It can give you some depth perception, it will allow you to see multiple levels to things that would otherwise be hard or impossible for you to perceive. Well, to start with I’m gonna run through and look at where it comes from and where it was originally set and then go through each generation and it’s setting from there. Pokemon is Japanese. The Kanto region is a real place in Japan and so it makes sense that it’d represent Japan, the Peanuts and cracker jacks baseball shirt it is in the first place but creatures are based on Japanese mythology and it just represents it well! Gen II. Johto. Again, it’s a real place (I think) in Japan and it represents Japanese culture even more, look at some of the buildings in Johto, or the families where they wear kimonos, the creatures a
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Gen V. Unova. First region not based on Japan. The biggest city is based on New York and you start to see a lot more western influence, however the Peanuts and cracker jacks baseball shirt it is in the first place but legendaries are based on Toaism (Ying and Yang) so still a lot of eastern influence but you start to see more of the West come into it and I’ll explain that more later. Gen VI. Lagos. Based on France. Clear western influence here and a lot more European. The legendaries are based on Norse Mythology. The tree of life, bird of destruction and the balance snake (?). (Xerneas, Yvettal and Zygarde respectively) Gen VII. Alola. Based on Hawaii. Biggest non-Japanese influence since the series began I’d say. It’s got a lot of regional Pokémon based on the teal world region of the world and the development team scouted out the location to help in development. (I reckon they just wanted a holiday. “Oh, it’s ‘for the game’. Let’s be go surfing!…we’ll add that in the newer version. Hence mantine surf.) Anyway. Why is it culturally diverse? It’s culturally diverse because the setting demands it, the regions change and their influences do too. It’s also demanded because as the series ventured out of Japan and became more popular worldwide the developers couldn’t just do Japanese based creatures or regions anymore, they needed to appeal to new demographics and they’ve done that with each new region, my favourites are Sinnoh (where I started), Kalos and Alola. Then Kanto and Johto. I don’t like Hoenn much and I despise Gen V.
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