I wish my morning commute was like getting the train in Pokémon Sword and Shield

Pokémon Sword and Shield isn't at Gamescom, so Shigeru Ohmori, director of the game at Game Freak, has gifted us a charming little trailer to show off one of the many towns we'll get to visit on our Pokémon journey through the Galar region.

Galar is based on the UK, although I'm starting to get the sense it's based on the UK of about 50 years ago, because the town in the trailer seems far too quaint to look like anything you'd see in Britain nowadays.

For starters, where did the game's designers research to think this is what a typical English railway station looks like? Where are the queues? The overflowing bins? There's not even a delayed train or cancellation in sight.

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