Kalos feels like France.
Alola feels like Hawaii.
Galar feels like Great Britain.
Paldea feels like Iberia.
But Unova doesn't feel like the United States.
Where are the McDonalds? Where are the wild west towns?
Kalos feels like France. Alola feels like Hawaii. Galar feels like Great Britain. Paldea feels like Iberia.
I thought it was based on the tri-state area not the United States
muttnova is a mongrelised hybrid region of different chink, japanese, europoean, and amerimutt themes. that's why there's a random desert between 2 squalid cities. it has no identity of its own it's the worst region
The random desert symbolizes ((their)) invasion of regions that dont have them naturally.
>random desert
bro, Las Vegas is a thing yknow
You mean Poketopia
>NOOOOO UNOVA IS NOT A THEMEPARK REGION LIKE MY SHITTY KALOS WAHHHHH
Cope kek
Are you moronic, Black person? Unova literally feels like a theme part due to all the segregated biomes and themes.
>theme park
I would have loved it to be like Zootopia with its well separated biomes and with the Pokemon species behaving like a parody of the different communities of NY, yes they are already a graphic parody, but it would have been funny to arrive in an urban area and find a group of Scrafty playing with an orange pumpkin, a group of Maractus celebrating a noisy party in the desert area, Beartic taking shared baths in a kind of frozen springs, or Braviary nesting on the top of large buildings and being considered good luck.
Curiously, I can't think of much about the rainforest sector, Unova dex doesn't have many jungle Pokemon
Ok I get the joke with dark types and tacos, but what do polar bears represent? Canadians?
>that's why there's a random desert between 2 squalid cities.
Where's the giant crater in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula?
Where are the deserts in Kyushu, France, UK and the Iberian Peninsula?
Where's the town inside a meteorite's crater in Kyushu?
Where's the underground cavern system connecting all Hokkaido?
moron.
Actually Iberian Spain has the only 2 deserts in Europe, MoBlacks and Tabernas, both are icons in cinema settings and that's why you get plenty of Pokéstar Studios pokemaniacs in Paldea a side from the now obvious hint of Unova being it's Kanto to Johto to some degree.
Don't expect a zoomer to know about the holy grail of spaghetti western deserts that spain is
I do know this desert, I actually have been there twice, moron. And it looks nothing like the desert they put in the game. It's not a sandy desert.
Because they need to stick ground Pokémon somewhere contextual. This is why there's that awkward ice cave in Hoenn, a tropical region, for example.
Every region needs to have a forest, a desert, a mountain, a snowy bit, and so on, even if it doesn't make any sense, because you need to stick those mons somewhere.
Except ground types are getting more and more scarce so what do they even put there anymore
>there's a random desert between 2 squalid cities
Funny enough, Kalos is guilty of the same thing.
>Where are the wild west towns?
Those are in Orre which is a region in the wild west.
Why does Alola have a wild west town?
Because the tagline for Sun and Moon was, "It all comes together."
Oahu has a famous ranch
Hawaii is still in the west.
Unova is unironically more soulful for not taking after America more. Unless you wanted every town and city to be a shopping plaza overflowing with moronic hillbillies and crackheads.
Castelia is literally New York.
Show me their Statue of Liberty in all its glory
it's where you catch victini
literally same island
jesus you discord tourists don't even play the games
He said statue of liberty, not island
learn to read, shill
And what does the Statue of Liberty stand on, my dear moron? Does it just stick straight up out of the water?
Anon asks for a photo of an apple, this idiot says that showing a photo with dirt is the same thing (But muh seeds, anon asked for an APPLE!)
By the way, here is your island with your beautiful "statue". While we're at it, we're going to change the Lumiose city tower for a pool or a McDonald, either way they're the same thing
Why is there a desert in Pokemon's New York?
play yokai watch 3 if you want your america region so bad
A thousand times better just for including that corn
EarthBound did it better and it was also created by Japanese designers, what's GF's excuse?
God damn this looks awful
It does not.
tell me you’re not american without telling me you’re not american
I'm British and I feel highly represented in pokemon sword and shield.
Always nice to meet a fellow Hindi online, sir! (*<*)
America is more than McDonalds. Southeastern Unova is highly reminiscent of Queens, but I wouldn't expect someone like you to know that.
