LAST TIME:>TheWeakOne (A.K.A me) plays Rejuvenation v13.5>reaches the end of Chapter 3 offscreen due to technical difficulties.>thread found dead at the bottom of the ocean due to Z-A leaks and lack of posters.>1 year later, Rejuvenation v14 finally releases>What is this?This is a thread where a bunch of autists come together and play usually shitty fangames and occasionally an actually decent one. Join if you want.>How do I join?Just make a name and/or tripcode and start posting images of whatever fangame/romhack you're playing and try not to be annoying. Or just make peanut gallery comments for shits and giggles.>Archivehttps://rentry.org/vp-playsPrevious: >>58046469
so you're trying to rejuvenate these threads so to say?
Repoovenation
>>59458319Well, let's see if there's something worth to make fun of.I remember joking about "lel, these guys are dumb", but by the end I was mad because it got too confusing.
So yeah, new thread and new Rejuv playthrough until idk Monomyth releases.>RecapIn a way you already know what happens in chapters 1-3.starting Passwords are:>mintyfresh>powerpack>unrealtime>nointro>freeexpall>pinataeasyhms and other passwords might be added later, but for now, this should be enough for now.>Chapter 1>Venam's Gym, the snag machine, first rift fightNot much to say, this section felt easier cuz i picked Froakie instead of Oshawott.>Chapter 2>Keta's Gym, Rift GalvantulaKeta was more manageable than last time, the rift galvantula gave me trouble, or rather Ren wasn't helping in the fight.>Chapter 3>Baby's first puzzles and Marianette's GymThe field is kinda busted but thankfully Water Pulse deals decent damage against her team and procs confusion.
Currently being walled by that Ren fight before the gym. Fucker suddenly turned into a dark type specialist or something, doesn't help that i don't have anything that resists or counters his team or the field.Also that stupid Giratina fight i swear. Thankfully you don't have to fight Geara and Giratina back to back, still took a while.The team is... not good but I'll figure out something, if only i had trick room man... Coalossal and Crustle would finally start doing shit without dying
Forgot the image.So haunted field can be terminated with Flash, issue is that Flash is a casino prize and my options are play the worst minesweeper clone ever made or literal gambling for the 1000 coins needed. I do have Payday but uh grinding doesn't seem like a good idea.
ayrei finally acknowledged the existence of rejuvenation
>>59458319Enter, the Matrix.
Just checked my shadow mons, this one has fell stinger and hypnosis and i have a bug gem, Isn't that like crazy good? It's taking a while to purify tho
>>59458515Ayrei already ranked Rejuv number 1 in a top ten list in 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzSJI2Dkz1gIn that same video Insurgence is basically brought up as a dishonorable mention with some of the criticism being>the story is very confusing>with legendaries being thrown left and right
>>59458581rejuvenations' story isnt confusing doe. because it doesnt even pretend to make sense ... or does it?
>>59458588You sweet summer child.
is tectonic worth playing?
I'm getting sick of Ren, i swear paralysis is totally useless, not a single proc when i need it. That shadow ponyta might be key but perhaps i should just grind for Flash since Arcanine with enhaced defenses thanks to the magic seeds is fucking me sideways.
Fucking finally
>>59458617Better and more streamline that this game.
>>59458632>>59458663This guy is (aparently) meant to be our best friend.
>>59458716I think he's the definition of a pointless side characterEarly versions made him a plain jealous incelAfterwards he got retconned multiple times until he's barely a character with motivations anymore
Unsurprisingly Narcissa is kicking my ass. Need to grab that Zorua, one of the few unovamons not cursed with evolving at lv40+>>59458716>>59458724He really is, this whole conflict doesn't make any sense, it's not like Narcissa is some tyrannical ruler or something. She, Aelita and the player agreed to this plan but no, mr. "i need to get stronger no matter what" is trying too hard to be Sasuke even if that's more detrimental in the long run
>>59458724>I think he's the definition of a pointless side characterI guess he's our inside man at Xen but I can't think of anything that gets us (haven't played chapter 16 yet), I mean the Puppet Master is the one that gets us intel on their HQ for fucks sake.
God i hate Voltorb Flip. Such a terribly designed minigame.
>>59458588You're really not meant to take it seriously at all.Because not only does the game do everything in its power to prevent you from taking it seriously, then chapter 16 (either route) will render everything before it meaningless
>>59458791Is basically Minesweeper.I hated Minesweeper since Windows 95.
Zoroark obtained, decent stats too. Not so good movepool however, ditto for TMs
>>59458888do yourself a favour and use fullivs or whatever the password is
>>59458889Speaking of passwords that will really be helpfulfullcontrolMakes the 12vwhatever fights less RNG dependent (that said it can make them take longer so I'd typically have them off by default and wait until something where it genuinely comes down to what moves your ally uses before using it)
>>59458899Fair enough.>>59458889Issue is that i burned my only data drive for easyhms. If i find another i might as well use fullivs and only breed for shiny hunting autismo
>>59458924create a shortcut for the game if you're somehow still launching it from its folderright click your shortcut in the folder/desktop > select propertiesclick on target fieldadd> debugto the endenjoy the debug menu (you'll likely need it)
>>59458931I don't like doing it that way because of the extra window. You can just make a file named debug.rb then write $DEBUG = true inside it and place it in patch\Mods in the game folder.
