Tbh... I've never actually been the America (Yet ;D) but when I do NY is the first place on my list.
But anyway, I think your being to picky about how it looks, I mean come on! The developers wouldn't spend loads of time in NY just for a Pokemon game, it is kinda stupid, people complaining about things like this have to much time on their hands IMO.
Really? I had no idea that the developers wouldnt spend alot of time at the place they said inspired the region of what you call Just a pokemon game.
And pretty much anyone on this forum looking. posting . commenting on posts(cough cough YOU) has too much time on there hand
Castelia City, and Unova were merely inspired by NYC and the US. With that in mind, they're not meant to be carbon copies of the real thing, how original would that be if they were? Creative freedom is key. They were never meant to make you "feel at home", just give you a new experience.
Well the past regions kinda look like the place they were based on..i mean "inspired". Unova as a whole(look at the map) doesnt look like any land form in the U.S to me(i could be wrong)
Unova has been said to be significantly distant from Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh. Instead of being based on an area of Japan, Unova is based around the Manhattan area of New York City.
This is from bulbapedia...so it wasnt just merely inspired it was based.
But after reading your comments i decided to do some research and found a list of the citys in unova and what real like place they were inspired from...and even tho it doesnt make me feel at home, they did an awesome job considering these were japanese people who didnt spend much time in the city