Except you have, because the changes to the landscape are milder than an untouched bide attack. Such is the lack of imagination amongst us all that we have all been subject to someone saying "doesn't everything look different in the snow?", when it snows. In the Unova region, they must have a similar expression, that goes "doesn't everything have a slightly blue tinge in the snow?". It had been reported that during seasonal changes I would be able to explore previously impossible to reach areas through newly fallen mounds of snow - YES - those Ethers and Max Potions are mine!
Once I had explored all two of these newly reachable areas, I found that the only true difference between Autumn & Winter was a satisfying crunch as I ran around and a change in that deery Pokemon...I caught one of those and called it BabySham, because I am a genius:
It's a drink that looks like a Pokemon!
Winter has been nice. It gives greater depth and reality to the Pokemon universe as a whole. Ultimately however, it has very little function, but was marketed as a feature. By the same token, Pokemon Black & White might as well have advertised a menu system with arrows and a character with an all new hat!! My point being, more work could have gone into Wintering up the place.
I was going to suggest some new features that would have made a difference, but instead here is how just the Winter months could be improved in Pokemon:
-Tabogoning...erm...yeah
-Running through snowmen...and sort of...smashing them down
-Snowballs and they could...um
-Wearing a coat?
IN CONCLUSION, they actually did a pretty good job with Winter and I see very few ways to improve upon it...but...
In the next Pokemon, I want the chance to customise my character a little more. Like...not wearing a cap...wearing a dark blue coat and having gigantic hair...but in the game. Anyway, I've got to go, the snows coming down again and its a nightmare to get up the hill with my bike. And in this weather, I can't exactly fly around on a Pokemon.
REVISED OPINION: Winter is an entirely unnecessary addition to the game. I feel as if the seasonal changes were purely introduced for the benefit of one Pokemon whose appearance changes seasonally. There are no siginificant areas or events that occur as a result of winter or any of the other weather types.
I mean, why not try:
-Having some Pokemon migrate across certain areas in accordance with the time of 'year'.
-Having a big lake that could be crossed on foot in winter and surfed across in summer. Good place for recurring battles with trainers, either swimming around or ice-skating.
-Having moves work differently depending on the weather. Despite it snowing sometimes, I didn't ever have a battle where it claimed to be 'hailing', which is silly.
Anyway, I have things to do.
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