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>Pikachu's Great Adventure
4 dungeons, 3 bosses. Supposed to become a full story. Interesting so far, but it feels like a draft. Uses towns and dungeons from Rescue Team and Explorers. You play as a shiny Pikachu starting at level 55, later joined by a level 55 Marshadow and for the last dungeon you escort a level 49 Espurr that evolves halfway through the dungeon.
Gameplay is basic. The most interesting thing was finding an item hidden in a wall and using manual mode to control Marshadow inside the wall. Getting defeated shows some exclusive messages, different for each dungeon. Beating the hack unlocks hard mode with silly changes to the dialogue and badly balanced dungeons. I only played completed the first two dungeons in hard mode. This hack is named after the leaked prototype name for Rescue Team, but it isn't relevant, so I find the chosen name confusing.
Story: A 14 years old human wakes up as a Marshadow, and an experienced Pikachu from Wigglytuff's Guild finds him. He has knowledge from the real world (as in, without Pokémon) and makes numerous references to Pokémon games and other games in general. Apparently Espurr is supposed to be the same one from Super, but this one is male instead. There is also a Jirachi who is also the same as the one in Super, but strangely he doesn't seem to recognize Star Cave. I don't think the human (Miguel) has played Super, so that might be relevant to the story somehow. During the story they meet an arrogant Charizard and Miguel accidentally kills him, Pikachu seems to gradually become afraid of Miguel, but he doesn't have much of a reaction to the murder and is immediately willing to keep the secret. I suspect they may be hinting at Pikachu being a murderer himself. If it isn't clear, Miguel retained all of his memories, so he already has knowledge of the Pokémon world. I think there are some interesting plot points, and I like the characters, but it needs more development time.