>>34258077You start in the outskirts of a town that resembles Moscow and wander aimlessly among endless rows of identical buildings not even knowing which way is leading you where and if by any luck you stumble upon a professor you have to bribe him to get a starter which by this point is not even useful because you found a stray dog pokemon and your journey was so long that it already has a ~60lvl because of constantly having to fight off the gopniks with their ratatas. And in the end, when you are trying to get to elite four, you get sent to jail for the lack of respect towards state while your rival, who happens to be a relative of some high rank official, has easily become a champion with a shit team