10 Best RPGs In A Modern Setting

10. Pokémon Black & White

It's easy to forget that if you remove the Pokémon from Pokémon you'll be left with something very similar to our own world. Every region is meant to be somewhat of an alternate version to a real-world location.

For example, Galar is meant to be Britain minus Wales for some reason, I guess the Welsh people did something to offend Game Freak, Kalos is meant to be France, and Kanto is meant to be... well Kanto.

The original vision of the series was to create a JRPG set somewhere closer to home just with catchable monsters and that's most obvious in the Unova region from Pokémon Black, White, Black 2, and White 2.

Meant to resemble New York, Unova is filled to the brim with metropolitan areas, monuments to modern human ingenuity, and even Pokémon that have been shaped by the modern world.

You thought Klinklang, Vanillite, and Trubbish were just bad designs, nope they're commentary on how our society bleeds into nature, corrupting it with our influences. That or they might just be bad designs. Who can say?