Sickday

These are a few I’ve played over the years and really enjoyed. I think most are still available, but some are unfortunately only distributed via discord servers.

No particular order to these:

• Pokemon Prism - A very in-depth mod of Pokemon Crystal with 2 entirely new regions and a large catalog of Pokemon from multiple generations to capture. To my knowledge, it is a successor to Pokemon Brown
• Pokemon Brown - A very in-depth mod of Pokemon Red. This was made 2 decades ago, and was the first mod I ever played. Includes a new region and many Pokemon from different generations.
• Polished Crystal - A faithful (or not) upgrade to Pokemon Crystal.
• Pokemon Crystal Clear - A mod of Pokemon Crystal that brings in many new features and vastly upgrades the AI.
• Pokemon RedStar/BlueStar - A mod of Pokemon Red/Blue that includes the SpaceWorld 1997 assets.
• Pokemon Crystal Kaizo - A mod of Pokemon Crystal that adds in much better AI and a fair bit more difficulty. All Gen 2 Pokemon can be captured and just about every trainer presents a new level of difficulty.
• Altered Emerald - A massive mod of Pokemon Emerald that adds “(almost) every move and ability from gen 1 to 7” along with a few extras while making all 386 Gen 3 Pokemon capturable.

Edit: Just realized this wasn’t strictly Pokemon mods… Oops lol.

Sounds good to me. My only gripe is that I don’t think Ciri needs to go through the Trial of Grasses. She kind of already had well-established abilities (Elder blood) that made it easy for her to deal with most threats and we got to see that on full display in like half of The Witcher 3. Frankly, I had more fun playing with her abilities than I did with Geralt’s.

I figured this was true back when the Nintendo Gigaleak came out, but shortly after that a series of romhacks were released that included assets from the Gigaleak. One I can think of off the top of my head is the Pokemon Crystal Spaceworld 1997 Romhack that would’ve only been possible with the Gigaleak.

So theoretically, you’d be correct but I think it ultimately depends on how passionate the modding community for this game is.