Spoiler TL;DR: It's Pokemon generation 6, X and Y. It's deep into development, but TheSmithPlays and team are looking for people intimately familiar with that generation to help shape the hack and playtest.
Will be interesting to see what he plans to do. Always felt XY are a bit overhated while also feeling like it has a lot of baffling issues that games before or after it don't have. They're also the biggest "what if" to me cause they never had any sort of updates, whether it's a third version or DLC.
Just a bizarre set of games.
Also I hope people aren't still giving him a hard time over that ZA video š. That comment section was ruthless.
He made a mini review video about the game and was overall positive on it while also detailing issues he had with it. He also attempted to clear up some misconceptions and misinformation that he kept seeing online. Overall it was a fair take.
This was during the peak of ZA discourse so the comment section got toxic pretty fast with people fighting amongst themselves as well as calling TSP a shill among other rude things.
Though I'm noticing now that he took down the video at some point.
Don't expect a big difficulty chalenge run but it re-balance the first 3 generations (yellow, crystal and emerald) on multiple aspect they are generaly criticised.
Some pokemons have better stats, they nearly all got better movepools, some attack like the CS have been changed so they don't feel like useless in battle.
The difficulty curve is re balanced, not to be hardcore but to be make it consistant and so that you can't win by spaming 1 attack.
Some details of quality of life have been changed.
They shouldn't be taken as difficulty hack more than "trying to improve" hack.
If you want there are multiple video presenting the modification done in the run on the smithplaypokemon channel.
The main idea is trying to polish existing games in particular crystal, yellow and emerald, while trying to change small things and "staying true to the original vision".
That means for example no new Pokemon, no type changes, no physical/special split, no new areas... It mainly adds QoL, rebalances learnsets, changes pokemon availability, evolution methods, small buffs to some Pokemon...
As a noteworthy thing, I find them very well balanced and very cleanly design. As he has a big audience and a smaller scope, he can get a very big team for play testing and his games tend to be much more polished than your average hack.
Oh, super excited for this! I really liked XY when they released. Would like to be a play tester, but don't think I'm qualified enough for it. Either way, can't wait to see what TSP will do.
Iāve long believed that X and Y had an enormous amount of wasted potential, so color me intrigued.
The dream would be a fan-made āPokemon Zā version, but I doubt 3DS romhacking has Ā gotten to that point already - would be eager to be proven wrong though.
I confess, I am unsure of this one. X and Y were games almost entirely carried by the hype of mega evolutions. I replayed it recently and it is an incredibly mid game. I would argue that a lot of the hand holding complaints of Sun and moon started here. And since edits will be largely stuck of level curve, move sets, and other such small tweaks, I am unsure how much he can really raise that bar.Ā
Like you cant fix an incredibly weak narrative or forgettable enemy team.Ā
I'm surprised they picked X/Y next. The game doesn't have a complete decompilation, right? Which means they won't be able to modify as thoroughly as they did with the other games
Will be interesting to see what he plans to do. Always felt XY are a bit overhated while also feeling like it has a lot of baffling issues that games before or after it don't have. They're also the biggest "what if" to me cause they never had any sort of updates, whether it's a third version or DLC.
Just a bizarre set of games.
Also I hope people aren't still giving him a hard time over that ZA video š. That comment section was ruthless.
Wait what happened?
He made a mini review video about the game and was overall positive on it while also detailing issues he had with it. He also attempted to clear up some misconceptions and misinformation that he kept seeing online. Overall it was a fair take.
This was during the peak of ZA discourse so the comment section got toxic pretty fast with people fighting amongst themselves as well as calling TSP a shill among other rude things.
Though I'm noticing now that he took down the video at some point.
If you say you like anything you get called a shill.
Since these games don't have decompilations yet there's only so much they can do. I'm keeping my expectations in check
Oh for sure. I'm not expecting anything crazy, just wanted to talk about my feelings on the game.
What is this Legacy series, and what are the expected features? Is it an enhancement/difficulty hack?
It kind of is.
Don't expect a big difficulty chalenge run but it re-balance the first 3 generations (yellow, crystal and emerald) on multiple aspect they are generaly criticised.
Some pokemons have better stats, they nearly all got better movepools, some attack like the CS have been changed so they don't feel like useless in battle.
The difficulty curve is re balanced, not to be hardcore but to be make it consistant and so that you can't win by spaming 1 attack.
Some details of quality of life have been changed.
They shouldn't be taken as difficulty hack more than "trying to improve" hack.
If you want there are multiple video presenting the modification done in the run on the smithplaypokemon channel.
The main idea is trying to polish existing games in particular crystal, yellow and emerald, while trying to change small things and "staying true to the original vision".
That means for example no new Pokemon, no type changes, no physical/special split, no new areas... It mainly adds QoL, rebalances learnsets, changes pokemon availability, evolution methods, small buffs to some Pokemon...
As a noteworthy thing, I find them very well balanced and very cleanly design. As he has a big audience and a smaller scope, he can get a very big team for play testing and his games tend to be much more polished than your average hack.
I just saw his video! Iām looking forward to it!
Oh, super excited for this! I really liked XY when they released. Would like to be a play tester, but don't think I'm qualified enough for it. Either way, can't wait to see what TSP will do.
The end of X/Y was lackluster imo. Canāt wait to see what he does with it.
Iāve long believed that X and Y had an enormous amount of wasted potential, so color me intrigued.
The dream would be a fan-made āPokemon Zā version, but I doubt 3DS romhacking has Ā gotten to that point already - would be eager to be proven wrong though.
I confess, I am unsure of this one. X and Y were games almost entirely carried by the hype of mega evolutions. I replayed it recently and it is an incredibly mid game. I would argue that a lot of the hand holding complaints of Sun and moon started here. And since edits will be largely stuck of level curve, move sets, and other such small tweaks, I am unsure how much he can really raise that bar.Ā
Like you cant fix an incredibly weak narrative or forgettable enemy team.Ā
I'm surprised they picked X/Y next. The game doesn't have a complete decompilation, right? Which means they won't be able to modify as thoroughly as they did with the other games
Yes, be touched upon those issues in the video.
This guy makes the most boring rom hacks. Hard pass.