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A Dark-type, surely.
Please, with how incompetent the leaders in Galar are, I can't imagine the region dominating anything in its 2000 or so year history
Wowsers! my VPN must be really good for me (and a lot of the people on this forum to be honest) to be considered "american"
actually, Gamefreak seems to like contrasting regions with each other ever since gen 3
now we know that Gamefreak designs Pokemon games with concepts that "everybody would instantly recognize" meaning of course concepts that "everyone in japan would instantly recognize"
so which countries are "instantly recognizable" to people in japan (and, most importantly, to the children of japan)?
thankfully we have a way to answer that question with full scientific rigor
with that in mind let's determine which "regions" might actually have a legitimate chance for gen 9
and no this isn't whishlisting, it's an educated guess, a scientifically rigorous guess at that
Japan, the United States, France, Hawaii (Hawaii is not part of the United States, don't be ridiculous, they're not even on the same continent) and England are disqualified since they've already been featured
and no, we are not going back to Japan, nobody cares one bit about Tohoku
Germany, Sweden, Poland, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands are discounted on account of being "too similar" to England (no joke, I've seen industry professionals think that Galar was based on the Netherlands)
Hong Kong will never be an independent region as long as China has something to say about it
and since Gamefreak likes to
China is big enough and invested in enough that it may even have TWO regions of its own
and the Death Army won't be officially formed until 60 F.C.
so that leaves us with China, Italy, Egypt, Canada, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Greece, Singapore, Spain (Spain and Mexico? utterly ridiculous, everybody knows they're the same country), India and Brazil
so make your bets I guess? since that leaves us with Canada with a 1 in 13 odds
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Fact: A region based on Italy would be finally the time I join the smogooners in hating GF for their existance. Don't do this, we got enough stereotypes and memes already.
Come to brazil :)
Spain region games should have Dragonite on the cover. It's a local meme, you see.
Fun Fact: In a Pokemon fangame called Pokemon Iberia, (which the region is based in Spain), in the cover is an Entei.
Wait is Dragonite actually a meme in spain? Do elaborate
Yeah, long short story it's used as a symbol of pride in your country.
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Like this.
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Speaking as an American, I can say that I don't care for either sexualizing teenage girls or beauty pageants for toddlers. And I really doubt that the people here worried about sexualizing teenage girls are the same ones holding those pageants. You are implying hypocrisy where there is none while condemning an entire nation of people. Quite the feat.
Also an American, I hate beauty pageants for toddlers and I have yet to meet anyone who likes them despite living here for my entire life. You can pretty cleanly split Americans into two groups of people:
1. People who participate in beauty pageants.
2. People who hate beauty pageants.
I know it's easy to pick on Americans, especially since recent events do not make us look very good as a collective, but this particular stereotype is pretty dumb.
Just so this post has something to do with Pokémon, I think it's neat that Dragonite is a symbol of pride in Spain. I love the goofy dragon, and it's cool to see him get love in other places too.
Actually it's more and more feeling like they're basing the next region on where the team went on holiday, oh, sorry, I mean "on-location research". EDIT: Darn, you already made the joke later in your post.
thankfully we have a way to answer that question with full scientific rigor
also ignore the flag, Jester's from Brazil, nobody cares about portugal
... I don't think Gundam is that really good of an indication of what region are Japanese people well recognized with.
So, just wanted to mention my thought process as I looked through these:
- God, Maxter: Alright, typical looking mechs.
- Rose: Oh, how very fancy, it has a cape, surely they don't get grabbed and grappled during a conflict.
- John Bull: Really? The England Gundam looks like a Royal Palace guard, *sigh*.
- Dragon: And now we have a samurai... for China? Did China have samurai?
- Nobel: Why is Sweden's Gundam a Sailor Scout? Like, what exactly does that bow in the front do for it?
- Pharaoh: Okay, did they get Dr. Wily to start making these designs? These aren't Gundams they're Robot Masters.
- Tequila: Like, it looks okay, BUT TEQUILA? Hey, what's the most Mexican thing we can think of to name the Mexican Gundam after? I know, a Mexican alcoholic drink! Like did they not want to go with the obvious "Desperado" for some reason?
- Skull: So, are Malaysia a villainous group? Cause that's a villain Gundam. That's a Gundam where if you were the pilot of it you'd take a second take before asking "are we the baddies? Our mech is designed after a skull!".
- Arachno: ... What does Cuba have to do with spiders? Mech doesn't even look like a spider.
- Matador: REALLY? "Hey, what's Spain famous for"? "Um, running the bulls? Make a Bull-headed Gundum I guess"? (Makes a Gundum that's a bull head). "... That wasn't what I meant".
- Mandala: We're getting into "we hired Dr. Wily as a designer" territory again.
- Viking: And I thought the Greek Gundam was overdesigned. Like, fine if it takes aesthetics from Viking ships, but were the bow figureheads really necessary?
