In Development - Klawful Kanto: The Final Pokémon Game

ATTN [FIRST NAME] [LAST NAME]:

FLIGHT Property Management, a subsidiary of FLIGHT International, (dba FLIGHT in select regions), is delighted to welcome you back to Pallet Towers, a signature FLIGHT residential development. As part of the settlement with FLIGHT Property Development LLC pertaining to the medical incident you experienced on Route 1 last year*, we are delighted to extend to you a Bronze FLIGHT Rewards Points membership**. FLIGHT Rewards Points can be redeemed at select Poké Mart Plus locations for eligible items.****

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Fear and Loathing in Modern Kanto

Kanto has seen better days. Frankly, it's Klawful. After countless decades of being trod over by every wannabe Pokémon collector, League Champion, and vanilla QoL romhack developer, the overused region has fallen into tedious irrelevance. There's just no value left in these boring routes and square cities. People will riot if you make them suffer through Route 13 again. Yes, even if you put a Hoothoot there.

Early attempts at revitalization by FLIGHT (a megacorporation recruited by the government to save Kanto from bankruptcy) were viciously rebuffed by environmental and citizen advocacy groups. Even so, FLIGHT's considerable financial resources continued to pour into the region, albeit stymied by local resistance. For a while, Kanto seemed to be on a dull path to trading a small chunk of atmosphere for a small boost in activity.

Then, following the destruction of Indigo Plateau by an unprecedented earthquake, both sides pointed the finger at the other, with Kantonians accusing FLIGHT of irresponsible terraforming, and FLIGHT blaming cave-ins and sinkholes on the "eco-terrorists'" reckless weaponization of powerful Pokémon to pursue political gains.

Whoever the culprit was, biodiversity across Kanto continued to plummet, leading to an increased number of invasive species preying on the native Poké-population. All of this, combined with the disappearance of Cinnabar and the Seafoams beneath ever-rising global sea levels, led to escalated tensions and between corporate interests and community organizations.

Now, with the failure of FLIGHT'S more moderate approaches, the desperate regional government has okayed a complete and utter overhaul, one that prioritizes the continued viability of Kanto as a home and economic center for humans over all other considerations, including the future of the Pokémon community. FLIGHT has begun this new era by demolishing Cycling Road, closing Rock Tunnel, and oh, yeah, announcing the formal dissolution of the League Challenge.

There will be one more Champion from Kanto, and then none ever again.

Where You Come In

As a broke kid from the soulless Pallet Towers, an "affordable" multi-family residential development, you never thought you'd own a single Pokémon. And with Kanto's future in jeopardy for even the most privileged of aspiring trainers, no one ever bothered to convince you otherwise. So, by the time you heard there was only time left for one last Pokémon master, you had long since accepted being denied the grand adventure that had been undertaken by so many others with one overleveled starter and no non-damaging moves.

But, when your best friend approached you with a dubiously ethical plan to acquire 3 rare Pokémon (Rowlet, Torchic, Piplup), it was impossible to turn down the chance to turn an impossibility into a destiny.

With the clock ticking, a depleted region awaits: can you find success in a land that has already been milked to death?

