Unfortunately the writers are their own worst enemy. His journey makes ours even more impressive! Quite well done! Other clever ideas like implementing a pokémon speech translator also gives you a chance to do things you can not do in other pokémon games and allows for some interesting side stories. The game also establishes a sense of time passing.Theo ages up a bit during the adventure, making it feel much more a story that spans months than it feels like a story that spans days.
He starts out from a super annoying whiny kid but due to the events of the story he is forced to grow up fast. Your rival in this game Theo, might be one of the best rivals I have ever seen in a Pokémon game. A character makes a mistake based on events that happened before. Things do do not happen because the plot demands it, things happen because of earlier things set in motion. It feels like a much less “static” story as it is in most pokémon games. Dialogue comes back later, a character trait early game will play a role later on. Where in Red and Blue we only learn about Mewtwo very late in game, the sense of things going on, the ideas of where the story is going is present from the first moments. any pokémon plot really! This story is quite a bit better executed. The story feels dark but still makes classic choices honouring it’s roots. but the rules and consequences of the Pokéverse still mostly apply. is gather Uranium to power up her Pokémon Urayne so it can plunge the region into years of darkness. A mysterious entity by the name of Curie.who speaks in green letters for some reason. When professor Bambo’o is recruiting two new research assistants you finally get of your aunt’s back and start a journey to win all eight gym badges but also investigate what is happening at the Power Plants.as they all begin to explode and poison the region. which works great because when you face Uranium Pokémon or go into battle against trainers it gets that “electric” quality this really makes you feel the contradictions of a 11 year or 12 year old to venture into the world versus the harshness of reality when it comes to battles. The music is also very pretty while there isn’t to much original music in the game all of these pieces have been rearranged and fit their environment beautifully! Gen IV had a bit this mechanical feel ot their sound and here it feels a bit more natural at least for the cities and exploration. I choose the most bright looking sprite and while human art from the front isn’t always great, the quality of the backsprites in this game is amazing! I like them a lot better than most of the other sprite work, which weirdly encourages me to capture stuff that have lesser artwork to check out if their back sprite is any good. All these sprites feel unique and have a healthy dose of personality. Instead of a female or a male trainer you can choose a masculine, feminine or androgynous looking sprite and choose the way you wish to be referred as in dialogue! A nice little touch, that makes that can really help you relate to your trainer a bit more. Their fakemons are mostly cleverly designed.with some stinkers but overall a strong lineup. I could see this be a generation between Gen IV and Gen VI. Where normal rom hacks or fan games usually mimic the style of one game or another, Pokémon Uranium introduces a new mechanic that makes it feel more like a hypothetical new generation game that stays fairly true to the core game.
This game follows that trope and in doing so feels more like a real pokémon game that plenty of others.
Be it Double Battles, Contests, Mega-Evolution, Dynamax there is almost always something. Most Pokémon games try to have their one unique thing they introduce at least. Still this game feels quite unique and then we haven’t even discussed the main unique feature of this game. As Diamond and Pearl is the fourth generation game.with DS assets while the majority of fangames uses Ruby and Sapphire! The story is darker and a bit deeper but still feels quite pokémon esque unlike for example Pokémon Reborn which goes much further. the whole region can die if you perform poorly! With an engine that is mostly based around Diamond and Pearl or at least the tileset this is also a better looking game than 90% of the Pokémon Fan games out there.
That is right you can die in this Pokémon game.