SinisterHoodedFigure:
I dont know how much you still care about this, but I just beat this game and I wanted to give you my thoughts and maybe also some tips for others just discovering this game.
- overall, 10/10 hack for me. i love gsc and i feel like you brought out a lot of its potential.
- not kaizo enough on shift mode; had to play on set and also not allow myself to heal while in battle.
- would have been nice if the ai also couldn't heal.
- love the level of detail you put into this. examples: housing developments in kanto, crushed houses in cinnibar.
- some documentation on level up moves and bst changes would have been nice.
- i strongly believe hms shouldnt be mandadory beyond a certain point, even for kaizo games. but i forgive you.
- you managed to make a difficulty hack that still feels like it could be a main series game, so nice job.
for those interested, here's the team i used:
some strategies i used (remember on set mode, you dont get a free switch after a ko):
- for the first shuckle, i had to fish for spdef drops and then pray suicune would hit surfs. definitely the hardest fight pre-red.
- once i got toxic and protect, i could beat shuckles very reliably by stalling its pp with gengar and suicune, then toxic stalling with umbreon.
- umbreon was my answer to pretty much every special attacker, including shf (shoulda made it poison type)
- explosion + espeed was my answer to mew and celebi
- other mons i used along the way: politoed, murkrow, raichu, typhlosion, piloswine