Seriously Unserious Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 It's great to see this game keep on progressing! I love the story you're telling, Jan, it's definitely of a quality comparable to some commercial games I've played. The difficulty can be hellish at times, but then again, the satisfaction of finally beating that cheating jerk NPC and getting that "in your face, you cheating jerk" feeling is that much greater at the end of it all. The big saving grace is you didn't choose to do an Undertale approach and have the game remember all those 10 failed attempts and hold them against you or anything! That would have been too trippy! That said, I do love Toby Fox's work there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developers Jan Posted October 12, 2016 Author Developers Share Posted October 12, 2016 Update # 2 10/12/2016 Unlike Gearen City, there's another place that received a higher scale rework. Those would be Goldenwood Forest, Goldenwood Cave and Goldenwood Grotto! Goldenwood Forest: Goldenwood Cave: Goldenwood Grotto In addition to that, two other things had a visual rework of their own. Zetta and the Dimensional Rift! ------------------------------------ Deviating from stuff in Goldenwood Forest...Introducing Challenge Trainers! Challenge trainers add a unique new type of battle that focuses more on themes and specific strategies to overcome any battle. The troll trainer with the Alakazam in Gearen City is now replaced with a challenge trainer. Though the battle is different, I'm sure you'll suffer all the same. If you can defeat all* of the challenge trainers, something nice will happen! *Note, not all of the challenge trainers will be present in V9. ------------------------------------ Something that I've really struggled with is showing expression within NPC's and certain characters. It's really hard to see what a person is feeling when they're just a punch of clumped up pixels. So, because of that, I've added more "emotes" and "poses". Here are some examples: ----------------------- And finally... Two new Pokeballs! These are the Mineral and Steam Balls. Mineral Ball: Specializes in capturing Rock, Ground, and Steel-Types. Steam: Specializes in capturing Water, and Fire-Types. ----------------------- That's all for now. Next Wednesday we'll go to another place that has gotten a visual rework. As well as two more characters that have gotten visual reworks themselves! Edit: Updated the first status post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veterans Azeria Posted October 12, 2016 Veterans Share Posted October 12, 2016 Jan back at it again with the gr8 mapping. Beautiful tbh. Goldenwood looks gorgeous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hycrox Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Those updates look spectacular! Great work! Also, will the new V9 content start with a clip of Gym Guy's punishment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Mods Ice Cream Sand Witch Posted October 12, 2016 Global Mods Share Posted October 12, 2016 THIS. LOOKS. SO. AMAZING.!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Personthing Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 (edited) Good god this game keeps getting better and better with every update. Keep it up, fantastic work. Edited October 12, 2016 by Personthing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2W Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Mad hyped for this, but wondering if trying to 100% playthrough V8 is worth it anymore if V9 looks so different with places we've been to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrixai Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Omg Jan. Is there anything you can't do bro?!?!!? You are just full of surprises!! Makes me all the more hyped up for version 9!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky98 Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 I really like the new goldenwood forest and cave. As well as the dimensional rifts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramiru Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Holy fucking shit. I think I just got a kreygasm reading the update. To be completely honest, this game far outshines Reborn when it comes to graphics and visuals, though it may not hold that spot now that E16 is right around the corner I've got a question though, are the challenge trainers gonna be like 1 ridiculously OP Pokemon like Solaris' Garchomp in Reborn or are they going to have an entire team of unfathomably strong pokemon, and that is why we would have to learn a strategy to be able to defeat them. Also, will we be able to come back and fight these trainers whenever we like, or do they become unavailable after a certain story point. Since it would be much easier to fight a jerkishly strong team with a level 75 team than a level 45 team like the one seen in the teaser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developers Jan Posted October 12, 2016 Author Developers Share Posted October 12, 2016 Holy fucking shit. I think I just got a kreygasm reading the update. To be completely honest, this game far outshines Reborn when it comes to graphics and visuals, though it may not hold that spot now that E16 is right around the corner I've got a question though, are the challenge trainers gonna be like 1 ridiculously OP Pokemon like Solaris' Garchomp in Reborn or are they going to have an entire team of unfathomably strong pokemon, and that is why we would have to learn a strategy to be able to defeat them. Also, will we be able to come back and fight these trainers whenever we like, or do they become unavailable after a certain story point. Since it would be much easier to fight a jerkishly strong team with a level 75 team than a level 45 team like the one seen in the teaser. It depends on the trainer you're dealing with.. The two shown here have 1 main Pokemon with support Pokemon to back them up. That's not to say that you should dismiss the supports. One wrong move and you'll be in for a hell of a trip. Off course this won't always be the case, and I'll have to include certain things to make them interesting, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. And yes, you'll be able to face these trainers any time throughout the game. There is no cut off point. I haven't decided if I wanted to scale the teams with the # of badges up or not... We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliteFlyingTaco Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Holy moly Jan you need to chill. This stuff is frickin' snazzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampellow Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Ohh yis, so does this mean that girl with the electivire is going to be a challenge trainer? Because currently she doesn't do much, and she looks like she would be an interesting fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valyrym Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Great, now i actually need to restart this game again... ugh, here comes hell in a hnadbasket round 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporter AiedailEclipsed Posted October 13, 2016 Supporter Share Posted October 13, 2016 Welp, there went my plans to start this with v8. Guess I'll be waiting for v9, lolsob. so beautiful, gah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulbatank1998 Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Let's see here... 19%, mkay... posted on Sept. 29th, mkay... More progress then I could've made, ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developers Jan Posted October 14, 2016 Author Developers Share Posted October 14, 2016 Let's see here... 19%, mkay... posted on Sept. 29th, mkay... More progress then I could've made, ever. There's only a huge spike in progress because I'm getting the easy stuff out of the way first. So that just sort of flies by. It'll slow down eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadeStrider Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Quick Question: Which Rejuvenation Character do you hate the most? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boneezus Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Keep up the great work Jan! Honestly this game is everything that a fan game should be, I'm actually really excited to get to do a new play-through on the highest difficulty when v9 comes out, it should be fun because even in Reborn mode I got my ass kicked a number of times Don't feel pressured to get the update done any faster than it needs to be, the quality of your games outshines all of the crappy fan games that are full of bugs and repetitive content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developers Jan Posted October 15, 2016 Author Developers Share Posted October 15, 2016 Quick Question: Which Rejuvenation Character do you hate the most? You haven't met him yet. You will in Version 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blastcore1 Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 You haven't met him yet. You will in Version 9. goddamnit now i want to know more!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Mods Ice Cream Sand Witch Posted October 15, 2016 Global Mods Share Posted October 15, 2016 So there could be an even bigger asshole than Texen? O . O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkRings Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 So there could be an even bigger asshole than Texen? O . O No way. Though in the grand scheme of things he is irrelevant... like a bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neco Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Fern is going to visit Aevium? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramiru Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Fern is going to visit Aevium? What are you talking about? Fern is the best character ever, and he always wins since he sides with the winners I wish I could be a Swag jockey someday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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