FireRed hack: Pokémon Radical Red (VERSION 4.1 RELEASED! Gen 9 DLC Pokemon, Character Customization now available!)

[Zoofy]

This is so unbelievably difficult that it's not even remotely enjoyable.

The AI is so flawed too. It's literally trial and error until you either find the solution, or win by pure luck via RNG being in your favor. They do the same things each and every single time no matter what you do so it's extremely exploitable.

But then eventually you'll come across an opponent your team quite literally cannot beat, and that's when I stopped playing. Blue's team in the Saffron Radio Tower (I think it's called). Unlike the other fights, there is nothing whatsoever I can do here. There is no working strategy. I can't exploit the AI in my favor. My team is strictly unable to beat this fight no matter how many times I try to do it. I have no items that can help me, no moves that could help, I cannot use items in battle, I cannot overlevel, etc, there is just literally nothing in this entire game that can possibly help me unless I created an entirely new team with the very specific roles of defeating Blue's team and that is NOT fun, AT ALL.

This was one of the worst romhacks I have ever played and I wish I just quit sooner instead of getting myself THIS FAR into this mess. I now have an appreciation for Pokemon sticking to making the games easy to occasionally medium difficulty. This romhack just exposes how genuinely horrible Pokemon can really be.

 

[Zygarde-Crowned]

This is so unbelievably difficult that it's not even remotely enjoyable.

The AI is so flawed too. It's literally trial and error until you either find the solution, or win by pure luck via RNG being in your favor. They do the same things each and every single time no matter what you do so it's extremely exploitable.

But then eventually you'll come across an opponent your team quite literally cannot beat, and that's when I stopped playing. Blue's team in the Saffron Radio Tower (I think it's called). Unlike the other fights, there is nothing whatsoever I can do here. There is no working strategy. I can't exploit the AI in my favor. My team is strictly unable to beat this fight no matter how many times I try to do it. I have no items that can help me, no moves that could help, I cannot use items in battle, I cannot overlevel, etc, there is just literally nothing in this entire game that can possibly help me unless I created an entirely new team with the very specific roles of defeating Blue's team and that is NOT fun, AT ALL.

This was one of the worst romhacks I have ever played and I wish I just quit sooner instead of getting myself THIS FAR into this mess. I now have an appreciation for Pokemon sticking to making the games easy to occasionally medium difficulty. This romhack just exposes how genuinely horrible Pokemon can really be.

I just read this and I don't even know where to start.

This is unbelievably difficult for you; but it is what it is, a difficulty hack, this hack is made for a more difficult game experience. But you have several tools to prevail; you can at least catch or obtain good mons before or after obtaining some badges, you can EV train if you are not on Hardcore Mode (I'll get to that later) and Minimum Grinding Mode. But because the battles are difficult, you are expected to bring a wide team, train several mons at once, and get different teams for counter different bosses and their strategies. The AI reads your inputs and most of the time will replace a mon with another that can exploit its immunity to the move you will be using and use a super-effective or a move that heavily damages your mon back. Your only chance is to read the AI and reply it back. The game uses improved AI; and I find it quite good. I don't get why AI got the flak there.

You can also get several mons that definitely break the game; such as Mega Machamp with Drain Punch, or Wailord with Multiscale and Bouncy Bubble are examples.

You can farm a lot of items; Nuggets and Lucky Eggs for more money, which in return you can get power training, Bottle Caps for hidden abilities, and so on. They are all documented in fine detail, so it would be wise to check them.

Even if it is a difficulty hack, there are a lot of users who completed the game on monotypes. There are some of us who completed the game on Hardcore Mode, which is supposedly be the hardest. Hell, there are some of us who completed the game on Hardcore Mode with monotype teams. As long as you bring the correct Pokémon with the right nature and right EV/IV spread, and if you can understand how your mons can help each other, you could just play that and have fun. Really, I loved playing Radical Red; because the game has a deep documentation that lists which mon you can catch and use, which moves it can learn, what are its changes from base games. I also loved playing it because it is mostly a fair challenge; there are some more romhacks that are even more unfair to the player, such as kaizo games. I played a total of 13-15 times beginning from last year, with or without different randomiser runs, and I quite loved the difficulty and challenge in it. If you consider it as the worst romhack you have ever played, go back to other, more easier romhacks. This means that this romhack is not for you.

