The New Kanto:

Arceus said collect my plates My favorite hacks are truly unhinged off rails unbalanced passion projects Why did I catch a Zarude before badge one. Better yet why does the game give you timer balls to do so I have a fuecocco and a kanto starter. Apparently im also time traveling in kanto to defeat Giratina Thr game gives you a random 10 pokemon so you can get hm flash and they’re the Kanto starters you missed. you can purchase pokemon above the level cap There’s daily lootboxes in the game This is genuinely ludicrous and I love it The other player is a traveling buddy and he heals you and lets you nickname Pokémon and I’m going “wait this feature rules actually?” I got ambushed after leaving mt moon before I could heal Lame I don’t know the plot but I love when a person turns a game into their fanfic because I’m a time traveler now and Brendan is evil but the NPC dialogue otherwise is unchanged Why did I just get ambushed by a level 55 pokemon Oh no, cerulean city is just buggy as hell. They’re starting to do that thing ehrrr they turn into unfair hacks again, gym leader two has a mega ring… joy. To be fair, I can dynamax now, too many gimmicks. The narrative goes “everything is twisted and hellish in the world” meanwhile I’m playing FireRed What do you mean missingno in a human form and disguises. The mimic mirage missingno theorem stays true.

Recharged Pink Normal Mode (Level Cap) Blind
This is probably not the best way to experience the recharged series but clefairy’s pretty cute. I mostly did this all while doing that family visit thing. Kinda crazy that Pokémon hacking has evolved to the point that you can recreate Firered in emerald Okay so what did I get from the hacked computer All I did was grab an early exp share Kanto leveling for FRLG is mostly just the vs seeker and I’m already doing monowater so I decided to give myself a break. It seems like there might be LGPE additions or maybe the author just wanted to do his own thing, idk. 1 Pokémon per route pseudo nuzlocke If I faint the catch I can’t catch But I also don’t “kill” my Pokémon This became quite difficult when pewter gym was like that and I didn’t have double kick but thankfully I leveled right after Funny that none of the types have been adjusted for pink Okay team rockets in this is definitely also an LGPE addition Why chansey in mt moon When you think about it, the first adults outside of pallet town and the like authority in pewter city is team rocket Most battles before then were kids too.
Why doesn’t meowth say anything Rival… why did you have a shiny Oddish… Every aesthetic change I don’t recognize is probably an LGPE thing, minus contests, because that’s Pokémon emerald.
Somehow along the way it turned into me just playing a little cup run Eviolites rock. Too bad they’re not here. Unfortunately the one route dream died because getting an everstone requires more mons. I like how there’s always little narrative dialogue bits where it’s like red sees a phone and goes “better not touch that.” What a polite young man.

Recharged pink was supposed to be no evolution only but then I got bored during Koga so I just played it regularly after. Whereas Recharged removes a feature of kanto I enjoyed in terms of removing it’s non linear structure to add in arbritrary story beats featuring the anime rendidition of team rocket which were likely let’s go additions since the whole recharged duo are based on those games. Doing a NFE run would’ve gone better if the PC thing gave multiple everstones, pressing the B button always as a constant wasn’t my idea of fun.

Monotype Water Reboot Cont.

The greatest weapon for the monotype run The surf HM. STAB bonus by every water type Plus with the roster I can get in safari zone… Playing later games has spoiled me in terms of being able to take a baby mon and have them backseat get exp but now I gotta put them in front and swap back and forth

Least favorite part currently is hunting down trainers to fight I took cycling road because I didn’t want to deal with the silent bridge battles because it’s like a marathon My aim is to train up to get to fuschia gym so I can get to seafoam islands to get an ice type to handle the grass gym I still only have 2 badges by the way

But with the reaching of fuschia I reach a new personal problem, ironically echoing my 2022 run of LeafGreen aka

How do I properly train in kanto? Since it’s a monotype run, i shouldn’t really catch more Pokémon in order to get the exp share. Plus that’s only half the exp. The VS Seeker only goes so far in terms of like, actually useful trainers to train on

In a linear run, this isn’t as much of a problem. In a run like this one which was slapdash, it’s more or less like, do I really need to start fighting all the wild level Pokémon at lower levels by biking around kanto since I don’t have fly unlocked since I skipped surge?

Basically, yeah.

Raticate Lives (to continue)
Trying out monotype normal early game with just normal types and fighting brock sucks since i boxed bulbasaur having an early third mon like clefairy could help but i have to wait til mount moon i wanted to try making this legitimate so i didn't use rare candies for level capping but tbh grinding with nothing but tackle tackle tackle is stupid and pokemon being bug and doing nothing but spam string shot and rat keeps missing. jeez.

