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Ooh, this is sick! 10/10 new series concept! Tall order, but one of these for the Ultra Beast's homeworlds would be sick. As in, drawing the closest comparisons in our known universe and how they could form, or something. I've always loved those places, especially Ultra Deep Sea and Ultra Plant.
I had to check the comment history of those two to see if they weren't bots, but both are. I genuinenly thought one or the two of them were linking videos like the one OP asked for 😔
I LOVE how incredibly accurate and inspired the Sinnoh map was with Hokkaido, like the few things that didn't perfectly align to one singular aspect were usually just a flawless combination of the possible differing options, and the layout of the map itself aligns SO well that it's just incredible how much effort they put into making sure the deliberate details came across!
A look at the inspiration a fictional region took from a real world area. What an interesting idea and great way to see the detail Pokemon put into emulating an area and learn more about said area.
If I remember correctly, the Pokémon Ranger regions of Fiore and Almia are geographically based on that cut-off Southern tip of Hokkaido (which is why those games send Manaphy eggs to the Sinnoh games, the nearest main region).
Almia is indeed based on primarily on the area south of where Canalave is, with the desert area being on the main island of Japan. Fiore, however, is based on areas west of Kansai, which is the part of Japan Johto is based on. And though it wasn't mentioned, Oblivia is based on a very small group of islands north of Kansai.
The sheer lower energy and simple deep diving of this channel calms my nerves every video. There isn’t big news and ideas like on the game theorists channel, but a source of explanation and reasoning for this world of pocket monsters im so in love with. Have a good day, everyone
I just realized something about Cranidos and Shieldon. Yubari was a mining town for coal and iron. Fossil mons are brought back...well, from Fossils, so of course they're Rock-type (especially since they were mined up!) Coal is a rock-like substance, meaning Cranidos is a pure Rock-type. Iron is a metallic substance, so Shieldon is part Steel-type! I could be overthinking this but idc lol
This sounds like it would be a great series indeed! It was super interesting how you broke down every little bit of Sinnoh to show how it related to the real world counterparts in Hokkaido. As a culture nerd, I'm very interested.
I could easily be wrong, but I could see Sinnoh having such strong ties to real-world locations as being caused by GF knowing they were going to go more global after gen 4. Sort of a last hurrah / love letter to the regions based in Japan. Or maybe this level of detail is common before, after, or both before and after globalizing pokemon regions. Definitely an interest video/series idea! I'd love to see more
I’ve literally been wanting a series like this in a style as high in quality as yours! Love geography and Pokémon so this is perfect. Great as always Lockstin
Actually, I'm learning Horticulture, only Dicots have two leaves when sprouting, monocots have one. 😜 But also, I never twigged that twin leaf was called that because of sprouting, and have always wandered why it was twin leaf.
Once Legends Arceus is out, you should revisit Sinnoh... I mean Hisui and see how it matches up then, although I suppose you'd have to go digging through a lot of documents from the Meiji era for a proper matchup.
Hisui is the Mystery Dungeon equivalent of Sinnoh from the mainline games since the game that features the region, Pokémon Legends Arceus, is a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game.
@@maganhassan2627 In Pokémon Legends Arceus, you play as a Pokémon, a human who got turned into a Pokémon to be exact, which is crucial since, as a former human, you can remember that you were a human, but more importantly, as a Pokémon, you can get attacked by other Pokémon. This description fits perfectly well with other Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games, hence, Pokémon Legends Arceus is a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game.
@@aaaafireball9322 What do you mean ? You do really play as a human who got turned into a Pokémon in Pokémon Legends Arceus afterall, just like in any other Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game. Also, i don't smoke anything at all.
I've always loved how much the regions are based off of real locations. 11/10 series concept Lockstin, hope to see more of them! (with plenty of given time for the research that goes into it, no rush)
The video hasn't even started for me and I'd love this to be a series, I love finding parallels between games and reality, so this series is perfect for me!
