I wanted to talk about a few more areas that I enjoy quite a lot in this series:
1) Lavaridge Town. It's fairly small and unremarkable except for one thing: there's an exit at the back of the Pokemon Center! It takes you out onto a planked path that leads you to the town's local hot spring. I don't think it does anything for you, but I love the touch it adds to the town. A resident even describes taking a Pokemon into the springs with you could result in a bubble bath or 'even a lava bath...' (yikes!)
2) The Old Chateau. Tucked into the back of Eterna Forest, this abandoned location is home to Ghost type Pokemon and actual ghosts that haunt the Chateau. You never learn an actual story of what happened here, so it's ambiguous why the location fell into disrepair or why ghosts live within the walls. The theme is one of the spookier ones in the series, too. And this is where you, of course, encounter Rotom. (Unrelated but I'm also a sucker for anywhere that plays the Eterna Forest theme, it's one of my favorites)
1) Lavaridge Town. It's fairly small and unremarkable except for one thing: there's an exit at the back of the Pokemon Center! It takes you out onto a planked path that leads you to the town's local hot spring. I don't think it does anything for you, but I love the touch it adds to the town. A resident even describes taking a Pokemon into the springs with you could result in a bubble bath or 'even a lava bath...' (yikes!)
2) The Old Chateau. Tucked into the back of Eterna Forest, this abandoned location is home to Ghost type Pokemon and actual ghosts that haunt the Chateau. You never learn an actual story of what happened here, so it's ambiguous why the location fell into disrepair or why ghosts live within the walls. The theme is one of the spookier ones in the series, too. And this is where you, of course, encounter Rotom. (Unrelated but I'm also a sucker for anywhere that plays the Eterna Forest theme, it's one of my favorites)