More than a little sad to find this hack so late!
Little additions to the plot of a Canon pokemon game always improve the experience, Jake and Vanessa appeared not as often as I would have liked but felt genuine and interesting characters.
Vanessa was specially well introduced with her appearing on random routes in order to keep progress and forge a relationship with the MC, she really is the best love interest no one imagined.
Jake is a tad more random, we know nothing about him just that he is a good trainer and possibly comes from a wealthy background, an old friend of the rival?Gotta note that is Jaje that seeks the MC out not on an accidental way like Vanessa but actively.
Then we had the Blue headed researcher named Stark that claimed to work for Oak but clearly has his own agenda going on, kinda like an Acromo type with a "All is valid for my research" as his personal ideology,
The branching plot was a minor feature but spiced the classic fire red playthrough,
One thing I didn't check is
In conclusion an improved version of Fire Red that actually was engaging to play, pretty minor impact on the branching plot but 3 different finals were teased so probably all of it connects later and four original characters counting Stark the researcher and the mysterious guy(seen on the preview pics on the post) that break the monotony of a game we all know.
I hope the developers come back to the rom at some point as the 1.33 beta left us with 6/7 possible badges, you can even catch Articuno if you want and visit the Power Plant to see the beginning of the Zapdos Rocket event script(do not go out the usual door after catching Zappy the game blacks out turn back) so yeah the developers just need to add the fall of Giovanni,Stark's side story, more appearances of the rivals, different dialogue at some points and all would be ready for the eventual plot's conclusion.
Do cone back please!