LogFAQs > #978671852

UshiromiyaEva posted...

What's the point of marketing an open world Pokemon game that lets you tackle the gyms in any order if there's no actual point in tackling the gyms in any order? Why even give you the option then?

Every other problem I have with SV pales in comparison to this issue.

If the same gym has the potential to throw out level 8 garbage at you can also throw out level 70 monsters, that's cool as fuck. That gives meaning to the feature. As it stands, the feature is meaningless.

The way I see it, the game's set-up is so that you can theoretically go whatever you want and treat it like an open world, but the levels make it so there's a SUGGESTED order of events, so people like me, who want linearity and want more of a path to follow, can still enjoy the games without being overwhelmed. Even still, the world itself is open in a different way then SwSh's wild area, where it feels like different sections of an area can be home to completely different Pokemon, which makes the biodiversity feel immense. SwSh, everything just existed in zones depending on the weather, which felt like everything was largely interchangeable.