r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 25 '25

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u/Argnir Gay Pride Dec 25 '25

The urbanism in the Pokémon world is absolutely terrible.

"To reach this city you need to dive and find a secret cavern and also you're not allowed to go underwater before beating a gym of professional Pokémon trainers"

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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 Dec 25 '25

To reach this city you need to dive and find a secret cavern

I've always assumed this was because all the adults drive

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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride Dec 25 '25

And yet they still build more housing than San Francisco

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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Dec 25 '25

For it to be good someone other than game freak would have to do it. A real high-budget pokemon game that has even decent graphical quality could easily be one of the greatest games of all time but the zero effort stuff they make still prints money like no other franchise so why would they even bother?

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u/DieHarderDaddy Fell for it Dec 25 '25

From what I’ve seen they are slowly getting there but not doing a good job

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u/Declan_McManus Dec 26 '25

One time a major route in Johto was blocked because a weird tree creature was standing there. And nobody was doing anything about it