>>29935926It's really really fucking shit. I still can't believe you can't access the pools on Ulaula. Why the fuck do they even exist on the map? I just don't even understand it. Even with Kalos the stuff on the map that looked interesting was reachable, even if it didn't serve much of a purpose.
It hurts so much because I've defended GameFreak so much, I'll always be a fan of them - I've even been to their fucking office in Setagaya but this is just inexcusable.
I really want to say, "No, they're just setting this up for an update or a sequel" but then it just makes me think 'Why have they released a completed game like this'. Even if there is a sequel, these games are just unfinished - it's exactly as you say. I want to believe there'll be an update that will unlock stuff but history just says otherwise.
I remember feeling this way about B/W when it came out; that it was too story driven, too linear and didn't have enough postgame but S/M is actually worse than B/W in those regards when you compare them. Sometimes I honestly feel as though B/W never intended to have a sequel and someway through development they realized that to meet deadlines they'd have to make a sequel.
I mean, it all turned out for the best because I ended up really enjoying BW2 but I just get a bad feeling about all this. If there is a sequel, intentional or not I hope we just get it soon enough that I don't start losing hope in the franchise.
