You get a choice of like 18 different playable trainer skins and 80+ different starters
Then you learn that you can have all 6 of your party pokemon following you around on the overworld
Then you got the fact that you encounter pokemon via pokemon walking around in the grass, including visibly distinct shinies.
Oh and it has the full 1000+whatever pokedex so every different route has 20 pokemon walking around so as someone trying a Nuzlocke I’m just standing there struggling to decide which one to take
Oh and also since it’s a romhack so I’m playing it on my 3DS
GBA era romhackers are something else
pokemon walking in grass
the year is 2023 and pokemon games have finally figured out what digimon games figured out more than a decade ago.
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GBA Romhackers are amazing. They’ve done some great stuff too with the Fire Emblem series as well. The Gaiden GBA remake is also a lot of fun if you’re into GBA era Fire Emblem.
Update: I got swept at the first gym
damn, Roxanne got hands lol
Oh and it has both toggleable teamwide EXP share AND multiple difficulty settings
And it has a lot of rebalancing so even the most lowly of gimickmons can be somewhat viable. I picked Chikorita as my starter so I’ll see how far that goes lol
Some of the fan made games are fucking brutal, I can’t remember which one it was but I got stuck on the 3rd gym leader because they would throw a bunch of environmental status effects down and then swap in a mega evolution Beedrill.
Yeah I’m not built for the Kaizo and Radical Red hacks lol
Hacks where the give gym leaders more than two pokemon and give trainers higher level pokemon is good enough for me
Yeah it was one of the ones with a difficulty setting and I thought to myself “I’m an adult, how hard can Pokémon AI be?” The real kicker was each badge having a level cap.
Unbound has mega absol at gym 2. it’s hellish.
GBA era romhackers are something else
The entire game has been manually decompiled, so you can add just about anything that the GBA can run
as someone trying a Nuzlocke I’m just standing there struggling to decide which one to take
Don’t you have to take the first one you see on a route in a Nuzlocke?
Well yes but the rules usually say you have to take the first pokemon you “encounter” on the route so technically I’m also following the rules
Hi I’ve never successfully emulated a game or done a romhack and I’ve tried like 30 times could someone as dumb as me play this?
I’ve been playing PokeMMO which is also very well done. I’ll check this out
Has to come track this post down to say I’m loving this game and thanks for making the post about it
I’m glad! Romhacks as a whole are so cool, more people should know about them
I definitely gotta agree that Pokemon switching to 3d may have been a mistake, especially considering how pretty B&W was.
Pokemon switching to 3D would have been fine if GameFreak weren’t terrible developers.
That’s the thing, you look at how Mario or zelda went from 2d to 3d in the N64 and you can see how they completely redesigned it to make an amazing game that pushed the platform.
And while not as big of a change you can see how they grew to make the new Mario or botw.
While gamefreak/Pokemon is like “what if you can swivel the camera around a little bit” or “okay maybe in one area you can see the Pokemon walking around”. And it still lags like crazy.
It wasn’t Stadium, but one of the later (GC era?) 3D games looked fucking fantastic, great animations and VFX that put the actual 3D games to shame
Coliseum?
maybe, there were a few in that era but I know jack shit about any particular one of them
Was it on the Wii? You might be thinking of Battle Revolution. It’s great for battles but the issue is that it’s incredibly slow and would probably be a drag if it were a full-fledged game that did more than just one-on-one battles geared towards multiplayer.
when I think about this kind of thing, it’s very specifically this gif. so whatever this is from
and I’m really just talking about animation quality here, pokemon games haven’t had a good quick pace to them since B/W
Yeah that’s Battle Revolution. I still own that game and it used to be used for local Pokemon tournaments during the Diamond/Pearl era. Made them a lot of fun to watch.
