It's difficult to tell whether there are any problems without actually playing it, but it looks pretty good so far! The only thing I will suggest is that a couple of item balls be placed strategically to give people an incentive to actually explore the whole thing. The trouble is, with a world this large and expanded upon, most items can be found on maps already. Are there any that are under-represented but would still make sense to find here?
Fair enough. It doesn't look too large or small though, or too hard to solve? Like, looking at the overall map, you can tell how to get to 5F, right? (Note that the buttons are obstacles, as well as the carts, but the tracks are not.)
There will definitely be item balls and trainers strategically placed, as well as at least one move tutor and TM, and on 5F a certain unique NPC. Fairly many of the new held items aren't available yet, and duplicates of them are often useful anyway. (HGSS had at least two Quick Claws available.)
I'm running out of stuff to suggest even just generally haha. I can't see any more spots on the Kanto map that would make sense to have a new connecting path between them.
Some anime-exclusive areas to think about:
- The Tree of Beginning from the 8th Pokémon movie. It's located north of Pewter City and Mt. Moon, and could prove to be a decent reason to finally explore those mountains on the top edge of the map. Perhaps it could be an end-game location that is only accessible if you have Mew in your party? I do have a few ideas for a side-mission there, but I'll wait to see if you actually want the area to be there first.
- House of Imite from episode 37 of the anime. It is located between the Safari Zone and Cinnabar Island. So maybe it could be on the stretch of land near the boulders following the eruption (just south of Fuschia)? This patch of land could be stretched out, introducing a new location rather than having just a little bit more ocean.
Thoughts?
I'm not actively planning to add more areas; Dim Cave and the Celadon and Shamouti Hotels still need layouts, and then I'll get scripts done for all the new maps.
The Tree of Beginning sounds interesting, but I haven't seen the movie, and without the Regis or Lucario in the game it wouldn't have much of a point. (If you have a sidequest idea that would work without them, though, please PM me.)
The House of Imite would be neat. I was already planning to add slight references to anime characters, like an Ace Trainer
Liza with a few Charizards (no Charicific Valley though, wild Charizards would be out of place). Maybe it could work like RSE's Trick House (at least for one or two levels, I'm not designing eight last-minute puzzles—maybe in 4.0). Or I may just cop out and have a Lass Duplica on that route. :P
Early on I was considering adding
Mount Quena north of Olivine, but Mewtwo already has Cerulean Cave and I don't have any content that would fit there. It
could go in another game I have vague ideas about, set years after GSC.
