Wow I love hacks that stars Pokemon as the player!! Well done!
I just played through your hack. I quite liked it... and now I'll give you some feedback
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Also, he evolved the Growlithe to Arcanine... (something I really wanted to do!!). Where do you find the Fire Stone?
Hi, thanks for the feedback. I don't plan to alter this hack anymore, but I will keep your advice in mind for the sequel (I plan to start on that one during my free time next school year).
Now let's respond:
1. Yeah I've been told several times now. Wouldn't have thought it to be such big of a deal, but I do understand the criticism. Something to pay more attention to next time.
2. It was indeed never intended to be a very long game. I intentionally put in some plot holes to fall back to in the sequel.
3. I hope you refer to my attempt at shadows in the pokemon villa, otherwise could you be more specific since I don't really know (and would like to know) where I messed up.
4. It would be possible to put in pokemon only cities and states (although that would require a lot of work), but I used this format to put the big contrast between Poliwhirl and the other pokemon into light. Poliwhirl is very naive and the other pokemon take advantage of that.
5. Those were indeed put in to make the game harder and slightly more realistic. On hindsight I could have put the Dark Cavern more to the middle of the game, instead of the very first unavoidable dungeon. But the typing there is so very easy to battle against, that I think the original difficulty was successfully balanced out.
6. Whoops, ah well, enjoy your hydro pumping golbat ;)
Where to find Gengar and the fire stone:
Since you finished the game, can you tell me how many badges you have found?