Pokémon XY and the Kalos region were a new standard when it came to Pokémon Region design. Never before had real life countries, France in this case, been such a direct inspiration on the creation of the respective Pokémon region. From Lumiose City been a very clear Paris reference to the obscure inspirations that lay behind a town like Geosenge, I wanted to take a closer look at Kalos and deduce how France turned into the Pokémon region that is Kalos.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Introduction
00:48 – Central Kalos
07:00 – Coastal Kalos
10:12 – Mountain Kalos
Footage may be courtesy of:
Longplay Archive
World of Longplays
FCPlaythroughs
Hawlo
Nintendo Utopia
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15 Comments
France made a good region base for Pokémon
I know it's cliche to say this, but kalos had SO much potential. I just wish Z arrived to polish things up and maybe expand on southern kalos for postgame or something. I know we're getting Z-A but that's a legends game and will probably only be set in lumiose due to that tweet
Great vid 🙂 learned a bunch!
Well made video, better thant the other ones I saw before about the same comparison. And I live in Paris, I know those places very well
You can really tell that the devs did a lot of research on France when they set out to base an entire game world on the country
Kalos > Unova
Such a good idea to explore region origins! Thanks youtube recommends. I'll look if there are more vids like this. If not, i'm subbing just to get more of these
Kalos really felt like France 😌
The same can't be said for other regions and their respective inspirations, defeating the purpose of it.
Great video, i can't wait to see how Kalos looks like in Legends ZA. I would love to see videos about other regions.
I liked the video. It makes me wonder if other regions have such clear connections to our world.
As a french sub, i can said that : c'est une super vidéo, ta façon de parler français était vraiment bonne, bravo 😀
I’d love to see you tackle all the other regions !!
This is a cool idea, as someone from Hawai'i, I'd love to see an Alolan comparison, since Alola is really faithful to Hawai'i
Great video, Kalos is definitely one of the most beautiful Pokemon regions
As a huge sun and moon fan I’m begging for you to do Alola at some point. Tbh I really like knowing how the in game locations relate to their real world explanations, it’s so interesting.