Underplayed Gems

Shin Pokémon: Blue Version (2023)

Shin Pokémon: Blue Version cover
Developer
JoJoBear13
Platforms
Game Boy
Genres
Role-playing (RPG)
Main story
about 28 hours

How it feels

An enhanced faithful remaster of Pokemon Red/Blue with bug fixes, AI improvements, and modern quality-of-life tweaks.

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About

Started in 2018 by a secret cabal of ancient Pokemon nerds, Shin Pokemon is an enhancement ROM hack of Pokemon Red & Blue that aims to be the ultimate remaster fans never got. It is a mostly-vanilla hack that focuses on fixing game engine bugs and oversights from the original game. Additionally, trainer AI routines are improved and multiple quality-of-life enhancements have been added. It also acts as a kind of research-informed speculative work that interprets what the 2016 Nintendo Virtual Console re-release of Gen-1 Pokemon could have been. It is the image of a glitch-free experience with player-friendly goodies and enhancements common to other modern remasterings.

Screenshots

Shin Pokémon: Blue Version screenshot 1

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