Woah. That's an amazing level of detail, I never knew or even expected this level of fidelity. And it's also very impressive that you found this just using google maps and what online resources were in English (I've been in my own hell of researching Japan and not being able to use a majority of sources because I can't read them). It would be amazing to see more videos like this, although I imagine doing one for Ahola, Galar, or Unova would be easier. Let's hope Legends Arceus keeps that up (I know people have been able to play an emulated version of the game for like a week, but no spoilers please) with a Pokemon-ified version of history where the Galaxy Expedition team turns out to be the bad guys (suprise suprise) who do some E-rated colonialism. Not like murder or anything horrific. Just an evil plan of disrupting the harmony between humans and Pokemon and forcing the Diamond and Pearl clans to give up their culture. Would be kind of a dark twist that even if they don't say it in game, the fact Sinnoh has a similar culture to the previous 3 regions means they do win in the end.
Now this is an amazing video. I can only imagine how many lore and history videos you'll be able to make once you have all the stuff in Legends Arceus to work with too.
Awesome! The region is very detailed, I wonder if other older regions had this much thought put into the maps. There's no way they were doing this much back in gen1.
Yes! Please make more! I'm currently living up in the Tohoku region -- I've had a craaazy ambitious idea of doing something similar to this and visiting these places. Like, why hasn't anyone done a Pokemon themed tour guide book yet??
It would actually be cool if one of the older regions was redone (say Johto for example) but made more in the style of Galar, where there would be more real life inspiration for new Pokemon and areas. If it were Johto, then maybe the mons could be more Japanese themed instead of being kind of random?
This was fantastic. I love these dives into the origins of things, it's so interesting, and really incorporates the main aspect of your channel "using fiction to educate about real things".
This might be one of my favorite videos on TH-cam. It was fascinating to see the real world equivalents to the regions. PLEASE make a video for the other regions too!
Please do more stuff like this, it's always been cool to see the inspiration that the pokemon company took from real life locations and it's incredible getting to see these parts of the world I would've never known about before
It's so cool that Gamefreak put so much attention to detail into things that the vast majority of people overlook. Reminds me a lot of Bethesda. Putting a ton of detail into some things, and then screwing others up. (Not hating on Gamefreak or Bethesda btw)
The detailed real world connections are one of my favorite things in the series and sadly often overlooked, so I would love to see this shared around so that more people can appreciate it!
Fascinating! I always hated geography in school, but Pokémon-themed edutainment makes everything fun! I'd love to see similar analyses of the other regions, if you're ever up for it. Cheers, Lockstin! :D
More region breakdowns would be amazing! I would absolutely love to see them :D Though i understand they require a lot of research, so hopefully theyre not too difficult of videos to make! With that amazing map they released for Paldea, you could probably make a really cool vid 🤩
Absolutely yes to the idea of more region breakdown videos! I absolutely enjoyed this as I had a general idea that everything was inspired by a real place, but that was quite a bit more inspiration than I expected
Going forward for videos like this, I recommend you collab (or at least consult) with Gaijin Goombah, teaching people about the culture and history of Japan is what almost all of the content on his channels is all about. He has 2 channels, the original Gaijin Goombah channel, and the recently established Gaijin Perspective. Maybe you could work with him to do some breakdowns on Legends Arceus after the game launches later this week.
The Hearthome section of this video just gave me the craziest theory: Fantina's baby died! You see, according to the video Hearthome is children friendly, has the park where only cute and babylike pokemon can enter, but it also has a beauty contest arena. All these three would make this city to be THE perfect place for a Fairy Type gym. The Fairy type has the biggest number of baby pokemon, it also has other not baby but fairy type pokemon with baby theme like Flabebe and Ralts. The Faity egg group has other non fairty type baby pokemon such as Pichu. So is hard to disagree that Fairy equals child innocence and or motherhood. Fantina is said to be french, Kalos is inspired in France, were the Fairy type emerged. But besides all these coincidences pointing to a Fairy Gym, we have a Ghost type one. Fantinas dress and secondary ace(?) are Drifloon related. A pokemon notorious for taking children away. Fanstina's gym also looks like a church in the DP and hs a cemitery vibes puzzle in Pt. All these factor conect to where people go to bury passed loved ones AND reconect with god after a major period of grief. So MAYBE, Fantina went all the way over Hearthome from Kalos to recover from the lost of a loved one. It doesn't make much sense for a happy person like her to be Ghost obsessed. But also when you consider that Ghost means death and babies mean new life, maybe Hearthome is the place of Death and rebirth. The very theme of Scorpio astrological sign. What exactly Fantina has to do with scorpios? I don't really know yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if she was one. Maybe that would explain her passion for ghost and death. Scorpios are known for recovering from major traumas and personal ruin.