>>59458931Seems a bit early to use debug mode, still no doubt I'll need it later on
Another thing I didn't get about V14 is why Kaina has been helping you and pitying Marianette instead of killing her in the past, if world destruction is really all that matters to her.
apparently if you beat v14 and start a new save the prologue has completely new sectiond and is 50+ minutes long
>>59459039psstif you want all NG+ contentopen a save in debug modego to the UNIDATA sectionset FinishedV14Story to ON and BadgeCount to 18then make a new save
>>59459007Kaina helps you because you need to stick to the script. She can't defeat Vitus to get the macguffin for her multiverse destroying machine because that's not what the script is about, so she tardwrangles you when you make some major mistake.The thing with Marianette in the prologue is not real, it's a mental illusion caused by Marianette herself while she's trapped in the Jewel of Life. Kaina tries to get in to steal the Archetype from Marianette but gets repelled by her.
despite how good the AI in rejuvenation is, you can still rape it fairly easy with Truant + Entrainment Durant. once the enemy has truant, you can use protect every single turn and they wont switch out, so enjoy setting up +6 boosts or doing whatever
remind me why rejuv really needs a new big bad being introduced at the last fucking minute when there already were 3 candidates for such in previous versions (vitus, madame x, and, as much as it still shocks me to finally be referring to v13.5 in the past tense, karma)hard mode: don't answer with anything related to patreon aka that thing that causes developers to stall out their game because subscription backing tends to heavily discourage finally shipping out a complete product because that'd be cutting off an income stream
>>59459062nerfed next versionaka in a few years
>>59458791theres literally one unmarked tile here that could be anything other than a voltorb or a 1 and it is guaranteed to be soactual skill issue
>>59459062Uh, interesting. Reminds me of BW2 Battle Subway strats for high winstreaks. Issue being that GDC is Chapter 10 iirc
>>59459077That's the point, it's a 50/50.Still i lost that shit like an hour ago precisely cuz of that. Good news is that i finally got Flash. Hopefully it should be enough to shutdown that stupid field
>>59459066idk why but it does seem like this (dogshit) reveal was planned, there being two madame x's is the sole way to explain her inconsistent behaviour and Kieran and clairs actions, which went against Team Xen oftentimes
>>59459086it's literally not 50/50this tile is a guaranteed 2way to out yourself as a retard
>>59459099sorry it's a guaranteed 3 im the retard
>>59459094It doesn't seem planned at all. The Madame X on top of the pyramid, who has to be Kaina, has black hair and red eyes as usual, not white hair and orange eyes like Kaina. The Madame X who shows up in the Xen base and orders the admins around also has to be Kaina because the real Madame X couldn't leave her castle. When you meet the Kaina Madame X the first time when you go back to the past she doesn't even know who you are which makes no sense as she worked with a past version of the MC and should obviously know who Interceptors are.Maybe it was "planned" in the sense of Jan getting bored with Vitus and wanting a newer, bigger badder ultimate villain but he did no legwork in actually making it work.
>>59459099>>59459100I see... i should check my eyesight, like unironically.
>>59459106it is what it isto be fair voltorb flip is a very technical game and at some later levels it genuinely can fuck you over but this is a case where there was a guaranteed solution
>>59459108Yeah even tho i know how to play minesweeper and Picross decently i still don't understand Voltorb Flip most of the time. i opted to use the calculator to get Flash and lost some games with tiles having like a 15% chance to be a mine.
>>59459047but doesnt that have spoilers
>>59459148Do we care about that? I feel at this point being fully spoiled wouldn't matter.Hell, I read most of the posts in the previous thread, and all I thought was "who the fuck are these guys?"
>>59459066Because Jan wanted to pay tribute to all of the Pop culture games in Pokemon Essentials as much as possible Karma was lifted directly from Genshin Impact It was originally meant to play straight, but it get derailed with every hyper fixation that Jan have at the time.
>>59458581I agree Insurgence sucks but the story isn't confusing at all, it's just boring as shit. It's one of those games where you completely tune out the story and only do the fights because the bar is that low for Pokémon fangames
>>59459230strangely, that were a sequel to an earlier Pokemon Fangame (sigma or something).
does anyone know if there are any ng+ rewards for finishing renegade? already finished paragon but i kind of wanna do a new run just to see all the ng+ shit
>>59459246I don't think there are any rewards for Renegade, only completing the Pokédex in the main story.
>>59459250thank you i just checked the d*scord and found a doc showing all the ng+ stuffunless i missed something the only thing you could get from renegade is being given the silvally crest after catching it if you beat madame shogun in either paragon or renegade
>>59459272wait nevermind you can also buy the suicune entei raikou and celebi crests from shayda if you beat angela's castle and got them there in renegade
so renegade is just undertaledeltarune right?
>>59459300 it's just you pulling a chara and destroying the multiverse to create the Spell Melia needed to exit the system completely
Still getting my ass kicked but at least i have a decent shot at winning now that i can turn off the haunted field (only Aevian Mismagius abuses it afaik) took the time to pick a few berries and items, my team was basically running no items up until this point
Nice. proper training, Flash and few held items were enough to simplify the fight. Somehow Ren was more difficult in a way thanks to not being a type specialist
So Chapter 5, right on time. Also i think they changed Crests availability, got Ariados Crest on one of those gym badge doors, neat.
Oh a shiny Cubone
>>59459039Maybe I should have heeded this post
Has anyone actually used any of the crests here? Be real with me, i have a hard time believing those buff would make those mon worthwhile long term.Speaking of which it sucks that Electrode and Arbok will become useless soon (former cuz there are better electric types and explosion/selfdestruct being weaker without the crest, the later cuz it's Arbok c'mon) kinda wish they had the Vega evos or a better crest or idk a Mega
Well might as well tripfag since I was pretty clearly summoned here after one of the few pre-v13.5 lurkers I had contact with sent me this thread, which has the rentry I control in the original post.Might as well come back to play through v14's campaign again up until uuuuh probably chapter 16 since that's when gameplay quality dropped off a cliff to the point where I stopped caringPlus it'd be an opportunity to see what stuff I should note down for that running joke/definitely real idea to make a total conversion of this game as a prerequisite to adding handholding content that lurkers from ages past wanted this game to have, and I'll probably stick around here for however long I'll need to actively update the top of thread rentry + however long these threads will stay alive after that (aka until the next big reveal about gen 10 slides everything off the catalog)Just gotta get past the prologue's wall of text. I think I've already learned the hard way not to do a monotype/dualtype with this game so I'm not doing that.>>59459501I used the Samurott crest (+fighting STAB and resistances) in my original LP and it was ok I guessI think the only other crest I actually remember trying was the simisear crest in my v13.5 playthrough which I tried using for Amber's fight for one attempt before realizing that jihadbirds would be a much more feasible option.Aside from that I don't think I've even used any crests, since most of them were either too late/out of the way for me to care or for a mon I wasn't gonna use in the first place
>search catalog>no showderp threadIt really is over.
