[Released] Postscriptum

[AenaonDusky]

Welcome to the world of PostScriptum.
This is the main game to which PS: The First Journey was made as a prequel.
Get ready for the most unique fangame you have ever played!



The game will be out soon! You can watch the EeveeExpo Trailer here:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmRnoizZ-KY



What is this game about?

Follow the steps of the protagonist, a melancholic young adult stricken by unemployment and paralyzed by a chronic care-free and lethargic attitude. His redemption-seeking and guilt-averting efforts are eventually met with a job interview, at none other than the Pokemon Couriers, a prestigious, esteemed, and highly regarded organization. Setting his sights on the future, he attempts for the last time to begin anew.

In the meantime, you are encouraged to read the following game reviews, verified by ImAGameJournalistTrust.me!

Spoiler:

"Okay, I've been looking for a game to play after finishing E.T. on NES (yes, you read that right on the NES). Well, to tell you the truth, I started playing Postscript out of sheer boredom. I was like, 'no freaking way there's a game worse than that garbage, man'. Boy, was I wrong. I'd rate PS 0.1/10 - it is the ONLY game that has managed to dethrone E.T. in the department of.... well, everything?
- MOBAsAreBetterThanLife


"I can still remember the first time. My first time experience with this... 'game'. Let me make it clear to you from the beginning: you do not want to play this game. It's torture. Cutscenes are painfully long, NPC dialogue is ... elementary school - level awful and worst of all, IT TAKES HALF AN HOUR TO EVEN LET YOU ASSUME CONTROL OF THE PLAYER, ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? Listen to me, do not play this game."
-AWPCamper69


"Sigh... Where to begin...? First of all, there's a lot of misinformation throughout the game. When I'm playing games, I'm expecting 100% real-world authenticity, especially when the content of such a work is touching upon the most intellectual of issues. Then again, I have never found any game that could satisfy my elite 1% genetically gifted brain - and I say this as someone with an IQ of over 420. Such a number is, inevitably, the sole indicator of mental superiority. I do not detect the need to further provide any other explanation on the reasons one should be staying away from this."
-FedoraLeCritic32


"RPGs are all about pen and paper"
- Someone old


"SO I CLEANEDING BATHROOM ONCE. THEN SOAP FELL ON FLOOR! OH THE HORORR! INASMUCH I WAS USING GLEENEX, I INADVERTENTLY STUMBLED UP ON A FLOPPY DISK! I INSETTED THAT ON PIM-BO 9000. GAME HAS NO LEGENDERES. I REFUTE PLAYING. THATS ALL."
-Igor the Swabbie


"What is a game? Is it a work of art? Is it an opportunity to capitalise on, and subsequently sell 200 DLC that cost three times the base product? We believe so. However, this game doesn't even support mandatory DLC. If you wish to be seen as a proper developer, at least consider submitting a Season Pass"
-CF (Computerized Farts)


"When I'd first started playing... I was expecting to waste a couple of hours or so. I ended up wasting far more - I could have spent that time being a contributing-to-society individual, instead. I'm placing all the blame on this game for forcing me to stray from my path."
-GamersAreAllLosers


"Okay, okay. I have played more than 10.000 JRPGs - I consider myself a pro in that regard. I have also visited Japan numerous times, and have witnessed firsthand their incredible artistic capabilities, manifested in glorious epics such as "Super Monster Fisher Imagination 25". This game lacks a proper in-depth strategic battle system. Its plot keeps dragging on and on (I'd say it is even longer than certain classics, and I am really torn about this - is that a good or a bad thing?) References to Japan are kept to a minimum - as a result, I cannot continue playing this game any longer. It does have its fair share of waifus though, so I'll give it a 9/10."
-Naruhodo Kyosuke


"This is like Trebuchets in AOE2. Its freaking annoying"
- IStillPlayOnWin98


"What the Ducklett man. The main character in this game has managed to build great calves from.... walking? Lol, everyone knows that without a 5x5x5x5 lifting routine, and an absorption of at least 4times your bodyweight in protein, such growth cannot take place. This game is misinformation in itself. Oh well, back to buying protein powders for me."
- HenryTricepMaster



"This game must have been made by illogical, emotional, loud Southerners."
- Logical, cold, silent Northerner


"This game is contrarian."
- A contrarian.


