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Firstly go to the Tower of Fate above Silkwind Town, and speak with Chaomega. Then go to Lost Shadow Valley.
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Ruby hack: [Hack of the Year 2011] Pokémon Ruby Destiny - Life of Guardians
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Firstly go to the Tower of Fate above Silkwind Town, and speak with Chaomega. Then go to Lost Shadow Valley.
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acrobatic effing pirouette.
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Oh, thank you. The order in the guide tool/walkthrough was reversed, haha.
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"All the scripts work as intended, the difficulty curve is a little more elevated than the average Pokemon game."
youtube.com/watch?v=RCathbp72d0&feature=plcp
yes this game is flawless and has no bugs everything works fine
As for music and sprites, I'll just leave these here for you to compare. The music and sprites are from Pokemon Vega and Touhou Puppet Play 1.812, and Life of Guardians.
imgur.com/a/8JPEW
youtube.com/watch?v=HFnHc7yT004
youtube.com/watch?v=J4y83-zI2Rk
youtube.com/watch?v=LFJdIzsjYpM
youtube.com/watch?v=flwJqAjt6N8&feature=plcp
And listing all the issues this game has with balance would take far too much time, so I'll just list a few things.
Iron Slash, Deep Water, Pyro Strike- All moves with absurd base power with little to no drawbacks
Flame Wheel TM- Even though Flamethrower exists
Icy Wind TM- Because Ice Beam ex-
No Ice Beam TM- siiiiiiiigh
Mega Punch and Mega Kick TMs- Because they aren't totally worthless moves?
>1000 BST Enemy-only super bosses- Because this is the only way to create difficulty and requiring the player to toxic everything is difficulty.
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1) Funny, this has never happened to me, nor to the majority of LoG players. Expecting a game to be 100% flawless is an idiotic stretch. Not even the official games are free of game-breaking bugs. Honestly, you're a clear genius if you know that all great games are bug-free, aren't you?
2) I'm aware how LoG has a few problems with the outlines. This alone does not simply make it a "sh**** game." Plus, you've only listed two different hacks that have better music and spriting than LoG. This alone does not make LoG "pure crap."
3) You pretty much need the absurd moves if you don't want to Toxic stall the super bosses, or have a good chance against the Master 17. Not to mentioned that most of the 1530 BST bosses are optional, which means that you don't need to face all bosses to beat the game. And I fail to see how the TM listing has anything to do with balance.
And honestly, you've repeatedly said that LoG is crap, yet you've only offered to give two counterexamples. If you'd really want to make a point, then you'd have given me a whole library of hacks that have professional-level songs and sprites. Seriously, just because LoG does not have the bests sprites nor the best songs does not mean the game is bad. Not to mention that you've yet to back up your claim that LoG's plot is like a fanfic written by a ten year-old.
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I played this and i gotta say ... this was legendary
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Thats because you have to do the Plane event first at all costs to chain story branching. After that the Team Earth's grunt will disappear who is freezing the game
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how do you make skarmory evolve into skarmegier
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Level 36ish. My Skarmory evolved at around that level.
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what type is stormidran the mystery pokemon in the mineral cave located in bonquet field
i lost on the aircraft because i didnt go to the aircraft then i was sent to team earth's base after i did that i went mt. krystal and i got stuck on the top with ranger leanna and kevin.
what do i supposed to do
ok thanks for the help Ach7AC
i lost on the aircraft because i didnt go to the aircraft then i was sent to team earth's base after i did that i went mt. krystal and i got stuck on the top with ranger leanna and kevin.
what do i supposed to do
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IIRC, Stormidran is Dragon/Electric. And did you choose the good side or the bad side?
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What do you mean by good or bad side because it rarely appears as a level 42
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Did you choose to join the Rangers or Team Earth?
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i dont know because mark was saying something about you wont ruin our plans
but this time im going to finish the aircraft mission and then go to mt. krystal
how does magneton evolve what using the thunderstone
but this time im going to finish the aircraft mission and then go to mt. krystal
how does magneton evolve what using the thunderstone
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can the zubat family learn fly in this game
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Tiny Umbrella with Lots and Lots of Good
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oh no my lp got linked here i guess i have to post now
Before anything else I will say that yes, this hack has a lot of content. There's a lot of new maps, custom trainers, and mons, and yes I'm aware that takes a lot of work to put together. It's also fairly stable for something so large- the camera breaking in the end-game was the only major thing I noticed that was clearly a glitch and not a design flaw. Unfortunately simply having a lot of stuff does *not* make it a good game.
