Jumpin on 09 August 2017
Part of the issue comes from fans who don't really understand what they're asking for?
"Make an open world game." and "Pokémon is perfect for open world."
I don't think it's true that Pokemon would actually be all that great as an open world game. It seems to be a game that requires progression and leveling up. This demands a more linear world where players have a general order to complete things in. It COULD be open world in a similar way to Xenoblade Chronicles X, but I am really not sure how that improves the experience since exploration isn't really very big in Pokemon.
Making a game open world just for the sake of making it open world usually doesn't work out very well.
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