In some video games, story exists solely to justify the action. Despite what the snobbier gamers might have you believe, there's not actually anything wrong with that.

Are you ever happy, Moe?

Seriously, now.

Now try to be positive here, how do we know it's that stupid eh?

The ice is likely just a figurative thing to keep those parts of Unova a secret for now.
It's not literal.

>>24948
Exactly.
Do you think they'd really just slap a glacier texture on a top-down map and call it a game? The perspective doesn't even match.

Whatever this one has, there's no way it can be more grating and annoying that Black and White 1 where.