>>44273875>tote your big new game as having open world elements>it's just a big empty field>it's not even open because you can still only go to one town through this with the other town being blocked off until laterWHY? All they had to do was connect it to a few routes and make the first three gyms non-linear OOT style. The events with Bede/Marnie are so disconnected here that they could play out in literally any order. It's not like they gave a fuck about the plot anyway with that fucking slideshow of a "climax" that still made no fucking sense.