>>58253599The hardest thing to update is the fact that it's just an uninhabited natural landmass and caves when in the anime they show that civilization exists on it.
In a theoretical "Kanto but updated" game, I would want the Seafoam Islands to serve as some sort of late-game or post-game area where you can do certain things. Maybe something that has similar functionality to the Poke Pelago in gen 7? Or maybe have minigames located there from FireRed/LeafGreen? Or even a surfing minigame since the anime had a surfing plot there?
It suffers from what a lot of Kanto suffers from, which is the fact that Kanto is still more or less sticking to the same sort of DNA that was present in the first games and I would 100% be down for another Kanto game if massive reworks of most areas were done, even if that means to start off you scale up the routes of the game by 250-300%.