This popular fan-made Pokemon Emerald roguelike is getting a "soft sequel" today, with Gen 9 mons, multiplayer, and more
Jul. 2, 2024Trade with friends later today in Pokemon Emerald Rogue 2.0
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One of the most popular fan-made Pokemon roguelikes is getting a massive update today with a plethora of new features, including the addition of Generation Nine Pokemon, improvements to its progression system, and even multiplayer.
It’s a really neat concept, and the project already has two distinct versions – one that uses modern battling mechanics like the Fairy typing and physical/special split for individual moves, and one that uses the standard Emerald mechanics. Now though, developer Pokabbie has revealed version 2.0, which she describes as a “(soft) sequel,” and it’s full of enormous changes.
Arguably the biggest new feature was dropped right at the end of the new trailer, though – multiplayer. Pokabbie has explained what this means for Emerald Rogue in a bit more detail in her Discord server, in which she states it’s still in development and will initially require a companion app to work, but she’s hoping to potentially add “full link cable support” in the future. At launch today, players will be able to invite one friend into their game at a time, with the ability to trade Pokemon, explore each other’s hubs, as well as go on adventures with each other.
“I was unable to get co-op battles and PvP battles in for the initial launch, as I didn’t want to delay the launch just for those features,” Pokabbiewrites. “I do hope to implement those in a following update.”
It’s fair to say that it’s been a big year for unofficial Pokemon roguelikes – earlier this year, PokeRogue took the fanbase by storm, and quickly became incredibly popular. However, that project laterlost its creator, who stepped down as its lead developerafter concluding that working on it was “hindering the things I value most including my faith, my family, and my job.”
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