>>37409989I really can't because I don't understand what they were going for with Johto at all.
I understand the Team Rocket part obviously but I've always felt like I'm missing what the whole Ho-oh/Lugia bit is about. Especially when they added the bits to HG/SS. Probably because I'm not very knowledgeable about Japanese lore. I know some but not a lot.
One of the game ideas I did have back during Gen 3/early Gen 4 was a remake of Gold and Silver but it had an entirely different story precisely because I didn't understand what they were going for in the first place. I didn't even call them Gold and Silver because of it. In my write ups they were Black and White. They were set 10 years after my own region which itself was 10 years on from the originals and Johto and Kanto were fairly different, with Johto having experienced it's changes mostly because of destruction (a meteor hits the Whirl Islands and causes flooding of the things around the sea, taking out things like Azalea and the forest entirely) and Kanto mostly because of creation (since it's always been my desire to have a more properly sized and fleshed out version of the region, fuck Trash Go with it's shitty GB maps and huge chibi characters), thus the Black and White names.