The sprites are not good quality. I'm sorry if you think they are, but they're not- ???????? is simply a pair of red eyes on a black background which looks ridiculous, Zah is simply the same eyes on a black blotch of paint, and don't even get me started on the female PC's backsprite. A bunch of 4th and 5th gen mons also have shoddily resized sprites the most prominent being Giratina-A (a mandatory endgame fight).
imgur.com/a/pEmiM
(ignore the Lilligant back, I hacked that in because I didn't feel like grinding 40 levels to slog through postgame content when it just alternates between 1000+ BST and mega punch zoroarks)
The music is not good quality. Again I'm sorry if you think they are, but when you have at least five songs blatantly borrowed from unrelated mainstream commercial games and another one that consists of four high-pitched notes repeated, it gets annoying, especially to someone who is fond of RSE's vanilla soundtrack.
As for the balance- what balance? What difficulty? Half the time the hack is a joke because every other relevant trainer does nothing but Double Team, which is only an effective strategy if they only need one key miss to throw you off with it (see- the Battle Frontier). The ones that don't have Double Team usually have very poor (and often illegal for the player due to silly TM and TM compatibility choices) movesets- if you want challenge, why are there level 40 Floatzels using Sonicboom? Why are Gravelers using Flamethrower?
As for the moves- these make the game wildly imbalanced as the only relevant things are now mons which learn the broken TMs. Wanna use a Lunatone? Too bad, the only viable move it gets is non-STAB Iron Slash off its weaker attacking stat. Wanna use a Pidgeot? Too bad, it doesn't get any good moves whatsoever so you're basically punishing yourself for using it over something like Iron Slash Skarmiger, Vine Dance Exegglent, or Drought Pyro Strike Ninetales. When the new moves have base powers comparable to V-Create without any sort of downside, and are given to things with attacking stats stronger than Victini's (Exegglent has the same special as Chandelure for crying out loud!), do you seriously expect things to be fair and balanced? Note that balance does not mean it can be reasonably done- it means that everything is viable and has a niche. You shouldn't punish the player if they happen to like Crobat and want to have one on their team.
Not to mention in late post-game any strategy which relies on dealing raw damage is going to fail because there are a bunch of things have 255/255/255 bulk that takes ages to break down while you're being hit with moves off 255 attacking stats coming from 255 speed (which is faster than max speed Deoxys-S without EVs). This is not challenging- this is forcing the player to use specific mons. There are ways of creating challenge without giving things 1530 BST and dictating they use status to win- they're also known as the ways the main games create challenge. One of the better qualities of Pokemon is the mechanical symmetry between the player and the computer- they never use something that you won't be able to eventually. Throwing mons with straight 255s for base stats at the player that are 30 levels higher than the last thing they fought is not challenging- it's a check to see if you're carrying a Pokedoll or a status move that can kill it.
Finally the "plot"- I'd go into detail here but I think reading the Let's Play that DarkenedWolf linked will do a better job detailing my problems with it. For the most part, they broil down to it being filled with contrivances, massive walls of text, and far more characters than I can keep track of or care about.
A few more points- the lack of money is not challenge due to the fact that the player has access to Pickup Combee (in Ruby) and mini-games with absurdly high yields that you're effectively forced to play if you want any money at all. No, I do not expect a game to be 100% perfect, but I do expect there to be few enough problems with it that I cannot do a Let's Play where I am able to do almost nothing but gripe at the game. No, I do not consider graphics to be the most important part of the game, but when the graphics are so bad they distract from the game it becomes a problem. Back-tracking is a problem with gameplay when every route is full of unavoidable grass with encounters that waste your time and the game never bothers to tell you where to go outside of the hint rocks, which shouldn't be necessary (but are a nice feature). If you think that none of my arguments are valid and this is still the best hack ever, which is what some of you seem to be saying, then go on thinking it, but I strongly encourage you to raise your standards.
Oh, and to the people claiming Nuzlocke folks are hypocrites for blasting this and liking Vega and Touhoumon:
>The IPS file was linked instead of the thread because Nuzlocke Forums unfortunately doesn't allow people who haven't registered to view the board in which the hack was posted. It's Yet Another Fire Red hack, if you want to take a look (it's actually mine, and feel free to criticize it if you think it's bad)- I can't post it here because it doesn't do enough OW editing to qualify for Hacks Showcase but has a gym quest and is thus not allowed in Sideshow Showcase.
>Most of the problems with Vega emerge from the language barrier. It also provides reasonable challenges, unlike this one- there are exactly two fights with enemy-exclusive mons, one of which never goes above 600 BST and the other is the final post-game superboss. It also has much better sprites and music.
