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Pokémon’s too easy to be fun anymore, but Nuzlockes don’t work for me for a number of reasons. So I figured I’d play one of those romhacks that redesigns trainer teams – That way I could play the game normally but also would have to use my brain.
Any base game will do, although I’m not too fond of Gen4 because of how slow Gen4 pokémon games tend to be (gen5 is the prettiest, ofc)
Pokemon Unbound is a gen3 romhack with updated mechanics and pokedex up to gen 7ish. When you start, it gives you 3 different options to make the game more challenging (difficult, expert, and insane). It also gives other options, like level caps for each gym, randomized abilities, and a “scalemons” option where every fully evolved pokemon has 600 base stats. I just recently did a run with scalemons and random abilities at the expert difficulty, and it became a really fun challenge of crafting a different team to beat each gym leader. And since I wasn’t doing a nuzlocke, the cost of failure and trying again was very low. Lots of side missions and postgame content too.
This game has somewhat spoiled me, in that I wish every other romhack I play had some of the things Unbound has