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it's still not finished(getting close apparently) but coral by a pretty significant margin. no crazy story with a bajillion OCs, no overarching political narrative, no bullshit difficulty/mechanics just because ZOMG WE NEED OUR GAME TO BE HARD!!!, no random fakemon/forms, just a really well tight-knit and polished experience that, dare i say it, genuinely feels like a pokemon game(outside of a couple instances that'll be fixed, although spiritomb was cool af for other reasons). definitely recommend it even though save files from the demo aren't going to be transferable to the final build.
of course, i do see the value in a lot of those things in other fangames and i get why most fangames are the way they are, but coral is just everything i'm looking for in a pokemon fan game.
realidea comes in close second for me, it certainly has its issues and has a few "wow i'm self-aware and breaking the fourth wall isn't this so cool what i'm doing" but it still felt like a solid, mostly complete game that was enjoyable start to end.
