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Red Rumor
January 8, 2024
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A gen 1 ROM Hack that looks to add in the playground rumors you remember from your childhood, such as Pokegods, Mist Stones, and Brick Town. But without having to beat the elite four with just an abra.- Includes a cheat version that puts a gameshark in your pc at the start of the game you can use to cheat in items and money.
- Move Reminder, talk to use HMs, and other useful features from future generations added to the game.
- New and weird evolutions to old mons shakes up teambuilding.
- Physical/Special Split addition doesn't include enough moves and moveset changes to work well.
- Too much content locked to the postgame.
- A few too many of the new evolutions are mega designs with new names.
- You'll be playing just regular red until you're very far into the hack..
Summary
Pokemon Red, but with some of the rumors you heard about online or on the playground back in the day, plus a variety of convenience features.
Major Features
- Gender Selection
- Easier HM Use
- Item Descriptions
- Brick Town accessible after the defeat of the Elite Four
- Bill's Secret Garden
- 20 new fakemon and poke gods
Review
I really wanted to like this one, but it's got some issues. A lot of the new content is locked past beating the game, so you're playing a fairly standard Pokemon Red game to that point. However, the additions such as the Physical/Special split feel a bit half-baked due to a lack of major move changes or additions.
More disappointingly, the new Pokemon end up using sprites for regional variants or mega evolutions instead of anything more original or more true to early rumors. I did enjoy some of them, such as Venustoise, but overall it left me wanting more. It's not bad, but I feel like the concept could have been a lot more.
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