>OF COURSE the music in the Touhoumon games is all remixes of music from other games- that's because it's from Touhou. Vega also contain a few remixes of Pokemon music, which is fine- the problems come in when you shove Saria's Song and Lucca's theme in when your game has nothing to do with Zelda or Chrono Trigger.
>The edited Gardevoir sprite is actually an alternative evolution path for the line- it's supposed to resemble Gardevoir.
>This is criticism. Of course we're going to point out LOG's flaws and show how other games do better. I also do take the time to point out things I think LOG does well in the Let's Play- unfortunately they're few and far between, and basically amount to "It doesn't crash randomly."
Lastly I would like to thank PC's spam-protection for deleting my post for containing URLs that were relevant but not properly trimmed. That was real nice, I enjoy having to type things twice because my post-count is not high enough for such luxuries as linking to screenshots.
Before anything else I will say that yes, this hack has a lot of content. There's a lot of new maps, custom trainers, and mons, and yes I'm aware that takes a lot of work to put together. It's also fairly stable for something so large- the camera breaking in the end-game was the only major thing I noticed that was clearly a glitch and not a design flaw. Unfortunately simply having a lot of stuff does *not* make it a good game.
The sprites are not good quality. I'm sorry if you think they are, but they're not- ???????? is simply a pair of red eyes on a black background which looks ridiculous, Zah is simply the same eyes on a black blotch of paint, and don't even get me started on the female PC's backsprite. A bunch of 4th and 5th gen mons also have shoddily resized sprites the most prominent being Giratina-A (a mandatory endgame fight).
imgur.com/a/pEmiM
(ignore the Lilligant back, I hacked that in because I didn't feel like grinding 40 levels to slog through postgame content when it just alternates between 1000+ BST and mega punch zoroarks)
The music is not good quality. Again I'm sorry if you think they are, but when you have at least five songs blatantly borrowed from unrelated mainstream commercial games and another one that consists of four high-pitched notes repeated, it gets annoying, especially to someone who is fond of RSE's vanilla soundtrack.
As for the balance- what balance? What difficulty? Half the time the hack is a joke because every other relevant trainer does nothing but Double Team, which is only an effective strategy if they only need one key miss to throw you off with it (see- the Battle Frontier). The ones that don't have Double Team usually have very poor (and often illegal for the player due to silly TM and TM compatibility choices) movesets- if you want challenge, why are there level 40 Floatzels using Sonicboom? Why are Gravelers using Flamethrower?
As for the moves- these make the game wildly imbalanced as the only relevant things are now mons which learn the broken TMs. Wanna use a Lunatone? Too bad, the only viable move it gets is non-STAB Iron Slash off its weaker attacking stat. Wanna use a Pidgeot? Too bad, it doesn't get any good moves whatsoever so you're basically punishing yourself for using it over something like Iron Slash Skarmiger, Vine Dance Exegglent, or Drought Pyro Strike Ninetales. When the new moves have base powers comparable to V-Create without any sort of downside, and are given to things with attacking stats stronger than Victini's (Exegglent has the same special as Chandelure for crying out loud!), do you seriously expect things to be fair and balanced? Note that balance does not mean it can be reasonably done- it means that everything is viable and has a niche. You shouldn't punish the player if they happen to like Crobat and want to have one on their team.
Not to mention in late post-game any strategy which relies on dealing raw damage is going to fail because there are a bunch of things have 255/255/255 bulk that takes ages to break down while you're being hit with moves off 255 attacking stats coming from 255 speed (which is faster than max speed Deoxys-S without EVs). This is not challenging- this is forcing the player to use specific mons. There are ways of creating challenge without giving things 1530 BST and dictating they use status to win- they're also known as the ways the main games create challenge. One of the better qualities of Pokemon is the mechanical symmetry between the player and the computer- they never use something that you won't be able to eventually. Throwing mons with straight 255s for base stats at the player that are 30 levels higher than the last thing they fought is not challenging- it's a check to see if you're carrying a Pokedoll or a status move that can kill it.
Finally the "plot"- I'd go into detail here but I think reading the Let's Play that DarkenedWolf linked will do a better job detailing my problems with it. For the most part, they broil down to it being filled with contrivances, massive walls of text, and far more characters than I can keep track of or care about.
