When I heard there was a roguelike Pokémon fan-made game using my favorite game (Emerald) as a host, I had to give it try. It's a little raw, but also surprisingly in-depth and a true testament to the Pokémon fan-made and ROM hacking community. It's different than every other Pokémon game I've experienced.
Pokabbie (the creator) eliminated a lot of the annoying, grindy elements of the core Pokémon games that I despise and instead focused to make battling way more interesting (and challenging) than just hitting your opponent with your strongest attack over and over, which is all "real" Pokémon gameplay was to me, while also adding some neat classic roguelike elements to it like permadeath and procedural generation.
It felt like all of my problems with Pokémon were shared with Pokabbie and she fixed most of it. You can tell she is a true Pokémon and Roguelike fan. As far as pure mechanics go, this is now my favorite Pokémon game. I got way too addicted to this.
75/100
Pokabbie (the creator) eliminated a lot of the annoying, grindy elements of the core Pokémon games that I despise and instead focused to make battling way more interesting (and challenging) than just hitting your opponent with your strongest attack over and over, which is all "real" Pokémon gameplay was to me, while also adding some neat classic roguelike elements to it like permadeath and procedural generation.
It felt like all of my problems with Pokémon were shared with Pokabbie and she fixed most of it. You can tell she is a true Pokémon and Roguelike fan. As far as pure mechanics go, this is now my favorite Pokémon game. I got way too addicted to this.
75/100