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theluckiestrose · 7 months

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Pokemon AlteRed With Gun is um. Really good so far?

The last time i tried AlteRed was a couple years back and the sprites were...pretty bad. Evidently the team refined a lot of their ideas and made some genuinely excellent pokemon in the end.

Here. Just one example.

This is Zigzagrub. It's a bug/electric retype of Zigzagoon. It has some fun ideas, and the core color palette is pretty good, but the shading is off and the freehand spritework is less than stellar. It's pretty average as far as rom hack spriting goes. This is from the original AlteRed, it's what I encountered in version 10.2.

THIS is the modern Zigzagrub.

Holy SHIT what a pokemon! FosterZ and Chairry did this according to the doc and just look at that little guy! It's still recognizably a Zigzagoon retype, but it's also a firefly and those BLUES. I saw that and said "I NEED IT." This sprite is in AlteRed With Gun and i believe is also in the current version of the original AlteRed.

It shows an incredible improvement in the art department, and it gets me excited to find out what else they've done to the pokemon i know and love. AlteRed With Gun is sort of a difficulty hack, a companion to AlteRed they apparently released for April Fool's. As old school binary hacks they have their bugs, but come on. Go back and look at the Zigzagrub. That's a friend.

For me a rom hack lives and dies by the quality of its sprites and AlteRed is thriving. I'm personally extremely pleased with how it's developing, and I'm having enough fun with it in a casual playthrough i might even do a challenge run or two.

#idk i felt compelled to review this rom hack i started playing yesterday #its just fun and it has so many cool sprites #apparently one of the bugs is that all the in-game trade pokemon are in this weird state of like #both shiny and normal. they appear shiny and their battle intro includes the sparkles but their summary page is that of a normal pokemon #same sprite but no star no blue panel nothing. its super weird lmao #the one bug im actually a little miffed by is this one that affects Substitute.#not the move the pokemon. Substitute exists to give you exp but its also catchable albeit with a comically low catch rate.#i had an easier time catching byoxys #once you catch substitute though you will discover that it doesnt do anything you want it to #it acts as though you dont have enough gym badges for its level even when its level 4 and you are the ot #anyway i have three of them and two are shiny and i want to use them very badly so i hope this is a fixable issue and not like #a load bearing coconut where if you get rid of it the whole thing breaks

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