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>Corrupted Core - Prologue
Just played this one. Story heavy. Only features a single generic dungeon (15 floors). Team is Chimchar, Pikachu and Manaphy. I think this one is also meant to become a bigger game eventually. Interesting premise and funny self-aware humor. Reading a description of this will trick you into thinking it's about Manaphy, but it isn't, I'm sure that's just so it doesn't spoil the premise.
This is some sort of spinoff or sequel to a video series made with custom cutscenes in an hack where the story is a reimagined version of the original game. That's unreleased as far as I know, and I wasn't sure why this is a separate project. I haven't been following it, so I was afraid I wouldn't be able to follow along, but that wasn't really the case, so I guess it's fine if it's just going to be an independent sequel.
Apparantely the author reimagined the story around himself, which is cool, however it's a little weird to play as someone else's self-insert. Perhaps that's why it only started off as a video series and not a proper game. I didn't expect a Pokémon game to begin with a disclaimer pointing out that it's fiction, but it seems a lot of people on the Internet can't distinguish between this and real life anymore, so perhaps it might not be such a bad idea after all.
This hack doesn't really do anything interesting gameplay wise, other than starting off with some items already in the inventory. However three of those items are Reviver Seeds, which is annoying. Especially after realizing that failing the dungeon or simply giving up just makes the game proceed almost identically, which shows how little thought was put in the gameplay. This is less of a game and more of a fan animation using assets from the game. I like it so far, but I think it would be more interesting if it became a proper game eventually.
