>>29186678At the moment, CrystalDust is complete up to the Champion battle, if I remember correctly. I think Liquid Crystal, another remake, has Kanto partially completed, but Liquid Crystal isn't as accurate to GSC as CrystalDust is, and it has some bad OCs, so whichever one you'd want to play is probably dependent on how accurate you want things to be.
Dark Energy, despite the name, really isn't edgy at all. The writing is kind of shitty early on but it gets passable after the first couple Gyms. I would recommend Dark Energy just for having one of the best custom regions I've ever seen. The author is just really great when it comes to mapping and GSC's map format. I'm not an expert on the format myself, but I've heard experienced hackers like Mateo (the guy who made Pokémon Christmas and Red++, also good hacks) say they didn't know some of the stuff done with mapping was possible at the time. My personal favorite is pic related; toward the end of the beta you have to go to a less-inhabited part of the region, and it just has this huge, sprawling route that goes on forever without being interrupted with route gates. The hack also has some nice custom ASM features like an icy cave that you can only be in for a limited amount of time (being measured in seconds, not steps) before needing to escape due to the cold, and a neat gimmick with being able to de-evolve your Eevee starter with a special stone (that you only see 3-4 of, making it rather valuable), letting you get some nice fucking movesets if you mix and match from the movepools properly.
