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Stamp base by Wingless Butterfly 55

I've been looking at quite a few X/Y Pokemon forums lately to see if their are any good friends I could add, and noticed people saying that X/Y is terribly linear. I've played the game twice already,and each time, I've noticed that the game pretty much looks the other way in the terms of "hand holding". I was free to explore caves and other places before battling gym leaders, and NPCs generally didn't notice. Even when my freinds/rivals asked me to go to a town with them, they pretty much didn't even care if I went to explore other places before going to a certain town with them. Sure NPCs will prevent you from going anywhere else, but that was so seldom:

Me: Hey.Prof. Sycamore-I'm gonna go shopping in town before going to the lab!
Sycamore: Okay. Have fun!

Me: Hey,Elite 4-I'm gonna go to the Lost Hotel before challenging you.
E4*acts like they're not even interested about me going to explore.

Me: Hey,Olympia-I decided not to go inside to challenge you. I just set fire to your gym and now I'm gonna go play around in Lumiose City!
Olympia: That's nice,dear.

Me: Hey,Valerie-I'm gonna look at your PlayFairy magazines before challenging you!
Valerie: Yeah,yeah...whatever.

So, Kalos is'nt really all that linear. Besides-other Pokemon games such as Kanto/Hoenn/Alola,etc are linear,with Alola being the worst offender in hand holding,IMHO. So,if you're gonna complain about X/Y holding your hand, you might as well complain about all the other regions holding your hand as well.

Description
Stamp base by Wingless Butterfly 55

I've been looking at quite a few X/Y Pokemon forums lately to see if their are any good friends I could add, and noticed people saying that X/Y is terribly linear. I've played the game twice already,and each time, I've noticed that the game pretty much looks the other way in the terms of "hand holding". I was free to explore caves and other places before battling gym leaders, and NPCs generally didn't notice. Even when my freinds/rivals asked me to go to a town with them, they pretty much didn't even care if I went to explore other places before going to a certain town with them. Sure NPCs will prevent you from going anywhere else, but that was so seldom:

Me: Hey.Prof. Sycamore-I'm gonna go shopping in town before going to the lab!
Sycamore: Okay. Have fun!

Me: Hey,Elite 4-I'm gonna go to the Lost Hotel before challenging you.
E4*acts like they're not even interested about me going to explore.

Me: Hey,Olympia-I decided not to go inside to challenge you. I just set fire to your gym and now I'm gonna go play around in Lumiose City!
Olympia: That's nice,dear.

Me: Hey,Valerie-I'm gonna look at your PlayFairy magazines before challenging you!
Valerie: Yeah,yeah...whatever.

So, Kalos is'nt really all that linear. Besides-other Pokemon games such as Kanto/Hoenn/Alola,etc are linear,with Alola being the worst offender in hand holding,IMHO. So,if you're gonna complain about X/Y holding your hand, you might as well complain about all the other regions holding your hand as well.