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5th Gen Where is Isshu? Confirmed - New York

Where is Isshu?

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Kizerzin said:
Daruma dolls are japanese...not chinese
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Alright, that was just what I read somewhere, so I was misinformed. Oh well, I'm for New York anyway.

And Gamefreak doesn't even acknowledge the similarities between the game locations NOW.
 
Kirbychu said:
The problem with the poll is that people can't change their votes.
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Yeah that's true...Unless we make a new poll to see how people feel about Isshu now...
I wish there was a confused opinion on it because that's where I stand right now...
Some one in the first post said there were mountains in the NY area in the past is this true?
 
The Catskill Mountains, an area in New York State northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany, are a mature dissected plateau, an uplifted region that was subsequently eroded into sharp relief.

The Adirondack Mountains are a mountain range located in the northeastern part of New York, that runs through Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Saint Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren, and Washington counties.
 
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Kizerzin said:
The Catskill Mountains, an area in New York State northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany, are a mature dissected plateau, an uplifted region that was subsequently eroded into sharp relief.

The Adirondack Mountains are a mountain range located in the northeastern part of New York, that runs through Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Saint Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren, and Washington counties.
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Yeah but those are in the north they sound like they are too far from the area Isshu is based on :\
 
Agreed but like people have said "Creative licenses" Im just as confused as you about the location...I feel its other a mix or a original place.
 
Kizerzin said:
Agreed but like people have said "Creative licenses" Im just as confused as you about the location...I feel its other a mix or a original place.
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Yeah it seems so. This is not normally what Game Freak would do, usually they would say, "Ok guys, We've decided to choose yet another region in Japan." I think Pokemon is just getting started.
 
Supreme1337 said:
Yeah it seems so. This is not normally what Game Freak would do, usually they would say, "Ok guys, We've decided to choose yet another region in Japan." I think Pokemon is just getting started.
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ha, yeah...I hope next Generation's region isn't as hard to figure out as Isshu's is right now, this topic has cause a "Broken Base" within the Fan base...
 
I thought it was agreed upon that Isshu was just a mixture of ideas from other regions of the Earth!
We may never know what it's based off of, or maybe we will when the games come out in Japan.
 
SwiftSign said:
Just because there are hints of America doesn't mean it is based in America. I'm sure GameFreak acknowledge that they have a wide USA fanbase, that's reason enough to include things that related to them such as the a-football players (A sport which if also played worldwide -.-).

The Eagle can be put down to coincidence, it was time for an eagle like Pokémon and the colours happen to be similar. Strangly you seem to ignore the fact the bird also has the colour yellow. If it was plastered in stars and stripes I might give it to you, but no it's not. Giving it a 'native American headdress' just gives it a certain character, which they picked due to its natural habitat and location - like they do with many other Pokémon.
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So everything American can be "put down to coincidence," but the second there's something Half-Chinese it single-handedly proves the game is in Shanghai?
There is still no reason for them to add an American Football player in any other country than America. They never added one in all the years Pokémon was set in Japan, did they?
If the Eagle wasn't supposed to American, why would it be wearing a headdress, and just so happen to be red, white, and blue, one trivial yellow band aside?
Yes, it's understandable that alone these things may appear to be coincidences, but the point is that there is more than one, and when they add up, it's only reasonable to think, "Oh, hey, why would they put all these American "references" in a game set in China."
You say they picked the themes of the eagle thanks to its natural habitat and location, America. So why is this bird so far outside its natural habitat that it is apparently living in China?

As far as geography goes, they both look a lot like Isshu. Though I think you'll find that considering my artist's rendition, and knowing that Isshu is in-fact an artist's rendition itself, one would assume since they look so similar there has been some inspiration there.

Taoism per se is not a large part of Black and White. There is no specific reference to the religion.
What we do see references to is old vs new, nature vs technology, etc. which the West may not have names for, but experiences just as much as any Eastern country including China.
Even Yin-Yang is not nearly enough to prove links to Taoism and China, because just about everybody on the planet knows what that theory is.

But I'm calling that more people will simply disregard this and say I'm starting fights (which I'm clearly not, I have just as much right to voice my opinion as anybody else does), because they've yet to find a way to actually argue any of these points. I may be cold, but I'm at least logical.
 
I still think that it is shanghai, but Hiun city is NYC. The art of Hiun looks exactly like NY Harbor, and with the victory/liberty island thing, it pretty much makes Hiun NYC. But then the rest of Isshu is more like Shanghai.
 
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