>>36462449>>36462454I think the main problem here is encountering Pokemon. With tall grass, you can just program low appearance rates for shiny Pokemon and rare Pokemon, but when everything is in the overworld itself, the job of finding them becomes a lot more involved. Rare mons would just hide deep in caves or forests or whatever, but shiny mons are different. You can't just put them in a habitat different from their normal peers, so I think some additional gameplay feature would be required. Maybe tie them to certain in-game events, like weather or whatnot?
>>36462471DQXI towns are giant enough to be a good example. If anything, GF would have a much easier job because they don't have to design any wild fantasy cities, since all of Pokemon architecture is based on the real world.
