>>36712590I’d actually say Unova is somewhat of a lens into a New York still recovering from 9/11 with the various parts of the city and its subcultures trying to find some unified identity beyond what outsiders’ view of what our city should be. Lord knows I could take or leave living in my hometown as an adult, but I do take some sense of pride in having grown up in an area or a city that was chosen to heavily inspire a Region.
Now you could say that beyond geography and a few token NPC classes, there’s not much American inspiration to Unova. I disagree:
- Marshal is a E4 member, and at least one major Karate discipline has its HQ dojo in NYC (I only know about WTKO’s, but there could be others)
- You could point at the tennis not being located in an outer borough like Arthur Ashe, but I’d argue in turn that all the sports venues and musicals are located together for player convenience.
- “The Entralink isn’t Central Park, c’mon! Despite finding rare and useful things there, it’s not as if Olmsted liked it nearly as much as Prospect Park.” Yeah but who gives a shit about anything except Central and Van Cortlandt?
- The construction work in Undella in place of that villa is unwittingly reminiscent of the continuing Sandy recovery repair, so I’d call Undella a fusion of Rockaway and Jamaica
- shoot me a (you) if you still wanna be autistic lmao
