>>56603980>the ability to fight Gyms in any orderpeople think they want this but when a world is too open, nothing is surprising anymore and you have no reason to revisit areas anymore, and yo lose all feeling of progression because the difficulty curve never changes, when everything scales to you there isn't any challenge or feeling of growth
Crystal Clear is a shit rom hack that lets you go anywhere and fight gyms in any order and it's all the worse for doing this because the gameplay loop boils down to
>fly to gym>beat gym leader>grind rematches to level cap>fly to next gym leader picked at random>repeatI think it's a lot more interesting to find an area where you can't go yet and have it sit in the back of your head for a while, the curiosity building up to the payoff of you getting the ability to finally explore it. This is the driving force behind, say, metroidvania gameplay design and everyone loves metroidvanias. Imagine a metroid game except there's no missile doors, no bomb blocks, no roadblocks to actually force you to think about the map.
actually this exists, it's called Axiom Verge 2 and it's a garbage game