I love this type of video. Explaining how the Pokemon world can connect to the real world is something I've become more interested in since I'm now playing the games myself. (I grew up with certain people equating Pokemon with the devil). I would love to see more of these videos and maybe even one on how Hisui and Sinnoh connect.
Another great video, that shows how much care Game Freak has for their world building. By now that is pretty much the lifeblood of the main series And I would love to see more from this! Keep staying awesome, Lockstin. I hope you feel better by now
This video helped explain something to me about Legends Arceus. See, Jubillife Village is too close to the sea. Which makes sense in the lore, Galaxy Team WOULD set up closer to wherever they landed. But there’s just not enough room for Canalclave City. Plus, Oreburgh doesn’t exist, so they couldn’t have helped with this town! But I had failed to figured out that Jubilife City lacks something Jubilife Village has: a canal. I had never connected the name Canalclave and canals, even though I should. And that really helps this part make sense! Jubilife Village was where Canalclave is now. At some point, they decided to flatten out more land and move the city center there. And the new suburb of Jubilife, being mainly a port town now, took its name from its most prominent street, Canala street. They do remain really close together for Pokémon cities, after all. I haven’t finished the game yet, so this may end up being off base. But it’s the kind of thing that happens sometimes, and the name moving usually gets forgotten by all except the biggest historians. (Cynthia almost certainly knows this, for example.)
The road is actually called Canala Avenue which actually makes this even better because the abbreviation of Avenue on road signs is Ave. So they literally just started calling this place Canala Ave. or Canalave City
As a man from Pittsburgh I feel very proud that the English translation team for the Sinnoh games felt the need to reference our city when naming Oreburgh, even the ending is spelled the same way. Fun fact: Pittsburgh was named after a British military fort built where downtown is during colonial times and that fort was named after the mand who built it.
This is so cool!!! Did you ever make videos on the other regions? I would love to watch them of you did! (Sorry if I missed them!) Are there links or a playlist? I actually have a dream of one day visiting Japan and exploring the areas that inspired the various regions, starting with Kanto. You researched this so well and did such a great job of presenting Sinnoh/Hokkaido; I'd love to see your videos on Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn (if they exist) ❤
I have an idea for a video that I think would be really fun to watch, I remember in a fan unboxing video you said that you played DnD a lot with some friends, and you never thought about doing a Pokemon themed adventure. I would love to watch a Pokemon DnD playthrough! That sounds awesome!
a couple years back i went to hokkaido on a tour trip and we kind of toured almost all part of hokkaido; it's amazing to recognise the places that i went in the video as well as the sinnoh counterpart! gen4 was my first pokemon game and it holds a special place in my heart. also i managed to snag a bunch of pokemon villain bos merch during their boss campaign in the sapporo pokemon centre, i got pikachu cyrus from a gacha and that was prolly one of the best bday gift i got for myself recognizing those places you mentioned makes sinnoh and hokkaido more meaningful to me, thank you for the wonderful video!!
Sinnoh/Hisui is one of those regions that surprised me with both the remakes and Legends Arceus its incredible how much the latter game added to the lore of the games
I like this! It makes me appreciate some of the little details in Sinnoh a lot more. I would love to see a breakdown on the Hoenn region's inspirations. Is there a space center in Kyushu as well? Which mountain(s) inspired Mt. Chimney? That would be cool to look into!
