I mean, they aren't that close, but they're adjacent to each other. It's hard to think about in terms of gameplay, because generally no one is going to Surf from Mossdeep to Ever Grande -- by the time you're ready to face the Elite Four, everything you've had to do in Mossdeep is done. With that said, though, if you travel just a bit south from Mossdeep, Ever Grande awaits.They're not; if you look at the rest of the map while in-flight it's really condensed and everything's much closer to each other. Makes you and the lati look like some sort of giant god; it's the one issue I have with the soaring but I don't really think it could realistically be fixed within the 3DS' limitations.
I do feel a little odd about the compression of the region in the soaring sequence, but really, it's about as well as they could've done. Seeing everything appear so close made me worry about whether the game would capture Hoenn's vastness, but then as I was playing through Mossdeep I realized how damn huge the city is. It's safe to say I'm not really worried anymore. I think the soaring looks absolutely wonderful, even if a bit condensed. Maybe I'm just too excited for my own good, but the soaring sequence that we see in the demo gives me chills, ahaha.
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