>>37823364It's funny /vp/ often praises gen 5 because you can go back to routes and find more stuff, but they shit on gen 7 for the same thing because "the first time through it dragged you around"
Here's a gen 5 area where there are multiple paths, yet you're forced to take one when the time comes to pass through here for the first time rendering the two paths pointless. Pokemon has always roadblocked you and forced you down the path it wants. It was doing this in Kanto too where the only way to play in a non-linear fashion is to just skip things while you're in the later towns. The early towns still roadblock and close off your progress forcing you to do specific tasks.
