>>50029141PLA isn't an Open World. Just media said that because they saw a big map and OOOMG OPEN WURLD YUUUUUS!!
2- The game succeeded. I mean 6M sold the first week being ONLY ONE GAME are very good numbers.
3- At this point is very obvious that PLA was just a playground for the gameplay of SV, just lacking of the other features that regular pokémon games have.
Such as online battles.
Being a more simplified version of the project they have been working on since 2019
4- GameFreak has 3 teams in their studio. 1 does mainline games other does dlcs or remakes and the third one does experimental games like Legends.
Which was a glorified market testing.
5- Nobody confirmed on ANY GAMEPLAY that there are no Legends mechanics. And saying "Battle Pokémon to catch them" is not enought proof, because you can do that in PLA as well.
