I played the original trio of the games several years ago, Another World, World Link and Marisa's Magic World. I came across this remake and considering how much I enjoyed the originals, I decided to give this a go. I Just finished playing the current demo, this post is a feedback/mini review.
Positive changes include the new QOL improvements, redesigned Kanto, the visible glitches fixed and the revamped plot.
Before I write about the downsides I have a couple of questions: How to you plan to make the Last Word forms available, (or the current method if they are presently?) Do you plan on making all the bonéka obtainable throughout the game? Will breeding island be re-added? will the multiplayer features be available in the final version?
Is the Kokoro in the power plant a placeholder? Since i already caught it in Shion Town.
Downsides, the main problem is that player side abilities are coming into effect to early (before the opponents bonéka is sent out), when you switch a bonéka in after fainting an opponent, in most cases this does not really matter, unless you have an ability like intimidate, it fails (screenshots provided), I am using RetroArch vba-m.
iDollDex changes: Have the EX bonéka been removed? the SS (Swimsuit) water stone evolution's are removed. The biggest deal breaker for me though, is that the Last Word forms of Sanae, Reimu and Marisa have been removed. I would like to see those forms re-added, if they are just not in the iDollDex then that's perfectly fine. The Last Word forms are one of the big reasons to play the game, I would be very disappointed if all the Last Word forms are not in the game.
(for those who don't know gen 3 Pokemon games have 65535 valid Pokémon slots, most of which are filled by
Decamark you still only have 386 Pokédex slots, the main limitation is that you can only 426 Pokémon at a time (14(boxes)*30(per box) = 420 + 6(party) 426 total), going over limit unless you can add more boxes, simply means you can't create a
Living Pokédex with a single save file)
Overall a great game so far.
Screenshots below (if there is a better way to add a gallery, without the use of an external hosting provider, let me know and I will update this post. I cannot find an embed gallery tool in the post editor)