Topic: Pokémon Sun & Moon - Discussion & Speculation

Wouldn't mind seeing a Fire/Grass type either.

Anyways, seems quite a few people are jumping in on the theory that the new region will be based off Hawaii.

Hawaii would be awesome. It's different.

Hawaii would also mean the region would be set in several little islands. That would be... Cute.

@Meowpheel: To be fair, I don't think the biggest of the islands is all that much smaller than the island that Hoenn is based off of. Might be wrong there though.

An island chain is new though (not counting the Orange Islands or the Sevii Islands)

I actually love the idea of an entire region being a chain multiple islands.

(Insert too much water joke here.)

that would be awesome. I love Hawaii (wish I could go there again) and it would be a great region to explore

@IceClimbers: The island of Hawai'i is less than a third of Kyūshū; even if you take in account the entire archipelago, it's still smaller in area.

If they do make a region of multiple small islands I hope that there is a ferry between them so you don't have to surf everyone. The constant random encounters on water and the lack of variety in the Pokemon you see has made me really dislike surfing.

@Kirby-life: well, a ferry would be the perfect way of leading the player to where they're needed, and limiting their movements early on. So you can bet there would be one.

How about a region based off Africa?

You'd need to be a bit more specific, Africa is a tad big to be a single region.

@Octane: Oh wow I was way off haha. I suppose they could just exaggerate the size of the islands if need be.

Anyways, the best thing about Hawaii is that it naturally has like 10 out of 12 biomes, meaning it can be a very diverse region.

Edit: Madagascar wouldn't be a bad idea for a region.

Oops, forgot to add a specific region in Africa lol
Anyway, I was thinking it could be based off either in a country/state in West Africa (because that's where you can find Lagos and Accra, two economic giants of Africa) or South Africa. Madagascar, like @IceClimbers said, would actually be awesome if a Pokemon region was based off the island.
EDIT: Oh, and South Africa is a diverse region, too. Tons of animals and such. Maybe if the next Pokemon was really based off South Africa we could actually get actual PokeMONSTERS instead of the ridiculous Pokemon we get nowadays (key/candlelight/ice-cream Pokemon, anyone?)

If we do ever get a region based off of Madagascar, they better have a lemur Pokemon!

Oh Madagascar would be nice. I like islands.

Pokemon Australia - every pokemon is a poison type

What is the deal with those trucks? Apart from how hilarious they look.
IDK if this has been posted here before, but on the trucks number plates you can see a rainbow, and the Rainbow State (Hawaii) has number plates like that IRL...

Here's what I want to see from this game.

1. STOP HOLDING MY HAND THE WHOLE WAY. Go back to the format of earlier generations, in which the player is expected to figure out how to progress. When I come onto a Snorlax blocking the road, I don't want a cutscene to trigger telling me exactly where to go and what to do. That's not a game, that's a guided walkthrough of the world.

2. Continue improving the dungeon and puzzle design. B/W ditched dungeons and puzzles altogether, but X/Y made some progress in bringing them back. I'd like to see this continue.

3. More thorough post game and better secrets.

4. More consciousness in the balance when designing pokemon.

Not going to happen because Game Freak is Game Freak:
1. Multiple save files
2. Difficulty settings.

Lunatone and Solrock will make a comeback. Team Rocket will butt heads with Team Galactic and the Pokemon world will never be the same...

Well they had a hard mode in BW2 which was done in the most stupid way possible, I don't really understand why they got rid of it.

@Vee_Flames: But I love object based Pokemon.