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>Region based off of the west coast; start in southern California, work your way up in a relatively linear, but lengthy climb. Protag first encounters the villainous team, a CIA/govt agency expy, in Los Angeles equivalent, where they're trying to put in hypnotic messages into movies. Cross a desert & bust their gambling ring in Los Vegas. High–tech San Fran/ sillicon valley city. Conflict between punk rock / hippie anarchist gang and the villian team in Eugene counterpart, then go to Portland. Perma-raining Seattle city w/ eighth gym leader (water or ice, maybe "Hailey" and make 'er a cute girl). Find villian base deep in Washington state forests, where they want to use the powers of the legendary duo cryptid (maybe mothman/bigfoot, and a fairy/water loch ness trio master) to hypnotize and enslave everyone. Conspiracy–solving, crying lot 49, paranoid detective vibe.
>Germany region w/ aesthetic gap between modern west and soviet–ish, brown and grey, brutalist east. Maybe "Past and Future"? Villian team leader is a Heidegger–esque misanthrope who despises the advancement of history and modernity, villian team obs has nazi undertones. The region with which Kalos went to war. In the post game you travel to a tiny region based off of Luxembourg, a monarchy, where there's only one large town, and you head into the surrounding mountains, cliffs, rivers to confront wandering powerful postgame trainers. It'd have a mix of pokemon from Kalos and the former region, & it'd be luxurious and fancy.
>A region that's WAY up north, more so than sinnoh; so much so that there's a significantly larger number of ice mons in its dex than any other region. The towns get smaller and smaller the further up you trek, and the game culminates (w/r/t the elite four, or the final encounter with the villainous team, or w/e story element if there aren't gyms) with an ice pyramid in the deep north among the mountains. Alaska, Greenland, or scandinavia.
