>>45966286Yeah. Unova was the first region to be a different country, and having different wildlife made it feel different.
I think they went too far, though. Mons like Pikachu and Eevee are canonically popular pets. Having some strays running around cities for you to catch makes sense. Same way there's cats running around in basically every country despite not being native there.
It also would've made the Unova games easier for normalfags to swallow and wouldn't have made GF chicken out in BW2 and every single subsequent game.