It was designed for the Japanese audience, this makes tons of sense if you were constantly seeing people do shit in Dragon Quest 9 every time you go to work on the train. Unfortunately because of the way the DS worked in Tag mode everyone was always going to be playing DQ9 and not a Gen 5 Pokemon title so it didn't work for them either, whoops. Unironically ahead of it's time, it would have worked a lot better with StreetPass and Black City/White Forest would be something other than completely miserable.
Doesn't matter that much anyway because you'll probably have Itemfinder up a lot, probably the best iteration of it (HGSS is close with the main negative being having to touch the screen).
>>58603439I'm still pissed at XY for doing fuck all with StreetPass, thankfully ORAS corrected it and that's why it's the best Gen 6 title (being a bad version of a good game helps a little too).
>>58603444It also brought the box back to being functional instead of whatever HGSS was doing, we'll call it a wash.
