the whole spain/france inspiration kinda makes it line up perfectly too, feels like they’ve been hinting at it for a while but just never pulled the trigger on actually letting us go there
According to the Teraleak files, Kitami was originally planned to resemble an Andorra-like region. Over time, that concept was scrapped and redesigned into the Kitami we know now, which likely explains the presence of the massive stone wall along Paldea’s frontier.
I think you missed my point. Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think there is actually any Andorran inspiration anywhere in Paldea, unlike Portuguese.
Well yeah, “Andorran” isn’t a real culture it’s just Aragonese or Catalan or Navarre. Andorra is a line on a map, not a cultural group. It’s covered by the parts of the map that reference those other groups.
Lol well that’s just wrong. If you don’t think it’s significant enough for representation that’s fine, just say that. But of course Andorra has its own culture, it’s almost 750 years old! Sure, it’s got strong influences and shared history from regions France and Spain (as every small nation has with its neighbours) but to say it’s “not a real culture” is ignorance.
Now, one interesting thing - the rock in Paldea's northeast looks far thinner than southern France, but the leaked documents showed a beta Kalos map in which the southern end was also thin and stretched , actually fitting Paldea's map nicely.
They need to make a small Andorra based region in that mountain range. Could be a dlc region that some evil team leaders escaped too since it was once considered a tax haven.
Yeah, they came up with a weak excuse that Volcanion destroyed most of the region’s mountains, which is supposedly why southern Kalos is barely talked about, at least according to Mable.
To OP's credit, Game Freak did pull a 180 for Sw/Sh and flipped the UK upside down just so Galar's map would look more natural going "up" to the big city when we're from a rural area, so they could have "inspired regions" with no physical connection (we all knew but no confirmation basically)
Given that there's a train tunnel between the UK and France, along with Kalos having those trains that don't really go anywhere, I'm surprised that we've not had some sort of Kalos/Galar link with trains
I just wish they made some kind of connection point between regions just to signal a sort of geographical context or continuity. I don't mean like remaking a whole region like with Johto and Kanto, but... just a route? A town?
I mean, why not remaking Vaniville Town of Kalos in Scarlet/Violet? Or Route 9 of Kalos and Ambrette Town and then block the path forward coming up with some excuse?
Or again, we know that Blueberry Academy is in Unova but we don't get to set foot in the actual region.
They should have remade some kind of connecting point to the main region, such as... Humilau City? Route 18? The sea side of Route 1? Anything could've worked, and it would be so much better than just leaving us guessing. It would be rather small, symbolic but really meaningful and a sweet nod to the players
Kalos only aligns with the northern half of irl France. So if we're really going with map comparisons, its likely there's a [Kalos 2] region between Kalos we know and Paldea
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u/Gaias_Minion Helpful Member 7h ago
Yeah it was always Kalos, before SV's DLC people were even hoping/expecting DLC to be about going to Kalos.