#and guardian signs gets the most enthusiasm and shadows of almia doesn't get much enthusiasm from there unless I talk abt it myself

[professor-glasses]

I will love and support all of the pokemon ranger games but I will also fully admit that guardian signs just doesn't capture me the same way as the first two (heh). So it is my least favourite and gives me the least fizzy autism feelings. Which is unfortunate because most of the people I know who know pokeranger really love guardian signs. I like the past story quests a lot and I like the story drama (I'm pretty sure this is the part everyone else especially likes) but the region feels less like a rich place to me and more like just a neat environment to pass through and that kinda detracts from how I enjoy it unfortunately

I feel like there's a lot there but at the same time not enough. There's a lot in concept, but in execution there isn't. Like I wanted more informational tidbits about the areas. More interesting NPC dialogue from the people living there to drop little morsels of how they view the place, what it's like to live there, hints at history maybe. GOD more hints at the history from the npcs would have been amazing considering the entire deal of the region is its history. More comments about the places themselves and less just filler dialogue or comments about the player. Also fuckin. dialogue that updates properly to comment on the story. SoA had this and I loved it so much and was so disappointed at the comparative lack in GS. Several of the SoA npcs feel at least aware of what's happening in the region in the story but most of the GS npcs felt to me like they were just kind of existing there to fill up space and give out side quests

The NPCs at the time travel shrine are the most notorious to me about this because they say almost the exact same thing through the entire game, I kept going back to check in the hopes they would update it to say something different, but it was Always the Same as if you'd only just been there and had the celebi thing happen...