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>Only other generation with two starting area birds
>Only other gen with two starting area bug shitters
>Decoys retreading the DNA theme of Mewtwo
>repurposed a lot of scrapped designs from gen 1 and 2 (the Eel became Huntail and Gorebyss, the haunted doll became Banette, the anchor shark became Sharpedo, etc)
>most of the region follows the same formula as Kanto down to it's format on land on a different path
Gen 3 was meant to be a reboot, but they backed down on it, probably felt they didn't have enough water variety to carry it with just Hoenn mons.