>>54380598>The thing that gets me about them choosing Mauville of all places is that Lilycove has all the hallmarks of being a "landmark" for the region without all the bloat (like Goldenrod being the big city in Johto to contrast all the rural sticks and oldschool architecture).the city that mauville is based on had a lot of large-scale development and reconstruction in the last 10 or 15 years. ORAS is a remake of RS, but also plays around with being a pseudo-sequel to it on a meta-textual level (e.g. the dexnav model numbers, some throwaway dialog about things having occured 10 or however many years ago, etc.)
the reason mauville got upgraded and not lilycove or any other city you want to pick is very obvious – mauville's irl counterpart, kumamoto, got a major upgrade, that none of the other cities experienced.
>Turning it into a successful mall city misses the entire point.no, you've missed the point of how they do things. if you wanted to make a game design argument about why mauville isnt a good choice for an upgrade, that's a different discussion, but you're arguing from an in-game lore/world-building perspective, and yet you're missing the point of how that world is put together in the first place
