Bring back the shiny indicator
Scarlet and Violet take several steps backward from Arceus in terms of how they adapt Pokémon to an open-world format. But one of the features I’m surprised Game Freak never even patched into those games is Arceus’ shiny sound indicator. This is a little jingle that plays when a shiny Pokémon, or a rare, differently-colored Pokémon, is in your proximity. It helps collectors track down these little anomalies, especially in an open area where it’s easy to overlook more subtle changes. Scarlet and Violet still have shinies in their much larger open-world map, but they don’t include the sound that makes it clear they are close by. As such, it is much more difficult to track these Pokémon down, and Z-A (and any future Pokémon game, really) should not repeat this mistake.
