After Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, Regions Need to Find New Inspiration

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Little by little, Game Freak has started to pull back the veil over Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. So far, lots of great details have come to light. Fans now know that they'll get the special experience of two different Pokemon professors depending on the game version, and they can also look forward to a more open-world experience than Pokemon has ever experimented with before. There are still a few other surprising Pokemon Scarlet and Violet details that haven't been revealed yet, like the region's name, but the region itself looks pretty appealing so far whether it has a public name or not.

Pokemon regions are very different from how they used to be, which is a great thing, but recently the franchise has fallen into something of a new pattern, and that pattern is worth breaking. A lot of recent Pokemon generations focus on a specific part of the real world, which means that the franchise has been missing out on a lot of great potential inspiration from other parts of the world. As charming as Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's setting looks, it should be the last in the franchise's current trend; there are many other parts of Earth that Pokemon ought to draw from.

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Although Game Freak still has plenty of secrets in store, it's pretty clear that Pokemon Scarlet and Violet take place in a new Pokemon region based on Spain. The game's reveal trailer showed off lots of architecture and landmarks that resemble real-life Spanish architecture, and the game features other design elements that evoke the image of Catalonian culture. The trailer also included glimpses at a possible map of the region, which strongly resembled the Iberian Peninsula where Spain is