I'd LOVE more regional dives like this! And I'm excited to see how Legends Arceus will translate some of these routes as well! The Battle Area/Sakhalin has been so confusing to me but that section was so neat! In-universe I kinda attributed it to Heatran having moved into Stark Mountain, and thus making everything WAY warmer than expected too! IRL there's a HUGE city just North of Stark Mountain, I wonder if we'll ever see that someday
It's really really cool just how detailed and specific everything is. Props about that. I just thought it was Fake-mon regions that were so detail oriented
What a amazing video! Your presentation is perfect and the visuals... Omg. It looked like a documentary. I love it! Of course you will do at least for Kanto, Johto and Hoenn, right? Right?
Orre is Based on Arizona. And while its stated to be based on Phoenix. I think its based on my area In Graham County. As we have a huge mountain that looms over our town called Mt. Graham which has one of the largest observatories the VAT. And just like Mount Battle is a dormant Volcano. To our south is just desert and nothing all the way to Mexico. And too our North in a kind of horseshoe shape is the Mogillon Rim containing one the only known High Desert plateau Rainforests. As for the structures untill the 2000's our towns where these outposts along the base of the mountain all connected by one road. We are much bigger now having quadrupled our population since the 2010.
One of my favorite regions, as I was born in the US. (Unova is the other, as I grew up in New York.) Too bad GameFreak retconned it out of existence. Hopefully it can be retconned back.
3:19 Which was also kiiinda retconed a bit? Jubilife Village (PLA) doesn't seem to have been "carved out" of the mountains if you ask me. But maybe they moved it idk...
i LOVE Great Teacher Lockstin!!! It's always soo much fun listening to you explain stuff from all around the world!! also the depth of research here reminds me soo much of Mr Buddy and his old great region videos.
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Ooh, this is sick! 10/10 new series concept!
Tall order, but one of these for the Ultra Beast's homeworlds would be sick. As in, drawing the closest comparisons in our known universe and how they could form, or something. I've always loved those places, especially Ultra Deep Sea and Ultra Plant.
I had to check the comment history of those two to see if they weren't bots, but both are.
I genuinenly thought one or the two of them were linking videos like the one OP asked for 😔
Hell, I wanna see the inspiration for where Buzzwole came from.
If there's somewhere in the world with a forest of flexing trees, I wanna go there.
PLEASE continue this series, I had no idea that even small route features were pulled from irl sources. Truly fascinating stuff
You already know we need to see the same for every region now 😏
Agreed 💯
Could you make a video like this for every region? I would love a series of this!
I LOVE how incredibly accurate and inspired the Sinnoh map was with Hokkaido, like the few things that didn't perfectly align to one singular aspect were usually just a flawless combination of the possible differing options, and the layout of the map itself aligns SO well that it's just incredible how much effort they put into making sure the deliberate details came across!
A look at the inspiration a fictional region took from a real world area. What an interesting idea and great way to see the detail Pokemon put into emulating an area and learn more about said area.
Would like to see him do it for the other regions.
If I remember correctly, the Pokémon Ranger regions of Fiore and Almia are geographically based on that cut-off Southern tip of Hokkaido (which is why those games send Manaphy eggs to the Sinnoh games, the nearest main region).
Almia is indeed based on primarily on the area south of where Canalave is, with the desert area being on the main island of Japan. Fiore, however, is based on areas west of Kansai, which is the part of Japan Johto is based on.
And though it wasn't mentioned, Oblivia is based on a very small group of islands north of Kansai.
The sheer lower energy and simple deep diving of this channel calms my nerves every video. There isn’t big news and ideas like on the game theorists channel, but a source of explanation and reasoning for this world of pocket monsters im so in love with. Have a good day, everyone
So glad I found your videos, Lock! Every one of them is always a treat.
Omg!!! I've been graced with a like from the man himself. Life is complete and I can die a happy man. 😊
I just realized something about Cranidos and Shieldon. Yubari was a mining town for coal and iron. Fossil mons are brought back...well, from Fossils, so of course they're Rock-type (especially since they were mined up!) Coal is a rock-like substance, meaning Cranidos is a pure Rock-type. Iron is a metallic substance, so Shieldon is part Steel-type!
