>>29348850Why the fuck would you segregate gameplay and story? Why wouldn't you build on the game mechanics, or at least design decisions in the story/world building? It makes everything much more coherent. There's absolutely no reason for why these should be separate, certainly not in this case.
It's people like you that gets us regional variants, only limited to just one region and only to some specific pokémon of one particular generation. It only detracts from everything instead of being a positive addition.