Worst routes/cities/places in Pokémon

[Lord Chespin]

I'd have to say Pattern Bush in Fire Red and Leaf Green. I Similar to the Altering Cave example, I was expecting some massive secret with the pattern the area was named after... and it turned out to be the circuit board of the cartridge the game came in. Kid me was so disappointed.

[BIGJRA]

For me, it's pretty much all of the Safari Zones.

Generation 1's, while the best of the five IMO, still wasn't fun to navigate through, especially considering a full item run of the place would take at least 2-3 run through's of the zone, if you knew what you were looking for. Additionally, I can't stand searching and searching for all the rare Pokemon in this safari. As a kid, I was never able to catch Kangaskhan, Tauros, Chansey, Scyther, and Pinsir, making me very irritated towards this place for hoarding all the hard-to-get Pokemon.

'Generation 2's', aka the one in HGSS was a pretty fun idea going in, but the execution particularly drove me nuts. Although a concept of different areas that are swappable was good, it's the way that you have to get up the "points" to get the rare Pokemon that bothered me the most. Being a completionist my whole life and knowing that that was the only way to get certain Pokemon in HGSS really drove me a little nuts (enough that a combination of Gen 4's Swarms, this Safari, and the entirety of the Pokewalker put me off from completing the NatDex in this gen).

Generation 3's is not the worst, but not the best either. The items in this one were less plentiful than generation one's, and the Pokemon weren't too hard to find in this one. The two mechanics that really killed it for me were the bike-exclusive areas and the Pokeblocks. The former was annoying because I really hated the idea of having to fly back to one city just to exchange bikes just to go get a Rhyhorn (for example) and it just seemed like bad game design. Luckily, this was alleviated in ORAS by allowing the player to, at one point, have both bikes (and get TM Energy Ball in the Safari Zone!). The latter point was not necessarily a game breaker, it just seemed like a worthless feature to require the Pokeblock case for entry, especially when I would forget to pick it up, and then remove the rock/bait options from FRLG.

Generation 4's is the bane of my existence. The god-awful marsh walking speed, lack of any cool items to pick up, the frustrating and luck-based binoculars system to get the 'good stuff', and the stupid train system make this the worst safari yet. It is really that bad.

Of all the tropes that were not reintroduced in Gen 5, I'm glad that they left the safari zone out.

Generation 6 is a novel concept, and I can't really hate it that much because it is more of my own gripes that make me angry for this one. I didn't like having to resort to frequenting Serebii forums and f. adding randoms just to collect all the Pokemon in pre-bank XY, so this was a good idea that was just inconvenient to someone trying to catch them all.

Oh, and Safari balls suuuuuuuuuuck.

Maybe if they made it into a cool mechanic with a safari-bound Jeep that gets to roam around, I would enjoy the feature.

Edited December 8, 2015 by BIGJRA

[mde2001]

I'd have to say Pattern Bush in Fire Red and Leaf Green. I Similar to the Altering Cave example, I was expecting some massive secret with the pattern the area was named after... and it turned out to be the circuit board of the cartridge the game came in. Kid me was so disappointed.

I actually really love the idea of pattern bush. I think it is a really nice touch that it is in the shape of the Gen 1 cartridge and has a lot of bug type pokemon. While it isn't the best map I really enjoyed the concept of it once I discovered what it was. I think it is one of Nintendo's better Easter eggs.

[BreezyPonie]

So many people hatin on Sinnoh's Safari Zone, smh

Avoiding the sticky marsh parts is not hard you guys. They're pretty obviously tinted different. Maybe I'm just biased by nostalgia, but I don't ever recall the sticky marsh being a problem. I remember actually having a lot of fun exploring it, even though I never caught anything good.

Not a huge fan of Turnback Cave or whatever it was called that Giratina lived in. It's all down to luck how fast you get there, really, and seeing the same rooms over and over really gets on your nerves.

[Lord Chespin]

I actually really love the idea of pattern bush. I think it is a really nice touch that it is in the shape of the Gen 1 cartridge and has a lot of bug type pokemon. While it isn't the best map I really enjoyed the concept of it once I discovered what it was. I think it is one of Nintendo's better Easter eggs.

Well, that's your opinion, and I respect it. I still admit it was a nice touch, but with all the people in the area talking about how the place resembled something I was expecting something a little more than an Easter egg.

[Pausaunias]

i personally dislike Floaroma and Celestic town in Sinnoh region. Sinnoh region is my favorite but this 2 towns are simple horrible and not woth mention in any converstion. Floaroma town is simply too much overflowed with flowers (i understand the consept of the area BUT IS A BIT TOO MUCH GAMEFREACK!!!!!!). In the other hand Celestic town is simply pour in action or enviroment and is just a point of the storyline with Cynthia or Palkia(?) which i think is almost useless for the game.

[0 Jordinio 0]

Mt. Coronet. Just so damn repetitive.

[Tacos]

One that I completely forgot about was the Underground in Colosseum. The area was cool in general, but the whole wild goose chase after Venus was just irritating and annoying considering she just lead you into more and more trainers and you never ended up actually apprehending the pompous diva.