 

[Zoofy]

"As long as you bring the correct pokemon with the right nature and right EV/IV spread"

Yeah that's exactly what's wrong with this romhack and that's what I pointed out in my comment. The game forces you to make specialized teams to defeat certain bosses and that completely goes against the spirit of Pokemon as a whole. The game literally teaches you to try to win with your favorites, which I have desperately been attempting to until I realized I literally can't no matter what. You're insane if you think the majority of people actually want to waste their time and sanity making specialized teams.

The AI got "flak" here, as you call it, because like I explained, it's extremely exploitable. It does the same exact thing 100% of the time, no differences unless a crit or a miss happens. You can just simply repeatedly trial and error the boss fight until you find the correct steps to beat it, or get lucky. But then, just like I did, you'll eventually come across a boss fight that is just straight up not even possible for your team to defeat, thus resulting in the need to create a specialized team designed specifically for beating them.

This is not at all what I think of when the words "Hard Pokemon Game" come to mind. This is more appropriately described as "Obscenely Difficult". An extremely unenjoyable, soul sucking experience that I wouldn't wish upon literally anyone.

 

[buayagator]

This is not at all what I think of when the words "Hard Pokemon Game" come to mind. This is more appropriately described as "Obscenely Difficult". An extremely unenjoyable, soul sucking experience that I wouldn't wish upon literally anyone.

Actually you have your own way to enjoy the game, just use Max Money cheat, go to the celadon city and maxing all of your IV, then buy vitamins to fill your EV spread. The rest is just train with high exp wild pokemon with lucky egg.

Or you can simply play minimal grinding mode, catch rare pokemon that have 10 level higher than the others, then change its nature to the suitable one

The AI can't predict you, they use the same attack, so if you play with save states, you can predict it with 100% accurate

For me, this is the most enjoyable rom hack along with Inclement Emerald. I'm waiting for next update to replay the game with other than kanto starter

 

[Swahilimaster]

"As long as you bring the correct pokemon with the right nature and right EV/IV spread"

Yeah that's exactly what's wrong with this romhack and that's what I pointed out in my comment. The game forces you to make specialized teams to defeat certain bosses and that completely goes against the spirit of Pokemon as a whole. The game literally teaches you to try to win with your favorites, which I have desperately been attempting to until I realized I literally can't no matter what. You're insane if you think the majority of people actually want to waste their time and sanity making specialized teams.

The AI got "flak" here, as you call it, because like I explained, it's extremely exploitable. It does the same exact thing 100% of the time, no differences unless a crit or a miss happens. You can just simply repeatedly trial and error the boss fight until you find the correct steps to beat it, or get lucky. But then, just like I did, you'll eventually come across a boss fight that is just straight up not even possible for your team to defeat, thus resulting in the need to create a specialized team designed specifically for beating them.

This is not at all what I think of when the words "Hard Pokemon Game" come to mind. This is more appropriately described as "Obscenely Difficult". An extremely unenjoyable, soul sucking experience that I wouldn't wish upon literally anyone.

The game is challenging, but it's not really "obscenely difficult" in my opinion. In my current playthrough my team is hardly all star material, I'm running a damn pachirisu and a purugly and doing just fine. The main page does say it's a difficulty hack, but on top of all the amazing tools and features provided there is also an easy mode. If you are struggling so hard with the game and unwilling to take advantage of all the tools the game gives you then this hack probably isn't for you. This is easily one of the best gba romhacks currently out, it's pretty much a standard for future romhacks to aspire to, and you having a tantrum over something so well made after it literally declared itself a difficulty hack is pretty childish honestly.

 

[Malkraz]

This is so unbelievably difficult that it's not even remotely enjoyable.

The AI is so flawed too. It's literally trial and error until you either find the solution, or win by pure luck via RNG being in your favor. They do the same things each and every single time no matter what you do so it's extremely exploitable.

But then eventually you'll come across an opponent your team quite literally cannot beat, and that's when I stopped playing. Blue's team in the Saffron Radio Tower (I think it's called). Unlike the other fights, there is nothing whatsoever I can do here. There is no working strategy. I can't exploit the AI in my favor. My team is strictly unable to beat this fight no matter how many times I try to do it. I have no items that can help me, no moves that could help, I cannot use items in battle, I cannot overlevel, etc, there is just literally nothing in this entire game that can possibly help me unless I created an entirely new team with the very specific roles of defeating Blue's team and that is NOT fun, AT ALL.