"The jokes in this game are worse than my math grades."
- Social sciences sophomore


"Juxtaposing the innate qualities of an astonishingly well structured narrative, to the total ellipsis of a proper theoretical understanding of underlining Vorverstadnis of osmotic parenthesis, one can arrive at the conclusion of an ever-present misdirection of opposites, to which, and after a self-critical approximation of spatial conscience (from which no pure ontological perspective can be extrapolated) there is a clear lack of interpretation of the words of Dhefack Imsayin, an invaluable contributor to consensual epispermologies of the being - to such an indefinite cosmological approximation (inescapably, inevitably and unavoidably as well) that, quite uncharacteristically, is expressed within the confines of a non-chronical Epanaprosdiorismus - a redefinition of lack of full stop in the texts of inquirers of the non- empirical."
- Social sciences Major


"game lacks stuff"
- Maths Major


"I'd like to leave a humorous loop here, but I just can't program for the life of mine"
- L33+, unemployed programmer

"This game is a disgrace to the franchise. It doesn't even include 9th gen Pokemon. I cannot find my favorites in the wild. I cannot find any HMs. It also makes use of, like, Latin or whatnot to appear more
' serious'. Pathetic. Somebody is unaware of their tropes."
- Hates-Genwunners


"This game needs a tutor to understand how the metagame works. Everyone that disagrees with me has probably never even reached the top of the Ladder. Is ELO and GlICKO too much for you noobs? Also cracking 'jokes' at the Smoke'on community ain't funny. We take competitive imaginary digital cockfighting very seriously"
- A random guy from Slowdown


"Citation needed. This game needs a cleanup. Sources are biased. Delete this. Citation needed"
- Wikipedia Moderator for a Living


"Xenoua, the Warrior anti-Medicine Princess, disagrees with this"
- A Philosophologist


"This game is not 8bit."
- pixelover


"This game is pretending to be something it is not. It fails at everything and lacks in all areas, particularly in mapping"
- Reality Check


"From an atrociously composed soundtrack, to a cringeworthy narrative, Postscriptum never fails to disappoint. I can only give this a 2/10"
- /r/ProGameReviews


"This game is biased towards the poor"
- iInheritedMyGrandma


"[SPEECH 100] This game reminds me of the Big Empty"
- Courier Six


"As a professional reviewer, I'm not very good at games. But you don't need to be good at something to judge it, right? Right guys?"
- Jorge Sakamoto


"I would starve in this game"
- Big Smoke


"I will take legal action against the new Saffron Gym for taking over ours"
- Former Fighting-Type Saffron Gym Leader


"The Vikings used to be the strongest warriors in all of existence"
- Someone pwned by the Irish (and basically by anyone with a normal army, also utterly ridiculed by the Byzantines)


"HAhahahaha..."
- Lex Luthor, Superman 64


"When logic ends, logic begins"
- Logic


"This game has inspired me to quit games"
- A Gamer


"It has been empirically proven that showing game review abstracts to potential players serves to present your game in a very positive manner. However, no review can portray this game in a positive manner"
- An empiricist


"Where's the @#[imath]%^ map when you @#[/imath]%^ need one, @#$%^"
- Dorka the Explorer, on this game's areas


"I'm Commander Sheepfart, and this is my least favourite game in the universe"
- Commander Sheepfart, Paragon build, before contemplating on which colored ending to choose from


"This game is a contradiction"
- Smiles Edgywork, after obsessing over evidence and contradictions


"Kantonians are shorter than Kalosians"
- A short Kalosian


"Did you know that the first gen Pokemon games had a reference in them that was making fun of nerds?"
- A Pokemon Nerd


"Mega Score: 100. User Score: 0.
This is obviously a great game"
- Megascore


"I love this game! You can climb up buildings! I wish we had that implemented back when we had first made The Youth Pamphlets IV: Catastrophe"
- Bott Coward, on climbing mountains, also Horse Armor


