Pokemon Light Platinum Review

There are few Rom Hacks that I question whether they are deserving of their reputation. Pokemon Unbound is one of the best, Gaia is a close second and so on. Light Platinum makes some of these lists too my question is why? It is a terrible Rom Hack of Fire Red first there are so many early gift Pokemon and while this isn’t so bad you can get a Growlithe, Elekid, and Milotic within the first few minutes, next it takes so long to get Running Shoes I tried to use speedup, but after I did it crashed, lastly everything is at a snails pace in this hack pacing both movement wise and story take so long to get going. The game also has a bad habit of stopping the game pretty much to explain things any Pokemon fan could tell you. It stops you just to give you the Headbutt TM and explain how it works then uses it as an excuse to introduce Red. I get that not many would be aware to use Headbutt for hidden items or Pokemon, but every Pokemon Fan knows Red (the hardest and secret boss fight in the Gen 2 games and protagonist of the first games). You also meet Diamond who becomes your rival. While there is no grinding it is so slow to do anything I barely reached the first town before giving up on this game because of its pace. Now, none of what I mentioned is enough to give up on the game and call it the worst there are far worse Rom Hacks. So why did I call it the worst simple I am sure the creator of this hack is aware of its issues yet is still remaking it with the same issues and no changes that is what made me label it as the worst. Not any of its previous issues the fact someone believes so much in this game and still not add quality of life changes to essentially make the same game twice without any improvement.

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