Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Could Revolutionize The Series' Open-World Travel
After the latest trailer released for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, new theories are beginning to take shape for how the next entries in the series is going to approach its open world. Official sources have confirmed that unlike their Generation 8 predecessors, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet will have a fully open world with no borders or strict adherence to linear game design.
What Game Freak is declaring as Pokemon's next big evolutionary step for open worlds makes some wonder how the studio is going to improve the format shown in games like Sword and Shield, or the most recent game Legends: Arceus. To rise to the occasion, some fans suspect the new mascot Legendaries' designs and other details picked up from trailers hint toward a revamped means of travel.
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Pokemon has a long history of using different means to travel through regions. The earliest games started out by offering the player a bicycle, and later there would be running shoes, roller skates, or even riding Pokemon themselves. Fans have seen both bikes and ridable Pokemon make their return in Gen 8 with the introduction of Sword and Shield's Rotom Bike, as well as the Celestica Flute to summon various Ride Pokemon inLegends: Arceus. The key question is which of these will make their way into Scarlet and Violet, and how they'll be implemented.
While the bike offers a simple, easy-to-implement mechanic, it lacks the allure of players riding their favorite Pokemon. But Ride Pokemon, as fun as they might be, provide a challenge to seamless maneuverability that Game Freak seems to be aiming for — not to mention the limitations of which Pokemon would get to be ridable. Thanks to
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