>>44114332>You have the option to visit cities out of orderYou have the option to visit two cities out of order, Pastoria and Veilstone. That's it. It definitely isn't much, and yes technically while it's 'less linear than Unova' it's barely moreso. Both games still have walled off areas that make absolute no sense outside of plot progression.
>Furthermore, the design of Unovas map is linearThis isn't even technically true, you can approach the postgame stretch in one of two ways.
Also, like I said literally two posts ago,
>>44112152, linearity isn't even necessarily a bad thing, and the game never forces you to stick to the straight path, there's tons to see and explore every step of the way.
>Sorry if that doesn't meet your criteria for explorationI never said it didn't, stop getting overly emotional and don't put words into my mouth. Me saying it's a 'straight path' means it is narratively a linear path you are forced to go through to get to Snowpoint. Like Twist Mountain, like Chargestone Cave, etc.
>It's just difficult reasoning with unovaborts because they take everything personallyAnd yet you're the one getting passive aggressive. "S-sorry that doesn't meet your criteria!!"
I don't even particularly like BW or BW2, but this is ridiculous. You don't give a fuck about gen 4 or 5, you're just trying to stir shit and instigate a flamewar, dude. Stop.
