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Is it possible that they'll tone down the DUDE REMEMBER KANTO? thing from the games for a while after PoLeGoPiPoLeGoEe?
I honestly don't mind it that much, but I feel like it ends up negatively affecting the new regions, like they're always overshadowed by Kanto. I think Hoenn and Sinnoh were allowed to have more identity to them probably because their gens also had Kanto so there was no need to keep reminding people of its existence. But in Gen 6 and especially Gen 7 is like GF missed Kanto so much they felt the need to put references to it everywhere.
I hope with new Kanto games they finally scratch their Gen 1 itch and can make Gen 8 stand as its own region. But then again, it could just be Johto 2.0 and be even more dependent on Kanto than Kalos and Alola.