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I've been reading about the cut content of FRLG, and the main thing that was cut during development was 7 routes on the Sevii Islands:
- Routes 6,7, 8, 9 were supposed to be located around Four Island. 8 and 9 were cut very late during development
- Routes 22, 23, 24 were supposed to be located south of the Tanoby Ruins on Seven Island. They were cut early during development.
So, I want to speculate, why were these 7 routes cut? Is it because they didn't have enough time to finish them? Or is it because the developers simply decided to go in a different design direction?
Routes 22, 23 and 24 (South of the Tanoby Ruins) were cut very early during development. They were all connected to each other and were supposed to make a loop and lead you back to the Tanoby Ruins. My guess is that the developers simply decided there's no need to make a loop, when you can go straight back and forth to the Tanoby Ruins. The chambers there with the Unown were probably originally located scattered around these 3 routes, but in the finished game they were all concentrated where we can see them in their current place.
Routes 6, 7, 8 and 9 that were supposed to be located around Four Island were all cut too. Four Island doesn't have any routes in the finished game. My guess is that Icefall Cave and the Daycare were going to be located somewhere on these routes, but later they decided to just put both Icefall Cave and the Daycare in the town itself, making the routes redundant.
Thank you for reading. What are your thoughts?