this isn't the worst idea i've come up with
but there's gonna be problems
>>59459522I figured, you really can't fix a mon with less than 400 BST without giving it something like Unseen Fist. I might try Ariados since 1) i have the mon and the crest and 2) the effect is genuinely kinda cool, i can see it working really nice with Glimmora.
someone correct me if i'm wrong but i don't think you even meet all 8 of the elite 8 this versionoff my knowledge the ones you meet are, in no coherent order>Tesla (fire)>Karen (rock)>Jolene (electric)>Dylan (water?)>Alexandria (dragon? dark? i can't fucking remember)>Whoever the ghost kid is I forgot already, I don't think whoever that is is introduced until chapter 16.2 unless it's another case of sidequest hellbut does it really matter? we're not getting to fight them for years because this game's development cycle is embarassing at bestI'm sure the remaining ones are buried in the long ass 100+ entry long list of characters because KICS is seemingly this game's only development pillar
for contrast I checked Reborn's wiki and there's like ~43 characters that show up in the main storyline (including "sidequest" characters from the aqua/magma gang "sidequests" which you have to do to progress)whether or not the actual number is a bit higher or lower than that, the point still stands that Reborn gets by with a cast half the sizeanyways gonna input some passwordsI think I'm justified in using the gen 5 weather password because my favorite pokemon benefits from weather and because permanent weather is nothing compared to the shit we'll be seeing later on in this gamemight as well post the password list since I don't think it's been posted in this threadhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UMWQWrvG-NGLXBNHQUsizrFYM1RImfydUT9WN1IZDT8/edit?gid=1887882274#gid=1887882274
>fieldfrenzy, morefield>Field boosted moves are more powerful, and debuffed moves are weakend [sic] furtherwho asked for thissurely it wouldn't be that hard for them to have included an alternate password for people who'd want classic mode but also think that the fields should be toned down like in story mode
hahahahahahaha
Having every pokemon available in a region sounds nice until you actually attempt to catch 'em all (or at least find the mons you need)
>>59459641It only work in the same vein of Persona; It have boon in battle, but jack all in story.
>>59458319No one cares. Green is more important
>>59459667Go to bed Precious Green.
a fight has broken out on epstein island
>>59459651The game lets you tweak encounter rates and gives you an item to only encounter uncaught pokemon so it's not that hardIronically the hardest thing about catching in this game is that you'll end up spending your money on pokeballs early game
time to get off this ship>>59459682it's less mechanically hard and more just annoying
boobiescan't wait for that one fly by night drawfag to show up this year whenever i'm playing something that isn't rejuv and post porn of literally any other rejuv character than my waifus, just like in 2022/2024
I may be asking myself a dumb question by wondering if rejuv will have anything you do in gameplay impact the storyBut I still wonder if that one hotel room visit with Tesla will have like anything in it beyond telling you to go to the next area in the story that despite being her favorite location is somewhere she never shows up in (at least in v13/v13.5)Would be cute if that scene changed a bit if you picked a fire starter
time to do the ritual of randomizing my player ID until i get trips+
Anyhow I'll go to sleep now, I'll check the thread in like 5 hours.
Check 'em
this gap in the pier is annoyingwhy is it even there from a mapping/architectural standpoint
Jan is still a freakshow
Ah yes starter selection, a hard decision
or at least it wouldn't be if a certain UUBL mon wasn't locked until the end of the fucking game
unless you're somehow going into this game 100% blind (aka got sent a direct download link from someone who won't tell you anything new) you're probably gonna be aware that field effects are a significant mechanic in this game
What the SHIT is this wild battle themeNo fucking wonder I felt blessed when my headphones were broken when v13.5 released
guess I'll need to do some more soundtrack replacementsthat's definitely getting on the to-do list
>look at debug console>it frequently prints errors about missing graphics for terastalization>Exception `Errno::ENOENT' at Scripts/BitmapCache.rb:137 - No such file or directory - Graphics/Characters/trfront>Exception `Errno::ENOENT' at Scripts/BitmapCache.rb:137 - No such file or directory - Graphics/Pictures/Battle/battleUltra>Exception `Errno::ENOENT' at Scripts/BitmapCache.rb:137 - No such file or directory - Graphics/Pictures/Battle/battleTerastal>Exception `Errno::ENOENT' at Scripts/BitmapCache.rb:137 - No such file or directory - Graphics/Pictures/Battle/battleUltra>Exception `Errno::ENOENT' at Scripts/BitmapCache.rb:137 - No such file or directory - Graphics/Pictures/Battle/battleTerastal
>battling some random npc>nidoran misses 3 times in a rowthanks hustle
Did you know?Wild Jigglypuffs can carry moon stones?Use this information responsibly.
