A mod for Pokémon X
Eternal X & Wilting Y are difficulty/catch 'em all hacks; all Pokémon are obtainable in all versions of the games, trade evolutions are optional and they are more difficult than the base games. Both EX and WY come in four versions: the Legal Version makes useful Hidden Abilities easily available, and adds many egg and tutor moves to almost every Pokémon's level up moves, all of which are legal in the official games. The Rebalanced Version includes all of these changes, as well as many base stat, type and movepool changes intended to make weaker Pokémon more fun to use. The third version available is Insanity Mode; this is essentially the Rebalanced Version with more challenging Trainer battles. Finally, the Online Version of the hack sacrifices a few features to make every Pokemon you catch legal, and can be used to play online.
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Even if, as somebody who as now played other games, it's pretty easy to see all of the ways that Pokémon definitely could be better, I'll always have love in my heart for franchise, all the way back to the first game in the series that I played, Pokémon X. And while kid me enjoyed that game plenty with low level opponents and a slow 3DS, playing through Eternal X, a game that makes XY into an actual challenge and adds in every missing Pokémon, and playing it through an Emulator, which allows it to be played at a speed that isn't absolutely ridiculously slow compared to every other modern RPG, and I can finally have a good turn-based experience, along side the nostalgia filled coziness of Kalos. Not sure that this rating would hold if I didn't have such nostalgia for this game, but there was no way to give an experience I loved this much any other score.
10/10
Game #14 of 2024, March 1st