More Than One Region!?!

[Cherrim]

I saw a theory on Reddit saying how X/Y was kind of like a spiritual successor (...as well as a literal successor LOL) to R/B. It gave you a Gen I starter, it reproduced Viridian Forest's layout right in the beginning, and so on. Sooo if S/M follows suit, it would be imitating G/S which had the return to Kanto, so maybe we will return to Kalos. Plus, Gen II was the first to introduce day/night cycles so the titles could also count as a reference to that.

It's totally iffy now, for sure, but it would be really cool if this ends up being the case! I'm usually not on board with the fandom idea that the ideal Pokemon game involves a whole bunch of regions packed into one game, but I wouldn't mind visiting parts of Kalos again or even the whole region, because it did feel kinda small...

 

[TCB]

XY was flawless compared to BW in my opinion. BW killed Pokemon for me until XY got announced.

I think due to my bias with where BW took place and was based after primarily (my hometown of New York City) I gotta a lot more love for that than XY. The latter's main game did feel longer and more of a 'here we go again' simplicity feeling akin to the Kanto games that I appreciated, but thanks to how near piss-easy it was to actually train through it kinda dampered the overall experience for me.

With BW on the other hand, while I did like how it was more plot-focused in the maingame it really was way to linear for my liking. With that said, it balanced that (in my opinion) with the difficulty being reasonable for my tastes. It wasn't no Platinum-kind of difficulty though. Initially for me it was Diamond and Pearl that caused my slight disinterest in the series at first. Then Platinum came in and turned me around.

 

[Mark Kamill]

I'll be damned if Kalos isn't the post league. Its more then likely they planned the SS Region to literally be the next region from the start, and I do believe that is what we got a glimpse of. So yeah, if they did plan on the next region from XY, while flaunting around new Zygarde formes and leaving it all up in the air, there is no way its up for question. If not, then what the hell Gamefreak?

 

[pkmin3033]

Yeah, given how miserably feature light and lacking Kalos was, I would be very surprised if we didn't get to explore it again postgame in some fashion, maybe with a Zygarde-centric postgame. They've never had just two games devoted to a single region and, whilst Game Freak have gone out of their way to try and surprise us in recent years, I can't imagine them just abandoning Kalos (much as I would like them to) without featuring it in at least one more title.

I would love to have interpreted the direct as meaning EVERY region will be explorable in Sun and Moon, but the odds of that happening are about the same as me winning the lottery, so yeah.

 

[jombii]

A game with all regions would be pretty boring, IMO. I'd rather have a new region, a really large one, than explore other regions again.

However, I would not complain if it's Kalos all over again. That region needs an extension. It kind of... hangs if you ask me.

 

[PkmnTrainerElio]

One massive region would be incredible. For once I'd love to play a Pokemon game that takes a lot of time and patience, something that doesn't take less than a week to complete, post-game and all. Give me something that I can still be playing weeks later and not be bored of it yet. In AlphaSapphire I bought the game at about 10:30am and by 5pm I'd reached Mossdeep City. I want to be barely past the first gym in that amount of time, not 80% done. Loads to do post-game as well. After beating the Pokemon League in X and Y what is there to do? Catch Zygarde, Mewtwo and Articuno/Zados/Moltres and go to Kiloude City which is ****ing boring. And something more interesting than just a battle facility. It's not the be-all-and-end-all.

Agreed! It took me just over a weekend to finish Pokémon Black Version and just under a week to finish Pokémon X Version, I was disappointed in the lack of difficulty and lack of post game (Thank Arceus Black and White 2 and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire added a bit more difficulty and a bigger post game, however I panned these out over the course of a few days and a week+ respectively).

The "it all comes together" after mentioning all the games DOES bring up the idea that all regions and SunMoon (That's what I'm going to call Sun and Moon's region until we get a name, lol) will be together... Though, that would be something that they would do for the last Pokémon game and going by the looks of things and the duration of the series, a last Pokémon game seems a long way away, I'm pretty sure we'll have to see the UK, Australia and many other countries as regions in the series first!

 

[Hikamaru]

The "it all comes together" after mentioning all the games DOES bring up the idea that all regions and SunMoon (That's what I'm going to call Sun and Moon's region until we get a name, lol) will be together... Though, that would be something that they would do for the last Pokémon game and going by the looks of things and the duration of the series, a last Pokémon game seems a long way away, I'm pretty sure we'll have to see the UK, Australia and many other countries as regions in the series first!

I can see where your point is coming from, but I feel like Pokemon is still going strong and it would just be not right to see the franchise come to an abrupt end. I think part of why they're teasing the "it all comes together" is due to the 20th anniversary and they want to go all out with this game.

And I do agree we could see the UK and Australia (which I'd especially love) be basis for more future regions.

 

[PkmnTrainerElio]

I can see where your point is coming from, but I feel like Pokemon is still going strong and it would just be not right to see the franchise come to an abrupt end. I think part of why they're teasing the "it all comes together" is due to the 20th anniversary and they want to go all out with this game.

And I do agree we could see the UK and Australia (which I'd especially love) be basis for more future regions.

Hey, that hotel doesn't look much different from buildings in Australia (especially that roof), so we could see Australia, all those trucks and Hawaiian references are concept art for now.

Imagine what they could do with Australia...

The Old Melbourne Gaol could play a role and we could see a reference to Ned Kelly, maybe his ghost stalks the gaol.
Flinders St Station... It could be something like the Battle Subway in Unova.
Maybe Alf Stewart (Home and Away) and Joan Ferguson (Prisoner) could be Gym Leaders... lol.

Anyway back on to topic, they could include all regions + Sun and Moon's own region, due to the 20 year milestone, it'd be nice, but if that was to happen, we'd have another repeat of a half-assed Kanto.

 

[Stratosphere]

This comes to a question (at least, for me): wouldn't there be any limitations on how what it could be the theory of "it all comes together" in the technological side? Perhaps they could make at least a main, big region but only a shard of what could be a new region.
Oh, and Sun/Moon makes great references to G/S, like: Ho-Oh, Lugia, also considered the Pokémon that would represent Sun and Moon (respectively) on Gen. II (that's also on a certain part of the anime's intro back at the Johto Travels), including Kanto, the former region that connects this new game with the another unknown region... to simplify, it's like if Kalos was the "start" of a new Pokémon series and S/M are like G/S, recalling what most of us said.

 

[TheKojo]

I think the only other region that might be in the game is Kalos. But other than that, I think what they meant by "it all comes together" is that it's going to reference all the previous games of the franchise somehow as a big 20th anniversary game. But not necessarily literally put every region in the game. One example of a thing they could do is let you pick between all 18 starters rather than just 3.