"The Orre Region is one of the coolest regions in the series to me"

The pokemon world is incredibly pleasant and inviting which is what makes the games so fun to explore but it leaves the tone of the games feeling very samey and also doesn't lend a lot of credence to the threat the villain teams pose.In almost every region, you can expect to find the same smiling NPCs who give free stuff because the cities they live in are nice and clean and devoid of any real conflict. The niceness of it all makes some of the evil villain teams feel oddly out of place like how Team Flare was trying to preserve the world's beauty but there's not even the slightest sign of decay anywhere in Kalos. The Orre Region feels a lot less tonally dissonant by comparison.The Orre Region is dusty, ugly and so deprived of resources that pokemon had to imported. It's a place where the strong lord over the weak with not one, but two evil teams having the run of the place. Even your player character is no saint with him working for and then stealing from team snagem but all of this builds really well towards the western atmosphere the game was going for.I'm not asking for an M Rated Pokemon game but something with more grit and a different genre inspiration would be cool, a crime drama set in a 1950s inspired Unova anybody? If the leaks about wild pokemon physically attacking you in Legends are real, I hope this signals we'll be getting more games that don't have their rough edges sanded down. via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/3cOGl1s