I'll be doing a screenshot+text Let's Play of Touhoumon 1.8x Merry Edition, an English Fire Red hack based off Touhoumon Puppet Play 1.8x. With the Japanese romhacks, they're rebuilt from the ground up. Many of the English translations are fairly lazily made, like this one. They take the game mechanic changes, etc of the Japanese version, and port it over to an English Fire Red without any change to plot/etc. Regardless, even with the blatant laziness, I still enjoy this particular romhack due to the difficulty. Clever mechanic changes make the game legitimately difficult, and I'll be doing a Nuzlock challenge on top of it following these rules:
*I will only catch the first Puppet encountered on each new route. Shiny Puppets are excluded from this rule.
*I will release a Puppet when fainted. A whiteout is not considered game over if I have Puppets in storage.
The first update will be from Pallet to post-Brock. I originally started with Sanae which has resistances up the *** dragon-style, but is deathly weak to the rival, and first badge. Alice and Brock legit become luck-based missions without massive grinding. I opt to go with Alice because she's the only starter who gets STAB early game. Sanae gets her first STAB at level 18, and Reisen at level 18.
Let's begin~
As you can see here, Oak is unchanged.
"Pokemon" is changed to "Touhou." I prefer the hacks where they're changed to "Puppets," or "Dolls. (Boneka for the indonesian version(s) made by Sanae)
Regardless if you chose Boy or Girl, you're forced to play as
Maribel Han
An amusing oversight due to laziness. The truth is because the rival is
Renko Usami
Trainer card.
Sanae is an extremely bulky Puppet, her final evolution having 90/115/115 defenses, and Shinto/Wind, this games equivalent of Dragon/Electric and Serene Grace. Her offensive capabilities are mediocre at 60/80/70. One of the changes is that each puppet only evolves once, but has many alternative evolutions. The way the game balances this is by having alternative evolutions being national dex. They're stone evolutions, which are locked until you own the National Dex. Sanae has an Attack form, and a Technitian form. Both ASanae, and TSanae respectively are very respectable attackers. ASanae becomes Shinto/Water and switches her stats around. 70/130/90 for offensive stats, and 80/80/80 for defensive stats. TSanae is another offensive-based attacker with 60/105/110 offensive stats, and 90/85/80 for defensive stats and she's Shinto/Nature, this game's version of grass.
Alice is the mighty glacier of this game. Mono-Reason typing, or basically Mono-Psychic. 100/70/100/110/100/50 for stats, and Doll Woll which is Rough Skin. Competitively, she's kinda ***, but she's the only starter who learns her STAB quickly enough for her to be viable early game. Attack Alice is almost identacle to Sanae in terms of stat distribution, but loses to Sanae's superior typing. TAlice is interesting in that she becomes a quick physical sweeper with 105 attack and 105 speed.
Reisen is the "Heart" type, and I'm not really sure which element it's trying to emulate. Her stats make her more of a stereotypical psychic-type sweeper. 80/75/75 defensive stats and 70/125/105 offensive stats. Reisen learns her first STAB at level 18 like Sanae, but learns a non-stab Psycho Shot at level 9 making her the second best early-game starter. Unlike the other two, Reisen has a defense form, giving her respectable 95 SPA, and 135 Special defense. she unfortunately not being the Nature type, and not having an -absorb ability doesn't make her the most effective special wall.
I go with Alice, and Renko choses Reisen. I **** her face off due to Doll Wall being broken early game and go through the derp fetch quest. I get my Touhou Orbs and go off to catch ****.
My first catch is a CNazrin. Unlike other early-game derps, she comes with Pick Up, and is 20 BST higher than nearly everything. She being a Beast type, and Tackle being Beast type makes her pretty amazing early game. Later on she evolves in to a fairly balanced mon with 90/90/105 for offensive stats and 60/70/85 for defensive stats, and potentially gets Sand Veil. She's potentially a decent mixed sweeper, but for some reason the AI likes to crithax my Nazrin so I've never been able to properly raise one.
My second catch is a CTokiko, a bulky mono-flying type, 100/100/90 for defensive stats. Attack stats are 80/40/70 (She can learn roost later on LOL.) She's amazing early game. Stalls out the first gym severely under leveled!
My Third catch is a CLuna (No pic because I suck.) In Touhoumon, there are only two bug types, Wriggle, and Yamame, so most Bug Catchers catch the various fairys from Touhou, Lunachild, Sunnymilk, Star Sapphire, Daiyousai, Cirno, Lily White, Lily Black.
Post-Rival battle 1. Grinded Tokiko to level 6 and CAlice to level 10 before taking on Renko. Level 6 CTokiko bodies Her level 10 CMedicine, a bulky Miasma/Nature (Poison/Grass) puppet, and CAlice with Psy Shot eats Reisen alive.
I grind CTokiko up to level 11, and CAlice up to level 15 in preperation for Brock. Luck was on my side this battle as Stomp paralyzed both his Suika, a earth type with 95/55/95 defensive stats as a Chibi. Then he proceeded to Harden to +6 defense as I Sand Attacked for -6 accuracy. Quick Attack (flying type, stab) koed it slowly. He then sent in CYuugi at level 16, a Chibi with a base 90 attack unevolved. Stomp paralyzed, when he used Howl for +1. He then used Howl until he was at +6, while I sand attacked him to -5 accuracy. Karate Chop (i resist this) missed and I got the -6 accuracy. With resistance, a +6 karate chop does half damage, but ohkos on crit. He got two hits, but no crits which I potioned away the damage whilst chipping away with quick attack. Got my badge, and ****ty TM and went on my way.
My next update will have far more screenshots/information, and hopefully be less rushed in writing. I won't be able to update until sometime around wednesday, so let me know if anyone finds this interesting.
Deaths:
CNazrin LV.2
Current team:
Lv. 15 CAlice
Lv. 12 CTokiko
Lv. 7 CLuna
Also; type chart!
http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhoudex/Type_Chart