>>46389924Because they were already doing the open world SwSh style for Legends Arceus. If they were to do both Sinnoh remakes and Legends Arceus with the same overall look, controls, and gameplay, then it would be obvious to the average consumer that TPCI puts out the same game twice (or three times if BDSP were used Legends style gameplay)
I bet that BDSP were going to be the Legends game at first but the developers weren't going to finish in time, so they just made it Legends with no online multiplayer and rushed out these remakes and made them drastically different to differentiate them.
