'I think something very, very odd has happened. 'On’t seem to remember,' begins your internal monologue, mid-word. He’s wearing sandals under his lab coat, and that’s not even the most disturbing development. When I boot Snakewood up, a Pokémon professor stands smiling on-screen.

But this is a hack that delights in tipping the cozy tone of the proper Pokémon games into surrealism. If you really wanted to, you might be able to spin Snakewood’s setting as a grand metaphor for environmental disaster, which would just about place it within the same thematic territory as Game Freak’s series. The majority of the trainers you’ll be facing off against here are zombies, and some of their Pokémon are too-Snakewood introduces a new ‘Disease’ type to the equation. It’s perhaps the ROM hack that gets closest to Pokémon Black, pitting your Pokémon directly against trainers, and reducing the series’ idyllic setting to an apocalyptic horrorscape. Snakewood, as its title might suggest, is the Pokémon game for edgelords. 'I’m not proud of it, but all scientific breakthroughs require sacrifices.' I’m not convinced Pokémon needed an Alien Resurrection, but it’s got one. 'You weren’t meant to see this,' Bill says. They’re capable of speech, but you’ll wish they weren’t. It’s full of cages, each housing a botched new Pokémon. It’s a twist that squeezes new possibilities from familiar monsters.īut at what cost? Later in the game, you wind up in Bill’s basement. The preeminent Pokémon researcher has come up with a new method of evolution that’s caught the imagination of Kanto-fusion. But Professor Oak, in his wisdom, confiscates your endgame gear and plonks you back at the beginning. And at first you’re comically overpowered, misusing your level 80 Pokémon to crush the Caterpies of youngsters, taking their money just as they’re starting out on your own adventures. You return to Kanto after becoming champion of Hoenn in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.

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