Was anyone else really disappointed with the Vast Poni Canyon?

I was more disappointed that this was the one area in the game where you could evolve Pokémon like Magneton and Chargabug, and it's already so late into the story once you get there.

 

Yeah, I was pretty disappointed with the whole game in general

 

Considering that the Vast Poni Canyon was supposed to be Sun & Moon's "Victory Road" I was actually less disappointed with it than most others. Yeah, there's a rather lackluster diversity of wild Pokémon (You can pretty much get everything somewhere else except for like Murkrow, Jangmo-o and Dratini) and they could've added a few more species, but there were enough trainers to make it a bit of a challenge and the story section with Lillie was neat too. If there's a place I was disappointed in for wild Pokémon and trainers to battle, it's Mount Lanakila. Most of what's found there doesn't yield much XP when trying to grind.

If anything that I'm disappointed with about VPC, it's the fact you have to get THAT far into the storyline in order to evolve Nosepass, Magneton or Charjabug. In all honesty it doesn't make sense. You can't even find a wild electric type anywhere in there...

Blush Mountain would've been a far better place to evolve those families...

 

It kind of feels like a whole lot of nothing out there, so yeah, I was a little underwhelmed. If it comes back in USUM, I hope they add something of interest to liven it up a bit.

 

I was hoping for it to be less empty.

 

It feels so empty, like nothing of importance is there really, it was just a thing to make me want to get from point A to point B and run out of repels making it worse.

 

tbh I had low expectations when I first got there yet I was still disappointed by how bland it is. In fact, it's so underwhelming that I can't even recall what went on there except for the ridiculously easy battle against the totem (especially if you picked the water starter)

The fact that I had to wait until I can get here to evolve my Charjabug certainly didn't make things any better.

 

Yup and you can find the Dazzling Gleam TM before the battle too. That and Dragon Claw made it basically the easiest Totem battle in the game.

 

There were a lot of locations like this, it was just open and nothing was there other than a mini mission. I just wish they put more details across the map.

 

It wasn't very fun to explore, the Pokémon diversity was low so I just used a lot of repels, and I didn't even know VPC's significance was for evolving Charjabug, probably because VPC doesn't have any wild electric Pokémon so why would there be a high electricity level in VPC at all?!

The most disappointing thing in the game though, was the lack of a real Daycare Center. I missed being able to drop off my Pokémon and see them come back with different moves and higher levels!

 

I came, I saw, I was disappointed
It was kind of...bland. It seemed like it was just there so you could evolve a few Pokémon, say, 'yeah, Victory Road!' and leave again. The story was nice, though.
#MissingNo

 

It was a nice idea, but badly executed. It was too empty for the last big route in Alola.

 

I Was Actually Disappointed As Well.
The Area Was Blank And The Dragonium Z Trial Area Are Empty Like No Trainer.
(At First,I Thought Totem Hakamo-o From The Demo Will Appear Again.But Nope,It Replace By Totem Kommo-o.It Really Disappointed Me.)

 

For such a large area it did seem pretty underwhelming. I was hoping there would be more to do there. It definitely didn't seem that challenging either. Hopefully in the next games it will get an upgrade and be more chaotic like other past gen post e4 areas like the sevii islands.

 

I mean to be fair they tried there best when designing it, but what I was most disappointed about it is that vikavolt has to be evolved there, meaning that you cant get this awesome Pokémon earlier in the game

 

Yup. Like I had said earlier; Blush Mountain on Ula'ula Island would've been a FAR better place to evolve Magneton, Charjabug and Nosepass. VPC has no wild electric Pokémon in there. The only electric type you can find on Poni Island as a whole is Emolga, who only appears in the area accessible after you become Champion.

 

The only thing I wasn't happy with was how long it took to get here considering this was the only place where I could evolve my Charjabug. Seriously, Gamefreak, what were you thinking?