"We don't like the word 'Epistle' in the title of this game. It reminds us that we cannot actually count to three. We prefer abandoning our franchise, like, in the middle of the series - hence our company's name!"
- Halve


"I'm an N fangirl and this game doesn't even reference him. Puke game"
- An obsessed woman in her 30ies


"Myth of Lank: Sniff of the Tame is the best closed-world climbing simulator, we're gonna imitate that in our own next installment!"
- Bott Coward on mountains, again


"This game reminds me of America, America"
- A Film Connoisseur


"Anything mainstream sucks "
- An Elitist, very smart and with better taste than you, most definitely


"Anything not mainstream sucks"
- A Mainstream Elitist, loves iCarly and Sitcoms


"The German Tradition practitioners of historical fencing are far, far, FAR more competent than those Fiore airheads"
- A Man chosen by the Masters themselves


"Anime is the best style of animation "
- Someone who is not an animator


"I gain no satisfaction from playing games anymore"
- Someone with more hours spent on steam than Sir Gampen outside of steam


"I love this game. I'm playing with all settings on max and 60fps as well! 10/10! Take that, console peasants!"
- A PC Enthusiast, has bought a JTX-Giant Reference at launch, has sold house and conscience to do so

"The baby..!"
- A very vulnerable Zamus


"Maths is important"
- History


"When does a game really showcase its flawed design concept?
When it is wrong on so many levels"
- Someone unfunny


"I want to judge a game based on its fanbase"
- Nobody cares


"Had the ancients ever been able to choose only one videogame among many to play, which one would that have been?"
- The Internet


"Even Postscriptum's graphics are better than 'Killer's Dogma: Historically Inaccurate Satrap of Assyria Ripoff Pseudo-Mythological Sequel Factory's story"
- Truth


"Is Dank Psyches a JRPG? I'm confused"
- QuoteAccu commentator


"But... what if 1+1 = Artemisia is a parallel universe where the protagonist is alive? Just a theory. A game theory"
- Videogame Speculators


"I have only injured myself 300 times doing crossfit. That means it's demanding, right?"
- Walking wallet to the Gym


"My eloquent and unsurpassed taste in games has proved the infallible judge in me right, yet again! I am someone with an exceedingly sharp critical approach, and my irrefutable analyses always induce a fissure of enlightening thought - an eternal, ethereal, almost divine waterfall of invaluable feedback that can only be described as 'a magnanimous service to the evolution of game development'. I am indeed aware that most, sigh, game 'developers' are absolute amateurs, yet I cannot resist engaging in unprecedented logodiarrhoea, a practice which will undoubtedly help those amateurs understand their erroneous ways. Most Pokémon Fangames are to me - and, thus, only to the most sophisticated of players - poo, starting from their very inception - objectively speaking - and honestly, this one not only is, but looks the part as well. After playing about five or so minutes, I finally knew: this Postwhatever is the worst of the bunch"
- Scream review, hours played : 0.1


"This game is the worst manga ever"
- A comics hoarder


"I know all there is about this!"
- Sophomores in general


"Puts walking simulators out of business"
- Edgy Magazine



"The less showers you take, the better this game smells"
- Dirty is the new clean


-I was hoping this game would be different, I really was. It had potential in regards to presenting something intricate and eloquent. However after finishing the demo I came to the conclusion that it is nothing more than another emotion-based story, and cheaply done at that. As with most games, it threw all decency out of the window by emphasizing cliche situations, such as overcoming obstacles through persistence, self-examination and reflection and the usual out-of-thin-air inspiration garbage that somehow works. I cannot understand the appeal of such concepts, I mean, sure in the end it probably is a matter of taste, but then again most people like shallow stuff. I'm sure its gonna end with some sort of sappy pathological compassion trope, as usual. Back to playing deep, convoluted jrpgs where not everything is black and white and cliche, and in the end the player defeats some sort of superentity. Such deep games.
- Cool story bro


"I've no idea what I'm talking about, here, let me carry your suitcase for you"
- Professor's Assistant

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[karnamata]

game is nice.but very confusing, no map,how to reach northeast area make an walkthrough but again the game and graphics are awesome

 

[AenaonDusky]

game is nice.but very confusing, no map,how to reach northeast area make an walkthrough but again the game and graphics are awesome

Thank you very much for your feedback!

