Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Map Comparisons

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Is the new Shin’ou region the biggest? See anything else interesting?

Shin’ou


Hoenn


Johto


Kanto

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It looks like Johto was the smallest and kanto and Hoenn were the same size. I cannot believe the size of the new land.

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Yep, I hope it’s as big as it looks to be.

There is also the entire underground world. That’s alot.

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Sweet.

But it’s gotten too asian style for me.

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The map looks Asian but the game doesn’t look that Asian.

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I’ll look into it.

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According to Wikipedia.org, the areas in the pokemon games are taken from a different portion of the Japanese National map. In this case Sinnoh is based on Hokkaido, the Province furthest north in the Japanese Island Chain. You’re looking at an Island in itself.

Watch also for pokemon more strongly based on mythology than in past generations. We’ve had a few in Hoen like Shiftry (Karasu-Tengu/Dai-Tengu), Blaziken (Basan, a fire spirit kinda like a rooster,) also Ninetails and Drowsy from the originals. Celebi in Johto is based on a Forest God, and Suicune on a wolflike god of Rain.

But this time far more of them due to Hokkaido being home to one of Japan’s few remaining Native tribes, the Ainu. We have a few mythological pokemon that we get from them and mainstream Japanese mythology.

List...
~Infernape- Enma, Japanese Judge of the dead, used monkeys as one of his symbols. Notice also that Infernape looks kinda like Sarutobi’s summons in Naruto

~Pachirisu- Not sure about this one, but there’s a story in Ainu myth about the gods turning their Sandles into squirrels, so it might be.

~Chingling- Tsukumogami, artifacts left behind that are given a soul if they have been taken care of or preserved for more than 100 years. their temprament at that time usually depands on how well they’ve been maintained by the family they belong to, hence the pokedex entry of Chingling’s cries being shrill if disturbed.

~Spiritomb- Pokedex says it was formed from 108 spirits. Buddhist monks typically recite a mantra 108 times. Also, the Japanese believe that sometimes ghosts will take the form of orbs of light on dark nights, though the intents of these vary. And anybody who’s seen Sci fi channel’s, the Ghost Hunters, knows that sometimes orbs of light are reported at hauntings.

~Munchlax- I /suspect/ that Munchlax/Snorelax are based on a forest spirit myth. But I haven’t found anything supporting that.

~Froslass- Yuki-onna. There was a Yuki-onna pokemon before, remember Jynx? But everybody thought she was an epithet. She’s not. Yuki-onna lead travelers astray in the snow until they either froze to death, fell to their death, or she /ate/ them.

~Uxie Mesprit Azelf- I have a /ton/ of theories about these three, based on pokedex entries /alone./ Though not Japanese ones. Remember that Freud had an Id and Ego and a Super Ego. There’s also the myth in China that the Heavens, Earth and Waters came from the same cosmic egg. Further, if you look at the three, they are red, yellow, and blue. Red like fire, yellow like lightning, blue like the night sky. Amataratsu, Susonoo and Tsukiyomi.

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Omg it would be awesome if they had an island that looked like the phillipines

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lol it’s very very old fashioned except the new pokemon the layout is just like in old pokemon games like the “tall grass"

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I dont know what to think about the maps. i like the town set up but i hate all the caves and mountains. so yea, thats just me.

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You need to have an account to be able to post pictures and such.

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oh thanks, didnt know

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There ya go.

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thanks man

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is this game realy good cause i might get it and how did you get all the three starters