This is an alright hack, nowhere near as good as it's fanbase makes it out to be, but it's fun.
I've only played up to the first gym, and noticed some bugs/oddities:
The youngster materialises upon entry to the map--move him to the left a couple of tiles.
I'm not entirely sure if it's fixable, but yeah, this glitches up.
I've found this a lot in this hack--scripts reused. For example:
While I'm on the subject, the "HOUSE" signposts are utterly useless. It's better off without a script.
Incidentally, the Marsh Zone has a border error:
The Pichu sign seems to have a) no purpose and b) a hole in it's head. Or is it one of those pose things? Because if so, you can actually...pose.
This tile and the one below it are impassable.
She looks pretty well-developed and...large for a lass.
Prof. Oak seems to magically pick up the Pokédexes from the other side of the table. Also, what's with the inclusion of like every protoganist from the Pokémon games excluding Brendan/May?
The Combee were quite annoying because they sometimes blocked the path.
This is another example of the disappearing acts that happen (there's a youngster in the next route that magically appears upon entry).
Other bugs that I don't have screenshots of:
- If you do the drowning Pichu event, but lose against Diamond, then another Pichu appears to be drowning. From this, you could in theory raise an army of inept Pichu swimmers. Yeah.
- If you decide to leave the Safari Zone early, you seem to disappear instead of walk through the doors.
There were some more but I can't remember.
Anyway, this hack is pretty good as I said. I think it's overhyped because of it's graphics (which are beautiful, there's no denying that), and I'm not so sure on the story so far... Also according to Snakebyte there is no explanation as to why your Dad taught you the Alpha language, what the Alpha language even is, etc. which is a bit of a disappointment and makes the reason a bit...lackluster, shall we say?
Anyway, congratulations on completing a hack, Wesley, it is pretty fun, and I'm most probably going to finish it sometime soon, by which time I can give a more in-depth review for more of the hack. :P