>>56785913On another side note, characters will constantly say stuff like “My Plus and your Minus,” “My Mold Breaker has evolved,” and “My Endure won’t last much longer.” It sounds unnatural and gives off a JJBA feeling.
Darkrai’s way of turning Duskull against Grovyle was also absurd. There was no need to throw Duskull into the mind dungeon. Darkrai/Ramparados tells Duskull, he’ll actually die if they change history. It should have been good enough, albeit a little silly. Instead, the hack creator decides Duskull needs to have a headmate to torture him throughout the rest of the main story, then just have it buzz off once Dusclops evolves, which is the very definition of contrived. This hack had way too much yapping. There were multiple times throughout this hack that had 30-60 minutes worth of cutscenes back-to-back. I remember one stretch of cutscenes that lasted for ~90 minutes, completely unacceptable. By the end of the main story, the game had already overstayed its welcome, but then we get to the post-game.
The post-game opened with the characters we saw die powerscaling Grovyle and Dusclops in front of Arceus. The fact that Espeon was able to stand up to Arceus (God) is a premise so ridiculous I couldn’t help but laugh. The rest of the story was 90% base game EoS and Special Episode 5 with a couple of extra lines thrown in (extending the play time by 5-7 hours). Arceus being able to revive all your friends at the end made their deaths meaningless and took away from the message they and EoS were trying to tell. Also, anything that even remotely teases Dusknoir x Grovyle immediately loses points in my book.This hack is easily 10-15 hours.
3/10
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