"The Kalos Pokemon Gyms are ridiculous. Not the battles, but the gyms THEMSELVES, and they need to be reformed immediately"

I just started a new playthrough of Pokémon X, and I’ve been distracted by something. The Kalos gyms are ridiculous. Not because of the battles, but because of the gyms themselves. They are absurd.There have been games with ridiculous gyms before. There are a lot of gyms where they make you go through mazes, or push giant boulders, or solve excessively big puzzles. And then there are some really messed up ones. Remember when Mistralton Gym shot you out of a cannon just to have the right to beat up a goose? Yeah.But the Kalos gyms take it to a huge new level. They are these bombastic, excessive, and physically terrifying gyms that need to be reformed NOW. You cannot expect to run a fair and reasonable Gym Challenge and have the gyms be the way they are.I, personally, am in decent shape. I do my pushups, ya know? But if I went into the Cyllage Gym, and they told me I had to scale a massive rock-climbing wall to fight Cliff, I’d be pissed. They make the challengers do a diagonal rock climb and don’t even give you a helmet. That’s so unreasonable and so unsafe! What if I fall? They better have Chansey with Heal Pulse on standby, because I’m gonna shatter both my legs if I fall from this height.Not to mention: what the hell do you do if you’re in a wheelchair? This is an issue with all the gyms in all the games: there are hardly any that are ADA accessible. But still, with some of the gyms across the series, you could just put in a ramp and you’re okay. Not in Kalos. If you’re just starting your Gym Challenge, and you’re excited to take on Viola and the Bug-type gym to begin your journey, well, hope you can balance your wheelchair on a spider web. Goddamn ableist bullshit right here.Now, some are worse than others. For example, I’m fine with a dollhouse as the Laverre Gym. You can access it in a wheelchair, even though I am skeptical of the long-term impacts of frequent teleportation (I don’t want cancer just because Valerie wants to be fucking cute). But they are all guilty of one thing: how fucking extra they all are. These gyms can’t be cheap! They’re huge! Some have multiple levels. Some are like, 75% flashing lights. Could you imagine the price to pay to live in Kalos? The gyms are probably subsidized, meaning they cost taxpayer dollars for this flagrant display of extravagance.Imagine this. You live right outside Snowbelle City. You wake up at 5 to fly your Sigilyph to Lumiose City. It’s Friday, so you’re working all day. You start your morning at Café Pokémon-Amie, you work the morning shift from 6-2, but then you need to run to Coiffure Clips for your 2:30-8:30 shift. You’re tired, you’re covered in hair, you smell like dark roast, and you and Sigilyph finally get back to your tiny box of an apartment. You finally sit back, sigh, and check your bank account: it’s low. Real low. You’re barely going to make rent this month. You call your manager and tell him you need to pick up more shifts. Sigilyph sheds a single tear from its weird eye thing. You turn on your TV to watch the news. You see that fucking Wulfric decided that they needed another four story tall rotating ice block thing. So, they need more money. More taxpayer money.Fuck the Kalos league gyms. They need to be taken down immediately for the sake of the challengers and the region. Whatta bunch of BS. via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/3sGdK4k