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Kanto in Sun/Moon?
I've seen many threads on the internet saying that the S.S. Anne would be on Sun and Moon.
Do you think it could lead us visiting Kanto sometime in the game? Would you like it to happen? |
No.
I would much rather visit Johto, Sinnoh, Unova, or even Kalos. What would Kanto even offer? We're getting all these Alola forms of Kanto Pokémon, and we can probably transfer regular versions of said Pokémon from the gen 1 VC games. So going to Kanto for the sole purpose of getting regular versions of Alola form Pokémon is pointless. And, in my opinion, Kanto is a very boring region; the routes are almost completely straight shots from point A to point B, and there are no fun facilities to do anything in your spare time. So visiting just for the sake of visiting isn't something I'd personally want to do, either. Not to mention that, as time passes, the less and less likely it seems we'll get the option of being able to go to any other region at all, as much as I'd like to be able to do it. If we're being perfectly honest here, the only time I want to visit Kanto again is in a remake of HGSS, so at least we get Johto along with it. |
No, definitely not. We have quite enough Gen 1 pandering as it is, and Gen 2 already took us there anyway. I'd much rather we go to Kalos or even Johto, since this does seem to be Johto's spiritual succesor.
Frankly I'm sick of Gen 1 being shoved down our throats, so if they try to send us back to Kanto, I will not be happy. |
I think that there will only be Alola in S&M. Since the news came out that there will be a Pokemon game for the NX within 6 months of the new console's launch developed by Gamefreak, I'm holding onto the thin hope that if any previous regions return, Orre will return.
But seriously, I'm becoming anti-gen 1. I'm so tired of its oversaturation between Pokemon GO, Alolan forms, the explicit pandering in XY, RBY on the VC, Detective Pikachu, and the general attitude that only gen 1 and the newest gen matter. Fuck Kanto, the world of Pokemon is more beautiful and vast than the first region intentionally designed to be generic and devoid of character. |
Yeah, too much kanto. They've already made the region so lackluster in the 2nd and 4th generations, what would change this time? I would really like to visit johto, or even Sinnoh. I feel like that would be a cool experience.
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I'm with Karous for this, since I also believe Alola will be the only region we'll be traveling through and as far as we all know, the only time we traveled to another region was Kanto in the postgame for the games that were set in Johto. It made sense since Johto and Kanto were connected together, but all the other regions are completely isolated compared to them.
Also, like Karous said I seem to not be enjoying all the huge pandering towards 1st Gen at the moment. I can understand it from a marketing standpoint but I don't want so much of Kanto being shoved down my throat because I feel other generations don't deserve to be treated like crap. |
Yeah, I'm getting really sick of Kanto too, and it's funny because we haven't actually even been to the region in 7 years. I love Kanto, but there's been so much pandering going on to it lately it's not even funny. I'd love to revisit any other region though (except Hoenn at the moment considering we just had it again), but revisiting Kanto should stay as Gold and Silver's thing. I want to see more pandering to the other regions (as well as giving Alola it's own feel).
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I would rather travel to Kalos again, because I feel like there is more to it than what was in XY. Also, the Zygarde forms and Z-moves makes me think that Alola has a connection to Kalos lol.
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You know, I used to dislike Kanto a lot, but not so much anymore. However, I don't want to visit it again. |
No we are not going to kanto. I believe they mention the only way to get the regular forms of the alolan pokemon were by transferring that would mean no kanto because then the regulat forms would be catchable in-game.
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Seeing it's the 20th Anniversary of Pokémon, it'd definitely be nice if Kanto were to make a special comeback. However, I really don't see it happening especially with the amount of time between now and the release. There probably would have been some announcement on this awhile back if Kanto were to be in the game, but I guess you just never know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Given that it doesn't seem that Gyms will play any role in the Alola region, going to another region would be a little weird, as - assuming you could even battle them - our only Gym Challenge would take place in post-game. Either that or they have some really contrived reason why they're all closed. I'd rather have all the focus go towards making Alola a fantastic and unique region rather than trying to cram in another for the sake of nostalgia, but if we are to get a second one I'd much rather it be anything but Kanto. I know I know, it's #Pokémon20, but honestly Kanto just doesn't hold a candle to the detail put into many of the newer regions - particularly Unova, since Kalos let us down a bit imo.
I don't really get the claims that this is Johto's spiritual successor. Besides the similar-ish legendary duo I haven't seem much in the way of evidence for this claim, and because I seriously doubt we'll be going to Johto either. |
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I want Sun and Moon to just be Alola, the region looks fantastic and I really hope they don't sacrifice any of it to cram another region in. Maybe have a boat take us to famous places in other regions (PWT??????) and if S.S Anne actually does make an apperance, that would be a really neat rod to Kanto, but I don't want Kanto again just yet. Also I'm willing to believe that they're just advertising the Kanto stuff for nostalgia's sake to urge people to buy the games, and then when we do have the games we will find Johto/Hoenn/Sinnoh/Unova/Kalos Alola forms. I'm very happy with the current forms though. |
^ I feel that if we see any other regions, I wan it to be indirect via other locations or as Kalos is France, maybe Vietnam. Not just Kalos. If anything else, I'd want Johto just because it would be amazing to explore my first region again in 3D, perhaps with newer things going on after GSC. But even then, it would just be nostalgic pandering.
Unless it's Sun2 and Moon2. Then fire away with as much as possible. |
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UGH no let's not travel to Kalos or Kanto, any other region would be fine in my book :p
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I would be fine with Sinnoh but I'm sure the remake is coming soon.
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I'm gonna have to agree with everybody about not to revisiting Kanto. I mean, I don't hate Kanto, it just that going back is just getting old IMO
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If we are getting Kanto (or another region), I really hope they won't say a word about it. Going there after finishing Johto in Gold is still one of my most vivid video game memories, mostly because I had no idea this was even an option.
Then again: it also led to me being disappointed at the endings of future games, because there wasn't a second region to visit. Doing it in Sun and Moon might ruin our expectation for future titles a bit. |
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I'm kind of curious: of all the people not liking the idea of Kanto making a return, what generation did you start on? Does Kanto make you feel nostalgic, or did you visit the first games much later?
I started on Blue myself, and I feel like my sentiment makes it way too hard to be critical about the first region. I'm wondering if you guys are able to seperate your feelings better than I can, or if you simply don't get as nostalgic about it. |
From a marketing perspective I think it would be better for them to hold Kanto off until a set of remakes or remasters. Not only would they sell as separate games but I think that would appeal to a larger audience rather than sticking Kanto onto the end of S/M.
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Most of the Kanto region is quite boring but I just like Seafoam Islands, Victory Road and Cerulean Cave due to the hard difficulty. The routes are just straight forward and they didn't have ponds for lake Pokemon like Psyduck. They didn't have the unique music for rival battles and Team Rocket.
I really liked the Alolan formes of Kanto Pokemons. The Alolan Ninetales was beautiful and I just look up for the abilites and states and I can raise it for my Main-Story game. I would have Litten to get around the Steel types, since Alolan Ninetales has 4x weakness to steel with Ice and Fairy. The Alolan formes just appear in wild in Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon. |
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