>>44346343To be fair you can say the same about battles not taking place in the overworld. Ideally I'd like a game where touch controls are used for things like amie, level design includes arenas for battling that trainers gather at and routes with wide open space to make battles work in the overworld, and you can have anything from none of your pokemon up to your entire team out of their balls walking along side you, riding your shoulder, serving as your mount, flying above you, or trailing directly behind you based on space available in your current location. But Game Freak could never pull it off.