Klawful Features

Pikachu Is Cancelled Party: This is it; Kanto has been run through so many times that Pokémon is officially over after this game. Gather the Badges, become Champion and then grow tf up.
Ecosystem Collapse: A curated Pokédex of just 151 Pokémon from generations 1 to 9 have survived in Klawful Kanto. It's a vintage look.
Economic Collapse: The Daycare is gone, the Bicycle Guy is missing, the Game Corner has been flattened, the Softboiled tutor has lupus-
Unfamiliar Terrain: Kanto has been overhauled by flooding, seismic activity, commercial development, and the Homeowner's Association. Although, what happened in the Safari Zone is really all Koga's fault.
An End to The Tyranny of Low Numbers: No more going insane over 1% encounter rates. Wild grass/caves/etc always have exactly 3 Pokémon to offer, with a 35/35/30 distribution. You'll scout an area faster than you can read the docs about it. Docs are so 2021.
Public Enemy #1: I hate Heatmor, Heatmor is not in this game, I hate Heatmor
Public Enemy #2: Your rival, Big Jerm, will stop at nothing to become Kanto's last Champion. Just don't ask him to actually win any Gym Battles, though, or that fraud'll retire on the spot.
Difficulty Swerve: Customize your experience against the higher level curve and enhanced teams of enemy trainers with the optional Exp All, and the ability to buy Rare Candies with FLIGHT Rewards Points
Master The Game: Every enemy Machamp has the same moveset as every other enemy Machamp. This goes for --almost-- all fully evolved Pokémon that belong to an enemy trainer. The game allows you to develop a working knowledge of a Pokémon's capabilities, letting you respond to threats with your own experience of Klawful's 151 instead of an Alt-Tab to documentation.
What's Old is New Again: Indigo is Indi-GONE. Experience a new Victory Road... that may strike you as somewhat familiar...
Graphics Bullshit: Pokémon benefit from new animated sprites, and many Trainer Types have been updated to their renditions from Unova, Sinnoh, and Alola.
I am Questing It: As you pursue your 8 badges, experience a number of optional side stories that send you backtracking all over this godforsaken map in the hopes that you get something decent out of it.
Born Too Late To Find An Ether, Born Just In Time to Consume Product: Kanto has been picked clean a thousand times over. There are no valuables sitting on the side of the road. Instead, items ranging from Berries and Mints to Ability Pills and the Infinity Repel can be purchased with FLIGHT Rewards Points.
The More You Learn, The More You Earn: Winning Trainer Battles awards FLIGHT Rewards Points, but talking to non-trainers rewards twice as many. Reading signs also increases your points balance. Lore is more!
Glitch in the Matrix: Experience some of the jankiest event coding known to man in a game held together by string and wet McDonald's napkins.
The League of Extraordinary Yappers: Every line of dialogue has been rewritten and boy is there more of it.
Burn the Witch: I am going to kill Heatmor
Return of the King: Gengar once again has the Levitate Ability. Also, so does Orbeetle, but you don't care about that.
This Rocks: Rock-Types have gained resistance to Rock and Bug moves.
I am Normal and You Are Cringe: Monotype Flying and Fighting Types, as well as Flying/Fighting hybrids, are now immune to Ghost moves.
Simple Evolution: Many convoluted evolution methods have been simplified. (Gligar is no longer hampered by time-of-day, for example). Yes, I fixed the trade evos, calm down, Jesus.
Don't Call It A Comeback: The Gym Leaders of Kanto have done some reshuffling, and some new faces have entered the fold. Monotype rosters are OUT, nepotism is IN, Lt Surge is UNMEDICATED.
Hey! Give Me a Game With Nothin'!: Z-Moves? Megas? HMs? Pssh, Klawful Kanto doesn't even have TMs. The Move Tutor's here, but he sold out to the man.
One Last Time: Return to the region where it all began for one last romp in the Pokémon world. Afterward, nostalgia is over, playing with a children's cartoon is over, Pokémon ends forever, and you must move on to something more productive, like becoming a lawyer, making your bed, or sniffing paint.
Not Technically a War Crime: You cannot send me to prison; Heatmor is not covered by the Geneva Convention

Pokémon is owned by The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, and Game Freak

Pokemon Essentials 21.1:
Poccil (Peter O.)
Maruno
AvatarMonkeyKirby, Boushy, Brother1440, FL., Genzai Kawakami,
Golisopod User, help-14, IceGod64, Jacob O. Wobbrock, KitsuneKouta,
Lisa Anthony, Luka S.J., Marin, MiDas Mike, Near Fantastica,
PinkMan, Popper, Rataime, Savordez, SoundSpawn,
the__end, Venom12, Wachunga

21.1 Hotfixes:
Maruno

RPG Maker XP by Enterbrain

Ultimate Move Tutor- Grogro
Arcky's Poké Market-Arcky
Sprites- KyleDove

This game was built on top of the Pokémon World Project by: The Pokémon World Project Team. The project lead, SocomSeal, thanked the following people in their credits:

Animations from
The Gen 9 Move Animation Project
Gen 8 Animation Project lead by StCooler, with additional contributions by DarrylBD99, WolfPP, ardicoozer, riddlemeree
"Thanks to BellBlitzKing for his Pokemon Sound Effects Pack: Gen 1 to Gen 7 - All Attacks SFX
Gen 9 Animation Project led by KRLW890 and Nut0066, with additional contributions by Toxillian, QuahogTheCreator, Lcorp, and Shashu-Greninja
NikDie
RetroNC
Many resources from:
The Generation 9 Resource Pack
https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/generation-9-resource-pack-v21-1.527398/
Many Maps adapted from work done by
JohtoBlaziken
nstav13
Curt200718
Other tiles by
Ulithium_Dragon
Badge sprites from work by
SoaringSkies0
JcFerggy
Deluxe Battle Kit and addons by
Lucidious89
Golisopod User
Luka S.J
Modular UI Scenes and addons by
Lucidious89
Bag Screen with interactable Party by
DiegoWT
Delta Speed Up by:
Marin (og speed up script)
Phantombass (19.1 version)
Mashirosakura
Golisopod User
D0vid (v21.1 version)
Manurocker95(bug fixes)

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