First game "beaten" this year and it's pokemon, surprise surprise. I'll always come crawling back...
Emerald Rogue is a simple but effective roguelike spin on the pokemon formula. Romhackers always enhance the base games and this is no different. Lots of options here to custom tailor your experience to make it as fun as possible. The gameplay loop can feel a bit repetitive (it's a roguelike) but still had a ton of fun binging it over the weekend. To call this game "beaten" I finished both a single battle and double battle run of the main mode.
The customizing before your runs allows for so much replay ability and helps let people tailor the game to what they want, so it's greatly appreciated. The normal/hard difficulty game modes feel cheap sometimes with RNG (the first gym challenge having 3 legendaries at level 15???), but since you can alter it that's not a dealbreaker by any means.
If you want to play pokemon w/ a roguelike touch, this is absolutely the game to play. So much to do and lots of fun to be had here. Quality romhack that is still being updated at the time of this post. Try it out!

Reviewed on Jan 07, 2024


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