This was one of the worst romhacks I have ever played and I wish I just quit sooner instead of getting myself THIS FAR into this mess. I now have an appreciation for Pokemon sticking to making the games easy to occasionally medium difficulty. This romhack just exposes how genuinely horrible Pokemon can really be.

lol

 

[Zoofy]

The game is challenging, but it's not really "obscenely difficult" in my opinion. In my current playthrough my team is hardly all star material, I'm running a damn pachirisu and a purugly and doing just fine. The main page does say it's a difficulty hack, but on top of all the amazing tools and features provided there is also an easy mode. If you are struggling so hard with the game and unwilling to take advantage of all the tools the game gives you then this hack probably isn't for you. This is easily one of the best gba romhacks currently out, it's pretty much a standard for future romhacks to aspire to, and you having a tantrum over something so well made after it literally declared itself a difficulty hack is pretty childish honestly.

This isn't called "having a tantrum", it's called "sharing my opinion", and internet users such as yourself need to stop discouraging and/or making fun of people who do it. If you can't accept people's opinions, Twitter makes a great home for you. The only great things this hack does is bring all pokemon gen 1-8 here and some QOL changes. Other than that, it's not really impressive by any standards (in my opinion).

And again, I don't think of something as being extremely difficult as this shit when I think "hard pokemon game" or "difficulty hack". I just expect the game to be harder than typical pokemon standards, not something so difficult to the point where my current team has a 0% chance of passing unless every single one of my attacks are a critical hit and would otherwise have to build an entirely new one just to pass this one trainer.

"Easily one of the best GBA romhacks currently out"

95% of the story is completely unchanged. You're just playing Pokemon FireRed with gens 1-8 pokemon and incredibly difficult trainers. That's not even remotely close to what I call a good hack. A good hack is a complete overhaul, new graphics/story/region. Is that really asking too much from people? I'd rather have people actually put love and effort into creating masterpieces instead of trying to improve upon old games that people have already played plenty of times. It doesn't even make the game fresh either. Still relatively stale.

Oh, and; "unwilling to take advantage of all the tools the game gives you", there are no tools for me to use. I've hit the level cap on my team and the most I'm capable of doing is swapping held items around. Don't act like there's anything possible for me to be doing. I ran through this battle like 20 times and the only result is my loss and nothing more. Can't even use items in battle which is one of the worst ideas ever. Something like an item clause would be so much better.

 

[Zygarde-Crowned]

there are no tools for me to use.

Have you even tried EV training? Deleting superfluous EVs and EV training your mons will lead you a very long way in defeating obstacles. A NPC at Saffron City will delete the surplus EVs for you, and you can use the EV training house at the Lavender Town for this. If you are still stuck, you can use the daycare trick or rare candy to increase the levels of your mons one or two levels above the cap.

As I reiterate, this is quite possibly the best difficulty romhack ever since the tactics you can use at the important battles are endless. You can use several broken Pokémon like Mega Machamp, Multiscale Wailord, and Magic Guard Mind Blown Delphox. You can abuse Grassy Terrain and Grassy Glide later with Rillaboom. Just use the documentations to read which Pokémon have changed and plan your team accordingly. Really, there are some users that completed the game on monotype, there are some of us that completed the game on Hardcore and Hardcore monotype, and just three weeks ago someone on Reddit completed the game with 6 Gogoats. It's not only just EV training but also the strategy and the synergy between Pokémon in important battles are what made the game extraordinarily great.

The game is not top-to-bottom flawless as the postgame and several move tutors (such as Sludge Wave and Outrage) are missing. Although the house at Lavender helps you for EV training, a Dresco Town Battle House-like house from Unbound could be added to the game (may be located at Cerulean or Vermilion) for easier money and EV grinding as well. As well as Hardcore Mode with EV training. But other than these, I really loved Radical Red as a difficulty hack and a challenging hack.

95% of the story is completely unchanged.

I am sorry for stating this, but if this is an excuse, almost none of the romhacks here at the Sideshow Showcase are for you since almost all of the games here do not even alter or change the story.