>Where are the wild west towns?
In the west? Unova is based on an eastern city.
It's based on New York, not the US as a whole
New York is known for its multiculturalism
The US have no culture so of course BW just feel like generic western place #2120
It’s New York, not Texas
You're right and you should say it
Neither the Urban areas nor the nature looks anything like any place in the US
You're right. It felt like Pokemon.
>t, never been to a single country other than his thirdie shithole, the US of A.
>Kalos feels like France.
Not... really? It feels exactly like Unova. It's just Generic Region #52, with all the usual boxes to check off. Swamp route, desert route, seaside route, water route, optional route, boring cave, weird cave, endgame cave, endgame route with a Strength puzzle, big regional city...
nta but I'd say Kalos is more of a theme park version of Paris. I mean, you have your Eiffel Tower and Versailles expy, and Lumiose City is just as much of a pain to navigate as Paris is.
It did feel like the USA to me. Mainly because it introduced black people to pokemon. You're just a hater who doesn't like diversity.
Felt like New York to me, which was what they were aiming for most.
if galar feels like great britain then that place must be boring as frick
Pretty much
Galar doesn't feel at all like GB. Everything about GB from its geography to its history and mythos was underutilized or outright tossed out. Possibly the worst representation of its real world counterpart besides Unova. Unova feels nothing like the US. They gated everything into the north eastern side with NY as its centerpiece instead of building a region out of the extensive geographical diversity in the US.
Unova is specifically based only in New York, not in all of the United States, idiot.
Already addressed and pointed out as a flaw.
I do not argue that it is wrong from the Tenova base if I use New York a lot and even a little in some distant places.
I wish they used more of this American scenery
A region based on the northwest with yellowstone as the focal point, full of cryptids and fearsome creatures could be a good change.
Instead of Gym Leaders I imagine Rangers, Rescuers, Guides, even Native American reservations and mining towns
You guys love to shit on west-based regions but do actually know anything about Kanto, Kansai, Kyushu or Hokkaido to say for sure gens 1-4 captured them well? Or do you just assume they did because Game Freak are japs?
And what's with the double standard of Unova needing to represent all of the USA when it's loosely based on just New York? It's like saying Alola is a shit region because it only represents Hawaii.
I guess OP is bothered because Unova doesn't fit neatly into the categorization of Japan regions vs. non-Japan regions. That is, it's like the Japan regions in that it doesn't try to capture the culture of the place it's based on, but it's like the non-Japan regions in that it's... well, not based on Japan.
Only reason they didn't do it is because of graphical limitations and their autistic need to faithfully keep it for 3D remakes. It even affects the anime past the first season.
>But Unova doesn't feel like the United States.
Is this supposed to be a bad thing? The united states sucks ass the less unova reminds of americ**t the Better
The worst part of Unova is the english localization turning everything german
It was the first time they did a region outside Japan, so it still feels pretty Japanese.
To be honest I much prefer it that way and I wish the other regions were the same. You can feel the Japanese influence slowly creeping back in with the last two games. I think/hope they will return there in gen 10.
>Unova doesn't feel like the United States.
It sure feels like England mixed with Japan.
>Kalos feels like France.
False. There were hardly enough protesters burning the city, gangs and urban violence to qualify as France.
Kalos feels like an idealized japanese version of France, almost nothing to do with the real thing.
But here's the thing Unova doesn't feel like an idealized or parody version of NY, much less realistic, Unova totally feels like a JRPG fantasy world.
I would have even preferred the way they portray American cities full of violence in retro games, it was unrealistic but had its charm.
It's NYC and neighboring parts of New Jersey not some strip mall flyover shit hole
Unova is different because it's the first time Pokemon game set outside of Japan.
I thought it felt a lot like the US in some spirit. It’s primarily urbanized and industrial, huge metal bridges and modern cities. Every Gym is a place of work, and a few areas are just construction sites for more expansion (Route 4, Twist Cave). There are less big naturescapes than Gen 1-4, but there are some gated parks and wildlife preserves. Unova Pokémon League building looks vaguely similar to a US government building from the outside. More people from different ethnic groups live here than in past games also. And there’s that boat ride that tours you around the main city, even.
None of the games need to be 1:1 with real life tbh, but inspirations can still be evident.