>>55494830yes but what started as vague "inspiration" in Gens 1-4 became a way for them to not have to do real-world building in their regions. Unova kind of gets away with it since it's mostly just New York City + whatever the fuck we want and Kalos keeps this philosophy to an extent.
But the switch regions are so hollow and uninteresting, everything has to be based on "myth" now, and if there's any sort of interesting location it's because it's a palette swap from the real thing. Most of the real-world inspiration they do use is shit they probably cobbled up by scanning a country's Wikipedia page over the weekend.
They should either go back to smaller regions that require them to think more, or double down on the real-world influence and make them stop feeling like hollow caricatures. Picrel is a to scale comparison of what the size of gens 1-4s area of inspiration were, compared to Gens 6,8, and 9.