Don't act like there's anything possible for me to be doing. I ran through this battle like 20 times and the only result is my loss and nothing more. Can't even use items in battle which is one of the worst ideas ever. Something like an item clause would be so much better.

Because there is something possible for you to do it. Take it from me, I have completed it at least 15 times or so from beginning to end. At least explain which Blue's Pokémon are giving you a hard time and what Pokémon you were using, and we would help. And also, If you want to use items in battle, switch to Easy difficulty. If even Easy is too tough for you, consider playing another game.

If you really call this game "difficult" please don't touch kaizo games with a ten foot pole, since they are even more harder and even more unfair than Radical Red.

Peace.

 

[Swahilimaster]

This isn't called "having a tantrum", it's called "sharing my opinion", and internet users such as yourself need to stop discouraging and/or making fun of people who do it. If you can't accept people's opinions, Twitter makes a great home for you. The only great things this hack does is bring all pokemon gen 1-8 here and some QOL changes. Other than that, it's not really impressive by any standards (in my opinion).

And again, I don't think of something as being extremely difficult as this shit when I think "hard pokemon game" or "difficulty hack". I just expect the game to be harder than typical pokemon standards, not something so difficult to the point where my current team has a 0% chance of passing unless every single one of my attacks are a critical hit and would otherwise have to build an entirely new one just to pass this one trainer.

"Easily one of the best GBA romhacks currently out"

95% of the story is completely unchanged. You're just playing Pokemon FireRed with gens 1-8 pokemon and incredibly difficult trainers. That's not even remotely close to what I call a good hack. A good hack is a complete overhaul, new graphics/story/region. Is that really asking too much from people? I'd rather have people actually put love and effort into creating masterpieces instead of trying to improve upon old games that people have already played plenty of times. It doesn't even make the game fresh either. Still relatively stale.

Oh, and; "unwilling to take advantage of all the tools the game gives you", there are no tools for me to use. I've hit the level cap on my team and the most I'm capable of doing is swapping held items around. Don't act like there's anything possible for me to be doing. I ran through this battle like 20 times and the only result is my loss and nothing more. Can't even use items in battle which is one of the worst ideas ever. Something like an item clause would be so much better.

If you are stuck on blue then you are definitely at a point where you have options, you have all the TM's you can purchase in the old Celadon prize room, multiple move tutors, the move reminder, access to swapping your pokemon's abilities, access to changing your IV's, the ability to change natures, and none of those things require you to swap out your team. This game isn't for you, it is modeled after online competitive and you don't seem to be interested in that. If you want story based games check the main romhacks page, sideshow showcase is for mostly feature based hacks.

I could maybe sympathize with you if it weren't for the fact that all the game's features and changes are in the first post and discussed thereafter, if you order a burger and expect to get chicken nuggets your disappointment is on you.

 

[Zoofy]

Have you even tried EV training? Deleting superfluous EVs and EV training your mons will lead you a very long way in defeating obstacles. A NPC at Saffron City will delete the surplus EVs for you, and you can use the EV training house at the Lavender Town for this. If you are still stuck, you can use the daycare trick or rare candy to increase the levels of your mons one or two levels above the cap.

As I reiterate, this is quite possibly the best difficulty romhack ever since the tactics you can use at the important battles are endless. You can use several broken Pokémon like Mega Machamp, Multiscale Wailord, and Magic Guard Mind Blown Delphox. You can abuse Grassy Terrain and Grassy Glide later with Rillaboom. Just use the documentations to read which Pokémon have changed and plan your team accordingly. Really, there are some users that completed the game on monotype, there are some of us that completed the game on Hardcore and Hardcore monotype, and just three weeks ago someone on Reddit completed the game with 6 Gogoats. It's not only just EV training but also the strategy and the synergy between Pokémon in important battles are what made the game extraordinarily great.

The game is not top-to-bottom flawless as the postgame and several move tutors (such as Sludge Wave and Outrage) are missing. Although the house at Lavender helps you for EV training, a Dresco Town Battle House-like house from Unbound could be added to the game (may be located at Cerulean or Vermilion) for easier money and EV grinding as well. As well as Hardcore Mode with EV training. But other than these, I really loved Radical Red as a difficulty hack and a challenging hack.



