>>54203043After reading the responses to this, I'm still not really understanding why anyone in good faith would label 6 as a cut-off point. I read
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>>54203303 and the amount of good routes is comparable between both. You can criticize these in terms of the quantity of other locations, which is completely fair as older games on worse hardware had more, but then by doing that you would have to acknowledge that reductions in both interconnectivity, as well as location amounts also occurred from 4 to 5, and 6 still shouldn't be held responsible for that.
In general, I don't like the idea of labeling things areas as straight lines.
>>54203266 said that Route 6 was just a 3-in-1 line, but I think that does a disservice to how the actual game uses 3D to create the tall grass, make it a maze, and place hidden trainers in it. That kind of understanding is completely lost if you see the picture on Bulbapedia and assume that you have full knowledge of where you need to go.
