QuentinQuonce
formerly green_typhlosion
I'm not sure if this is something that bugs me or that I like, so bear with me.
In Pokemon Black & White we explore the Unova region as it is in those games. In Pokemon Black 2 & White 2, Unova has changed somewhat, and several new towns and cities exist.
And... we're told nothing about these settlements. Did they always exist, or did they spring into existence in the intervening two years? Lentimas Town is an oddity since, although it has an air terminal like Mistralton City, the only way to access it on foot is via Undella Town. How did it exist beforehand if the route through Reversal Mountain wasn't always there - did it just get food and supplies regularly flown in from Mistralton?
Aspertia City, Floccesy Town, and Virbank City I can buy as having always been there and just being a remote part of Unova that we had no reason to visit, but it's just never mentioned. Alder says in BW that he "knows every corner of Unova" which indicates to me that there's more to the place than we see in-game and all sorts of secret places he's been to. The only indication we get is one NPC in B2W2 saying that Humilau City is "a little-known resort" but that's kind of thrown out of the window with the Marine Tube providing a very public route to the place.
It's not just the towns, though - no one mentions the fact that there's been a landslide on Victory Road or in the Challenger's Cave, or the Entralink drying up. What caused this? Was it supposed to be Team Plasma's actions in the first game? It's curious that this goes completely unremarked upon.
To be honest, I like the idea that they were always there and that the hero of BW didn't visit them because it adds credence to the idea that the regions are much bigger than the parts we see (which explains why there are multiple gyms in the anime and Ash & co visit dozens of small towns and cities that don't exist in the games). But I just wish we'd gotten a little more context for it.
In Pokemon Black & White we explore the Unova region as it is in those games. In Pokemon Black 2 & White 2, Unova has changed somewhat, and several new towns and cities exist.
And... we're told nothing about these settlements. Did they always exist, or did they spring into existence in the intervening two years? Lentimas Town is an oddity since, although it has an air terminal like Mistralton City, the only way to access it on foot is via Undella Town. How did it exist beforehand if the route through Reversal Mountain wasn't always there - did it just get food and supplies regularly flown in from Mistralton?
Aspertia City, Floccesy Town, and Virbank City I can buy as having always been there and just being a remote part of Unova that we had no reason to visit, but it's just never mentioned. Alder says in BW that he "knows every corner of Unova" which indicates to me that there's more to the place than we see in-game and all sorts of secret places he's been to. The only indication we get is one NPC in B2W2 saying that Humilau City is "a little-known resort" but that's kind of thrown out of the window with the Marine Tube providing a very public route to the place.
It's not just the towns, though - no one mentions the fact that there's been a landslide on Victory Road or in the Challenger's Cave, or the Entralink drying up. What caused this? Was it supposed to be Team Plasma's actions in the first game? It's curious that this goes completely unremarked upon.
To be honest, I like the idea that they were always there and that the hero of BW didn't visit them because it adds credence to the idea that the regions are much bigger than the parts we see (which explains why there are multiple gyms in the anime and Ash & co visit dozens of small towns and cities that don't exist in the games). But I just wish we'd gotten a little more context for it.