It may be two out of eight regions, but every other region is temperate, which would make another tropical region stick out like a sore thumb, especially with the context I gave above. Going from Alola to another tropical region would have been really annoying.
I mean if there were regions representing Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia, Russia, etc. thrown into the mix then there would be some balance, but we don't get that... We just get temperate and tropical.
giant defog mountain sinnoh would like a word with you
and tbh, I do feel that focusing solely on the climate for the regions isn't a super good way to approach them. though I do agree that having another tropical region wouldn't be very good (in this sense, oras was just rather unfortunate timing)
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Even though I never played a main Pok?mon game until Sun and Moon’s release, I knew about Pok?mon before the turn of the millennium. I even had a few Pok?mon toys back when I was in the first grade (1999-2000). And while I didn’t play the main games, I played mostly the spin-offs, like Pok?mon Stadium and Pok?mon Snap. I couldn’t get interested into the main games until 2016.
And if you want to know how I knew about the older games, I read about the history of the gameplay changes (like when TMs started having unlimited uses in Gen V or when Gen III introduced natures).
tbh I'd kinda consider the stadium games pseudo-mainline, given they follow the same battle system (and iirc even fixing up some glitches present in the gen1/2 games)
also, this is completely random, but gen2 special split and gen4 moves being categorized as phys/special/status by how they work as opposed to typing have been probably the most notable changes for me
and part of me does kinda want you to try out some of the older titles, just for your thoughts on, but hey
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One thing I was hoping that they will do in a new Pok?mon game, which I doubt will happen, is to change the story around. Other than the new mechanics, features, Pok?mon, and characters introduced over the years, the story has been practically the same. You get a starter, battle gym leaders, stop the villain team, beat the Elite Four, then done.
I mean they have done minor things to mix stuff up here and there, but def no overhaul
gen1 had the champion twist
gen2 had the entire kanto postgame and red battle
gen3 had the rival villain teams
gen4 had the
gts (I actually do not remember gen4 at all)
gen5 had the main plot reach its climax and conclusion at the very end without you even becoming the champion. also, child abuse
gen5.2 had the
best battle bgm whole sequel aspect going for it (gen2 did this too of course, but it hardly cares at all about the events of the previous gen beyond giovanni disbanding team rocket)
gen6 had genocide
gen7 had I need to play gen7 still
