>>35483476>you're taking a different road to the same destination, a detour, instead of going somewhere else that's new. That's still better than going around Unova, as it at least creates the illusion of travelling to a new area instead of walking down what feels like a perfectly laid out and planned straightforward path.
>That's the idea, you as the player should have no obligation to go and exploreOk, but that has nothing to do with my point about Unova being linear. Again, as I said, those hidden details were cool, but they do not change anything about Unova as a whole.
Unova is still for the most part, a big circle that starts from Nimbasa, goes around Driftveil, Mistralton, Iccirius and to Opelucid and then connects to the Village Bridge, Lacunosa, Undella BC/WF and then rejoins Nimbasa. That's extremely linear and no amounts of side areas and post game stuff can make up for it.
