>>41414076Routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, the second part of route 8, the first part of route 9, and the third half of route 9 are all straight paths.
Route 9 is a straight path until you reach the water, then when you leave the water its another straight path.
The game presents route 8 and route 9 has having 2 and 3 different segments as well, entering a new area will have the
>Route 8 - Steamdrift Wayand with route 9 you get
>Route 9 - SpikemuthSo thats roughly 13 routes in total. 9/13 of the routes are straight paths.
Or you could disregard the split I made earlier
Now 6/10 of the routes are straight paths
Fuck it, lets remove routes 2 and 3 because they have mandatory grass patches
That's 4/10 routes being linear paths.
Every other game had straight paths as well. Lets see
>Kanto had 3/25>Johto had 6/20>Hoenn had 5/34>Sinnoh had 3/30>Unova had 7/23>Kalos had 4/22>Alola had 9/17In Alola's defense a lot of route like areas went unnumbered and were given actual names, adding an additional 28 locations. Galar only has 3 additional locations.
Not only does galar have less routes than the rest of the series but its made up of 40% of linear paths when the average for the rest of the series is 24%
Also VICTORY ROAD is a straight hallway.