A few more points- the lack of money is not challenge due to the fact that the player has access to Pickup Combee (in Ruby) and mini-games with absurdly high yields that you're effectively forced to play if you want any money at all. No, I do not expect a game to be 100% perfect, but I do expect there to be few enough problems with it that I cannot do a Let's Play where I am able to do almost nothing but gripe at the game. No, I do not consider graphics to be the most important part of the game, but when the graphics are so bad they distract from the game it becomes a problem. Back-tracking is a problem with gameplay when every route is full of unavoidable grass with encounters that waste your time and the game never bothers to tell you where to go outside of the hint rocks, which shouldn't be necessary (but are a nice feature). If you think that none of my arguments are valid and this is still the best hack ever, which is what some of you seem to be saying, then go on thinking it, but I strongly encourage you to raise your standards.
Oh, and to the people claiming Nuzlocke folks are hypocrites for blasting this and liking Vega and Touhoumon:
>The IPS file was linked instead of the thread because Nuzlocke Forums unfortunately doesn't allow people who haven't registered to view the board in which the hack was posted. It's Yet Another Fire Red hack, if you want to take a look (it's actually mine, and feel free to criticize it if you think it's bad)- I can't post it here because it doesn't do enough OW editing to qualify for Hacks Showcase but has a gym quest and is thus not allowed in Sideshow Showcase.
>Most of the problems with Vega emerge from the language barrier. It also provides reasonable challenges, unlike this one- there are exactly two fights with enemy-exclusive mons, one of which never goes above 600 BST and the other is the final post-game superboss. It also has much better sprites and music.
>OF COURSE the music in the Touhoumon games is all remixes of music from other games- that's because it's from Touhou. Vega also contain a few remixes of Pokemon music, which is fine- the problems come in when you shove Saria's Song and Lucca's theme in when your game has nothing to do with Zelda or Chrono Trigger.
>The edited Gardevoir sprite is actually an alternative evolution path for the line- it's supposed to resemble Gardevoir.
>This is criticism. Of course we're going to point out LOG's flaws and show how other games do better. I also do take the time to point out things I think LOG does well in the Let's Play- unfortunately they're few and far between, and basically amount to "It doesn't crash randomly."
Lastly I would like to thank PC's spam-protection for deleting my post for containing URLs that were relevant but not properly trimmed. That was real nice, I enjoy having to type things twice because my post-count is not high enough for such luxuries as linking to screenshots.
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I got 4 Pokemon on my current team:
Charizard
Golem
Magnezone
Lapras
I need a fast grass pokemon, and possibly a flying type or psychic or ghost
Charizard
Golem
Magnezone
Lapras
I need a fast grass pokemon, and possibly a flying type or psychic or ghost
"Brace yourselves! A ****storm is brewing!"
...But seriously, this arguement is largely based on opinion, not fact. LoG isn't perfect, no game is. That doesn't mean we can take all flaws and call it crap while taking all good from others and all them brilliant. If you want a fair comparison, compare the good and bad of both. I see contradictions in both arguements. We have our favorites but that shouldn't mean we should glorify them and call others terrible. I am a fan of DJG's work but he's not a god or a noob.
For the people that criticize LoG, honestly, I want to call you haters and tell you to GTFO, but that'd be biased hate. We're all entitled to our own opinion. Just don't be an ass about it. (That applies to LoG fans too.)
...But seriously, this arguement is largely based on opinion, not fact. LoG isn't perfect, no game is. That doesn't mean we can take all flaws and call it crap while taking all good from others and all them brilliant. If you want a fair comparison, compare the good and bad of both. I see contradictions in both arguements. We have our favorites but that shouldn't mean we should glorify them and call others terrible. I am a fan of DJG's work but he's not a god or a noob.
For the people that criticize LoG, honestly, I want to call you haters and tell you to GTFO, but that'd be biased hate. We're all entitled to our own opinion. Just don't be an ass about it. (That applies to LoG fans too.)
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To the people talking about Touhou or whatever the hell, take it elsewhere. You're getting a bit rude, and while the original point was somewhat related to this hack, it's starting to stray. Having different opinions is fine, but don't let it lead to name calling and arguing about other things.
Now please, back on track please.
Now please, back on track please.
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Just started and I'm enjoying it so far. Though I wish the custom Pokemon were more common; I wanted a Chirpich, and was running around in the grass for a long time and never came across one. All I got were Pidgey and Furruny. Same with the Safari Zone; I was running around hoping to come across Stronthio, nope. Only got one and it ran. The rest of the pokemon were either Growlithe or Ponyta. I really want to try out these custom pokemon, but I can't because I can't get any!
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Are you sure you're looking in the right place for Chirpich? Have a look in the grass north of Silkwind Town. Hm...How about when you find a Stronthio or something else you want go to File->Save Game and select a file. Then you can just press F(number of file you saved on) and return to that moment.
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