>wiglett found in a beat up pokeball in the sewersi'd be surprised if it was any laterthough since I am planning on, like with many things in this game, cutting out bloat, I don't think I'm including this line in reshrewv
I missed seeing this thread
>comes with two suicide movesgeg
shiny bolbis
another natural shiny
i'm surprised you can still do thisthough that'd require anyone to remember that wild held items exist
owned
think now might be a relevant time to mention that i've been spoiled on chapter 16 content
>the hotel visit is STILL completely unchanged (it's still just Tesla telling you to visit her favorite place in the entire region, Goldenwood Forest, a place notable for her never ever appearing there)i'm not asking for much but maybe like any interesting dialog would help here (to say nothing of how nice it'd be to cuddle the tomboy milf)
enough yapping time for sleepobligatory end of session party pic
is the point of these threads to show your playthrough? I'm planning on doing a new Paragon run soon to check all the NG+ stuff anyway
>>59460294yeah that was pretty much always the point of these threads>I'm planning on doing a new Paragon run soon to check all the NG+ stuff anywaybasically what i've been doing as well
>>59459672the fact you meet Melia as a loli initially is weird af and kind of pointless
>>59460139Damn. And here i was trying to covet moon stones from that static lunatone in amethyst cave, I'm retarded.
>>59460350The weird thing is people being so accepting of her time manipulation.In one moment you are a dude in your 17s, meeting the professor's daughter, who may not be older than 11 years old, and you are like "what a nice girl."And then one day you wake up, you are chilling on the beach with your gf, and suddenly you see this woman in her 18s screaming and ranting about being lied and left alone for years, and when you ask her it turns out is the professor's daughter, grown up, and with a crazy story to tell.And the worst part is that this ISN'T the weirdest thing to happen in Rejuvenation.
>>59460350Jan has a type.
>>59460446nothing would change if they were to cut this subplot out at this point, so I dont get it really
>>59460446>who may not be older than 11 years oldMelia was 14 when introduced and 17 after her time in the past, apparently becoming 18 during the story.
>>59460350 I have a feeling that Melia's Variya daughter, and that the whole system was made to create a safe and healthy world for her to live in.
>>59460845becoming a ritual child sacrifice by your own dad doesn’t sound like a healthy environment
>>59460866Granted, I think that Vitris was meant to be the stand in for the Director that Variya killed.I would also like to believe that Renegade will accidently create a being out of their vessel that will sever the player's link to said world as it outright erase it; only to be imprisoned by Kaina as a final gambit to get her revenge on the Karma System. In short, Melia accidentally created the Final Boss, Entropy Matter, which threatens to take over the Karma system so it can erase all of existence. Though I hope it ends like Giygas fight in Earthbound where your karma in Paragon makes a difference; but I highly doubt Jan and the crew care about retro games that much.
I really don't know how to feel about unwinnable fights in RPGs.
>>59458319I dont care autistic faggot. Green isnt in these games.
>>59460977Don't make me repeat myself, PreciousGreen.
>>59461007Our Goddess! who jobs to every single villain in the game I kneel!
>>59461045I say this, but without the spoiler and about someone else.Apparently v16 reveals humanity always destroys itself when a world is released from Karma's control. All I'm hearing is that, in the context of Rejuv, Lin was right.
>>59460547I recognize the Earthbound's Fuzzy Pickles pose everywhere.Is a shame Jan doesn't want us with Aelita (yet we are the ones with more events her.)
>>59461007No one cares about your faggy tumblr OCs loser.
>>59461107You cared enough to reply :)
Melia BROKE me because she has an entire game about her while my waifu doesn't.
This whole section feels like VN, and not a particularly good one. At least other VNs or VN adjacent media have interesting premises or small gameplay segments in between to further the narrative (999 or Layton come to mind) this really could have been just a massive cutscene.
>>59461114She has so few personality traits you can project any waifu of your choice into her.
>>59461070>Lin was rightYou know, I hated how annoying she was, but seeing how fucked Reborn is (especially when you go out of your way to revive everyone), I actually wished we could save her for a true happy ending, not kill her at the end.In fact, fuck it: I can fix her, guys. Just let me at her, I'll take my chances.
man what a great day for my internet to randomly stop workingcontinuing uuuuuh whenever shit's not broke anymoremight as well bring back the habit of claiming i'll start when something incredibly unlikely happens by claiming that some mythical creature called a "writefag" or "drawfag" would return once shit's no longer broke
>>59461248>I actually wished we could save her for a true happy ending, not kill her at the endThe standard route/Lin route lets you save her.
I really need a water/fairy counter that isn't Voltorb. Took longer than i would like to admit
>>59461248Lin was an abused, mentally unstable little girl that somehow befriended Arceus and became a god using him. It makes sense why she's the way that she is. Kids can be annoying little shits sometimes, it's just the way they are.
>>59461340We can see you Greenfaggot
>>59461335How does it make any sense lol. It’s never explained what made Lin special enough to make arceus her pet
>>59461335I asked.>>59461350Lin somehow fell into the chamber Arceus was sealed. Arceus in Reborn isn't an adult yet and it literally had nothing else to do, she was the first other being it saw in a long time.
>>59461335You do realize she was based off of a godmodder of the Reborn League community, right?
>>59461371Yes, but that is additional Lin lore
I don't know if we will have the raw autistic power needed to keep these generals going.
>>59461424the release of rejuvenation V14 will lure many unsuspecting souls into investing the necessary weeks to finish it
>>59461424I agree to some extent, it's clear we need more posters.Not really sure why use a regular NPC here but whatever.
>>59461435many core posters left to [another chan I cannot post without getting filtered], thats why there are few
>>59461371>You do realize she was basedNTA but yeah I realized that.
Taking a break, need to take care of some IRL stuff
>>59461142there are so many parts of rejuv that'd really be better off as cutscenes due to how non-interactive they areespecially all the "play as someone else" hallways
>>59461719>especially all the "play as someone else" hallwaysI skipped most fights where I don't have my original team using debug because they're very obviously winnable and just a waste of time
>>59461728why do you want to use your own pokemon so badly
>>59461745Because I trained them too hard for that hack devel->JanO-oh... I just... sorry sir, you're right I shouldn't want to use the team I've trained since I started the game...
