>>56918083It's just the second quest idea from the original Zelda, but it doesn't work in pokemon because there's too much dialogue/gameplay. So you decide you want to include last gen's region and gyms in your game. So is it post-game or part of the main game? If it's part of the main game, how do you make progression work, the player character has all the HMs already. If it's post-game, how do you justify the player being able to beat the whole region in an hour?
>>56918233DQ2 did what Gamefreak originally planned for Gen 2 Kanto, they included it as a shrunk low detail version, like the Kanto from the spaceworld demo. That's a better idea, because it's a novelty, it's not pretending it's the entirety of Gen 1 contained within Gen 2.
>>56918151The non-gen 1 versions of Victory Road and Indigo Plateau, especially the part before the cave, are just bad. The league building just being a 10 story tall office building is bad, I don't care if it was that way in the beta and was always intended to be that way, it's bad. Removing Veridian and Cerulean Cave are also bad choices.