- Zebra: Geez, even in Gundam form the Africans (well, Kenyan going by the flag) can't escape the racist native stereotype...
- Nether/Mermaid/Cobra/Jester: Okay, Bandai Namco, just call up Capcom and ask if you or they could make a Megaman-like game but using Gundams instead of Robot Masters. They made a Megaman game with Street Fighter characters and I've seen clips of the chibi-Gundam series you have; don't neither of your pretend you wouldn't do it (to be honest would probably make a lot of money).
Anyway, back to your post/response:
Joking aside, those are probably the top choices. I'd say Canada only if they focus on Inuit religion.
My personal pick would be Greece cause we can then get a whole batch of Greek Mythology Pokemon. Spain and Italy (or would that be too similar to Greece?) also would be interesting, probably the other two biggest European Countries that people would think of after England and France.
Though, let's keep in mind that we've visited the US two times and there's pretty much two other places in the US they could base a region on: California (for some reason I can also see them combining it with parts of Florida, I can't explain why they just seem similar to me in that regard) and the Midwest/Texas (which I guess has some overlap with Mexico).
Or they could do Australia and make half of the Pokemon there be part Poison-type; though joking aside they could probably also do a LOT with the Aboriginal religion of The Dreaming/Dreamtime.
While its a debutante ball rather then a "toddler beauty pegeant", if you want to know the type of Americans who sexualize underage girls I suggest watching the film "Borat 2".
DO NOT QUESTION SCIENTIFIC RIGOR!!! >:B
(and yes, the fact that Gundam G's designs [and plot] are utterly ridiculous is the biggest part of the joke)
Honestly? If I could tell my boss that my vacation is research work and should count I'd do it. Steal work hours baby.
I don't think we'll get an european region for gen 9 (and hopefully never again), the most likely candidates are canada, australia, china, korea or brazil but pretty much anyone from east asia and south america has a chance tbh. Rip their vacation tho with covid
I don't think we'll get an european region for gen 9 (and hopefully never again), the most likely candidates are canada, australia, china, korea or brazil but pretty much anyone from east asia and south america has a chance tbh. Rip their vacation tho with covid
I'd also like to see other continents, but why no more Europe?
Because europe only has two aesthetics: boring or extremely ugly
I just wanna say that certain countries discussed here like Brazil and China are way, WAY too big and culturally diverse across regions to be compressed into one in-game location. You could easily make multiple gens from each
This. They didn't even use all of New York state for Unova* or all of France for Kalos or all of the UK for Galar**.
Though I disagree on Lemingue's assessment of Europe - Spain, Greece, and Italy all seem like perfectly suitable choices and have aesthetics that would be easily adaptable. Ironically Hong Kong would be a good part of China to adapt but as someone noted earlier it's unlikely to be used any time soon given the geopolitical implications of doing so. Honestly I think they're best off avoiding China in general as I think it's less likely to have worldwide appeal in the same way recent regions have.
*though my headcanon has always been that the Nature Preserve in B2W2 is Niagara Falls
**Troubles-inspired DLC set in Ireland/Northern Ireland soon pls Game Freak
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I just do not see anything marginally appealing about european countries. Anything that's decent, another place does it better or its just stolen and they ruined it anyways. They're like the most mediocre region of the world easily.
Except ireland and scotland. Theyre cool.
I don't think country size is an issue in general. Gamefreak already only picks the most touristy parts of the non-japanese regions with one or two oddballs, I don't see why that wouldnt work with big regions like brazil or australia. For example, I could see them just only doing sidney, neighbooring regions and then smushing together all the rest into a single desert area, picking the most popular cultural icons from it and calling it a day
Except ireland and scotland. Theyre cool.
I don't think country size is an issue in general. Gamefreak already only picks the most touristy parts of the non-japanese regions with one or two oddballs, I don't see why that wouldnt work with big regions like brazil or australia. For example, I could see them just only doing sidney, neighbooring regions and then smushing together all the rest into a single desert area, picking the most popular cultural icons from it and calling it a day
An Italy region would be so blessed, though I'm certainly biased because Italy is a huge central figure for music, especially since the entirety of Opera is Italian, and a huge chunk majority of western classical music in general came from France, Italy, and Germany. It'd def be a waste if they did a Italy region without at least having a music mon (I'm also extra biased cause I want more music pokemon lmao)
Europe is such a mediocre and boring continent that among the Top 10 most visited countries according to WorldAtlas, half the countries are european lol.
Well as a French, I'd like to see a Southern France-based region, moreover, Corsica would be a perfect place for a Battle Zone (well, if GF decides to add one ofc). A region based on Madagascar would be also dope, since it's an island with a good fauna and flora variety, but also a good climate one (northern and eastern parts are generally wet while the southern are driest.) which will allow it to stand out from Alola, which is generally sunny.