I've been playing this hack for 3 hours now and have to say: It's the worst i've ever played. You are doing very much things right, but the fighting and the choice of pokemon is horrible. First of all the starter pokemon: The scaling in xp compared to usual starters is non-existent making grinding one of the most boring things. The wild pokemon you can catch are useless in either way (you can catch pokemon that are easy to train but weak or you get strong pokemon who are taking hours to be trained). The Trainers (especially the strong ones) are using attacks and pokemon which are propably available in about 5-6 hours, using only the strongest attacks, while the own pokemon are having their only moves only. I've played hardcore hacks being better balanced than this. Don't get me wrong. I like much on this hack. You are going for a good story, i love the textures (golden sun <3), the mapping seems to be pretty good and the arena-designs are some new stuff mixed with some oldschool (the trashcan puzzle in surges arena for example), but the main-part is pretty effing bad. Either give the player a wider range of pokemon or don't give the strong trainers pokemon that are nearly unbeatable (froslass for example. i've seen no pokemon that can do both, outspeed it and deal good damage or deal good damage and withstand the attacks good). This may sound like crying around but srsly.. i've had more fun with playing hardcore hacks, because they were balanced in a better way.