chimecho was the mvp of the whole game. it gets a steel typing, it learns revival blessing if you want it, it's just based. on the other end of the spectrum I sacked marshtomp, it never became useful, and swapped it out with wingull. This game felt more like a demake then a proper reimagining of hoenn in the gen 2 style. They found the perfect buildings for rustburo, but after that there were a lot of cut corners and crunchy sprites, basic buildings, outright removing things like cycling road and fortree's bridges. The quickest example I could give is the pokemon centers, they are very bland and empty in this game, but you can remember or google gen 2's center interiors and see that they're good for the artstyle. they didn't even try, it's the pokeball design and ms paint fill on the floor, no cross crossing or anything. the cool elite 4 rooms? ms paint fill. Most of the trainer sprites that aren't just from gen 2 look bad, except flannery. archie is missing his eyes for some reason. What gets me is that there are plenty of other fangames with this gimmick, pokemon and people from later gens remade in gen 2 style, and I remember them looking better then this one overall. removing the artstyle gimmick, it's really just emerald again. you get pinball, they put in a shop in petalburg that scales based on your badges but it doesn't really sell much even at 8 badges. they put in a bug-catching contest type thing in pacifidlog town, and a gatcha well in rustburo. I don't know if I would recommend it, as even though I'm a gen 2 fag this didn't do a lot for me since they only really put effort in the pokemon sprites, everything else was left on the wayside. This definitely doesn't deserve to make any top 10 lists based on the gimmick alone, remove it and you've got crunchy emerald.
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