I wasn't keen on the fakemon, but I liked Phancero. Shiny Balls were a really cool concept, especially for a Gen 2 romhack where you won't be able to transfer your pokemon to future Pokemon games legitimately, so you have a way to get some guaranteed shinies you want to use here instead of wasting your time through traditional shiny hunting or just cheating. Mining and Smelting were neat ways to obtain certain items and help money grind (just the Iron Pickaxe should have been available much sooner, and smelting ores shouldn't result in nothing so often, even when my Smelting level got very high I still frequently failed to smelt ores). The Provincial Park game was an interesting idea (should have had more varied encounter though, the allure of the higher shiny chance means a lot less when there's only a handful of pokemon you can encounter here). Pachisi was a fun minigame and place to grind some EXP (and possibly good items and money with a bit of save scumming), the second Pachisi board though should have had higher levelled pokemon and harder encounters, instead of just reusing the first one's encounters.īattle Arcade was a neat concept and more interesting than the Battle Tower (though I would have preferred to be able to use an entire team instead of just three pokemon). The addition of Poker, Blackjack, and the memory match item game made the Game Corner actually worth playing, instead of just buying (or save scumming) a ton of coins to get the TMs and prize pokemon you want and then never stepping foot in there again. The Bingo cards were a fun way to essentially add "achievements" to the game and give the player real ingame rewards for them (though there's a glaring issue with them that I'll get into later).īeing able to "sell" pokemon via the Orphanage was something I never thought of as something I wanted to see in a Pokemon game, just a shame your "Orphan points" can only be used to get three pokemon and then it's pointless after that (expanding what you can "buy" with them would be ideal).
#Pokemon prism cancelled series
The bonus "Mystery League" to climax the game against a series of super bosses was a great concept (though not executed well, as I'll get to later). Rijon didn't feel anywhere near as empty as Kanto did in the original Gen 2 games. The expanded TM selection was great, a huge step up from Gen 2's mostly lackluster TM list, though there were a couple glaring omissions (why not a single Fairy type TM, or a Fighting TM besides Dynamic Punch? There were certainly still more than enough crappy TMs like Frustration and Defense Curl that could have been replaced.)Įxpanded movepools were great, and it was nice to see normally Egg-only moves (like Dragon Dance on Tyranitar) and event-only moves (like Growth on Eevee) be implemented into pokemon's natural learnsets.Ĭaves/dungeons were expansive with plenty to explore, unlike in the original Gen 2 games where they were mostly so small.
The sprites of the post-Gen 2 pokemon added were very nice and their animation quality certainly lived up to Crystal's standards (always thought Crystal had the best pokemon sprites, so I really liked seeing my post-Gen 2 favorites done well in the Crystal style). The Pokemon availability was nicely varied in their typing and abilities, with mostly good selections on who made the cut (though there were a few questionable choices, like of all the excessive Gen 1/2 Water types, why keep the Seaking line instead of something actually good and interesting like Kingdra, Starmie, Cloyster, or Quagsire?)
Starting Larvitar is fucking cool (Tyranitar is my favorite, so I'm a bit biased on that) Some specific things of things of note I liked:
I didn't even think it was possible to include all that content in a Gen 2 romhack, and the implementation of most modern Pokemon innovations like the Physical/Special split was really nice (yey I can actually use Sneasel competently in Gen 2, and I actually have more engaging item choices than just mindlessly slapping Leftovers on everything).
This was certainly an excellent romhack that well exceeded expectations, and it could very well be the best traditional single-player Pokemon experience (at least better than all the actual games besides possibly HGSS).
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