Comment on A Breakthrough Discovery in Pokemon
vasus@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI put the video into an AI summarization tool, the TLDR is that the Johto region in gold and silver is a replica of Japan.
Comment on A Breakthrough Discovery in Pokemon
vasus@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI put the video into an AI summarization tool, the TLDR is that the Johto region in gold and silver is a replica of Japan.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
That’s… Not a discovery. The first few pokemon games were all based on different areas of Japan
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Kansai region specifically, that is a bit more useful info, but that’s not new either.
prowe45@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
What I got from the video was just how inspired by the Kansai region Gold and Silver were. It’s not just the map layout and the cities being analogues to real cities; it’s also things like certain Pokemon being inspired by the real animals of the region and only showing up in the Pokemon world in the same places they’d be found in Japan, or that the Ruins of Alph are directly inspired by real ruins in Japan that contained ancient mysterious murals depicting mythological creatures including a sun bird that is straight up Ho-oh. He’s talks a lot about the ruins and myths and how the Unown fit into it all, and about how the earlier games were more artistic and full of love for Japan and nature and stuff and not just geared towards selling games or catering to the competitive battling crowd. That last part is maybe more my interpretation of what he was saying.