Walkthrough, not entirely complete, but like I couldn't get absolutely everything when bugs and glitches prevent me from doing so.
Well hello there. My goodness, how long has it been since my last Pokemon ROM hack? 5 months? Wow. This is what happens when I have a bunch of other commitments and I decide to try my hand at many, many more. I got into the hang of doing walkthroughs for different ROM hacks outside Pokemon, and then I had my RPGs that I took more time in doing, so clearly the ROM hacks here have been delayed considerably. But even with those in mind, guess what? I had an ENORMOUS one when I decided to check out Cloud White. My team here was Infernape, Claydol, Crobat, Lapras, Jumpluff, and Mega Ampharos (megas are permanent in this game).
I honestly don't know where I could begin. Cloud White includes base Fire Red (Kanto + Sevii). It includes Johto. It includes the Mangan Archipelago which is an entirely new region, and some of these islands are actually shaped like Japan. So meta. What? Oh, and there's an entire region based entirely out of France, and this region in particular, they all speak it. Cute, but this meant that for the non-French speaking audiences, they have no clue what things are, so my walkthrough shows some translations. Maybe a bit too much?
But the whole hack seems like too much, and not in the best of ways. Yes, your money amount can go above what Game Freak set the max as. And you can go above Level 100, there are some trainers there in that regard too. But even with all this, there's way more regions that trying to make a guide on all this is insane enough on its own, and that's not getting into the fact that the game's trainers get to be stagnant at the end of it all. Major trainers will either have a theme or all megas, and there's supposedly some edgy story for the Azur region in particular about samurai clans. Oh, and you get to be an emperor. Yeah, emperor, no gender differences were considered here. Very lame in that regard.
More mons up to Gen-6, getting all the megas in as well. The Fairy type was one I considered getting and god I need to vent about this, because this SUCKS. The Fairy type was just not implemented well at all. I was hoping to get a good fairy mon, but neither Gardevoir (or its mega), or Togekiss, the best possible options for me not counting Xerneas or Cresselia, just didn't learn the moves I need (plus Shiny Stones are extremely late for Togekiss anyways). I was stuck with Fairy Wind off of Jumpluff for a Fairy move as my only real option. Also for Moonblast, the de facto Fairy move, I mentioned those two legendaries, who do learn it by level, but who's bright idea was it to make Moonblast a STATUS move in categorization? That's just straight up awful, and you can't even use it to hit a Mega Sableye super effectively cause it will get bounced back to you via Magic Bounce. Just, no. No changes to TMs by the way.
And even with all this, there's the definite screw-ups, such as not being able to correctly finish off the Johto region because the Manaphy event is a soft lock, preventing you from getting the next one down as well. The Tyranitar'Arena is supposed to open after you become emperor, but I think the script is broken cause I can't enter that either. And there are some locations where walk-in flags aren't in the right spots and I can't even enter, or there's some guard in the way regardless of what I do. Also Johto more or less feels like it's straight from Liquid Crystal, and they also have the randomized rain for EVERYTHING in the entire hack. Pokemon Cloud White is a perfect example of going too far. There's going to be things that are fine, and many other things that are just not fine. The walkthrough for this game that I made was my second-largest walkthrough ever after the main Pokemon Nameless walkthrough. It could probably be a lot larger if I was able to access some extra events. The official game guide did help me somewhat in making my own, and I ensured that I let you all know of all the trainers to battle and where.
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