You are right, a map will be implemented eventually, that's why I included a
Cap's "Hand drawn map", which gives ... some directions.

And you are also right about the complexity, the thing is we're not sure
about the entire progression for now. Do you think more "direct"
clues should be given? The idea is to reward those who do missions...

If you have any idea I would be delighted to hear it :) thanks!
Oh, also, how did you find the music? Is it ok?
Thanks again, we appreciate it!

Lots of love <3

 

[karnamata]

man music was good and about clues give it more direct as some people like me have little patience and get irritated very fast

 

[AenaonDusky]

man music was good and about clues give it more direct as some people like me have little patience and get irritated very fast

Okay, we'll try to find the best way to implement either hints/ or better directions.
Thanks for the feedback, and thank you for enjoying the music, too!

 

[Alilatias]

Wow, this sounds incredibly promising. The premise seems ambitious, and quite -different- from anything else I've ever seen when it comes to Pokemon fangames. I'll give my thoughts in a day or two.

(If I had to guess, you got the 'Epistle' part from that debacle involving one of the writers of Half Life, particularly the ill-fated 3rd game, huh? Sad, that.)

 

[karnamata]

also make some starting fights simpler.a lot of people may find random trainers with level 15 or more when they could only train upto level 10 to 12.also some text problem is there when fighting with maractus in first city looking like a gym

 

[Alilatias]

I think the level progression is fine, but there should be dialogue indicating that you should go around town looking for requests to do. I think the game intends to have you go to the abandoned schoolhouse ASAP to pick up a ton of full heals/potions and grind there before doing anything else.

I think I beat all of the barrel gang, but the receptionist guy keeps talking as if I haven't done so. I also can't seem to find the guy that I'm supposed to give the moomoo milk to.

Trying to find this Cyan bridge in order to progress with the lady I found in the abandoned schoolhouse, and failing miserably. So miserably that my starter Pokemon is already level 23 (and probably blatantly overleveled). There should probably be signs that point you towards important landmarks. What is a city without signs? :)

Overall, I'm liking the game so far. It's quite different, and refreshing in a way. The dialogue is hilarious, and makes the MC very relate-able. The layout of the city as it currently is will probably frustrate a lot of people, however.

 

[AenaonDusky]

also make some starting fights simpler.a lot of people may find random trainers with level 15 or more when they could only train upto level 10 to 12.also some text problem is there when fighting with maractus in first city looking like a gym

Thanks for your feedback, once more. Your input is appreciated more than you think.
I will talk about this in my reply to Alilatias, it has to do with a particular design and
how we failed to implement it as it we should have xD
I was also told about this text problem but nobody could replicate it, thanks sooooo much for telling me....

I'm about to destroy that pesky bug!

I think the level progression is fine, but there should be dialogue indicating that you should go around town looking for requests to do. I think the game intends to have you go to the abandoned schoolhouse ASAP to pick up a ton of full heals/potions and grind there before doing anything else.
I think I beat all of the barrel gang, but the receptionist guy keeps talking as if I haven't done so. I also can't seem to find the guy that I'm supposed to give the moomoo milk to.
Trying to find this Cyan bridge in order to progress with the lady I found in the abandoned schoolhouse, and failing miserably. So miserably that my starter Pokemon is already level 23 (and probably blatantly overleveled). There should probably be signs that point you towards important landmarks. What is a city without signs? :)
Overall, I'm liking the game so far. It's quite different, and refreshing in a way. The dialogue is hilarious, and makes the MC very relate-able. The layout of the city as it currently is will probably frustrate a lot of people, however.

