A Reflection On Reborn

[Faustin]

First up, this may or may not be the wrong place to post this, I thought that it would fit in here better than in team showcase actually (since this is me moreso sharing my experiences overall rather than talking about my playthrough hope this won't get deleted for being in the wrong spot).  This morning, I have finally completed Episode 18 of Reborn, which was quite a journey for me. Before playing this game I hadn't played too many pokemon games actually. I have played or, sun, and ultra moon. And for rom hacks I have played a solid amount (around 7-10). Notabilly Insurgence, a game I had played last year around November-December. Before I played Insurgence, I haven't had a pokemon game that really challenged me to the point where I had to take the time to strategize and build a team for a battle. I used to Brute-force my way through battles, only really focusing on type advantage , and generally wasn't good at battling. When I played Reborn I got a bit better at battling, but I still used to only really use like 10 Pokemon through my entire run. I started to play Reborn (around in early april), after watching Thammil's playthrough of the game, up until around 

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The part where you travel through the Underground Railnet

I decided to install the game around the time I started watching his playthrough, I myself prefer playing through games rather than watching someone play them, and one day I decided to do just that! At first I thought it would't be as fun through the first bit of the game because i've already seen how it plays out. But I actually really enjoyed it! First thing I noticed was the fact that the game was wayyyy more of a challenge than what I was used to, Insurgence wasn't a very easy game don't get me wrong but it wasn't too difficult thinking back (I was just quite shit at battling so it took more difficulty than it should have). First of all the early game, boy that was dreadful. You really didn't make much money back then so you had to be very careful with how you spent your money, which caused me not to rely on items in the early game for the most part. This game changed me as a player. The battles? Yeah good luck brute forcing through them without a strategy. Gym leaders were M E N A C I N G!!! of course you have the field effects, which are a big part of Reborn, a feature that totally changed how I battled, I really had to build my teams around the fields sometimes I had to get myself a new mon for a gym battle, sometimes 3, one time 5! I also often just sat in front of my laptop thinking up strategies I could use which was A LOT of fun. Sometimes, I would just spend like 5 hours grinding up my team and battling to find things that could give me an advantage against the leader. And when I got those W's (I didn't struggle with every gym leder, but when I did) I felt accomplished, I finally won! 

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Especially against Solaris recently, bloody bastard with his illegal Mega Garchomp that shit took like 5 hours between grinding up 3 pokemon, grinding evs and finding that fucking razor claw to eveolve sneasel which took like 1,5 hours by itself. could have taken like 1/3 of that time but alas. AAAAAAAAAAAA

While I loved the battles and strategizing, there was something I loved even more. The Story. It was one of the best stories I have ever had the chance to see unfold. The characters all have such interesting personalities, and are very likeable. You could really understand why a character made a certain descision, and the farther you got into the game, the better you got to know them. A feature of the game I very much liked was the 

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Friendship point system, the fact that making certain descisions really influenced how much a character likes you is rare to see in games. Often you would have to side with one character over the other, and those were moments where I really had to think about who I agreed with more. You ultimately had to make sacrifices, even though the game didn't change too much most of the time, aside from dialogue changes, but there were moments where a choice you made has a big influence in the long run.

This is a game where I shall remember most of the characters, when I return to playing it, it'll be like I just played yesterday when hopping back in. I am in no hurry to see Episode 19 release, when it happens it happens. The devs can take as much time as they need. All I will say is that I will be jumping out of my seat when that day arrives!

Finally I have one more thing to say.

I want to thank all of the people who have worked on Reborn, as well as all of the forum members, discord server members and everyone else who have build this community. Thank you for giving me a game I could enjoy to this extent, and thank you for giving me the oppurtunity to get to know these great people.

P.S: I don't expect anyone to be reading all of this, but if you really took all that time, I want to thank you as well, I really appreciate it. 

PP.S: Also I'm really out here pushing down the brim of the hat i'm wearing thinking of something to add looking like an idiot

Oh well I'll see you guys on the server/forum, have a good one! 

[bruhtonium]

neat revieuw

[Faustin]

25 minutes ago, bruhtonium said:

neat revieuw

thx also love the username

[bruhtonium]

thanks, I came up to it while i was messing around in computer class and looking at dead memes

[Faustin]

19 minutes ago, bruhtonium said:

thanks, I came up to it while i was messing around in computer class and looking at dead memes

That's a cool origin lol

[bruhtonium]

thx Kanye Grunter the lucky,

very cool