>>37584449oh right. so like if you get passed the first roadblock, the other areas are also inaccessible. let's say, you somehow glitch passed the cut tree or the pokemon battle since the routes are loaded at the same time, unlike violet city and dark cave.
i think it's because if you don't trigger the initial rival encounter, the rest of the game's plot won't activate. it would make sense for everything to be written so linearly since they tried to squeeze so fucking much on the one cartridge.