I am sorry for stating this, but if this is an excuse, almost none of the romhacks here at the Sideshow Showcase are for you since almost all of the games here do not even alter or change the story.



Because there is something possible for you to do it. Take it from me, I have completed it at least 15 times or so from beginning to end. At least explain which Blue's Pokémon are giving you a hard time and what Pokémon you were using, and we would help. And also, If you want to use items in battle, switch to Easy difficulty. If even Easy is too tough for you, consider playing another game.

If you really call this game "difficult" please don't touch kaizo games with a ten foot pole, since they are even more harder and even more unfair than Radical Red.

Peace.

I already deleted the game because I don't want to play anymore. But if you're actually interested in knowing, then I'll tell you.

I turned off EV/IVs so on the stats screen every pokemon had this "S+" thing next to their stats.

I had the following pokemon:

Shiny Alolan Muk with Poison Fang, Ice Punch, Rock Tomb, and Crunch (rock tomb's speed drop actually saved me from a lot) Poison Touch ability
Alolan Dugtrio with Earthquake, Rock Throw, Sucker Punch, and Iron Head, Sand Force ability
Gourgeist with Shadow Ball, Trick-Or-Treat, Giga Drain, and Leech Seed, don't remember the ability
Vikavolt with Thunderbolt, Volt Switch, Bug Buzz, and... useless ass bite. I had no good moves to fill up the 4th slot. Don't remember the ability
Kingdra with Brine, Flip turn, Dragon Pulse, and Dragon Dance, and I SHOULD have put Liquidation on it but my dumbass didn't. But, regardless, I never once had an opportunity to actually set up and use dragon dance in the first place so I'm not sure it actually mattered.

And finally I had a completely fucking worthless Grapploct that didn't do shit other than bait moves and die

 

[Zoofy]

If you are stuck on blue then you are definitely at a point where you have options, you have all the TM's you can purchase in the old Celadon prize room, multiple move tutors, the move reminder, access to swapping your pokemon's abilities, access to changing your IV's, the ability to change natures, and none of those things require you to swap out your team. This game isn't for you, it is modeled after online competitive and you don't seem to be interested in that. If you want story based games check the main romhacks page, sideshow showcase is for mostly feature based hacks.

I could maybe sympathize with you if it weren't for the fact that all the game's features and changes are in the first post and discussed thereafter, if you order a burger and expect to get chicken nuggets your disappointment is on you.

I've said this, what, maybe 3 times now? I'm not going to make an all new team. That's a waste of time, effort, and sanity.

As far as I'm aware, my team is already the best that I'm capable of getting it right now at this moment. There is nothing out there that can help it. I've talked to all of the move tutors and all of this stuff, my team CANNOT beat this fight. I've gone through trial and error 15+ times and there's no scenario where I win unless I got a ton of crits.

 

[Cocokill0402]

I just read this and I don't even know where to start.

This is unbelievably difficult for you; but it is what it is, a difficulty hack, this hack is made for a more difficult game experience. But you have several tools to prevail; you can at least catch or obtain good mons before or after obtaining some badges, you can EV train if you are not on Hardcore Mode (I'll get to that later) and Minimum Grinding Mode. But because the battles are difficult, you are expected to bring a wide team, train several mons at once, and get different teams for counter different bosses and their strategies. The AI reads your inputs and most of the time will replace a mon with another that can exploit its immunity to the move you will be using and use a super-effective or a move that heavily damages your mon back. Your only chance is to read the AI and reply it back. The game uses improved AI; and I find it quite good. I don't get why AI got the flak there.

You can also get several mons that definitely break the game; such as Mega Machamp with Drain Punch, or Wailord with Multiscale and Bouncy Bubble are examples.

You can farm a lot of items; Nuggets and Lucky Eggs for more money, which in return you can get power training, Bottle Caps for hidden abilities, and so on. They are all documented in fine detail, so it would be wise to check them.

