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While it's a cool idea - were any Pokémon ever really location-based? It all just seemed pretty random to me, except depending in in-game terrain?

the first games were based on different regions of japan. unova, the setting of black and white and black and white 2 is based on new york city. kalos, the setting of x and y, is based on france (my own country, yay!).

I keep forgetting you're French! And yes, the regions, but the creatures? Did the ever correspond with native wildlife?

there are a few, like furfrou which is based on a poodle (because paris). and the johto pokémon were closer to traditional japanese design than the other generations because johto is based on kyoto, but other than that... no, not really.

And the garbage pokemon from NYC. :3c

MY FANDOM SECRET: I love Trubbish and Garbodor. I basically crushed an entire gym with my Garbodor in my Black game.

I really like object Pokemon in general. I think it's a really cool idea and opens up a lot of interesting questions about Pokemon's environment and the critters themselves.

Mainly asking this because I wanna save this whole thread in my gmail inbox, but do you consider voltorb and electrode object-based pokemon? I can never decide myself.

I'm kind of on the fence about them... I figure they're more like those caterpillars that can disguise themselves as leaves or whatever. Not that they're bug-types, just that they can mimic things that will spook predators away. Predators don't want to eat Pokeballs, after all.

They are my some of my buddy's faves as well. I tease him about it, but I get it. I think Trubbish is cute, to be honest. :3

"garbage pokemon"

Well. Looks like now's a good time to get back into pokemon just so I can find my new favourite.

Does Pidove also count since it's like a pigeon/dove.(Named mine Bobby)

Definitely. There are plenty of "American"/NYC pokemon in the game. It's not 100% but it's enough to count as a theme. (Actually Black/White had a ton of themes in its pokemon. Zodiac, numbers, it's kinda nuts!)

Zodiac and numbers? Which ones?

Sorry, I'm bad about replying sometimes.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Horoscope

I am trying to remember where I heard about the number thing. I'll get back to you if I find it.

And Braviary.

And bouffalant! :D The Buffalo... with.. an afro... er...
The Vulture pokemon (whose name escapes me at this moment) also had kind of a "Wild west" vibe to it.

Okay, I have a question. Is it cool or weird to see a pokemonified version of your country?

a bit of both, though the cool outweighs the weird. some things make me roll my eyes, like the emphasis on ~style~ and the poodle pokémon, but it actually is really fun to see how people from another country on the other side of the world view yours. while some of it is definitely cliché, there are little things that are surprisingly close to reality, like the trainer with a baguette in her paper bag, the carnac stones, or the architecture of the smaller towns.

The team did actually visit France so that might have had a part in it.

yeah, i read an article that quoted junichi masuda and he said they made a point to visit both the well known areas and the less touristy areas, to make sure to be able to portray both equally well in the game. i appreciate that.

Huh, that sounds cool. :3 I can understand why it would be interesting to see how you're viewed by others.

Out of curiosity, what were some of the things you thought were so off they were funny? What were some of the clichés that made your eyes roll?

eh, the most eyeroll worthy things i found were mostly related to the style thing and lumiose city; the galettes, the black bérets and striped shirts, the emphasis on fashion, etc. i don't have any particularly funny examples.
the sex god perfume-loving professor is so over the top i can't help but love him, though. the hipsters that don't let you go to route 15 because you're not cool enough were hilarious, too.
a petty thing that annoys me: pokémon-amie should be spelled pokémon-ami.

eta: now that i think about it there's a lot of sex allusions in x/y. like the beds in the hotel being drenched in perfume, and the couple watching the prism tower. sometimes i forget it's a children's game.

Edited 2014-05-23 02:28 (UTC)

I did not know the galettes were a cliche. In fact, I actually didn't know what they were before I got the game. I feel silly.

Ha, yeah, I like the professor too.

Oh? I wonder why the added the e. When I google I find the word spelled both ways.

Oh man, I missed all of those. @_@ I should go back.

Edited 2014-05-23 02:48 (UTC)

As I recall, the "e" indicates something(s) feminine, whereas "ami" without is either singular masculine or plural when a group includes masculine and feminine objects or subjects.

Considering I don't know if this is a weird NPC name or a pokedex feature, or what, I can't really say. I feel so behind the Pokemon times. ToT;

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forgottenjester - 2014-05-24 19:43 (UTC) - Expand

It's interesting to see how a French person felt about Kalos! I'm from the UK and have been to France a few times and whilst I felt the emphasis on ~~style~~ was overblown to the point of stupid, a lot of the routes felt spot-on. Route 6, the one to the perfume palace, definitely felt right. I've driven down roads in France that look like that.