First of all, thank you immensely for reporting all this. Your opinion matters enormously.
- The Barrel Gang was supposed to reward you with... just a potion xD. There must be a problem with variable count!
- Yes you are right about the abandoned University being THE spot to go after obtaining the starter, and we need to come up with a way to direct the player more obviously towards it. (If you have any idea please speak your mind!)
I'll explain below the reasons as to why it's "convoluted" so far.
- The MooMoo Guy is the guy called Cap, in South Artemisia, as you enter go north, he is above the new wannabe post-office building the Mayor built. He's also the one that put a "map" in the game's folder. Check it out!
- Your starter is not overleveled. There is one fight in particular, which follows more "competitive" rules, and high level will be needed there. It's kind of a joke on how, when we were young, we were always overleveling because
we couldn't yet figure out strategies etc. The other fights, are more like joke-battles. The game truly begins, especially as far as progression is concerned, when you leave the city. Which you will do at the end of the demo.

- The Cyan Bridge is the blue bridge that connects South and Southeastern Artemisia. The lady is not there for reasons, and one of those being that it "forces" you to go seek her in other places, especially the school,
which is needed to complete a highly important mission. The thing is, all these should be optional, but the curious and exploration-focused player will be the one most rewarded. That's what we have to figure out how to do!
****** ^ This is referring to South Artemisia, not Southwestern (CityMarket) ^ *******, after passing through the Southern Checkpoint.

- There are also reasons there are not signs in the city, one of them being the deliberate attempt from the Mayor to distract tourists, and .... some other hidden reasons that will be uncovered later.
- That "realism" is also the reason for many early NPCs having high level pokemon. Which is how it should be in a realistic scenario. They would "never" scale with the player. But, the player who adheres to the type of "man, things
might get tough, gotta train at the Uni to level up quite a bit" or "I'm immersed enough to feel like it's real, so I've gotta always be at my strongest" will never have this kind of trouble because of... you guessed it, grinding. :P
What would someone in a "realistic" situation expect from a city full of trainers who fight to survive? You get a starter and crush everybody with 10x the experience you have? Of course this has to be balanced enough since it still
is a game, and that is the hardest part!
And this brings me to our current struggle:

Most of the design and progression things are deliberate in regards to how this city would be built in a realistic scenario (chaotic, difficult to traverse, disorienting), it also reflects the torture of the workers that built it (since they were almost
never getting paid and many of them perished in order to finish it - even before the Mayor went on with his... ehm.. plans) and must also reflect the mind of the main character (which will also be another theme wink wink) in a sense,
when somebody quite inexperienced with the outside world has to suddenly adjust his whereabouts in a big and unknown city, frustration is the only result xD
The thing is, how do we find that balance point, where we still get the message across without discouraging players? Although some people who tested it, said that after some time in the city, you get used to it
very easily and know where everything is (kinda like the point of MC's perception of things). Also, that's another reason why we included the F - speed up button ;)

Just so you know, both you and all those who help pinpoint these things WILL be mentioned in the credits. So, why not take it a step further and suggest your own ideas? :D :D :D

Lastly, I'm overjoyed that you found the game refreshing, it's exactly what we were going for! Yeah, tell me about the MC... you're in for many, many surprises with that guy...
MC being relatable (is that a word?) was our no1 priority, I'm super glad you pointed that out. Thanks a bunch!

Thanks again and lots of love <3

 

[Alilatias]

Well the thing is, I already did the university quest, and the lady asked me to join her near the gate to South part of the city. I can't find her anywhere however, and I've looked all over the city as far as I'm aware. The cops there are still barring my way.

So I'm not sure if I'm missing something somewhere or the game glitched out progression-wise.

I'm also trying to find someone who 'comments on how orange I am' and tell them something about needing bacon. The police officer says that he's supposed to be in an apartment to their right, though as far as I'm aware, I've searched every apartment and nobody comments on that.

I'm going to provide my save file for possible troubleshooting.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8jg780x8vsws5fc/Game.rxdata?dl=0

 

[AenaonDusky]

Well the thing is, I already did the university quest, and the lady asked me to join her near the gate to South part of the city. I can't find her anywhere however, and I've looked all over the city as far as I'm aware. The cops there are still barring my way.

So I'm not sure if I'm missing something somewhere or the game glitched out progression-wise.

I'm also trying to find someone who 'comments on how orange I am' and tell them something about needing bacon. The police officer says that he's supposed to be in an apartment to their right, though as far as I'm aware, I've searched every apartment and nobody comments on that.

