6th Gen Santalune Forest vs. Viridian Forest

Has anyone ever noticed how much Satalune Forest almost looks like the original Viridian forest? Please tell me I'm not the only one seeing this. It'd be nice to know I'm not the only one that noticed. I could be wrong, but I've played Pokemon Yellow enough in my time to have gotten a fair idea of the layout growing up.

So, your thoughts on this? Feel free to move this to the proper place if it doesn't belong in the ORAS forum. I couldn't figure out if it was better off in Pokemon General or here. :x

It was made like that on purpose, cause X/Y were supposed to be some kind of throwback to Gen. I, or something.

Moved to X and Y!

I noticed as well, complete with the chance to find Pikachu. Both forests have great music.

I don't remember the specifics of the layouts precisely, but I do recall them being very similar. With such a huge difference in the graphics though, I hardly noticed the similarity the first time around. I was too busy marveling at how amazing the graphics were haha

So Santalune was inspired by Viridian Forest! I remember first entering it and thinking that the way everything looked seemed oddly familiar. It was like a case of deja vu or something. The OP pretty much confirms it ^_^ you can also encounter every Pokemon that you could in Viridian Forest, with some newer ones added as well.

It was made that way purposely, in fact there are a lot of shout out for the first generation games!

As Sun mentioned, it was intentionally designed with Viridian Forest in mind, along with having wild Pikachu encountered there. Kalos had tons of shoutouts to the Kanto games in general so it's pretty explainable.

Some would say that it's uncreative, not very original, and so forth, but personally, I like what they did here; I do appreciate the throwback. The only thing I wish they'd done with this area is perhaps add more encounterable Pokémon, haha.

Santalune forest is not one of the most memorable places in the Kalos region lol.

Peitharchia said:

Some would say that it's uncreative, not very original, and so forth, but personally, I like what they did here; I do appreciate the throwback. The only thing I wish they'd done with this area is perhaps add more encounterable Pokémon, haha.

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What was the most common Pokemon in Santalune Forest, or just in that forest?

ArkansasLiving said:

What was the most common Pokemon in Santalune Forest, or just in that forest?

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I'd say it's got to be a tie between Caterpie, Weedle, and Scatterbug.

I noticed it almost immediately when I entered the forest! It even has the same Pokémon - Caterpie, Weedle, and Pikachu and the dimensions I think are nearly identical, too.

I'm better than Viridian forest, thank you very much.
Unavoidable tall grass is so passe.

I just noticed that today as I have just started my 2nd adventure through Kalos. I knew I couldn't be the only one who thought this haha! good eye

After how different Black/White was, it doesn't surprise me that X/Y decided to pull a lot of nostalgic inspiration from previous games. Even the wild Pokemon in the forest are nearly identical to the originals.