Even if it is a difficulty hack, there are a lot of users who completed the game on monotypes. There are some of us who completed the game on Hardcore Mode, which is supposedly be the hardest. Hell, there are some of us who completed the game on Hardcore Mode with monotype teams. As long as you bring the correct Pokémon with the right nature and right EV/IV spread, and if you can understand how your mons can help each other, you could just play that and have fun. Really, I loved playing Radical Red; because the game has a deep documentation that lists which mon you can catch and use, which moves it can learn, what are its changes from base games. I also loved playing it because it is mostly a fair challenge; there are some more romhacks that are even more unfair to the player, such as kaizo games. I played a total of 13-15 times beginning from last year, with or without different randomiser runs, and I quite loved the difficulty and challenge in it. If you consider it as the worst romhack you have ever played, go back to other, more easier romhacks. This means that this romhack is not for you.

I even saw people doing nuzlockes of this game and others beating the Elite 4 with less that 6 pokemons ... Someone even did Hardcore from start to finish without using more that 2 pokemons on their team.

 

[000mn000]

I've said this, what, maybe 3 times now? I'm not going to make an all new team. That's a waste of time, effort, and sanity.

As far as I'm aware, my team is already the best that I'm capable of getting it right now at this moment. There is nothing out there that can help it. I've talked to all of the move tutors and all of this stuff, my team CANNOT beat this fight. I've gone through trial and error 15+ times and there's no scenario where I win unless I got a ton of crits.

Just because you're bad at the game doesn't mean the game itself is bad or poorly designed. You honestly sound like a modern-day "game journalist", à la Kotaku - "An Easy Mode Has Never Ruined A Game". Perhaps instead of complaining, you should 'git gud' :]

 

[Zoofy]

Just because you're bad at the game doesn't mean the game itself is bad or poorly designed. You honestly sound like a modern-day "game journalist", à la Kotaku - "An Easy Mode Has Never Ruined A Game". Perhaps instead of complaining, you should 'git gud' :]

"Git Gud" is, was, and will continue to be: An excuse. Nothing more but a very bad excuse, for many things. You don't want to make your game actually good? You don't want to make it fun? You don't want to improve upon it? Tell your players to Git Gud and carry on with life. That's the only reason that "insult" exists, and the only people their game will be fun to are either masochists, or highly skilled players that fail to recognize they're skilled in the first place and act like people who are worse than them are completely trash.

"Skill" isn't even a factor in this. I could just go and get the correct pokemon, you know that, right? And then I'll pass. Because I built a team to destroy his, specifically. It doesn't take skill. It takes learning + trial and error. What takes skill is nuzlocking which I know for a fact little to no one is actually going to do with this game.

Game journalists are people who take a game that is perfectly fine in its current state (or of a genre they don't even like), play the game worse than 5 year old (or don't bother to learn or finish the game). Then they complain it's too difficult and list parts of the game that are standard/expected of it that most people actually like, and aren't flaws of the game to begin with. That isn't what I'm doing. I've acknowledged the game has many QOL changes that I actually really like and I've gotten far enough to get to Radio Tower Blue, and the only reason I can't continue, is because my. team. cannot. beat. his. There isn't a way to do it. There is no move to learn, item to let my pokemon hold, or any type of strategy I can do to progress. There is just nothing. And that's a problem.

Perhaps instead of telling people to "git gud", you should start acknowledging the faults of the game. Under no circumstances should I be completely and totally incapable of continuing the game with my current team of pokemon. It is unacceptable that I would have to create a new one.

 

[000mn000]

"Git Gud" is, was, and will continue to be: An excuse. Nothing more but a very bad excuse, for many things. You don't want to make your game actually good? You don't want to make it fun? You don't want to improve upon it? Tell your players to Git Gud and carry on with life. That's the only reason that "insult" exists, and the only people their game will be fun to are either masochists, or highly skilled players that fail to recognize they're skilled in the first place and act like people who are worse than them are completely trash.

"Skill" isn't even a factor in this. I could just go and get the correct pokemon, you know that, right? And then I'll pass. Because I built a team to destroy his, specifically. It doesn't take skill. It takes learning + trial and error. What takes skill is nuzlocking which I know for a fact little to no one is actually going to do with this game.

Game journalists are people who take a game that is perfectly fine in its current state (or of a genre they don't even like), play the game worse than 5 year old (or don't bother to learn or finish the game). Then they complain it's too difficult and list parts of the game that are standard/expected of it that most people actually like, and aren't flaws of the game to begin with. That isn't what I'm doing. I've acknowledged the game has many QOL changes that I actually really like and I've gotten far enough to get to Radio Tower Blue, and the only reason I can't continue, is because my. team. cannot. beat. his. There isn't a way to do it. There is no move to learn, item to let my pokemon hold, or any type of strategy I can do to progress. There is just nothing. And that's a problem.

