Pokemon Fan Is Recreating the Kanto Region in Minecraft

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One creative Pokemon fan has found a unique way to pay tribute to the monster-battling franchise, creating an impressively detailed recreation of the games’ Kanto region inside of Mojang’s smash-hit sandbox title Minecraft. The Kanto region in Pokemon was the setting for the first several generations of games in the franchise, as well as the anime, and is home to iconic characters like Professor Oak.

While designing a massive fortress complete with defenses from pesky skeletons and Creepers in Minecraft can be remarkably satisfying, some of the most impressive uses of the block-based building title are the wildly inventive tributes to other properties gamers have created inside the game. From sprawling cityscapes inspired by The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim to a surprisingly full-featured Doom tribute, creative Minecraft players have found all sorts of ingenious ways to pay homage to their favorite franchises. Therefore, it’s no surprise given the massive global popularity of the Nintendo and Game Freak franchise that Pokemon tributes in Minecraft are a common theme for builds.

Pokemon Fan Designs Incredible Lugia Statue in Minecraft

In a new post on the r/Minecraft subreddit, Redditor ruotmo0 gave Minecraft fans a sneak peek of their work-in-progress remake of the Kanto region from Pokemon. The post contains a video showing a flyover view of the impressively detailed recreation of Pokemon’s Kanto region, which features a mix of villages, cities, and wilderness areas. Thanks to its angled, aerial perspective, the video’s soaring path over the sprawling recreation harkens back to the view players had when exploring the Kanto region in fan-favorite games like Pokemon Red and Blue. Showing that the buildings and natural features