Outlaw Pokemon outlaw is a deranged game that is basically the humor of a college humor video of "what if pokemon uhhh drugs XD" and the punishment of a Kaizo hack. You aren’t expected to take any of this stuff seriously. You could make a drinking game out of the amount of NPCs that revolve around talking about drugs and raunchy humor and politics and stuff. You are a homeless child trying to survive this crazy world of poverty and crime only for the end of it to become the same thing you sought to destroy: an asshole. (Based on how Pokémon Korosu plays out with the outlaw cult.)

It’s not that well balanced from a gameplay standpoint but it did come from that time frame before people started making hacks to have hacks be played for like, competitive purposes plus I picked Sandshrew which is the hard mode of the game. Why the heck was there a level 11 taurous tanking my hits in the nightclub. Leaf is in this game too as like my weirdo girlfriend. Her second team was fascinating. Ponyta, Linoone, Chikorita, Pidgeotto…The game characters are all exaggerated like how Green hires assassins to kill you. I’m assuming with the player being 15 that he must be 15 as well in this bizzare world. Im getting involved in like gang wars and cop scuffles and government conspiracies. I stole some guy’s shoes so I know that’s probably gonna come back and be a chekov’s gun for the story It’s weird because there’s still glimpses of the regular game dialogue and it’s still a pokemon game but it’s just buried under this… time capsule. This dev hates dungeons so much. It’s funny every time in his games he just gets rid of mt.moon and Viridian forest entirely because he also did this in Korosu. Talking to NPCs in their houses always prompts a fight.

Pokemon Reboot Monotype: water Started 8/20

Ultra Violet’s Human Run?
Ultra Violet is considered the directors cut to Kanto because it allows for all the Pokémon to be caught with no caveats in the postgame. I’m currently working on one save where I used game corner coins to get two eevelutions, found out Bill just has mew chilling in the computer, and am working my way up to the elite four. the second one is this thing called… moe? I didn’t get it, so I kinda just ended it ASAP. No postgame. It’s kinda like they’re gijinkas, but it’s weird to have them in Pokémon tradition. This is a game with vibes that feel like they’d be for stinky people even if some of the designs are cute.

On my journey to play through a breakdown’s worth of a collection of Pokémon games, I’ve barely broken the barrel when it comes to full games. (And also the lack of screenshots is because I told myself I’d only post games I completed.) • For the most part it’s been demos (Blue Sea, Moonlight) and broken messes that I need to break into to see what was going to be there at the end of it (Citrine, Terra), and occasionally the gimmick/ rebalance/ dex replacement (Digimon, that one FR rom hack I already forgot, Paradox, Emerald Trashlocke).



Recently Finished: Pokemon Korosu

• If you’ve ever seen the screenshot of the prompt “KILL this person?” out in the wild you know where this is going. Yes, I played the game in that image. • The fourth category of games, the one I’ll call the bizarre adventures (Quartz, [Redacted], and others that aim to be "funny" in the kind of way that's not funny.). Korosu fits the fourth category because it certainly is one of the Pokémon hacks I’ve ever played and completed.
• An edgy game filled with lines that make me double take because I know it’s not satire and made to be taken seriously. I don’t think I can put it into words how this game would be torn apart the more years go by. I feel like the entire game is basically just a large content warning in terms of… women? I can kind of shrug and say misogyny with this, I think. In terms of things said by the trainers. Who are the antagonists.
• It’s also immensely jarring that this plot basically has the main character be a teenage assassin using her Pokémon to kill an entire crime family who have basically done every crime in the book and the reward for completing that gauntlet at the very end is lance giving the main girl a soda pop.
• Also the second half is doing the kanto gym badges but to be honest since I had access to fly I managed to do it all in one sitting. I wanted to do it sequentially but it turns out some gym leaders were inside their gyms and some weren’t, so I ended up doing Misty last.
• It turns out that this is actually the third game in a trilogy of hacks, not like that matters because there’s more reference to Outlaw than the cawps(?) game in which the finale isn’t an elite four gauntlet but a tournament arc.
• This is like when I read that one manga and it was a total train wreck and I can never mention it to anyone unless they have morbid curiosity and are willing to go into barbed wire with offensive remarks. They barely let you kill anyone once you’re past the islands which I assumed would be more important but it’s only ever done at the very end of the game with the Outlaw, which I did. I did it because I had to end the cycle of violence. I did end up sparing everyone else who didn’t get cutscene killed before him though because I thought that would have had an effect but it did nothing.
• I wasn’t expecting Gold to pop in which is kind of what prompted me to make Pokelog a thing.

Oak’s Backup
• This one was very short, mostly just covered the Sevii islands minus the last part which was a trainer tower gauntlet. The ending is a good surprise.

Currently Playing/ continuing: Pokemon Reboot
• I immediately hopped back into playing this after playing Korosu a a palette kind of cleaner. It’s just vanilla fire red but I’m kind of bored with my roster so I’m gonna change it up to see what I can do to make it more fun. Also I learned about the nugget bridge exploit so I used it to get an early Dratini.