I could be overthinking this but idc lol
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This sounds like it would be a great series indeed! It was super interesting how you broke down every little bit of Sinnoh to show how it related to the real world counterparts in Hokkaido. As a culture nerd, I'm very interested.
The "Poképark", or Amity Square, as it is called in game, is found in Hearthome City, not Eterna. But otherwise an interesting and informative video
Now im just wondering how the heck I even managed to get that mixed up. would have had to a been a formatting issue with the script. lol
I could easily be wrong, but I could see Sinnoh having such strong ties to real-world locations as being caused by GF knowing they were going to go more global after gen 4. Sort of a last hurrah / love letter to the regions based in Japan. Or maybe this level of detail is common before, after, or both before and after globalizing pokemon regions.
Definitely an interest video/series idea! I'd love to see more
I’ve literally been wanting a series like this in a style as high in quality as yours! Love geography and Pokémon so this is perfect. Great as always Lockstin
Wow, Sinnoh is very accurately designed! The biggest discrepancy I see is that you don't have to wrestle Ursarings barehanded in the frontier area.
Haha!
Omg, this was one of the best videos you guys ever made! Now Hokkaido is DEFINITELY on my bucket list
Actually, I'm learning Horticulture, only Dicots have two leaves when sprouting, monocots have one. 😜 But also, I never twigged that twin leaf was called that because of sprouting, and have always wandered why it was twin leaf.
Wow! Just....wow. Applauses for GameFreak creating such deep lore in a seemingly simple game and you for detailing all this
This video was amazing. The whole battle zone area being tropical always bothered me so I'm glad there's an explanation
Once Legends Arceus is out, you should revisit Sinnoh... I mean Hisui and see how it matches up then, although I suppose you'd have to go digging through a lot of documents from the Meiji era for a proper matchup.
Hisui is the Mystery Dungeon equivalent of Sinnoh from the mainline games since the game that features the region, Pokémon Legends Arceus, is a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game.
@@candyneige6609 how?
@@maganhassan2627 In Pokémon Legends Arceus, you play as a Pokémon, a human who got turned into a Pokémon to be exact, which is crucial since, as a former human, you can remember that you were a human, but more importantly, as a Pokémon, you can get attacked by other Pokémon.
This description fits perfectly well with other Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games, hence, Pokémon Legends Arceus is a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game.
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@@aaaafireball9322 What do you mean ?
You do really play as a human who got turned into a Pokémon in Pokémon Legends Arceus afterall, just like in any other Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game.
Also, i don't smoke anything at all.
I've always loved how much the regions are based off of real locations. 11/10 series concept Lockstin, hope to see more of them! (with plenty of given time for the research that goes into it, no rush)
The video hasn't even started for me and I'd love this to be a series, I love finding parallels between games and reality, so this series is perfect for me!
I’m happy to see Pittsburgh is still known as a major steel city. I watched this while on break in a steel mill at Pittsburgh
This was such a treat to watch! So fun to learn about even the smallest landmarks on routes and their real life counterparts.
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Woah. That's an amazing level of detail, I never knew or even expected this level of fidelity. And it's also very impressive that you found this just using google maps and what online resources were in English (I've been in my own hell of researching Japan and not being able to use a majority of sources because I can't read them). It would be amazing to see more videos like this, although I imagine doing one for Ahola, Galar, or Unova would be easier.
Let's hope Legends Arceus keeps that up (I know people have been able to play an emulated version of the game for like a week, but no spoilers please) with a Pokemon-ified version of history where the Galaxy Expedition team turns out to be the bad guys (suprise suprise) who do some E-rated colonialism. Not like murder or anything horrific. Just an evil plan of disrupting the harmony between humans and Pokemon and forcing the Diamond and Pearl clans to give up their culture. Would be kind of a dark twist that even if they don't say it in game, the fact Sinnoh has a similar culture to the previous 3 regions means they do win in the end.
Now this is an amazing video. I can only imagine how many lore and history videos you'll be able to make once you have all the stuff in Legends Arceus to work with too.