Perhaps instead of telling people to "git gud", you should start acknowledging the faults of the game. Under no circumstances should I be completely and totally incapable of continuing the game with my current team of pokemon. It is unacceptable that I would have to create a new one.

Sure, continue to make excuses for your own lack of ability. How many people complain this game is "one of the worst romhacks I have ever played"? How many hundreds of videos of people on YouTube play this romhack, shouting about how great it is, while doing monotype runs, nuzlockes and all sorts of other self-imposed challenges. Seems to me, it's a you problem. All games have issues and things that can be improved, I'll never shy away from acknowledging faults like that. What I won't acknowledge is your complaining because you refuse to put in effort you deem is outside the scope of what you think is appropriate for your style of play. As I said, this is a you problem. No need to bother responding, as I won't be listening to any more of your excuses. Stay mad kiddo.

 

[Zoofy]

Sure, continue to make excuses for your own lack of ability. How many people complain this game is "one of the worst romhacks I have ever played"? How many hundreds of videos of people on YouTube play this romhack, shouting about how great it is, while doing monotype runs, nuzlockes and all sorts of other self-imposed challenges. Seems to me, it's a you problem. All games have issues and things that can be improved, I'll never shy away from acknowledging faults like that. What I won't acknowledge is your complaining because you refuse to put in effort you deem is outside the scope of what you think is appropriate for your style of play. As I said, this is a you problem. No need to bother responding, as I won't be listening to any more of your excuses. Stay mad kiddo.

It's shocking how much people are just so unaware that they're wrong. It's not a "me" problem, it's a game problem and nothing more. It is objectively the game's fault that my team is unable to get passed this. It has no items or moves to offer me whatsoever. I can't overlevel. I can't use items. It's called Artificial Difficulty. Artificial difficulty is when the game is intentionally designed to screw you over. It's no longer the player's fault for whatever negative thing happens to them. It isn't my fault my team can't get passed this fight. It's not my fault my pokemon don't have a single option to pass this fight. And to actually, seriously, pin this as being my issue, my fault, is complete and total idiocy.

Like I literally said in my first reply to you. The game can only be loved by masochists or people who are overly skilled at the game and don't even have a proper understanding of how good they really are. Just like you. You think that if I can't do what you can do, then I'm bad. But like I explained. It doesn't even have ANYTHING to do with skill. Because I can just go and raise a team specially designed for killing Blue's team. End of story. Skill is not a factor whatsoever, and I can do this for each and every single trainer in the entire game if I really want to.

But of course idiots will be idiots, and just... Not realize their mistakes in an argument. They'll keep pushing their completely wrong beliefs and try to act superior over the other. You're not. And no matter what you do, you never will be.

 

[Malkraz]

lol

 

[Dekaylab8]

Well, I've considered playing this hack for a little bit, but after seeing the front page saying that it's still in a beta phase, I think I'll check and see where progress is at near the end of the year. I might even join the discord if someone there knows what's planned for the hack. Looking forward to it (even if it doesn't make it all the way)!

👌

Sorry, I got nothing else interesting to say, but...

lol

 

[Zygarde-Crowned]

I even saw people doing nuzlockes of this game and others beating the Elite 4 with less that 6 pokemons ... Someone even did Hardcore from start to finish without using more that 2 pokemons on their team.

Exactly. I am already following the Reddit sub as well. There is somebody that complete the game with monotypes but single mono types; and last time he complete the game with 5 mono dragon types (Silvally, Haxorus, Druddigon, Goodra, and Regidrago). Another player completed this with 6 Gogoats as I linked above.

Yeah, it's a difficulty hack but the difficulty was never over the top unlike Kaizo. You can easily EV train or if you are on min grinding, you can easily change nature / abilities. I played this quite a lot last year and had great fun playing and finishing it.

 

[Hiroshi Sotomura]

Hey, just gonna say let's chill; this heated discussion on the hack's difficulty doesn't need to be drawn out this much and at this point going circular around it is cutting off other play discussions.