Hi there! First of all, sorry for my broken english (it's not my mother tongue)
I am very impress with this hack. It was a same you were gone but now that you have come back I encorage you to continue because it's really impressive your great work. One of the best hack I have ever seen (in terms of feautures and plot) Keep going and forget the bad cricts (they are just envious)
Secondly, I have some doubts, so I would like to ask you some questions:
-In the main post, you said: "some pokemon are buffed or nerfed" Does it mean that all the evolved pokemon are competitively playable? I mean, some of the pokemon we love have stats and abilities that are shit (for instance, one of my favourites, Furret) so we don't have a place in our teams. It would be great if all the pokemon could have a good stats or movepool (nothing too buffed) so you won't waste time training them.
-The plot in Alola region as it seems in the trailer it is just to explore and have fun? Maybe something related to the Ultra Beast
-About the Anime Pokemon who has Type ?? Does they have STAB Moves? I mean, if there are moves of type ?? made for them. Maybe they should have a First type (Normal, Ghosht Psychic and Normal respectively) and then ??, but I dunno. I have the same doubt with Shadow Pokemon.
-I suposed that the clone pokemon, the Beta Bellosoom and the orange forms have some change in abilities, movepool, maybe stats... Am I right?
-The lavander tower pokemon of the Trailer can evolve?
-As there are so many pokemon in the hack (which is awesome) do you have increase the capacity of the PC?
To finish, I have some suggestions. You (Aesthode and the supporters of the hack) may not share my opinion. As they are just suggestions, it's not important.
-I would love to see the first post updated. It has no improve since you left. It would be a good place to put the trailer and the other videos.
-As there are so many pokemons, to increase the difficulty, you could updated the Type Chart with "fake types" like light (for pokes like Sunflora, Ampharos, Lanturn...) cosmic (for Clefable, Metragross Deoxys) or sound (for Jigglipluff -the anime one would love it- Exploud...) These will increase the options (and maybe the gymleaders and Elite Four members)
-I dont know but... because it is not specified in the features, but maybe new original moves would be a great feature. Other hacks like Pokemon Vega or Pokemon Final Red (the spanish hack) have added them and they are surprising and awesome.
Thanks for reading. My best wishes for you and your hack Aesthestode =)