So what the $#!t is Pokémon Uranium?
A
fan-made bootleg Pokémon game, some eight years in the making, that was
completed and released a few weeks ago. It runs on what I think is some
sort of homebrewed version of the Diamond and Pearl-era game engine hacked
together in RPGmaker, with a number of general ease-of-use improvements like
multiple save slots, key rebinding (I mean, if you’re playing Pokémon on your
computer you can do that anyway through your emulator software, but it’s still
nice), and a built-in Nuzlocke mode with a few optional rules. More
importantly, Uranium features a whole new region, Tandor, inhabited by about
200 fan-designed Pokémon as well as many of our old favourites. It’s not
unique in concept, of course, but to my knowledge it is, by a significant
margin, the most ambitious project of its kind ever to actually see completion,
which sort of makes it worth talking about, and probably even giving some level
of playthrough commentary.
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