Reviews - Mr_Nygren

This particular fan-made game is named Pokémon MMO 3D - and is a MMO or massively multiplayer online game. It is aiming to recreate the Pokémon-world online where players can create their own character and then re-live the Pokémon world of the GameBoy-games together with friends or alone in a world with many other trainers that they can compete with and battle.

There is a huge world with many cities, wild forests and isles, over 200 different Pokémon - at least the three first generations are available. It is using a completely fresh battle-system that isn't turn-based anymore. You can choose to teleport to other regions using the Alakazam in each region, or you can travel the vast distances by journeying yourself from city to city like in the handheld games.

Just like in the handheld titles you can start with one out of three Pokémon - the original three which are a Charmander, a Bulbasaur and a Squirtle - then there is a free Pikachu upstairs in the starting building as well. Furthermore an Eevee can be found in one of the houses of Pallet Town, and a Hitmonchan and a Hitmonlee can be found in the gym of Cerulean city - there are no Gym Leaders to battle yet - but Brock is in the game unlike all the other gym leaders. Giovanni could be played as though.

I also did find a Kabuto, an Omanyte and an Aerodactyl inside of the pink building of Pewter City. They're supposed to be extinct Pokémon so I'll see why they're so easy to get. I thought the Aerodactyl would be harder to get. Easily one of my favorites from the original 151 Pokémon.

I enjoyed playing the game, and being an MMO it will take many hours to progress in order to travel to each region and catch them all. But I'd say this MMO has a lot of promise, it's been around since about 2017 - and I did first find it in 2019 when I did first attempt to play it and record it. I played it for about 4 hours back then and I did record while playing - but due to my mic not working due to being broken - I had to scrap the recorded material and try again a few days ago. So I did in-fact replay what I did the last time - but unlike back then I knew about the Pikachu and three of the other starting Pokémon after having watched Youtube-videos.

I didn't know about the extinct Pokémon of Pewter City so that was something I did find out myself. It's sad that they've removed all the alternative skins for the starting characters from the start. It would be better for this game if every skin was available when creating the character, as they were in previous versions of the game. Back in 2017 all the skins were available from the start while now you have one look for the boy, and one for the girl - that sucks. Of course they're unlockable during gameplay but that's just annoying to have to unlock things that should be there from the start.

Of course the game has many regions and cities that look barebones right now, and I think the game could use NPC-humans in the cities walking around. It has wild Pokémon walking around, and the players are not numerous enough for the cities to feel alive. The developers should consider adding human NPC:s to make each city come alive more - and make them walk around and run randomly. It's a little too empty currently - something players can't fix.

Think GTA and let the population be NPC as well. Because the cities feel empty of humans. All in all I'd rate this game pretty high it being made by fans. 9/10 as this is something I wanted as a kid. Nintendo let players down by keeping the RPG/adventure to the handheld systems - when everyone wanted Pokémon Stadium with the RPG features. It should have been on the Nintendo 64. Pokémon Colosseum was cool but it had a different style of capturing Pokémon, where you didn't capture wild ones like in the handheld titles - something I were always disappointed in.

I wanted the handheld title with Pokémon Stadium graphics and animations. This fan-made game has Pokémon GO models of the Pokémon, and it does offer the adventure and the huge world - but it still lacks the Gym leaders/Elite Four and the RPG-elements where you'd get quests from NPC-characters. Instead it's just up to the player what you wanna do and no-one is offering any story or any quests which is boring - but if you know the story then you can relive it pretty well even without the NPC:s and the gym leaders/elite four.

The developers do need to focus more on the single player experience for each player and add NPC-quests and Gym leaders. I can't say it's finished as it' probably a WIP (work in progress) and as such I can understand certain things missing in the game. But without what I just mentioned it feels empty and incomplete.

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