>>47637437>It only goes back to somewhere you'ce already been. That's no different from a dead end because you're not getting anywhere either way.Do you not see how flawed that reasoning is? The whole issue with the absence of agency in Alola and Galar was that those kinds of routes are completely cut out.
Pokemon was literally built on the foundation that this type of game design provided-- taking it away, as shown in ORAS with the roadblocking of Dewford Cave and the constant teleports, is exactly the issue that needs to be contended with. You pretending it isn't an issue in SM/USUM/SWSH too doesn't mean the problem automatically disappears, it just means you found other reasons to like the game despite the entire formula being changed; more power to you, but stop trying to push the narrative that everything is the same when it is almost certainly not.
