>>55529549You're never travelling alone, though, that's the main theme the franchise likes to run across multiple times. Your rival is challenging the gyms, just as you are, both of you fight side by side or against each other sometimes. Trainers you encounter on the routes and towns are also doing the same, they're travelling too. Games try to evoke this whole road trip feel constantly, never mind the fact that in a franchise ABOUT pokemon, you're travelling alongside them and not playing as one.
