What's going on with the size difference here?

What's going on with the size difference here?
I can understand the whole indoor/outdoor thing
but the national park here seems to imply that the normal routes and cities are actually miniaturized,
and that really if time and graphics allowed we should be walking around in the scale of the national park all the time.

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Well yeah, older games required and allowed a bit more imagination on our part.

>the normal routes and cities are actually miniaturized
Well duh

>but the national park here seems to imply that the normal routes and cities are actually miniaturized,

We have known this since the beginning, it's true of all video games.

we knew that buildings and so on were smaller
but the ordinary grass and ground, even the roads being smaller too?

user. Did you really think that the cities in-universe were small enough that you could walk from one side to the other in under a minute?
It's just an abstraction?

Yes. Norman confirms in Emerald that it takes 30 minutes to walk from your home in Littleroot to the gym in Petalburg.

Yes, I thought the pokemon world was retarded like that.

You seriously never questioned why the towns and cities were so much bigger in the anime? You really thought Pallet Town only had two houses?

>the anime
just random backdrops there, not really that interesting
>small towns with two houses
yes I got this part, but for some reason I didnt think this also applied to the routes between the towns as well.