Anyone else dissapointed in the mounts?

[zfan121]

I love the execution, but maan, even the usage of ride pokemon in Sun/Moon weren't this dissapointing. They could have used them to hide more nick nacks (that are worth the effort) or even secret areas with rare enemies or cool scenery. What do we get? Boring HM mounts that are barely used at all despite the game depicting it as a cool thing. Literally only the demon rider and eggsoskeleton ones are used that much...

[TommyEV]

The most disappointing one being the whale that can only land in specific places and be summoned from specific places...

[zfan121]

Originally posted by TommyEV:

The most disappointing one being the whale that can only land in specific places and be summoned from specific places...

You mean the windfish? (don't lie, just put some jewels on it and change the color and it's literally it) Yeah, that was dissapointing, would have been nice if there were more to those areas and more floating areas to get to.

[dustin1280]

The mounts didn't disappoint me because I didn't expect anything from them. They were simply tools to get where I needed.

Now the whale, that thing pissed me off because it could only access whale specific zones and not the whole world like airships from the gold age of RPGS.

[zfan121]

I didn't expect much, but I did expect more than we got.
The whale was a dissapointment too, they could have done the whale travel only spots AND easy travel. But I guess they wanted you to use fast travel that badly. (At least in this game it's free but even if it wasn't most fast travel points are either an inn or a campfire anyway)

[Cress]

Originally posted by TommyEV:

The most disappointing one being the whale that can only land in specific places and be summoned from specific places...

You can summon the whale anywhere if you go to important items and use the flute.

[Yiasmat]

Totally agreed on the whale. I was so hyped to get a flying mount! I thought it would be like DQ 8 but sadly, what it results to is just me trying to avaoid the damn thing as much as possible.
Pair that with a stupidly long, uninteruptable animation to get on that damn thing and you got yourself a winner.
I frequently left my desk while the animation played to grab some coffee just to find myself floating in the middle of nowhere over the see since the damn whale moves automatically right after the animation finishes.

[Lusus Symphonia]

The whale is pretty bad, it was like some scene from Xenoblade chronicles 2 when the flute turned into a fishing rod, gave me terrible scruples.

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by Cress:

Originally posted by TommyEV:

The most disappointing one being the whale that can only land in specific places and be summoned from specific places...

You can summon the whale anywhere if you go to important items and use the flute.

Thanks, I didn't know that! Still, the landing only in specific parts is what really bothers me.

[zfan121]

Originally posted by TommyEV:

Originally posted by Cress:

You can summon the whale anywhere if you go to important items and use the flute.

Thanks, I didn't know that! Still, the landing only in specific parts is what really bothers me.

yup even the RPG that DQ continues to try and 'honor' allowed you full fast travel with the airship.
Case in point: Flammie in Secret of Mana, you could literally land anywhere.

[dannyaic]

Yeah, once I realized I wasn't getting anywehre special with horses, I just forgot about em

[Cress]

Originally posted by TommyEV:

Originally posted by Cress:

You can summon the whale anywhere if you go to important items and use the flute.

Thanks, I didn't know that! Still, the landing only in specific parts is what really bothers me.

Yeah, the landing system sucks. Having to use the ship to go to islands is pretty boring.
And I also discovered the "use flute" method by accident while I was checking every important item in the bag lol. I always used Zoom to Havens Above and used the landing circle there.

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by Cress:

. I always used Zoom to Havens Above and used the landing circle there.

Exactly lol