I’ve been playing Eternal X which I’ve found fun. It’s what X and Y should have been which is to say it’s still fairly vanilla Pokemon with just enough tweaks to really help bring a lesser appreciated generation more up to speed.
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
It's not a romhack but I've really been enjoying pokerouge, I've found it pretty challenging. It's a browser game. https://pokerogue.net/
radical red is pretty choice, as well as any drayano hack. there are text and guage animation speedup codes available for gen 4 games to help mitigate the slowness.
I'm almost done playing Pokemon Odyssey, it probably isn't as hard as hacks like radical red or kaizo emerald but it is definitely a lot more challenging than any original game. Unfortunately it's only ~75% complete right now but it's definitely one of my favorite hacks already
If you haven't already played it, definitely play Rocket Edition. It's not designed for increased difficulty, though I found it was a bit more challenging than vanilla. But the writing is phenomenal.
Bit of a sidetrack, but do you know if I can play rocket edition on a hacked 3ds? I'd like to play but I don't have time to sit own and play Pokemon on pc
It's a FireRed hack, so if you can play a FireRed ROM, you can play Rocket Edition. At the very least, there are special cartridges you can get to play ROMs.
Sweet! I'm gonna get that right now!
I really liked Prism, a lot. gen 2 rom hack, with mons and rules from up to six i think. Its not overly hard but it does require you to know what youre doing. And there is a LOT of game.
Not a romhack, but https://pokerogue.net/ has every new pokemon (and was my first exposure to gen 9, honestly)
Pokemon sacred gold and soul silver are gen two r redone.
They're awesome
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