PokéCommunity HotY 2017 Hack notes.

Mega Power:
- difficulty presents itself as "grind more", rather than being more strategic
- awful, safe-y colour green graphics
- line colouring too thick
- slight backtracking at beginning fo the game
- marts make no sense, unplanned and heavily unbalanced
	- pokecenter mart left side only sells low tier items throughout the first 6 gyms, while right side sells a weird assortment of high-tier items (e.g. Ultra Ball) and utility items
	- no main mart sells poke balls or great balls
	- snack shop obsoletes poke center mart by selling the cheap food medicine items (lava cookie, drinks)
	- berries have a sell price too high, could be abused but money isn't an issue midgame
- way too many trainers, frequently run out of PP without any free heals
- game somewhat enforces coverage in the early game, although in later game major trainer Pokémon become samey and repetitive later on.
- level curve too aggressive, requires extra wild grinding
- barbaracle on first gym leader w/o wild options screws fire and normal pokes
- beep boops
- big mart sells all TMs, mostly obsoletes TMs from gym leaders and such
- game sells lucky eggs in big mart
- no way to beat walled fights other than get lucky or grind, game probably expects speedup grinding
- start crashes in battle menu
- many grammatical and spelling errors, hard to follow story this way, and makes dialogue unappealing to read
- some textboxes poorly formatted, frequent text overflow
- some signs and locations completely unaltered (minor)
- average events
- overall better pokemon (gen 5 & 6), but too much focus on the same pokemon
- reusing HM locations
- boring, long-drawn out events with too many trainers and not enough variety
- evil team sections have way too many trainers
- many battle sprites are terribly scaled

Rocket Red:
- dialogue well-polished and written
- most NPCs had enjoyable and witty dialogue
- lore well-developed, good story
- Bill character over-the-top
- Blue Lavender Tower arc a bit cringey and unbelievable
- "Jesus Arceus Christ" etc.
- Good Rattata gag
- Used paused and punctuation in dialogue for more emphasis
- most of the game left untouched, trainers and wild pokemon, item locations, maps
- celadon mart being accessible at the start is unbalanced
- eevee (early game and in general) is unbalanced
- most pokemon are garbage except Clefable, Wigglytuff, Nidoqueen and Nidoking
	- no real incentive to steal pokemon once found a suitable team/main as most kanto pokemon are below average
	- rewards given for being bad aren't told to player, while rewards given for being good are, therefore decreases need to steal pokemon even further
- sludge bomb TM is OP at the time of acquiring
- interesting side events
- morality is interesting but no depth or direction with rewards
- half of trainer/NPC dialogue is unchanged
- graphics unchanged
- phone description crashes

Orange:
- well polished, nothign out of place except walking and bonking animation
- some music choices questionable
- water routes too big, requires awkward zigzag pattern to traverse
- learnsets are too reminiscent of gen 2 (i.e. trash)
- mediocre Tms
- green palette's saturation is slightly high
- most ground maps have limited colours -> uninteresting
- bwexp and exp.share (gen 6) is good
- some maps are slightly confusing to navigate
- mostly smooth mechanical features (e.g. menus)
- instant text
- auto-surf
- pre-engages to rival battle are a bit anti-climatic
- order of HMs follow own original structure

Adventure Red:
- Dialogue composed of either shoehorned memes, sexual innuendos, arrogant self-projections, or uninteresting generic dialogue
- treats NPC dialogue as a quota to fill
- not a fan of gen 4 tilesets in gen 3, not properly scaled
- colours of tileset too bright and flashy at times, doesn't fit in well
- many, many graphical oddities
- politied is too broken
	- early trade stone before brock
	- has drizzle and learns perfect coverage
- marts are poorly designed
	- sells only regular potions for first four marts
	- no repels until vermillion
	- back cabinet allows buying drink items in bulk
- good item and hidden item placement
- decent events and sidequests
	- catches edge cases with certain pokemon in party during cutscenes
- some things feel out of place without context that it's from the manga (e.g. geodudes and arbok slice)
- slightly underleveled trainers
- good amount of trainers
- general mediocrity of gen 1 pokemon = easy fights
- very unpolished at times, from visuals to dialogue
- older version had many visual bugs, grammatical errors and outright crashes