>>56286133The execution is shit but you have to understand, millenial luddites can't comprehend convenience because they grew up in a time where the most stimulation they ever got was catching a Saturday morning cartoon, or having the power go out.
Backtracking is "fun" to them due to their bias for a tile-based system, their memories of a life where nothing important could happen in a day, and also because they're used to being told where to go in games instead of going where they please.
Traditional pokecenters and modern ones CAN coexist and I hope they do next gen, but grandpanons will never stop seething over change - soulless as it is, open-world is the status quo now. You need accessible checkpoints on this kind of map to flesh it out and avoid people whining about how the map is so vast yet you can only heal and stock up in the tiny-ass "cities" here and there.
