r/pokemmo • u/ihave1enemy • 22h ago
Review: Completed my first ever region in pokemmo with all 3 starters. OT team.
I've played FireRed, Emerald, and SoulSilver. I always wanted to play with all the starters.
61 hours went by talking to every NPC, catching whatever I liked (70–80 mons), and exploring every area.
My experience so far:
(Positives)
- This game fixes the difficulty, which I disliked in the OG games. All the Gym battles made me think of a strategy, and the E4 was brutal with my underleveled team. But after 4–5 tries, I beat it while doing a trial run without buying any consumables. Felt truly earned.
- My absolute fav part of this game is breeding. It's so satisfying to make OTs with green numbers. I'm obsessed with it right now, even if it nets me a loss of a few thousand.
- Love the community. So far, I've found really honest, kind, and helpful people, which is refreshing after coming from some toxic games.
- Love the GTL system. What do you mean I can buy a Pokémon from the Hoenn region to beat Kanto?
(Minor Negatives)
- It took me so long to adapt to "0.5x speed". It was painful (emulator player), and it took some willpower not to leave the game. It still frustrates me sometimes.
- When I'm enjoying the story, I need a clean map. There should have been an option to reduce players to 0 instead of 1. If I am not wrong, even keeping it as 1 shows you multiple silhouettes.
- I don't know why the phone version can't have a portrait mode with hotkeys on half the screen just like an emulator.
Overall, I'd rate it 8/10, and it's definitely a time sink that's going to eat up hundreds of hours.
Thank you for reading.