>>53094321In the Christmas release thread, I called the dev lame for releasing on Christmas because I knew they would. But I was shitposting. They aren't lame, and neither is the hack. I knew it was coming around Christmas because I knew that they work on it very often, and it hadn't been released yet well into 2022, so after a while, a Christmas release date just made sense. Christmas, as a season, is very pretty and an aesthetic goldmine. It's a time to get comfy with the family, and people put up lights. Coral has frequently been called a pretty game, the GSC aesthetics are pretty comfy, as everyone always says, and the names of in-game cities have a Light motif. It suits Christmas well.
Anyway, the actual game is really good. Coral is probably the single best Generation 2 hack, whether it's finished or not. As someone else said, it really captures the essence of the Gen 2 era while offering up something new.