so um
a friend of mine started playing this hack a few days ago
s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8720347/1/
I'm sure all of you will just defend this hack and its horrible qualities,(which isn't that surprising, I don't think Pokecommunity has ever produced a good hack) but seriously. Why do people like this hack? 1)The sprites are horrible, 2)the fakemon aren't well designed, 3)a lot of the music is blatantly ripped from other games, 4)the plot sounds like a piece of terrible fanfiction, and 5)there is absolutely ZERO balance to the game. Yet it somehow won hack of the year (not that the other hacks were much better) and people still treat it like the best game ever made.
1) How exactly are the sprites horrible? I do acknowledge that Jagold recycled quite a lot of sprites, but the ones that were custom-made were quite polished.
2) To me, the fakemon sort of stood out as their style was somewhat different than Game Freak's, but many of the fakemon sprites (especially Felinar) were stellar.
3) And what did you expect? Most hacks do not even change the music. Expecting a fan-game to have an original piece that rivals the work of somebody such as Uematsu is a bit of a stretch, isn't it?
4) To me, Ruby Destiny's plot was better than many of the main series' plots. Most of the official games use the same old formula, but Jagold broke the formula, refused to focus on the badge quest, and even added a web of gambits between the characters. Not to mention that creating a fork in the story is something that not even Game Freak has even thought of doing in a main-series game.
5) Balance? You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means. Rant about the final battles and the side-quests as much as you like, the game was deliberately rigged to be challenging.
Plus, I've noticed how most of the forums kept picking on the badly-inserted Gen IV&Gen V sprites, which is sort if idiotic, at best.
"I'm sorry, I didn't realise having taste meant I have to like something as messy, broken, unfair and unpolished as this "hack."
Evidence for this? All the scripts work as intended, the difficulty curve is a little more elevated than the average Pokemon game.
Honestly, ever tried actually playing the game rather than nitpicking all of its flaws?