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Why the developers not putting in Safari Zones anymore? The most recent is Kalos' Friend Safari.
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If they do something with Safari Zones again I really hope they do not do the Friend Safari ever again. I'm extremely socially anxious so the few people I have added as friends on my 3DS were nerve-wracking enough. I'd rather not hunt down total strangers to get the type of pokemon I want from a Safari.
The best idea I can come up for a Safari Zone is a bit of a mix of all of them. Give you Safari Balls in order to catch pokemon in the area, let you battle with your own pokemon, and like the safari zone in HG/SS have a larger type of environments for you to explore and catch pokemon in. I'd prefer a lack of time limit, though. And not having the weird move around features the HG/SS games had in their Safari Zone. Maybe have the rules be that you either run from a pokemon or battle and catch it; no experience gained from battle. It'd make sense since the Safari Zone always gave me a bit of a sanctuary for pokemon not native to the region vibe. Wouldn't make sense to run around fainting a bunch of pokemon that have to be brought in from other regions.
They should had charged anyone going in the one from ORAS.
This I can agree with. In order for the Safari Zone to be useful it needs to have a variety of exclusive Pokemon (such as Chansey and Dratini in Kanto, or pretty much everything in HGSS's postgame) and/or advantages to catching them there over other locations (e.g: Hidden Abilities, egg moves), plus a special Ball type that cannot be used elsewhere.The idea of limiting capturing methods was bad, but the idea of having strange Pokemon restricted to just one zone that required special access was awesome. I would have liked to see a zone of Alola (maybe an Aether paradise room, so you have a reason to return there) that worked as a safari zone, maybe with QR functionalities that let you caught Pokemon not from the Regional Dex in the postgame.
Yeah, removing the Safari Zone was probably one of their best moves. At least it was to me.Honestly though, I say good riddance. The Safari Zone didn't really add anything other than an arbitrary and irritating challenge. I don't mind another Friend Safari-like feature, but the actual Safari Zone can stay gone.
Or worse, it was a shiny and it freaking fled. I've seen waaaaaay too many YouTube videos of that exact scenario.If the Safari Zone is like a dungeon where completing a quest grants prizes, then it would be welcome for me. However, I don't like stressing over whether a pokemon is going to flee from me especially when I can't bring my own pokemon for trapping purposes. Realistic features are great, but honestly, I don't want to get stressed over that one Chansey I can't catch.
If they do something with Safari Zones again I really hope they do not do the Friend Safari ever again. I'm extremely socially anxious so the few people I have added as friends on my 3DS were nerve-wracking enough. I'd rather not hunt down total strangers to get the type of pokemon I want from a Safari.
You also had to go to Great Marsh in D/P (but not in Platinum) to get Defog, actually.Frankly, I didn't mind the Safari Zone concept. The only time it really annoyed me was in Gen I and its remakes when going there was required to continue the story becuase of that Surf HM contest. Otherwise, I appreciate the fact that they were an entirely optional thing. I can live and let live just as long as I'm not being strongarmed into this.