I'm going to provide my save file for possible troubleshooting.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8jg780x8vsws5fc/Game.rxdata?dl=0

Here is the Apartment:

Spoiler:

And here is the guy you need to talk to:

Spoiler:

Please, proceed and if there is any problem I will take a look at your savefile.
Thanks so much!

Also, for clarity's sake, when I was referring to the fact that the lady is not there, it's cause she isn't, but you do have to get to South Artemisia first.
I was under the assumption that you had already reached that point, so apologies if what I said didn't make sense. I edited the other post to reflect that.
There is a School (not the Unviersity) and another important building in the Southern District, you will find out about it when you get there.

 

[Alilatias]

Ah, thank you. I must have missed that guy when I searched all the apartments.

Time to proceed. Considering what was down there, it seems like I had to find this place first before progressing eastward.

 

[AenaonDusky]

Ah, thank you. I must have missed that guy when I searched all the apartments.

Time to proceed. Considering what was down there, it seems like I had to find this place first before progressing eastward.

No, thank you!

I know what you mean, we need to find a way to make all this better, it seems quite tedious
without actually getting the message we want across. Thanks again for the feedback,
have fun!

 

[Alilatias]

I've passed the schoolhouse and reached the orphanage.

I do want to comment on how odd it is that battles in this section of the game involve Pokemon lower leveled than those towards the start. Although I imagine this was an intentional decision to help players level up if they didn't grind in the abandoned university, and the fact that the nearest healing point is very, VERY far away from this location. That and I suppose it's meant to show a progression towards the player character starting to become quite badass. I also have to say that I really love the design of the main character. It's simple but highly distinctive, with a lot of meaning.

The dialogue in this game is quite powerful. This is probably the best fangame I've played that has actually managed to capture the whole dystopian city setting. Not even Reborn was that good at it, which quite frankly veers towards the 'hopelessness' feeling without striking a balance with hope and realism at all.

I do wonder though, how close/far am I to obtaining a second Pokemon? My starter's already level 30, hah. I noticed Deliby could learn Spikes and Hail, but I find that learning such moves at this stage in the game could really cripple players without another Pokemon to balance that out.

EDIT: Welp, I answered my own question, got a second Pokemon after that dungeon of sorts. I honestly feel quite obligated to keep these Pokemon all the way until endgame, ha.

 

[karnamata]

hey man i found a bug in south Artemisia nowthwest part near the police station i could somehow walk through the building

 

[AenaonDusky]

I've passed the schoolhouse and reached the orphanage.

I do want to comment on how odd it is that battles in this section of the game involve Pokemon lower leveled than those towards the start. Although I imagine this was an intentional decision to help players level up if they didn't grind in the abandoned university, and the fact that the nearest healing point is very, VERY far away from this location. That and I suppose it's meant to show a progression towards the player character starting to become quite badass. I also have to say that I really love the design of the main character. It's simple but highly distinctive, with a lot of meaning.

The dialogue in this game is quite powerful. This is probably the best fangame I've played that has actually managed to capture the whole dystopian city setting. Not even Reborn was that good at it, which quite frankly veers towards the 'hopelessness' feeling without striking a balance with hope and realism at all.

I do wonder though, how close/far am I to obtaining a second Pokemon? My starter's already level 30, hah. I noticed Deliby could learn Spikes and Hail, but I find that learning such moves at this stage in the game could really cripple players without another Pokemon to balance that out.

EDIT: Welp, I answered my own question, got a second Pokemon after that dungeon of sorts. I honestly feel quite obligated to keep these Pokemon all the way until endgame, ha.

First of all, we are deeply honoured by your words. It means a lot, especially since you
never cease to amaze with your perception. Everyone on the team sends their deepest thanks!

Now on to the finer details:

- Yes, the idea was to somehow find some balance for players who do not grind
enough at the start. There was actually a hidden automatic "heal point" but that caused
problems with later "losses" when the player was transferred back there when defeated...and
it almost broke the sequence. Do you think implementing that back would be a good choice?

