>>36062504My theory is that they originally planned FRLG to be a GSC type of deal with the island working as protoAlola but they hit a deadline and the islands ended up being more cramped and unrealised
I mean the ticket was even called the "rainbow ticket" or something like that and we've seen with things like the orange islands with different pokemon forms and early concept arts like pic related that pokemon always had this idea in mind of having this hawaii/tropical type of adventure