Kanto really went weird

Okay, so big issue I realised with pokemon generation two. Love the games, mind you, but i'm looking up the changes in the region between games, which is just three years, and there's a lot. Understandably, cause they're fitting two regions into one game, which is a luxury to player nostalgia in itself, but you can't fit it all into a GBC cartridge.

The first generation was good, and had a lot of places for the intrepid explorer to explore, as most explorers do. There was a cruise ship, a graveyard tower, a burned down lab, a cave with powerful creatures every turn, a forest, a museum, a safari park, a zoo, eight gyms, a mountain with fossils in, a whole bunch of secret mafia hideouts, a cycling road and a cave with digletts.

That's a lot of stuff.

For generation two, they made sure to not waste a ruddy thing. Everything in Jhoto had a point, and there wasn't much of a point to Kanto beyond the gym rebattles, the small team rocket story and the lead up to battle Red.

So they trimmed the fat. They worked out loads of reasons why they cut out most of kanto, keeping it as minimal as they could.

The S.S.Anne made sense to be gone, since it's a once off cruise ship. They have another more frequent ferry, so all's well that ends well.

Then there's silph co, which has tightened security and has a broken lift, so nobody can get in, no matter what. Seriously, you can have a pass from the queen, you're not getting into the upper level of Silph. This might lower the tourism, but oh well.

Moving south, we have another tourism hit. The whole zoo and safari zone has just got up and gone. Yup. For some reason, the warden went on a trip, and took EVERY ANIMAL HE HAD UNDER HIS CARE WITH HIM. Not just leave it with his helper, no! Lets just evacuate the place.

They rectified it in generation four, putting in the pal park and moving the safari zone to the west of jhoto. Where nobody can get to it. And the zoo isn't even set up. Face it, the warden messed up a bit.

Then even further south, the island town of Cinnibar has exploded. Yeah, the only thing is a presumably new pokemon centre and the main guy who now lives in a tiny cave on an island to use as a gym for challengers. He lives in a cave. And i don't recall any other people in all of Kanto or Jhoto referring to escaping Cinnibar. As they likely would. Only one guy got away.

Generation four made this less horrific to think of and had a whole bunch of gym trainers escape too, but still, ouch.

The viridian forest was lessened to a small maze. It was cut down. For convenience sake. Shame, really. Shows how little the world cares.

The museum, a place of enlightenment the world needs, is under maintenance. Yep, they shut that too. Tourism can't really handle it right now, huh?

Mount moon has crumbled under rock slides. I reckon it's because of humans disturbing the place trying to find fossils for show, but they say they stopped mining ages ago and couldn't be the cause. Some pokemon escaped and continue their natural ways, but people just use this to make money.

Speaking of just making money pokemon tower. A pokemon resting place, yeah, basically a graveyard, now serves the purpose of making radio shows. You just know the DJ is haunted by undetectable Ghastleys and one peeved Marrowak. Imagine how that happened:
"Hey, wanna honour the dead?"
"No, I wanna hear the Archers. Just put them in that old guy's small house. He won't mind!"

The power plant is up and running, which is great. It does lead to crime and vandalism like that in the tunnels under Saffron, however, due to people from other countries trying to serve dead organisations. Only a slight draw-back, but it does make a difference when the whole of the region becomes reliant on the power plant for ALL their power.

There's a cave to the north of cerulean which is dangerous. Very powerful pokemon dwell there. This is bad for most, but good for the local common job of pokemon training, since they can catch and battle some really tough enemies. But, sadly the place got blocked off before generation two.

There's also some minor changes in leadership of local gyms, but nothing bad.

Seriously, tell me Kanto has had a good three years. Tell me.