>>58981227The first visit was clearly designed to be visited earlier in the game. That's like saying Kanto Route 22 early isn't optional, when there's an entire missable fight on it. But if you want to not include that, sure. Then without the two areas that are technically mandatory that's 5 areas. And without the two areas that are just single empty rooms, XY has 5 too. Glad we can agree that BW's campaign has the exact same exploration as XY's campaign, therefore meaning BW's post-game and B2W2 would by definition add more and unless all of them were the Battle Palace, Battle Maison, or BW Black City/White Forest there must be something qualitatively worthwhile. Like, Abyssal Ruins alone is way better than anything outside of the Lost Hotel (and I'm not willing to go into detail on which of the two is better at the moment, let's say they're on par but value very different types of things so direct comparison on any front would make either of them look worse). However, if you do want to count BW's version exclusive areas against Gen 5 I wouldn't blame you, there's more than enough going on to make up for it.
