>>48428351Well, I'll take the bait.
In adventure games like idk, Uncharted or Bioshock, there are parts of the story that happen in daylight and parts that happen at night. Does that mean there's a cycle? No, because you could keep the game on for 100 hours and as long as you don't beat the current mission/chapter, the daytime won't change. That's not a cycle even if there is the concept of day and night.
Day&night cycles can have 2 flavors:
-Real time (change with the real world clock)
-Fixed cycle (has a direct equivalence i.e. 1 game hour = 10 real minutes)
Pokemon games bar gen 1 and 3 are of the former kind. SwSh is not except on the wild areas or until you beat the game.
