Pokémon Adventure - Red Chapter is a ROM Hack of the US version of Pokémon FireRed created by Aethestode. The game is a retelling of Red's story from the Pokémon Adventures manga series. The game, however, isn't a complete retelling of the manga series as the creator has taken artistic license to create his own storyline and events. The first portion of the game takes place in the Kanto region. The second portion of the game takes place in the Orange Archipelago.
A sequel or rather, midquel game, "Pokémon Adventures Special Chapter" was released in [enter date here] and consists of five chapters for Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, and Pinknote . Red's chapter will cover his journey in the Orre Region, Cerise Island, the Johto region, and then the Sevii Islands. Blue's chapter will cover her journey through the Kanto, Nanomi, and Johto regions and the Sevii Isands. Green's chapter will cover his journey through the Kanto region, Decolore Islands, Johto region, and the Sevii Islands. Yellow's chapter will cover Cerise Island and the Sevii Islands. Pink's chapter will cover the Orange Archipelago and the Mirage Temple. And Gold's Chapter will focus on the Johto region. Unlike the previous game, which is a ROM hack, this game is made in a RPG Maker.
After the fateful encounter of Mew in Pallet Forest, Red found himself in a Pokémon Journey across Kanto to become the best Pokémon Trainer in the world. However, it won't be easy when his rival, Blue and later Green is also following the same dream. Things then becomes complicated when Team Rocket began to perform their cruel experiment on Pokémon. What they are experimenting might end up destroying the world.
Pokémon Adventure - Red Chapter, as of the current beta, features Pokémon up to Generation IV that can be caught and trained. However, Beta 12 would include all Pokémon from Gen IV, V and VI. The game allows players to perform normal Evolution, Mega Evolution, Primal Reversion as well as fusing separate Pokémon together.
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- Absurdly High Level Cap: There is nothing stopping a determined (or cheating) player from leveling their team to level 255, 155 levels higher than the cap in official game. If the player intends to play the endgame content, they will need to do so, as the Gym Leaders can be faced again, with their level 255 teams.
- Big Bad: Giovanni in the Kanto Region Saga. Drake in the Orange Archipelago Saga.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall:
- Herp Derps NPC are usually found throughout the game. Upon interacting with those NPC, they would usually complain about the Pokémon Adventure - Red Chapter hack.
- The creator himself also appeared inside the game.
- There's an entire bonus event dedicated to the Herp Derp NPC and the creator himself. Needless to say, that the bonus event constantly break the fourth wall.
- Red and Yellow's conversation in the Pokémon Centre, after Red defeated Giovanni, is practically this.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Important characters in the game speaks in coloured text (e.g. Red speaks in a red coloured text, whereas Blue speaks in blue coloured text).
- Darker and Edgier: The manga series itself is darker than the Pokémon anime. However, the hack is considered much darker than the manga series.
- Majority of the game's bonus events have pretty creepy stories (The old man in Celadon City event takes the cake).
- Major characters also end up dying as well such as Pink and Red's mom.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Averted. Cissy, the Gym Leader of Mikan Island, specializes in Dark Pokémon. Turns out she is part of Team Rocket.
- The Dragon: Lt. Surge to Giovanni.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: There are occasions where whether the player wins or loses a battle, Red, the player character, is treated as having lost. This is egregious if the player abuses the Absurdly High Level Cap of 255.
- Heel–Face Turn: The Team Rocket Triad (Lt. Surge, Koga and Sabrina) plays this straight after the Kanto Saga.
- Averted with Cissy. If a player plays a bonus event that features her in the Orange Archipelago, there will be hints that she'll eventually perform a Heel Face Turn. However, ultimately, she chooses not to do so.
- Heroic Mime: Averted! The protagonist speaks, and he speaks a lot too.
- Jerkass: Blue (or Green as the game calls him), your primary rival.
- Shout-Out:
- Red's mother likes watching Desperate Housewives.
- Pewter City contains a couple of references to Glee. One of the NPCs in the Pokémon Center is named Lea Myshell, and when spoken to, she sings a few lyrics from "Don't Stop Believin'". There are also a trio of cheerleaders named Quinn, Brittany, and Santana, and a biker named Puck.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Gorigan isn't a hulking brute here and looks way better than he does in the original games.
- Adaptational Expansion:
- Green's chapter goes into more detail on his story, since the original manga focused mainly on Red. Blue's chapter, meanwhile, explains how she escaped from The Masked Man ( a.k.a Pryce.
- Orre in Red's chapter isn't the desert as seen in its home games. It has several towns and even wild Pokémon as well.
- Adaptational Jerkass: While Green was still a jerk in the original Manga up until he became The Stoic, in his chapter, he is way more selfish and entitled (but not without some minor Pet the Dog moments like with the baby Kangaskhan), to the point where he abuses the Pokémon League rules by forcing Erika to accept his gym battle. He is also more abusive towards his Pokémon, like forcing his Raticate to push itself during said battle.
- Adaptational Villainy: Wes is part of Team Cipher here, and captures Red's Pokémon at the beginning. Red pretty much takes his place from the original game.
- Anti-Frustration Features: The Snag Machine now generates a snag ball that has a 100% catch rate against Shadow Pokémon, as to make retrieving Red's stolen Pokémon much easier. Although later battles with Cipher Peons that have more than one Shadow Mon only allow you to catch one.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Red has to fight two giant Shadow Galvantula at one point in the game.
- Compressed Adaptation: The Orre part in Red's chapter combines elements of both Colosseum and XD by having Red journey with Rui instead of Wes, and featuring Michael as a supporting character. Cipher members who appeared in both games appear here as well.
- Darker and Edgier: While Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness were already darker than the main series. It's pushed up to eleven here.
- Cipher attacks a train at one point to target Red and Rui. And it's also treated as a full-blown cult.
- Orre itself is one huge Hive of Scum and Villainy .
- One chapter deals with a Witch Hunt which nearly gets Rui and an Officer Jenny Burned At The Stake.
- Dark Is Evil: Shadow Pokémon are this, like usual, but the game introduces Dark Pokémon, which are implied to be even more violent.
- Foregone Conclusion: Since they appear in future chapters (including the Yellow chapter, which is playable), Oak, Red, Green, Blue, Bill, and Daisy all survive the events that happen in Orre. Professor Oak even talks about how Red stopped a cult in the region in an early cutscene.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: Like in the previous game, there are times where, whether or not you win or lose certain battles, it's treated as a loss. Unlike the previous game, being made in a game maker program allows the game to continue if you loose.
- Heel–Face Turn: Red's mother used to be part of Team Cipher. Same goes for Rui.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: Some boss fights have Pokémon that are way higher leveled than your own, which leads to a loss. Thankfully, the game lets you continue afterwards.
- Light Is Good: The Holy type. So far, only Omnynite has this type, and it has a special form as well (and can't evolve).
- Obviously Evil: In case it wasn't clear that "Professor Es Cade" (a.k.a Evice) was evilnote , his character portrait has him sporting an evil smirk.
- Police Are Useless: Most of the police force in Orre are corrupt, with only a few exceptions.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Yellow, like in the manga. Though she tries to clarify that she can read the emotions of Pokémon and not their thoughts, it is treated as reading thoughts through gameplay.
- Whole Episode Flashback: The Orre chapter of Red's story is basically this, as he is remembering it while frozen by the Kanto Elite Four.
- Womb Level: Red is swallowed by a giant Relicanth and has to escape at one point in his chapter.
- You Remind Me of X: Red reminds Gorigan of his mother which leads to him allowing him to escape.