>>28169101The Japanese man didn't use the words you wanted him to use.
When the games director essentially says the entire game, every last piece of it. The theme of unity, the region, the main city, the diversity, practically fucking everything, is based on, is made in the image of, is inspired by, is whatever word you want to fucking use New York it's New York.
Debate classes should teach you to concede to fucking evidence and to be open to other ideas. Fuck are they teaching you little shits in college these days?
There are Pokemon based on American-concepts, but there are some that aren't. You mention Tyrantrum as some kind of trump card because it's not in Unova T-Rex's aren't exactly known for France either but it'd be retarded to argue that Kalos isn't france.
Ultimately the region itself is what matters and it's New York. There are land marks based on New York land marks in the game.