It's absolutely a fair criticism. People get mad because the games were themed around expanding the ocean and expanding the land and see it as justified that it had an equal amount of water and land routes. That thematically makes sense, but they did nothing to make the water routes as interesting as the land routes or to compensate for the fact that types weak to water got hosed for half the game. They should have varied the scenery on water routes, had aquatic Pokemon that weren't water type, and made the encounter tables as varied as they were on land.
I used to get them for free (my scoutmaster was a quartermaster on the local base).
They genuinely aren’t bad. They genuinely aren’t good either though. IGN would give a 7.5/10
7.8 not enough water
That rings a bell, faintly in the distance. Which review was memed on for that again?
pokemon ruby/sapphire remakes iirc
Thank you, I thought gen 3 was known for too much water though?
It's absolutely a fair criticism. People get mad because the games were themed around expanding the ocean and expanding the land and see it as justified that it had an equal amount of water and land routes. That thematically makes sense, but they did nothing to make the water routes as interesting as the land routes or to compensate for the fact that types weak to water got hosed for half the game. They should have varied the scenery on water routes, had aquatic Pokemon that weren't water type, and made the encounter tables as varied as they were on land.