>>50840228Then why didn't they beef up all the other cities that weren't "citylike"?
The answer is it's an ABSTRACTION, you retard.
You don't seriously believe Pallet Town is a boonies shithole where only Red and the Oak Family have homes just because that's all the map shows, do you?
Of fucking course you don't, when you think of Pallet Town you think of how it was depicted in other media like the anime, where it's an actual proper town.
The games abstract the maps to only feature what's relevant to your player character, I.E a kid free-roaming the region on their Pokemon-focused journey.