We need videos like this for EVERY region!
I'd like to see maybe a video where you talk about gym leaders that come from other regions and discuss their origins
Awesome!
The region is very detailed, I wonder if other older regions had this much thought put into the maps. There's no way they were doing this much back in gen1.
Yes! Please make more! I'm currently living up in the Tohoku region -- I've had a craaazy ambitious idea of doing something similar to this and visiting these places. Like, why hasn't anyone done a Pokemon themed tour guide book yet??
it’s honestly just heartwarming how much attention to detail pokemon puts into their games
It would actually be cool if one of the older regions was redone (say Johto for example) but made more in the style of Galar, where there would be more real life inspiration for new Pokemon and areas. If it were Johto, then maybe the mons could be more Japanese themed instead of being kind of random?
This is amazing, I would love to see this for the other regions as well. Great job !
I really would like to see other regions analyzed like this, especially spin off titles regions. Good video!
I really hope you do more region explanation! I particularly would like to see Alola. Great job, as per usual!
This was fantastic. I love these dives into the origins of things, it's so interesting, and really incorporates the main aspect of your channel "using fiction to educate about real things".
This was super cool! Definitely do more regions like this!!
This might be one of my favorite videos on TH-cam. It was fascinating to see the real world equivalents to the regions. PLEASE make a video for the other regions too!
This was such a thorough video!
Please do more of these, and do take your tie to make them this well!
Please do more stuff like this, it's always been cool to see the inspiration that the pokemon company took from real life locations and it's incredible getting to see these parts of the world I would've never known about before
It's so cool that Gamefreak put so much attention to detail into things that the vast majority of people overlook. Reminds me a lot of Bethesda. Putting a ton of detail into some things, and then screwing others up. (Not hating on Gamefreak or Bethesda btw)
This is proof that GAME FREAK taught me more about Hokkaido than I had any way of knowing
I just noticed that Snowpoint City’s trees are shaped like a clover, and one of Candice’s ancestors is named Clover. Coincidence, I think not!
The detailed real world connections are one of my favorite things in the series and sadly often overlooked, so I would love to see this shared around so that more people can appreciate it!
@8:37 Hold up! Isn’t the park in Hearthome?
He’s referring to Amity Square I think
I’d love to see more regional tours breaking down the real life inspirations of the land marks.
26:26 Finally, a Golden Kamuy reference in a Hisui/Sinnoh video! Yay! ^.^
I would like to see more of a series like this where you analyze the real world inspirations of pokemon region locations
Fascinating! I always hated geography in school, but Pokémon-themed edutainment makes everything fun! I'd love to see similar analyses of the other regions, if you're ever up for it. Cheers, Lockstin! :D
Amazing video as always! I would love to see you break down other regions as well! 10/10!
I was waiting for the Golden Kamuy reference, and you did not disappoint
Yes. Please do more videos about the places the regions are based on. Turn it into a whole series.
Yes definitely keep this kind of videos coming! Absolutely LOVED it!
I love these kinds of videos. Is there more videos where you dive on similarities between regions and their real life counterparts?
More region breakdowns would be amazing! I would absolutely love to see them :D Though i understand they require a lot of research, so hopefully theyre not too difficult of videos to make! With that amazing map they released for Paldea, you could probably make a really cool vid 🤩
Absolutely yes to the idea of more region breakdown videos! I absolutely enjoyed this as I had a general idea that everything was inspired by a real place, but that was quite a bit more inspiration than I expected
Fun fact: hatsune Miku was created in Sapporo (so basically jubilife)
Going forward for videos like this, I recommend you collab (or at least consult) with Gaijin Goombah, teaching people about the culture and history of Japan is what almost all of the content on his channels is all about. He has 2 channels, the original Gaijin Goombah channel, and the recently established Gaijin Perspective. Maybe you could work with him to do some breakdowns on Legends Arceus after the game launches later this week.
The Hearthome section of this video just gave me the craziest theory: Fantina's baby died!
You see, according to the video Hearthome is children friendly, has the park where only cute and babylike pokemon can enter, but it also has a beauty contest arena. All these three would make this city to be THE perfect place for a Fairy Type gym.
