(This review is for the rom hack, Pokémon Eternal X)
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
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