>>53908675The issue he's having is the utter lack of edge; pokemon's modern setting building is pure fluff. Its all vague somethings that barely effect the region at hand.
This is why Alola despite technically having more to say feels about the same. Its just a dumb catchphrase, they don't have gyms and totems(and tapus sometimes) are relevant to the areas they exist in.
Its a coherent region, but its a boring as hell region. Pokemon most of the time doesn't even have interesting fluff and thats probably the bigger killer.
You can have fun with vague nothings, but in terms of options a lot of regions just don't have anything going on. Weird gimmicky societies aren't something pokemon goes for so its quite bland.
This is the true effect of achiving "utopia", regardless of what facts are shown; you will get a load of nothing. A defined world cannot be a utopia.
Anything of real interest happened in the past; the only bad people are either just idiots who don't understand what the fuck they're doing or supervillains who basically exist outside of society.
