| Ka-pi96 said: Yet that overlap is rarely the same kinds of animals. There are a lot of NA exclusive animals found in America, but even the ones in common with other places can still be different subspecies or whatever (regional forms, heh And I don`t see why adding a new region would negate the point of revisiting, you yourself said add new towns/cities and stuff. I think it`s a perfectly good way to add intrigue to the new games (rather than them just being Kanto... again) as well as explaining why there are differences. Plus it wouldn`t trample over peoples nostalgia for Kanto/Johto by altering them too drastically. |
). And why shouldn`t I think as certain Pokemon being specific to certain regions? I`m not saying overlap is bad, but that not every type of Pokemon should be found everywhere. Some regions having more in common with others and other regions having few if any of the same Pokemon makes a lot of sense, both from comparing to the real world and from a logical perspective.Because that's not how Pokemon has ever funtioned. Pokemon has literally never treated pokemon as region specific. Not even legendaries in many cases. There isn't the same diversity of ecology in Pokemon as there are in the real world. When there are millions and billions of unique species of Pokemon, then maybe we can walk about having region specific pokemon. Not every type of Pokemon is found everywhere as is. But every Pokemon introduced is available in more than one region, because Pokemon have never been region specific. They were never treated that way and shouldn't be expected to act that way.
Because the whole point of revisiting is that the region changed so much in 10 years that it's already essentially a new region. When I said to add new towns, I meant like with B2W2 Unova. Adding a new region would just mean setting it there. That's no different from every new Pokemon game. It wouldn't add intruigue to anything - it would literally just be doing the same thing they do every generation.
Let it trample over people's nostalgia. That's the point. Kanto/Johto aren't frozen in time. The 80s was completely different from the 90s. This is a decade of difference. Pokemon isn't a time capsule. Kanto isn't a place where you stay a kid forever. It already changed drastically over the course of 3 years in GSC and people were fine. Cinnabar Island was completely Pompei'd, and people got over it. Pokemon Tower was turned into a radio tower, and people were fine. Red and Blue are canonically 21 now, and people are fine. People understand the basic progression of time. They'll be fine.
