Not too much to say about it beyond I had a lot of fun playing it and way quite sad it ended as quickly as it did. Pokemon Apathy: A short game with very limited mon selection and grinding opportunities but it had a fun story and some very nice use of visuals and music. Also some pokemon sprites are very tiny for no real reason which is technically a bad thing but I found having a Seaking smaller than a Togepi rather charming so. Mon selection, especially early on can be a bit brutal though - the vast, VAST majority of catchable mon before you can escape leave the early area are bug, grass and fairy types (maybe some birds as well?) and thus it may take you a while to develop a balanced team. Not the hardest fangame considering I was able to get through the current available demo with Pokemon like Aridos, Seaking and Pachirisu in my party but there was one 'optional nigh impossible to defeat' overleveled boss fight and other bosses in the game can hit quite hard at times so if you are looking for a more standard pokemon adventure with some nice writing and interesting plot moments this one is pretty fun. Interesting starter selection of Togepi, Beldum and Larvestia. Pokemon Alabaster: An interesting fangame with a neat plot, nice selection of music and the. Lag can also be an issue at times but it didn't seem too frequent. Second the levels of certain trainers (namely the rivals and gym leaders) seem matched to the player's and can be higher than the level cap the player is restricted to which can be extremely annoying at times. It's a fun one though it does have some flaws: Some computers won't start up the game properly and so far the only solution is pressing CTRL F12 whenever you are opening the game up to fix it (solution does work by the way as my current computer is one of these). Pokemon Floral Tempus: Only recently began playing this one (currently at the Water gym) but so far it's been a lot of fun - Mon selection has been quite nice, plot is dark-ish at times but has a very pokemon feel to it (though surprise completely optional early game cannibal was a bit jarring), side quests vary from comfortably easy to 'OH GOD WHY' depending on when you do them, visuals are very nice and. Very much recommended, though do be warned: Those puzzles can be mindboggling and the plot can have long, unskippable sections of talking and exploring. It's a difficult game especially early on but not really in the standard 'Reborn-esc difficulty curve via powerful trainers' kind of way and I find that actually makes it more fun~ Apex does it's own thing almost all of the time and that's really what helps it stand out - Looking for hidden secrets in the walls, exploring enormous routes, desperately avoiding trainers to avoid missing out on easy exp or getting KOed before reaching the next checkpoint, struggling to solve the puzzles before running out of one's limited heals and trying to figure out which pokemon is worth using your very limited pokeballs on. Character names are frequently things like Dante -after Dante's Inferno perhapes?- and Yorik so yeah, lots of odd references sprinkled all over the place), and a story which despite being unfinished still has me quite invested.Īesthetically the game uses very different visuals and music than most Pokemon fangames and this is probably it's biggest strength: Sheer uniqueness. Pokemon Apex: A very different and tricky Pokemon fangame with frequently torturous puzzles, strict long-lasting level caps, some type chart changes (like ghost being SE against normal types), a setting that's very much Alternate Universe to how the Pokemon World is generally portrayed (for example the Pokemon World is called Gehenna, after a biblical valley where children were sacrificed via fire and may or may not have been considered hell. Lovely aesthetics, slow building mystery and fun - Sadly I haven't quite gotten to the end due to my old computer suffering a disasterous accident right before I could finish it but it was fun and if you liked Pokemon Present I'd absolutely recommend giving it a shot. Pumpkin Redux: An older and shorter game by the wonderful souls that made Pokemon Present (which is currently being revamped into Pokemon Ashen Forest) comes a fun little halloween themed game that like Pokemon Present is a little harder than regular Pokemon games but far from being a Reborn-difficult game. Time for some more blah about Fangames worth talking about~ Had a bit of time, played some more fan games so.