The Fairy type has the biggest number of baby pokemon, it also has other not baby but fairy type pokemon with baby theme like Flabebe and Ralts. The Faity egg group has other non fairty type baby pokemon such as Pichu. So is hard to disagree that Fairy equals child innocence and or motherhood.
Fantina is said to be french, Kalos is inspired in France, were the Fairy type emerged. But besides all these coincidences pointing to a Fairy Gym, we have a Ghost type one. Fantinas dress and secondary ace(?) are Drifloon related. A pokemon notorious for taking children away.
Fanstina's gym also looks like a church in the DP and hs a cemitery vibes puzzle in Pt.
All these factor conect to where people go to bury passed loved ones AND reconect with god after a major period of grief. So MAYBE, Fantina went all the way over Hearthome from Kalos to recover from the lost of a loved one. It doesn't make much sense for a happy person like her to be Ghost obsessed.
But also when you consider that Ghost means death and babies mean new life, maybe Hearthome is the place of Death and rebirth. The very theme of Scorpio astrological sign. What exactly Fantina has to do with scorpios? I don't really know yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if she was one. Maybe that would explain her passion for ghost and death. Scorpios are known for recovering from major traumas and personal ruin.
I love this type of video. Explaining how the Pokemon world can connect to the real world is something I've become more interested in since I'm now playing the games myself. (I grew up with certain people equating Pokemon with the devil). I would love to see more of these videos and maybe even one on how Hisui and Sinnoh connect.
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Edit after watching: Please do more region to reality videos. Sinnoh is my number one region but you did such a great job.
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Love love LOVE this! Always loved your lore/inspiration breakdowns for Pokémon/Types/Moves. Hoping this is a new series 👀
Another great video, that shows how much care Game Freak has for their world building.
By now that is pretty much the lifeblood of the main series
And I would love to see more from this! Keep staying awesome, Lockstin.
I hope you feel better by now
Would love to see the other regions explained like this vid!
This video helped explain something to me about Legends Arceus. See, Jubillife Village is too close to the sea. Which makes sense in the lore, Galaxy Team WOULD set up closer to wherever they landed. But there’s just not enough room for Canalclave City. Plus, Oreburgh doesn’t exist, so they couldn’t have helped with this town!
But I had failed to figured out that Jubilife City lacks something Jubilife Village has: a canal. I had never connected the name Canalclave and canals, even though I should. And that really helps this part make sense! Jubilife Village was where Canalclave is now. At some point, they decided to flatten out more land and move the city center there. And the new suburb of Jubilife, being mainly a port town now, took its name from its most prominent street, Canala street. They do remain really close together for Pokémon cities, after all.
I haven’t finished the game yet, so this may end up being off base. But it’s the kind of thing that happens sometimes, and the name moving usually gets forgotten by all except the biggest historians. (Cynthia almost certainly knows this, for example.)
The road is actually called Canala Avenue which actually makes this even better because the abbreviation of Avenue on road signs is Ave. So they literally just started calling this place Canala Ave. or Canalave City
Out of all the things I expected to see in this video, a reference to Pittsburgh was NOT one of them.
Yeah, I want to see you do more videos like this. Perhaps do Johto or Unova next.
As a man from Pittsburgh I feel very proud that the English translation team for the Sinnoh games felt the need to reference our city when naming Oreburgh, even the ending is spelled the same way.
Fun fact: Pittsburgh was named after a British military fort built where downtown is during colonial times and that fort was named after the mand who built it.
This is so cool!!! Did you ever make videos on the other regions? I would love to watch them of you did! (Sorry if I missed them!)
Are there links or a playlist? I actually have a dream of one day visiting Japan and exploring the areas that inspired the various regions, starting with Kanto. You researched this so well and did such a great job of presenting Sinnoh/Hokkaido; I'd love to see your videos on Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn (if they exist) ❤
Super interesting! Would love to see more regions explained like this!