>>59460446>>59460615The age of consent only applies to heterosexual relationships, chud
>>59461763
>>59461763what was that proverbuuuhrip the stick out of your own ass before you mention sawdust in another's eye
>>59461771>t.reddit botfag continuing their motte & bailey flamebaiting
>>59461763>stop samefagging and attacking most other posters then you fucking retardExcuse me what...?
>>59461765Wiki says Venam is 17, that's like half a year difference post time travel.>>59461777>now
>>59461776Hiroshimoot needs the extra posts per hour for advertiser moneyPrease undastand>>59461777hownew.ru (also nice trips)
I wanna play a game here but I don't know when to screenshot and stuff and I don't know what I'd play.
>>59461798>when to screenshotjust regularly ask yourself "would other people care about whatever's onscreen at this moment?" and if your answer would be yes, screenshot it (protip: it's often faster to collage screenshots than it is to upload them individually due to the 1 minute floodcheck. also reborn/rejuv/maybe some other games have a setting to make text boxes expand to fit content; making dialog screenshotting easier)>I don't know what I'd playnow that's the hard part
>>59461798What >>59461807 said basically.>I don't know what I'd playYeah that really is the hard part since a lot of fangames have already been played here... i was planning on revisiting Snakewood after Rejuv so maybe romhacks/fangames from that era? Anything is valid
>>59461776You know what they said crybully botfag>>59461798Easy. none of those plagiarized asset flips.
>>59461782tempted fate award
>>59461854tempted fate and lost...
>>59461938So is OP kill? Why would that post even get deleted?
Bro got deleted by shadow deoxys.
>>59461979>Why would that post even get deleted?to send a message which message? i have no idea>So is OP kill? maybe? or maybe the janny just deleted that post without banning or waning him
What are you all talking about? I'm still here! Got hit by a power outage so uh...
Oh wait i can see what you are talking about now and i really have no idea why that message got deleted
Another fight against Madelis, genuinely Fell Stinger goes stupid on Rapidash.
I expected the Neved fight to be way harder to be honest, at least Aelita has a pretty decent team even if KFC didn't last that long.The Madame X fight was an absolute steal however, if ONLY Arbok was faster/had focus sash equipped and used Glare... Either way the plot advances.And again a fight against Melia except she now has a full team. Unsurprisingly it's kicking my ass (stupid Azumarill and stupid Aqua Jet fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck)That's all for today i suppose, i really need to sleep.
started a grass monotype run, chose snivy because the a bit outdated wiki said that it and groakie are the only two grass type starters you can't get unless they're starters>isn't groakie just way betternyes. but I don't like the monke so went for snivythe starting passwords make the game less of a slog since you don't have to worry about breeding for IVs and natures or super slow early game EV trainingthe only differences I've noticed so far for NG+ content was the prologue, Eizen seeing you come to Gearen City, and the Key you start with. the boat was completely unchangedkinda funny that the very first wild encounter i got was a shiny, shame I can't use it not like it matters because I use debug for shinies anywaycaught a couple of other filler mons just for the Magnetic Lure to get me the grass types I'm looking for
How do we draw Gen 3/4 sprites?
>>59461979Jannies don't do it for free anymorebecause they outsourced /vp/'s moderation to a fucking slot machine instead
got a whole team now and some more pokémon on the PC found a couple of shinnies too did you know that the love letter quest has two alternate endings? in one the music guy leaves alone and in the other they both leave togetherfunny thing is the only deciding factor between the two is what you say to the guy after beating his friendshad to redo everything just to realize that telling him not to regret it is what fucked me upanyway you get a bonus shiny luvdisc and a heart scale as a reward if they leave together
>>59462341>monotypemy condolences
>>59462456I do hate myself, how did you know? it's not my first mono run, or even my first mono grass runI'm dreading the Angie fight though, but I beat her when we had shittier pokémon available, so I should be able to beat her again... right?
went to the casino to get coins for hidden power and maractus. managed to get to lvl 7 in voltorb flip before getting fucked by rnggot lucky and servine's hp was flying so I could finally beat the stupid giant bugthen won against venam on my 2nd try thanks to maractus and its spikes and venam's seviper missing a dragon tail like a retardoverall not hard so far, way easier than the first time I did a mono grass run. I'm tired now so I'll continue tomorrow
>>59462382What does that have to do with the lets play thread?
>>59460975Can you truly not win it? I like fights that are seemingly impossible to win but can actually be beaten and get you different results
>>59462676You can win but it doesn't really change anything.
>>59462680>You can win but it doesn't really change anything.gotta love rejuvenation writing
>>59462676It often doesn't change anything and the game goes "oh i lost but you see this is all part of my plan so i win" regardless.
>>59462679*years>>59462680so much for being the chosen one
I really need to drop Arbok in favor of a spore mon and Electrode is too weak for an offensive electric type. Greninja is shit too with a seriously abysmal level up movepool
>>59462799>greninja is shit too?????????
>>59462812This is not particularly good and i don't have good tms for it, besides it doesn't get battle bond here.
>>59462695Kek, atleast this is supposed to be a fight where you lose. As opposed to fights you have to win that don't change anything.
>>59460170There are different shinies ? Mine has no brown parts.
>>59462942It's a magic trick called using the game's patch folder, which'll load files in there that have the same path after "path\" in place of the default ones (for instance patch\Graphics\Battlers\Nidoking\0.png is the path to use for replacing Nidoking's spritesheet)You can also try the old method and just replace the default assets yourself but that risks the modified assets being overwritten by updates and could lead to problems if you fuck it up so I'd suggest using the Patch\ folder method insteadTry it out with a mon you like.
I love my wife Green. How do we make trainer followers in essentials?