- Yes, that's one of the reasons, showing progression, since the MC's experinece is obtained
through trial by fire, and mostly because 1) he starts being modest and stops thinking
only about the reasons for his failures, 2) In the Orphanage, he actually gets emotionally
invested (something extremely rare for him) and this kinda shows when he sweeps the
entire building, since he does have a reason to slowly begin moving forward. Huge thanks for
the compliment on his design, I'm humbled to hear that it managed to convey all the right things!

- Even the faintest comparison to Reborn makes me almost cry. I'd never imagine this game
could be comparable, even to the slightest degree, to Reborn! I can't find the right words to express
how much what you said means to us. Thank you so much!

- Well, you went ahead and made Deliby stronger! Congrats! Aside from the fact that you
do get other mons, (which you already found out), players who might find some things difficult
can probably utilize spikes at least, (regarding one particular battle specifically).
Also, the reason it gets Ice Ball is in order to get past that difficult battle for those who
do have problems. But perceptive players like you might keep at least one entry hazard
move for future usage. Which will be needed. Oh, and I think there are about 5 mons, including
Deliby. The plan is to force players to train those -weaker in comparison to the starter- mons
when they reach Route 1 and beyond, but this will happen in the future.

- Haha, it's great that you feel that obligation. That's exactly what we were hoping for!
Again, you never cease to amaze. I can't wait to hear your thoughts when you reach further
ahead on the game.

hey man i found a bug in south Artemisia nowthwest part near the police station i could somehow walk through the building

Oh man, I thought I had that patched up, I will fix it ASAP!
Thanks again for your help karnamata.

=====================================================
Also, we will be updating the game frequently, so all these things will be fixed as fast as we can.
The plan is to release "gym point" updates, and in-between fixed versions of the current demo.

 

[karnamata]

how to infiltrate smugglers hideout

 

[Alilatias]

Well, to tell you the truth, I find this fangame something special. I say this as someone that has played through most of the fangames that are considered among the best by the community overall, and have even playtested one in particular (I'm an assistant sidequest writer/tester for Pokemon Desolation, one of the three big fangames of the Pokemon Reborn forum).

I'm already incredibly impressed by this game, and I'm not even done with the demo yet. The game requires patience, but it's an understandable kind that ties into the setting, and not for artificial difficulty. It takes real talent to pull off a believable atmosphere such as this, without it feeling a bit cartoonish/edgy.

I think you're going to get a lot more impressions soon to help iron out the start, considering I posted about this game on the Pokemon Reborn forum. I'll be relaying any impressions I find from there over to here.

(Also, re-entering the orphanage after you've cleared that part of the story kicks you out all the way to the courier branch, with the end dialogue repeating again.)

Time to keep going...

Oh, I got past the cyan bridge, but I never found Sylvia along the way. In fact, I ran into a couple goons and got slapped around by Deliby to return to HQ to call for backup and find Sylvia. Was I supposed to run into her somewhere before proceeding? I also defeated someone that kept a bunch of caged Pokemon and freed them, and the Purrloin had some message saying something about a request having been dropped off at the Courier branch, but when I returned, there was no request there.

EDIT: Got a bit further. It wasn't especially clear that Sylvia had actually been taken until after defeating the boss. The fight against the boss was actually pretty tough, had to use Yawn into steamroll with Ice Ball to win.

Was it actually possible for me to have another Pokemon besides Deliby and Fletchinder at this point in the game? The typings of the boss' Pokemon seem to suggest that I should have gotten something strong against water or dark, as Deliby and Fletchinder are in normal circumstances extremely weak against them.

The visuals from going from south to northeastern Artemesia is... Quite a doozy. I suppose I'll be getting a third party member soon, the Budew that I've been holding onto in my bag.

 

[karnamata]

hey ,
Alilatias how did you get a flechinder

 

[Alilatias]

hey ,
Alilatias how did you get a flechinder

You should have gotten Fletchling automatically after clearing the orphanage quest. Pretty sure the bird's a mandatory capture. Unless there's something I did differently...

Now that I think about it, you mentioned something about a smuggler's hideout. Where are you in the game right now, anyway?