>>48943612Because Pokemon's pacing has been like this (and has worked before, Emerald and the Battle facilities being evidence) and that formula has been working since day 1.
There are different ways for setting up a pace, Call of Duty sets it up completely linear, you have to get to the credits once and it's okay.
I don't like Toby Fox at all, but Undertale/Deltarune and the "routes" (Endings i guess) set the pace for the game. Pokemon is one of the games that uses post-game because making you hunt for legendaries in the middle of a Gym leader badge-hunt + Elite 4 AND ALSO the narrative that the game could be fitting is retarded.
Super Mario Odyssey has post-game content that works. You could argue a lot of the Zelda games have a lot of post-game (shit you can do after defeating Ganon or whoever the final boss is)
Red Dead Redemption (1)
Dark Souls 2
Please, play more games.
