POKEMON GEN 6 ANNOUNCED

[TomGuycott]

Planning is one thing, the resources and money to do something while setting out to finish what you ORIGINALLY planned is another. Also I have no idea what you're saying about the Kanto gym levels, even in the original game they were at least 40.

This is actually just showing that the inclusion of the original region in the second game might have been trying to reach a little too far. What ended up happening was the gym's levels were all around the 40 something range instead of increasing intensity significantly. The layouts were lazy, as I recall the Cinnibar Gym was a simple empty room with someone saying "Sorry, we haven't rebuilt the gym yet!". All those issues have already been resolved in Heartgold and Soulsilver because they expanded the gyms and rebalanced the leader levels.

Another thing to consider is that they are making the game in 3D graphics now, so there are no previous assets to use. If they did a previous region, they're doing it ENTIRELY from the ground up. I'd rather have a complete, new region rather than a bare-bones rehash. You're asking too much, and if they somehow DID include the region switching and made it work at the same time I'd be legitimately surprised.