>>36870295Depends upon what you mean... A pointlessly big world? No. Action battles? Not on your life.
Freedom to mostly do what you wish in whatever order you wish like in Gen 1 and 2 with an assload of shit to explore and do within the confines of said world? Absolutely.
Open world has become bastardized by AAA game studios (what hasn't at this point?) but a game doesn't require the former to be open world. It only requires the latter.
That's not to say BotW wasn't good in the more AAA style of open world game... It wasn't perfect like many idiots try to convince you but it was good in this style because this is how TLoZ started and this was a return to it's roots - except 3D.
But Pokémon has never done this and shouldn't do this. Action adventure and turn based RPG are obviously two entirely different kinds of games.
I wouldn't say no to a side game like BotW in the Pokémon series, but not a main series game like it. That would be as garbage as Trash Go. Worse actually because it would be a complete genre change for no fucking reason.
