I enjoyed the beta, mainly because of the new Pokémon, but I feel that it could have been much better. The new Pokémon were fantastic, but the maps, plot, and gameplay lacked any innovation. It was still very fun to play, though.
Well, the main point of this demo was actually only to give the player a taste of the storyline, and what's to come in the future :)
Those maps you saw were extremely old, such as Berrywood Town, Route 52, Selwood Forest and Lake Luxor, so we actually need a new and better mapper desperately, seeing as I won't be around to do the mapping anymore, even though I've improved a lot in the last while. Maybe I could quickly redo some of these maps before the update? Do you think that would that improve the demo by much?
There should be more features such as the PTA (Pokémon Trainer Assistant, a pun of PDA), a new menu system, custom graphics, custom tiles, better sprites as our spriter has gotten better since, new text boxes, improved maps and so on. All of that should come in the next demo, so it might take a while to do all of that stuff D:
One thing I'd like to know is why you didn't like the plot? I believe I was the first to come up with one like this in a Pokémon game, and then people started coming up with almost identical ones, so perhaps that's why it seems to be like other games. The plot does get very interesting after you go further on in the game, though.
Huzzah! A beta. But all good things lead somewhere. Like the leaving of houndoomed and the taking over of this project by lorem ipsum
Well, hopefully that shouldn't be a bad thing ;)
Oh, and keep those bug reporting coming, I need all of them to be fixed for the next update!
And I'd like to have some new, custom stuff for the next update, too, so you won't be bored. I may even decide to change the events around too, to be more exciting.