>>43746833No idea
I absolutely hated it because of how it felt like i wasn't doing anything besides going from town to town through straight lines to beat the gym and move to another town
I feel like the games don't impart a feeling of loneliness anymore. Whenever you played the older games you were completely alone except for your pokeballs, occasionally you'd walk into a town and talk to some bland friendly NPCs but you'd still do what you came to do and leave without anyone to accompany you except your pokemon. The world is so friendly and you have friends in the shape of pokemon which relieves the anxiety of traveling alone and the evil team provides conflict to movitate the player to advance through the game. It doesn't help that the world itself in relation to the player is literally smaller
