>can't ride a boat or pokemon across the overworld with

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>>31294142
There's quite a lot of water in between the islands though

probably even more than Hoenn

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>>31294142
look at it this way anon, imagine Hoenn's "DUDE TENTACOOL & WINGULL LOL" times 10 because there's even more water and Game Freak is even more incompetent with using their selection of Pokemon. We dodged a bullet.

>>31294142
>little to no exploration
>no freedom in how you progress things
>constantly stopped by characters and cutscenes rather than letting the player find story details for themselves
>forced into a completely linear path up until the end of the game

I'm more surprised by how people don't call this an interactive movie than anything.
Why does FFXIII get called out on this shit but Pokemon gets a pass?

>>31294417
because pokemon is a series for children and it's okay when Nintendo does it :^)

>>31294417
>muh freedom

Having large areas to explore is fine, but it has to be story-driven. Don't turn it into western shit.

>>31294417
The problem with FFXIII isn't that it's linear and has lots of cutscenes. Its problem is map design. 90% of the game is literally just a single unending hallway with no branching paths (that aren't just 10 feet to a chest and dead-end), all of which is dungeon, no towns, and you go from dungeon to dungeon in cutscenes with nothing connecting them.