>>59462962made a typo award (typed "path\" instead of "Patch\")At least my wifi's back up so I'll be able to continue shortly without having to use phone screenshots like a barbarian
starting once i find something worth screenshotting>>59462821what the fuck.granted you do get surf after the 5th badge but >no dark type levelup moveswelcome back early gen levelup movesets>captcha: star of david
tarountula obtained
remind me why random earlygame fetch quests that involve literal whos that don't even get unique sprites need to have camera zoom-ins and cinematic black bars like in muh heckin kino marvel movies
Hey guys, remember Reborn?
>the litleo and arcanine I fought in this sidequest would've been chinese food if I didn't intervene
cool a chapter 1 sidequest has a mega pokemon (that isn't on its own)
yes I want to see China and India glassed
now I have a pokemon I'd otherwise have to wait 13 badges for
now I have this mega stone the earliest it deserves to be
>>59463054Kaizofags won.
>>59463076to be fair victreebel has a rather shitty megaa fucking slow frail mixed attackerin generation 9also i'm pretty sure this is a NG+ encounter
>>59463070now you need a justification for ever using this hopeless shitmon
hmmm is that potentially interesting characterization regarding Melia being the professor's daughter and assistant?i think it could be interesting if she, idk, didn't get kidnapped by time travellers, made a wageslave for 3 years, and then came back in a deus ex machina as a completely different character in all but name and general appearance>>59463084unless you're using a password to get the omni ring early, the earliest you can actually use mega evolution is chapter 9 (via a sidequest)the question is, who's waiting that late for mega victreebel
the mafia is trying to datamine my locationI HATE THE ANTICHRISTI HATE THE ANTICHRIST
NOFUNALLOWED
batthird natural shiny
cute sidequest trainer(she gives an aevian sewaddle which is cute)
i remember when v13.5's release was stalled because these were causing crashesall for yet another single mon boss mechanic
I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that are turning the friggen rabbits gay
wouldn't it be crazy to have an entire half of a chapter dedicated to a character that'll be entirely replaced afterwards
What a fucking disgrace of a day, I'll keep playing Rejuv once i get back home in like an hour or so. At least the thread isn't dying like before
hey guys, remember pokedex entries?>>59463166I think the schizos are asleep so, assuming I don't fuck things up by tempting fate (a funny concern to have considering the image i'm posting) it's probably a decent time to continue
>>59458319No, we’re not playing this garbage. Just you
wow! it's something that'll become near irrelevant past the like fifth chapter!
here is some prick attempting to kill every magikarpcan't let people have a... RUBL mon until very late in the game
>>59461007>>59459688>>59458730>>59458358so much years in development and dev team never updated the character artwork. it remains to be the same, shallow imitation of sugimori's style. all characters look equally chubby with men proportions (hips=shoulders), have tumblr-esque GRIN(TM) and i guess main artists never saw tits in life, because all chests threated like lumps of flesh, that's how they look, lmao>dropped somewhere after marianette v13 bcuz she took all my strength
>>59463180Weren't you able to get a Magikarp around this point of the game on older versions? I'm pretty sure they cut them because Gyarados was super strong Or maybe I'm just confusing it with Reborn where they did the exact same thing
>>59463185must add, if the new character art looks the same, then lead artists is a stagnant retard
>>59463171>Just youLiterally atleast two guys playing it ITT howbeit.>>59463174Apparently there are even some shadow mons you can't catch, while it's still working btw.
>>59463185>>59463190Don't forget the artist's inability to draw hands well (here's one of the first and most egregious examples)Also for the 2 people who haven't noticed, very little of this game's cutscene art actually follows the 2 real pixels per "pixel" asset scaling that the rest of the game, as well as the Pokemon Essentials engine itself, is intended to useThe result being that you'll see mixels or anti-aliasing when playing on resolutions besides 2x/4x pixel size (I personally play on 3x pixel size)The result is that once I get around to finally modding this I'll probably be replacing most cutscene graphics anyways, both for consistency with new assets for the mod and because I'm too much of a perfectionist to accept mixels/blurry anti-aliasing in anything outside of placeholder test graphics>and i guess main artists never saw tits in life, because all chests threated like lumps of flesh, that's how they look, lmaoThe main artist for this (zumi) is a foid afraid of drawing women more attractive than her
>>59463220i jumped away from the screen when i saw this hand oh my god this is so bad and i thought i'm bad at this>The main artist for this (zumi) is a foid afraid of drawing women more attractive than hermany such cases
gonna go catch some shadow mons that we all know I won't actually use>>59463186I played a "v-12" version made by Jan without anyone else's supervision and I don't think I was able to get a magikarp despite it being split off from v5/v6Don't exactly have that trainwreck downloaded anymore because I lost interest in continuing after chapter 8 of it, and most of my time playing that was having to use RPG maker to fix shit like broken events and missing map transitions
spacetime goatse
le heckin kino 4th wall break
fih
so why exactly do we need to gtfo now and be rescued by a pre-1 badge tutorial bosswe just beat zetta, his henchmen, and a rift gyarados all in the span of like 10 minutes of gameplay topsor maybe it's just that post-ch5 Melia's habit of suspiciously jobbing only when fighting "alongside" us has leaked into chapter 1
obligatory "this really might as well have been a cutscene" part overbasically Team Xen wants Melia for... some convoluted bullshit that'll only become vaguely clear after chapter 16's bullshit because "keep it complex stupid" is one of rejuv's few writing pillars besides "use tvtropes as a checklist" and "whatever anime jan's watched recently"anyways only a scholar and better man could understand why the player couldn't just get involved against a level 20 houndoom
and here marks the appearance of Crescent, some bitch who exists solely to talk down to the player and steal any glory you might getand never be helpful when she'd ever be ACTUALLY FUCKING USEFULRejuv has a very bloated cast (>There are literally 99 characters in the credits, I do not need to elaborate) and some ideal cuts are more obvious than others
ok here's the explanationrejuv is a game that really does not want you to be the main character of it
and now chapter 2 proper startsusually most chapters start right after you get the previous one's badge
>>59463269aelitas silhouette is really hot
one filler fight later
>>59463262>and never be helpful when she'd ever be ACTUALLY FUCKING USEFULshe will be useful unlike most of the supporting cast, just wait and see
>hmphDESOLATION REFERENCE??????????????>>59463272something about Aelita's design makes me really want to headpat her and cuddle with her after holding her hands
after defeating the spiders this NPC will trade you an Aevian Sandygast for an Oinkolognenext poster decides which of the three forms I'll get
>>59463291ice/ghost
>>59463298ok
i still think this NPC might have been a reference to me>has a sandslash>actually thought this game would let the player become the champion
why does this cave existdoes nothing at all beyond take up space and add an extra several dozen inputs to navigating this route
>>59463180>>59463186speaking of magikarpon route 2 there's a NPC trainer that said he bought 6 magikarps onlinejust to rub this in
sneedshrew obtained
fuck I just lost the gamebrb
wow! it's fucking nothing!
