>>16224091But pokemon games aren't striving for realism. Luminose City is modern game design in a nutshell. It's the games big set piece. Locking half of it away initially allows them to reuse its assets later on as "new" content. They're always pushing you back to it, even in the post-game. First to get access to the final town, then for all of the Looker stuff. In BW Looker had you scouring the entire region. Here? Just one town. Many towns in the BW series had at least one reason to return to them every now and then. XY? Not so much.
Luminose: Battle Institute, Loto ID, Furfrou Barber, Trainer Barber, the big badguys fucking base is there, Restaurants, PR Videos, endgame Botique, Hotel mini-game, Looker sidestory
Essentially all of the post-game content resides in this one city. As if they hadn't herded you into more than enough times over the normal course of the game. Meanwhile, Unova's setpiece city...
Castelia: Passerby Analytics HQ (who outside of japan ever even got tags for this?), Game Freak HQ, Medal Offices
Three places to revisit of relatively low standing between long interval. That's because they had town balance. Meanwhile in Kalos, why ever revisit Aquacorde, Santalune, Ambrette, Cyllage, Courmarine, Laverre, Geosenge, Dendemille, Couriway?
