Morningstar
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I can confirm that it does. A whole two regions and not one Mossy or Icy rock in sight?! >_<
Not to mention the lack of electromagnetic zones for Magenezone and Probopass
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I can confirm that it does. A whole two regions and not one Mossy or Icy rock in sight?! >_<
Sure, they weren't entirely carbon copies, but there were lots of cases in Gen 1-2 that had real-life geography. For example, having the Columbia Shuttle in Pewter City, or Lt Surge being from the US. Or, as in the Anime, Misty dreaming about going to France in I think the early stage of the OS arc. There was even a novelization of the Anime by Takeshi Shudo which even made references to the Pacific Theatre, and actual overseas city names and locations. (Unfortunately, all of the pages I've found were in Japanese. But here's one which explains in English: Takeshi Shudo's Anime Novelizations. )You...You do realize every region before gen 5 was fake poke Japan, hell kanto is literally kanto same name,
More that RSE had Kyushu instead of a more suitable location for a tropical generation - for example, Hawaii (which eventually became Alola), Guam-Saipan, or coastal Queensland from Brisbane up to Cairns. All of them more visibly tropical in climate, all of them being overseas locations for a Pokémon franchise that is becoming more international, yet all of them also familiar to Japanese audiences too. Kyushu is not what I consider tropical.But also you're complaining that oras stuck to Kyushu?
Basing your hate on a game because a Japanese company decided to base their japanese game on a Japanese area is ludicrous, and then hating the remake for not doing what new games do (going outside of Japan) is also ludicrous considering it's not something they can change in the remakes. It's not like they randomly chose an area of Japan and said "dis one!" As masudas first game he wanted to base it off an area he grew up in and went to regularally.
Such as? Silph Co. and the Lavender Tower? Obviously, Game Freak thought it would be repetitive to use them again for strings of battles.Heck, HGSS, for example, didn't even bother to restore all of the Kanto locations that GSC nerfed due to lack of cartridge space, even though they were already restored in FRLG.
Also other important areas like Mt. Moon were left nerfed in HGSS instead of returned to their former glory and size.Such as? Silph Co. and the Lavender Tower? Obviously, Game Freak thought it would be repetitive to use them again for strings of battles.
If you mean Cinnabar Island, then its eruption is iconic. If anything, they should have made the volcano visitable. That much I agree with.
Oh, and cartridge space wasn't the issue with GSC. Fan hacks demonstrate that.
Mt. Moon yes, but that's it. Victory Road was fine considering the long route preceding it.Also other important areas like Mt. Moon were left nerfed instead of returned to their f9rmer glory.
Eh... I wouldn't completely excuse the Victory Road nerf either, but eh...Mt. Moon yes, but that's it. Victory Road was fine considering the long route preceding it.
A Power Plant shouldn't be a deserted place forever...Eh... I wouldn't completely excuse tye Victory Road nerf either, but eh...
Iirc we are forgetting the Powerplant nerf as well.
That's not a reason to make it tiny and non-explorable in comparison to the original powerplant.A Power Plant shouldn't be a deserted place forever...
Yeah... literally every other remake, and every other Pokemon game in existence, could be improved with a list of "improvements" like the above one. But that's hardly a reason to call a game "mediocre and disappointing".
Heck, HGSS, for example, didn't even bother to restore all of the Kanto locations that GSC nerfed due to lack of cartridge space, even though they were already restored in FRLG. And yet here we are, nitpicking about the barren Desert Underpass not being in ORAS, even though it was not in Ruby/Sapphire in the first place... Same with the Safari Zone expansion from Emerald, who's function the Mirage Spots achieve much better, and on a bigger scale.
In the end of the day, no remake is perfect. The difference is that, while FRLG and HGSS are allowed to have their share of flaws, ORAS is not. ORAS absolutely had to be perfect and not being perfect is considered a fatal flaw, by some people on this forum, that must be repeated ad infinitum, while at the same time ignoring or belittleing all of the many pros of ORAS that far outweight the cons, is unfair, to say the least. In my opinion, of course.
Your wording is weird. I'd say that most people simply prefer sequels for Kanto, rather than an odd mishmash between a remake and B2W2-style changes.the general consensus is that for people that even want Kanto remakes, it should be a BW2 style sequel.
There's a growing expectation that remakes should be closer to sequels now instead of being copy/paste jobs.
That may be the expectation, but I doubt it's one that Game Freak are going to strain themselves to meet.
As someone who advocates massive overhauls in remakes, it's unfortunate, but I can't say I'm surprised.
Though it makes me curious, Bolt. What radical changes would you implement in Sinnoh's layout, of which you have otherwise always seemed like a big fan, in order to make it more sequel-like? Keeping in mind that the remakes are almost certainly going to follow a more linear path, for one thing, since it was Sinnoh's knotted layout that originally caused them to back away from non-linear paths in every game since.
I guess that nails the reason why I don't particularly care for the region. Going through it is a very isolating experience.Sinnoh's primary appeal is that it's a large, open ended, and content rich region,
I guess that nails the reason why I don't particularly care for the region. Going through it is a very isolating experience.
Shouldn't, but did in Sinnoh's case as far as I'm concerned.Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. And really, a content rich region shouldn't feel isolating.
Shouldn't, but did in Sinnoh's case as far as I'm concerned.
If I cared, I would brainstorm ideas. But I don't need to be satisfied with every region out there.All right then, what would you do to make the region "less isolating" then?