>>27057608What do you think it is? If it's not the Kanto region it's another region.
>>27057605Dot forget to look at the cities within the context of each game. Based on how large your sprite is, Saffron is fairly large. It's just really empty and scaled a bit small because the huge scales didnt really start until Gen 4.
You have a point about the infrastructure for Routes, but if you look within the cities (at least in HGSS, most of them have roads like Unova.
pic related, I made this a while ago out of boredom using Bulbapedia but never felt the need to post it.
