>play Crystal Clear
>conceptually seems OK but completely fails as a game because wild pokemon don't scale
>random neon green niggers everywhere (???)
>pick Blackthorn (4/5 difficulty), entire gym is Game Freak tier teams of lv7 Horsea and Dratini
>drop game

>hmm this guy on discord was saying what a douche shockslayer is and that his own hack has way more features, maybe I should look at it (<- clueless)
>google "pokemon emerald enhanced"
>hmm this hack seems pretty neat, lots of features
>let me check what /vp/ thinks just in case
>it's actually a cringefest trainwreck with dating sim mechanics and even worse scaling than CC
>don't even bother to download it

>reading /vp/ archives for recommendations
>"nonono Shockslayer Presents Crystal Clear by Shockslayer is a shit hack ROWE is much better open world"
>whynot.jpg
>play R.O.W.E
>entire thing is written by an ESL
>shitty 19th gen pokemon shoehorned in
>"following pokemon" feature that shows everything as substitute dolls because "there wasn't enough space in the rom" probably because he added 600 pokemon and fairy type for no reason
>pick slateport city, start surfing, game crashes


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is there a single open world hack that isn't complete shit? The idea behind Shockslayer Presents is pretty good it's just a trainwreck in practice, has anyone made a "good" open world hack yet?