A look back at: Pokemon Dreams

No walkthrough from me here guys! Sorry about that. I found one online as well as several very good guides on the locations of Pokemon, items, and the info about the fakemons, all in good company. My final team for the game included Dusknoir, Claydol, Vikavolt, Florges, Emboar, and Orcavion (this is a fakemon pseudo-legendary with Water/Dragon typing), plus a Magnezone which was used for much of the game but I swapped it for Dusknoir because of a certain Elite Four's Mega Banette.

So with that roster in my final team, yes, we got mons up to Gen-7, as well as a number of fakemons. And a new region, and the use of the CFRU (Complete Fire Red Upgrade) made things extremely well. Day/night cycle, a way around trade evolutions, free move tutoring, new options for double and inverse battles, and TONS of ways to catch the many Pokemon and fakemon of the Solda region. So the grass is always green, the water can be fished or surfed, the caves have plenty, the trees can be headbutted, and postgame you got these Ultra Wormholes scattered for all the legendaries and such. And yeah, I actually legitimately found and caught the 844 Pokemon here. There was just truckloads of stuff that the overall plot came to a halt and I enjoyed wasting my time with it all. Whether it was spending time catching the wild mons, grinding coins at the Game Corner to buy the Pokemon (every starter as well as plenty of other mons were available as prizes there), or actually using the DexNav, the game went to a halt for me as I did all sorts of stuff. With the DexNav, an important piece to consider is looking for specific Pokemon, one of which is the high experience yield Audino which I fought very often for conventional grinding and IVs. The game also had a Gen-6-style Exp. Share too, making me use my team to my fullest extent without nearly as much excessive grinding on my part.

While the overall story is simple and linear, it does feature some usual suspects. The gym leaders do have interesting niches in accordance to their team lineups and type specialties. We also got the TWO evil teams, Team Coil and Luna Gang, the former is the main team with a former friend who has to be an enemy and the other actually taking over a town and doing tons of mafia-style business. And these teams worked together. Your rival is a very relatable guy who is actually enjoyable, he yearns for strength, and does get stronger, but having his parents kidnapped caused him to decide on desperate decisions that he probably regretted. He isn't the only one as both main leaders of Team Coil, Cobra and Vincent, find their errors in their ways, along with Garter, the craziest of the bunch as well. The game even offered interesting still images that showed Cobra and the protagonist saving Garter from killing himself which was real cool. An interesting plot twist at the champion battle. Wait, it's Vincent, no wait, the rival beat him before you did so now you have back-to-back champion battles!

It's quite a ridiculous journey. Another thing about this hack is that it is quite pro-LGBT, as Prof. Conifer's lab has the trans flag and there are also cameo appearances about, the ones I recognized were from the comics El Goonish Shive and Rain on the two water routes. Plus the Golden Sun characters are in the grass gym I think, a few names from Xenoblade and Fire Emblem were around, and Wes and Miror B. from Pokemon Colosseum have very interesting cameos. I also manages to catch a full-odds shiny in an Alolan Geodude before getting the Shiny Charm. Overall though, this has earned a spot among my favorites, as I thoroughly enjoyed wasting my time playing this and if I enjoy wasting my time as much as this, it's hard to beat.