>every game in the series bar the gen i games have more residents in their accessable regions than alola
>alola has the fewest routes of any region
>alola has the lowest amount of available pokemon as a percentage of the current national dex
>alola has the fewest caves of any region and in regards to bland landmarks is arguably only outclassed by gen ii kanto
>every postgame area sans the tapu ruins is located on poni, the smallest and blandest island
>akala and ula'ula are relatively the same size even though the islands they are based on differ in size, with maui being small compared to hawaii, yet they didn't think making poni disproportionately large in comparison to kauai
>more than half of the number of enterable houses in alola can be counted on your fingers, and most of them belong to important npcs
Oh sweet everloving fuck, please, PLEASE tell me Game Freak won't pull and XY and these things will be mitigated in SM's supplementary version. I don't care if the expanse is handwaved as being volcanic bullshit, I just miss the feeling of being able to break into heaps of people's houses and talking to them, even if it's pointless most of the time. Alola would be so much better if it wasn't so empty. And slow. But mostly empty.
>>31880817
iirc someone did a comparison with scaling with all of the regions and alola was just as big as the other ones
it's just that everything is broken apart so it seems smaller
>>31880817
gen 7 best gen