you have to be playing this game completely blind to be fooled by thisor maybe he's telling the truth - refer to >>59463093
hmmmm a poison/electric typei wonder how i'll deal with this
3 shot it with bulldoze
"unfortunate" is an understatement
>>59463354dont insult best girl
nuh uh
>>59463354This game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point.
>>59463400>copypasta is too long to fit within the 2k character limit
>>59463357I see Crescentfag is still here
what a trippy backgroundI sure hope it doesn't become associated with some of the most annoying non-gym fights in the game
>it's not a flying typegovernment spy drone acquired
>doesn't even come with any interesting moves or abilities>final evo gets rock head... and no head smash (except via levelup at level 52, in its unevolved form)Maybe some birds are not that important after allthink I'll just wait for growlithe-hisui for my obligatory head smasher since that one has real special defense and espeed
>>59463409>starts playing heartstone
gotta hammer Melia's hobbies and occupation in so they can be forgotten about for the entire rest of the game
let's see what that black key is about
spooky
then there's an excessively long hallwayaka chapter 16.1you actually have to go back and only then will you be able to progress
oh it's this nophono
everything needs Melia in it I guesscan't wait for v15 when Melia shows up in every single chapter
yoink
>freezes my combusken>then burns my sandslashreally niggaWhiteout counter is 3 now (only from optional content thankfully)
cope and sneed
oh my broken map events is that a reference to old rejuv versions
ow the edge
good advice
yeah uh i think this part may be a bit spoilery for nownot like there's anything immediately interesting beyond some fourth wall break slopand a mention of "v14.5" because surprise surprise, this game isn't gonna be finished by the time its remaining playerbase loses interest
>>59463506>Do you know how far I had to go back for thatSo does this imply destroyed versions are still there or accessible in some way? I also suddenly remember him mentioning negative versions that I'm pretty sure were never mentioned again.
>>59463524>and a mention of "v14.5"I remember hearing that the .5 version is just Renegade and that Melia uses it to harvest resources or some shit. Yes Melia is unironically responsible for you're Renegades.
we have zygarde at home now>>59463526knowing this game's habit of going way overboard with fourth wall/alternate timeline/etc nonsense, likely>>59463535wow, you're telling me melia is behind the even more suffering route?what's next? mons that aren't even OU anymore being locked behind the end of the game? jan hating redheads? drawfags not existing? me thinking of funny opportunities to tell people that they lost the game? arcanine deserving dragon dance?
>>59463185>>59463220corollary: Zumi's unwillingness to draw anything vaguely fanservicy only applies to female charactersalso in v13 the truck guy had actual changing dialog based on where you talked to him and whenthey could have kept that if the devs really wanted this NPC to have enough characterization to justify a portrait
holy shit guys I just heard of some new winds/waves leaksyour favorite pokemon isn't getting anything useful>>59463084Hey if it's any consolation its mega stone sells for $499
>>59463571how is that fanservicehe's good looking I supposed but thats not fanservice
>>59463613was more referring to the general lack of effort put into making the female characters' art, at least compared to some of the male characters
i'm here to look at pretty tomboys.
as cute as it is for Aelita to instantly befriend the player, I like my tomboy romance a bit more slow-burngranted it's gonna take until one of the game's endings before you can hold Aelita's hands but my point still stands
>>59463625i dont see it tbqh, they give the girls new outfits and sprites every other arc
>>59463751strangely enough the only girl in the main cast (or at least adjacent to the main cast) to get a new portrait was venam who had her act 1 design changed a bitother than that, there's nothingnot even for characters that got alternate outfits back in ye ancient days of v13.5anyways brb due to both a headache and procrastinationno idea where the weak one is
>>59463454Is 98 its Speed stat? If so, it's faster than hisuian Arcanine, so it could be used to counter fast Rock weak enemies
>>59463829>not even 100lol, lmao even
>>59463839Unfortunate for Rock Arcanine fans. If it's a Rock type then it HAS to be slower than its non-Rock form
>>59463864explain avalugg, arceus, silvally, and ogerpon then
So basically my internet decided to stop functioning for like 6 hours. Worry not, i kept playing all this time.
