMister182 I like cal but his take is bad

@MrMister182 I think cities in general just feel small in pokemon games like this one is literally meant to look like a mall which is unrealistically small for a city. That's also why people were upset when they announced that ZA would take place entirely in Lumiose but it'll be fine probably

@MrMister182 he hates the mauville redesign because it's a mall i hate the mauville redesign because cities in 3d pokemon games largely fail to convince me that they're real places pre-gen 9 we are not the same

@MrMister182 God for forbid people have opinions nowadays amiright?

@MrMister182 He said he hated it, not that it wasn't unique. People are allowed to not like things even if they're improved. He doesnt even say it's shit lmao.

@MrMister182 I played oras before the originals and when I reached Mauville in emerald I deadass thought I accidentally used a fanmade romhack, nope it's just like that in emerald insane glowup

@MrMister182 Thing is "unique" here meant "everyone lives in shopping mall" (and also many NPCs kinda only talk about late stage capitalism) which is... I guess interesting but also dystopian AF.

@MrMister182 Sapphire was my very first game so playing ORAS I loved how they revamps a lot of the cities and they were all for the better.

@MrMister182 It's that they didn't make it intuitive at all, for me.

@MrMister182 Tbf I think most of it is the loading screens

@MrMister182 In christ the gen 6 babies are old enough to start being contrarians.

@MrMister182 Fr Mauville might have been the most bland city in the franchise

@MrMister182 okay but lets be real, it should have looked better, game freak releases games wayy too early all the time. just like sega with sonic

@MrMister182 Unique =/= good Mid is quite literally better than "bad"

@MrMister182 Literally like 40% of the city is made up of loading screens 💀