>>35509663If you wanna have new names, may as well go the whole hog and make new games out of it. Plenty of things went right for a first game, but as the series has evolved, Kanto has become increasingly stagnated. If we ever do return there it should be with a massive facelift. Pic related. I based the design more closely on the actual Kanto region and divided it into prefectures. I tried to align each settlement, route and dungeon on the actual locations of their inspiration where possible.
SW (based on Shizuoka and Yamanashi, which amusingly aren't even in IRL Kanto)
>A - Pallet Town (Shimoda)>B - Viridian City (Hakone)>C - Indigo Plateau (Kofu)>P - Viridian Forest (Chichibu National Park)>Z - Victory Road>! - Mt. Silver (Mt. Fuji)NW (based on Nagano and Gunma)
>D - Pewter City (Maebashi)>E - Alabaster City (new, Nagano City)>Q - Pewter Quarry (Kusatsu)NE (based on Tochigi and Ibaraki)
>F - Ochre Town (new, Utsunomiya)>G - Cerulean City (Tsuchiura)>H - Cobalt Town (new, Mito)>R - Mt. Moon (Mt. Akagi)>S - Cerulean Cave (Mt. Tsukaba)>T - Power Plant>U - Rock TunnelSE (based on Chiba)
>I - Lavender Town (Narita)>J - Vermilion City (Chiba - allegedly Yokohama but lol geography)>K - Fuschia City (Tateyama)>V - Safari ZoneCentral (based on Tokyo, Saitama and Kanagawa)
>L - Saffron City (Tokyo City)>M - Celadon City (Saitama City - allegedly Shibuya)>N - Amaranth City (new, Yokohama)>O - Cinnabar Island (Oshima)>W - Diglett Tunnel>X - Seafoam Islands>Y - Cinnabar VolcanoI've provided dotted lines connecting things for illustrative purposes, but try to imagine something a little more open world than just straight paths from A to B. Could probably afford to throw a few more dungeons in too.
