>>58223112
>Kanto honestly needs yet ANOTHER revisit because it gets fucking cucked everytime they go back to it.
You know who to blame for that, because you know who was in charge of both FRLG and LGPE

>FRLG exist literally to sell/test the wireless adapter and allow you to get Kanto pokemon. The games seem to be an apparent rush-job--announced in sep 2003 and releasing jan 2004. Yet, for seemingly being rushed they chose to entirely redo the artstyle and perspective of the game that was developed for the prior entry and they added in a whole other region in the form of these islands, and based on map data, they wanted to add several more??? It's kind of bizarre.
No surprise given how RS clearly wasn't able to get everything they needed to on-time and they were already planning DP at the same time, being built more directly off of FRLG than RS, them coming up with ideas for events like Altering Cave only to NEVER release the event meaning if Emerald/XD didn't come out there'd be like 7 Pokemon just completely inaccessible in Gen III. Everything about FRLG was made to effectively stabilize the series because RS was barely the game it needed to be and it would've been much more cost effective to make a remake of a game where most of the work was already done and have a safe reminder of the original games like when they released Yellow to make up for GS getting delayed

Even GS were rush jobs. Every goddamn mainline Pokemon game up until PLA were. I don't think a single one got truly delayed. Masuda was just THAT adamant these games would be out at an impossible pace