Pokémon: Pallet Town Made In Far Cry Shows How Future Games Could Look

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A Reddit user has recreated the iconic starting town of Pokémon Red and Blue using Fry Cry 5, a popular setting for recreations. Pallet Town, home of the protagonist from the original games and Ash Ketchum in the Pokémon anime, looks both similar and different in this new take on the location. While it may be a while until players can expect to see a Pokémon game looking like this, it is definitely interesting to see what could be.

Pokémon Red and Blue was originally released in 1996, with a Western release in 1998, and proved to be a widely successful debut for the now massive Pokémon franchise. Since then, the setting of the first games, the Kanto region, has been remade four more times across different Pokémon titles. Yet, despite these remakes, many fans continue to reimagine how the place where Pokémon began would look if it was made on modern hardware.

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Reddit user mojowoptops2020 shared their recreation of Pokémon's Pallet Town on the Xbox One subreddit. Created using Fry Cry 5's in-game map maker, the images demonstrate what a theoretical future Pokémon game could look like. The original layout of the town is almost perfectly replicated, with the protagonist and rival's houses and Professor Oak's lab all featured. To the north of the town, the entrance to Route 1 is visible, where players first met Professor Oak all those years ago, and would probably meet him again if this was a full game remake. Finally, to the south, the tip of the water-based Route 21, which links Pallet Town to Cinnabar Island, can be seen.

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