Yes. 100% do more region videos like this one. I wanna see Hoenn next.
oh man, I've been looking forward to this since I saw you tweet about the moomoo milk location. so glad to finally see it out!
I would love to see you tackle the other regions this way.
I have an idea for a video that I think would be really fun to watch, I remember in a fan unboxing video you said that you played DnD a lot with some friends, and you never thought about doing a Pokemon themed adventure. I would love to watch a Pokemon DnD playthrough! That sounds awesome!
You HAVE to make this a series!
a couple years back i went to hokkaido on a tour trip and we kind of toured almost all part of hokkaido; it's amazing to recognise the places that i went in the video as well as the sinnoh counterpart! gen4 was my first pokemon game and it holds a special place in my heart.
also i managed to snag a bunch of pokemon villain bos merch during their boss campaign in the sapporo pokemon centre, i got pikachu cyrus from a gacha and that was prolly one of the best bday gift i got for myself
recognizing those places you mentioned makes sinnoh and hokkaido more meaningful to me, thank you for the wonderful video!!
Amazing work on the video!! I’d love to see more videos like this
I would love to see more regions done like this! Keep up the great work!
Sinnoh/Hisui is one of those regions that surprised me with both the remakes and Legends Arceus its incredible how much the latter game added to the lore of the games
Honestly the scale of the base maps kinda make a good case for the length of the anime and all the filler, I like that idea
The attention to detail when they make stuff is insane
I like this! It makes me appreciate some of the little details in Sinnoh a lot more.
I would love to see a breakdown on the Hoenn region's inspirations. Is there a space center in Kyushu as well? Which mountain(s) inspired Mt. Chimney? That would be cool to look into!
Sino's name is probably based on the sino-japanese war
I'd LOVE more regional dives like this! And I'm excited to see how Legends Arceus will translate some of these routes as well! The Battle Area/Sakhalin has been so confusing to me but that section was so neat! In-universe I kinda attributed it to Heatran having moved into Stark Mountain, and thus making everything WAY warmer than expected too! IRL there's a HUGE city just North of Stark Mountain, I wonder if we'll ever see that someday
It's really really cool just how detailed and specific everything is. Props about that. I just thought it was Fake-mon regions that were so detail oriented
What a amazing video! Your presentation is perfect and the visuals... Omg. It looked like a documentary. I love it! Of course you will do at least for Kanto, Johto and Hoenn, right? Right?
I would love this kind of video for each region!
Orre is Based on Arizona.
And while its stated to be based on Phoenix.
I think its based on my area In Graham County.
As we have a huge mountain that looms over our town called Mt. Graham which has one of the largest observatories the VAT.
And just like Mount Battle is a dormant Volcano.
To our south is just desert and nothing all the way to Mexico.
And too our North in a kind of horseshoe shape is the Mogillon Rim containing one the only known High Desert plateau Rainforests.
As for the structures untill the 2000's our towns where these outposts along the base of the mountain all connected by one road. We are much bigger now having quadrupled our population since the 2010.
One of my favorite regions, as I was born in the US. (Unova is the other, as I grew up in New York.) Too bad GameFreak retconned it out of existence. Hopefully it can be retconned back.
This is why pokemon is about Lore, not 3D graphic
As a big Golden Kamuy fan I say, this is the best part of the video 26:20
That was the best damn geography lesson I've ever had.
3:19 Which was also kiiinda retconed a bit? Jubilife Village (PLA) doesn't seem to have been "carved out" of the mountains if you ask me. But maybe they moved it idk...
i LOVE Great Teacher Lockstin!!!
It's always soo much fun listening to you explain stuff from all around the world!!
also the depth of research here reminds me soo much of Mr Buddy and his old great region videos.
Good thing you like doing your research, because this has definitely gotta be a new series, and I can't wait for galar
love this series idea, please do more regions if you wanna!
I think we can all agree that this should be a series.
The music from 8:25 - do you have the exact track? It's so calming and peaceful :)
Absolutely do more regions like this! I love the diversity of all the different regions
I kinda got the feeling the Chateau was a reference to Resident Evil as well with its front inside layout being similar.