![]() It toes the line from being both a little more adult while also not alienating the age group the games have always been originally intended for. The region of Eldiw plays host to a much more dramatic story than you’d usually see from a Pokémon game, the most we’ve seen since the story of Black and White. Sure, there are Gyms like any other game, but they’re mostly a secondary concern, just side adventure on the player’s journey to find dad, investigate the increasing dimensional rifts between their world and the Xenoverse and try to discover how this villainous Team Dimension are connected to it all. Wanting to know what happened to their father and if he’s even still alive. As a small child, the player’s father is attacked by some unknown force, he asks the child to pick one of three Pokémon to protect them and then vanished for years afterwards.įinally reaching some breaking point, the player sets out against their mother’s wishes to search for answers. In Xenoverse, the player’s journey begins as a rescue mission. So I’ve comfortably described that the game looks great at this point, so what about the story? To cut right to the matter: It’s fantastic. ![]() I cannot compliment the artists enough for the work they did, not only with these original Pokémon creatures, but also with the redesigns of the differently typed classics. Oh yeah, did I not mention, the game also introduces the new sound type. Fire type Elekids, Dragon type Gastlys and Sound type Pikachu. Like the regional variants that also found themselves introduced in Sun and Moon, the Xenoverse is filled with existing Pokémon that are of utterly different types. However, Unlike Sun and Moon, where the Ultra Beasts were totally alien looking Pokémon, the Mons of the Xenoverse are familiar, but with a twist. One in which Pokémon evolved differently than the ones we’re familiar with. ![]() Like the Ultra Space from Sun and Moon, the Xenoverse is an extra dimensional world, different from the one we know. The titular Xenoverse is the driving force behind the story of this game. I’m not sure when work started on this game, but given how much it takes from both the 5th and 6th generation, I am going to guess that this game may have brought a bunch of ideas to the table that ended up also coincidentally happening in Sun and Moon anyway. Aside from creating a number of new parallels to Pokémon you’d expect to find in genuine games the early route bird, the beginner’s bug type, the big original twist to the game are the X-Pokémon. Often forgetting they weren’t official at times, and even lamenting that fact for how much I ended up becoming attached to them. Not the case here, I was super impressed with the new Pokémon made for this game. When it comes to these fan-games, a lot of the fakemon can stick out like a sore thumb. I am a huge fan of the new Pokémon made for this game. ![]() Which brings me to the original fake Pokémon designed for this game. The game uses a combination of 5th Generation overworld sprites and animated battle sprites combined with 6th generation character portraits for both the characters and trainers you encounter as well as the menu art of the Pokémon outside of battle.Īnd like I already mentioned, the original art from the team is seamless when compared to the sprites and artwork pulled from official sources. Right away, the production value behind this project is the most immediately noticeable aspect of the game that really drew me in and made me want to play it where so many other fan games just pass me by. Making use of a combination of existing art assets from various official Pokémon games and combining them together with original art and sprite-work that is seamless when compared to the existing art it sits alongside. The game comes from a group of Italian programmers, composers and artists from Italy called Team Weedle. A level of production and design that put on a whole different level than any other fan made Pokemon game I’d ever seen before. The only game that I ever came close to enjoying before was Pokémon Uranium.īut there was something different about Pokemon Xenoverse from the moment I laid my eyes on it. Cool ideas with varying quality of execution. For the most part, these seemed like cool little curiosities to me. ![]() What’s the occasion? I dunno, good timing I guess.įellow blogger Pokémon fan who puts me to shame in her drive to blog Pinkie of Pinkie’s Paradise has been on a mission to play through as many Pokémon fan games as she possibly can these past few months. I’m spending the entire week talking about it. ![]()
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