they're played on but even though he liked the concept he didn't think pokemon should be an rpg here's what he said in that thomas hour book at the stage where we just had the basic idea for pokemon i didn't care what genre it would be it was tajiri who thought it wouldn't be complete if it wasn't an rpg i was concerned that if we made an rpg we wouldn't know when we'd finish and i thought we should just focus more on the essence of the game but as the producer it wasn't my call so pokemon ended up in the form it is now and i'm honestly not sure if that was the right decision now more than NUMBER_TOKEN years later i guess fans have to ask themselves would pokemon be a better series if it wasn't an rpg what if it was still about collecting and trading pokemon but the gameplay was an entirely different genre let us know in the comments if you think tajiri was right to hold his ground or if he should have listened to his idol shigeru miyamoto and now we're going to jump back into cut content from generation NUMBER_TOKEN. so let's talk about one of johto's lesser-known scrapped areas the lost suicide forest that entire japan based region was scrapped but later in development there were also parts of johto that got cut but can still be found in the game's internal data most of them are just early designs for johto cities possibly the most interesting is the lake of rage which originally had an entire town built around it there's also a tiny safari zone once meant for fuchsia city but the map we really want to highlight is this forest which the data refers to as fuji this fuji forest was originally located at the foot of mount silva which is based on the real life mount fuji in japan in fact in early builds of gold and silver mount silva was literally called mount fuji in the real world there's a forest at the foot of mount fuji called the sea of trees also known as the suicide forest it's got a historical reputation as a home to ghosts and it's one of the most used suicide sites globally at over NUMBER_TOKEN deaths per year the government even puts up signs in the forest that encourage suicidal visitors to think of their families and reach out to a suicide prevention association by the way all this information was sent to us by pier carrot a generation NUMBER_TOKEN disassembler and one of the members of team spaceworld so full credit goes to him in generation two's final build there's only one new ghost type misdreavus who can only be found at mount silva it's likely the forest was planned as a home not just for mystery this but other ghost pokemon as well like these two that got cut during development but in an effort to avoid the risk of controversy game freak ended up cutting the location and replacing it with this map which bears no resemblance to the suicide forest despite its removal though the forest can still be found hidden in the game's internal data did you also know that mew only exists because of a secret that was rumored to be in an old arcade game click the video on screen if you want to hear the full story or
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