>>59463889>arceus, silvally, and ogerponThey don't touch their stats when they change forms.>avaluggIt's quite simple, actually! I had no fucking idea they made it faster. What the fuck were they thinking when they made that clusterfuck of a Pokémon. Its only reliable way of going first is under trick-room, so being faster is only a detriment and a waste of stats
>>59463913avalugg-hisui was probably just an experiment to see how bad GF could make a mon without lowering its stats or giving it a detrimental ability
fighting grass types is such a pain in the early game when all your pokémon only know grass type moves and maybe a poison type if you're lucky. worst of all you can't even paralyze, sleep, or poison them because they're immune to powders/sporewasn't expecting to get a mega so early, but I guess you also get mega banette and heracross pretty early get fucked if you didn't use the password for an early mega ring or are in NG+ because you won't get to use megas until muuuuuch later in the story
>>59463913Speed works differently in Legends Arceus right? Maybe it got more speed so the enemy doesn't get 3 turns for each of its or however it worked.
cotton down can trigger from any attack and can trigger multiple times from mutistrike movesthis little idiot might end up saving my ass from fast sweepers from later in the game, especially in doubles battles with one of my contrary 'mon. gonna give everyone a -1 speed and my other 'mon a +1 speed boost
And so the Terajuma arc starts, did the virtual GB Johto league thing, got my 5th badge and got surf. I also caught a Clawitzer and goddamn it MOGS that shitter Greninja. Mega Launcher is awesome, solid stats, nice level up move pool, and relatively nice speed. It had more kills in the gym fight alone than Greninjobber in 20 hours of gameplay.
And so Chapter 6 begins too. Nim turns into stone freeing Geara, Zetta and Prof. Jenner somehow... now we have to find some macguffins to stop Team Xen. And this guy appeared (totally kicked my ass, i have no answer to fast fairies/electric mons, much less fucking Tapu Koko of all things) at least i got some candies...Besides aren't these things Ng+ exclusive? This is like the second i was able to activate (first one gave me a spurr on goldenleaf, this one gave a growlithe)
>>59463978have you considered ground typesperhaps even a nidoking
>>59463978>Besides aren't these things Ng+ exclusive?they are, I got one of those in Luck's tent to skip the 999 black prisms contract that gives you necrozma in GDCI'm sure they will also let you skip those annoying puzzles no one wants to do more than once
>>59463994I have yep, at the same time i want to use Crustle but alas Trick Room/Shell Smash is not yet available, for now Salazzle is filling the slot nicely
>>59464003Not sure why they are active then, this is a clean save since v14 didn't recognize my v13.5 save for some reason
>>59464005it's not that kind of NG+ stuff, I'm pretty sure it just checks for annoying stuff to do like that growlithe quest or puzzles in older saves and then lets you skip themdidn't know that wild yanmas had wide lens... i might have to get a couple of them for the future
Ok time to battle Keta
birds
motivation for extreme violence obtained
>>59464062>You are now my daughterI feel you need to check, evil voice. I'm a boy.
camel>>59464066this dialog is referring to Aelitabarely any dialog actually refers to the player by the gender selected in character creation
>melia turned evilI am shocked
the story might be questionable but I like the little details like the missable code in the suitcase giving you an ability capsulealso they made the "unwinnable" Madelis fight so much easier by giving you a second 'mon, I remember having to reset a shit ton of times for perfect rng to kill her stupid dog, now you justancient power > yawn > hapi dies and you send the bunneary > frustration twice > you wonguess they might be planning on finally giving an use other than just deciding between routes to all of those karma points you can get
>>59463272
for some fucking reason levitate isn't cancelled out when digging
sounds familiar
>>59464091Always worked like that btw
>>59464107guessing nobody at gf ever decided to make those moves interact with levitate because that'd require people to go out of their way to use dig on flying/levitating mons
bumo and image limitthink i'll take a break after the next thread is made because that headache is back
>>59464111No, this is something well known because it's funny when Flygon does it
>>59464117ohwell can't entirely relate because by the time I got to evolve my mystery egg Trapinch in that reborn monoground playthrough I had access to Earthquake>Vibrava is a wordswordswords you already know what it is. It evolves from Trapinch starting at level 35>the entire line learns Earthquake at level 33 across all stagesthis looks like the kind of bug (heh) you'd have to go out of your way to discoverstill it was a pretty good mon in my monoground playthrough because having a ground immunity is quite handy when you're using earthquake: the typei should be funny and give the ground gym leader in a not-rejuv-related fangame i'm definitely planning a tera electric flygon because i can (also for that project I'm trying to avoid insurgence's 6 greninja users in a row by only giving a given species to 2 named characters maximum; and both garchomps were taken with the first going to one of the rivals and the other going to the bug gym leader aka the obligatory showderp reference)
are there any good fangames/hacks that have online battles?
>>59464145reborn does, kinda (back in 2023 this general overloaded their servers just by trying to have an ingame tournament)though for some fucking reason certain passwords will lock you out of online pvp - specifically>wait one moment just gotta deal with fandom deciding that only a sixth of the screen should be article content, despite adblockahem>noevcap/gen2mode (this is kinda cheaty but it really shouldn't be irreversable; just have EVs be deducted if over the cap after deactivating the password)>randomizer (considering some of the options yeah this makes sense)>yoink/snagmachine/monosteal (says this disables random battles for some reason but assuming that's online play, what's the point of having this password disable that? you can't use items in online battles in the first place)>debug (see above i guess but everyone just activates it via the shortcut method anyways)
>>59464145Reborn has them iirc, and basically any old binary hack like Vega should have trading/battling. I remember it getting funky with Unbound however
so are we getting a new thread anytime soonnot in a rush, if it's made after i try to get some sleep i'll probably just add the next one to the rentry once I wake up; this thread's already in there
>>59464145Tectonic has them now And I believe Solar Eclipse does as wellIn any case, you need to organize with a friend as they aren't big enough for lobbies or matchmaking or anything
>>59464188I'll probably make it tomorrow morning, kinda sleepy too
>Aelita still asks you if you want to sleep with her at the end of chapter 2glad that bit of sovl is still therethink i'll go get some sleep now irl
come to think of it I still don't remember any times i've used a team which doesn't have any ground, fire, flying, dragon, or steel typesusually i have at least 2 of thoseand if left unattended/unsupervised/unfettered i will end up with a team that has at least 4 mons from those types(current party is sandslash/frogadier/combusken/nidoking/gligar/quagsire)
new thread?
>>59465049Making it rn, i just woke up
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