>>45942091>This "difficulty" meme didn't come until later,No it didn't.
>First of all, it doesn't, It does. The made the identity and story of the region unique and actually make sense in context of the rest of the world instead of "uhhhh here's another area that somehow has the exact same fucking league format for the 6th time and the antagonist team is grounded instead of le ebin wacky evilmen who want to control the world"
>no one gave a shit because they were too busy skipping everythingSpeak for yourself.
>how they were only KantoNo one actually cares about this except underagefags who don't understand why Kanto Pokemon are popular and well known to begin with. Why the fuck would they do a regional forms of a Gen 4 or 5 Pokemon when the average casual playing the games might not even recognize it as a previous Pokemon? Doing Gen 1 Pokemon was objectively the best choice.
