The outlook is great, wait, it's better than great, but the story looks a bit simple...
Instead of making it the near past, why not make it kind distant past? Like, some roads could be different because of time, maybe some houses would no exist. Some extra houses/stuff could have existed in the distant past... Distant past, no technology but same pokemons!
I mean use your imagination, the story is also as important as the graphics. Don't let this brilliant game fade away by using simple stories.
As some additional notes, I am looking forward to play this awsome hack as soon as possible(There are two hacks I'm looking forward to play and one of them is this one). Great work even from now on =D