Alilatias

Hmm, I actually agree with some of your assessments, though mostly regarding Vejyr and Silver Rise, along with Connor being a little too over the top for a first gym leader. For Vejyr and Silver Rise in particular, I was actually the one that suggested putting repel vendors in front of those places (they didn't exist prior to Episode 3 full release), and Weeping Hills used to be located in Route 1 (I suggested moving it to Route 2 for obvious pacing reasons). Perhaps Vejyr would benefit from being redone. It doesn't really make sense for it to be riddled with lava jumping platform

*salutes* As I had mentioned before, I am still in this ride until the end!

I truly doubt it's going to be that simple. If there's one thing that Desolation is known for, it's that you barely ever see the twists coming, and they're not really what you expect.

Catch a Bidoof, evolve it into Biabarel, use Defense Curl a couple times, heal, and proceed to Rollout your way to victory. Or at least that's how I assume most people do it.

*salutes* Next part of the dagger/photo pilgrimage should be quite interesting, if all things go well. Chances are though that you may have to backtrack to where the girl is, to initiate the next phase of the sidequest before heading off to Celia City.

Let's have an incredibly snarky librarian in the next city that describes the various areas on each island, including ones we haven't been to yet. Kind of like Reborn's historians, but more amusing yet flawed at the same time. "Only Arceus knows why the island folk decided to build a main road THROUGH Vejyr instead of AROUND the volcano." "Why does the labyrinth even exist? Because why the hell not?" "There is only one rule when traversing the frozen lands, and no, it has nothing to do with having to bury your horrid fashion style. Bring Repels. Lots and lots of repels."

@Alilatias - Alilatias, character name is typically 'Saito'.

Seems there's someone releasing a storm of Beldums on Wonder Trade right now. That reminds me, since I ended up with a female Goomy, I should breed a bunch and release them all onto Wonder Trade...

If/when Sun/Moon Pokemon are added, I'd suggest adding Rockruff as a starter. Sandygast and Sandalit would likely be interesting too, but Growlithe and Sandile already exist in terms of typing.

Pre-nerf Tristan was pretty crazy back in the beta, the only reason I got through him with my terrible first playthrough team was because I started treating the fight as a chess match of sorts, carefully taking out as much of his Pokemon as possible while losing as few as possible, with AI manipulation (hence my tactic to take out his ace in the previous page with a single Lv. 35 Staraptor, which as stated, is no longer possible due to the Starly line being axed from early game). A friend that I introduced this game to said that Roggenrola actually helped him quite a bit against Tristan. If I

Just check all of the tombstones. But be aware that the event can only be properly done after you're done with the main plot in that area. So finish your business in the area before trying to trigger the event. Once the event is triggered, a new cave should open somewhere. I forget exactly where though. I believe it was somewhere towards the center, but you have to take the path on the right side to reach it.

Drilbur isn't available until you reach Blackview City, and even then it's a rare Pokemon from the random credits machine in the southern Pokemon center.

Hmm, looking earlier in the thread, someone mentioned a bug with Ability Capsules not swapping a Scoliopede's ability to Speed Boost. I decided to go train up a Carvanha in my Hoenn-only playthrough (since I'd fly way past the level cap for the next chapter doing Fight Club battles without training another sub), and it seems Ability Capsules won't swap them from Rough Skin to Speed Boost either. It just remains as Rough Skin. (I wasted an Ability Capsule and saved before I realized this... But oh well, I still have another sitting around and I likely won't be using it anytime soon.) Oh, I'd

Nope, but you can get Bulk Up and Calm Mind, which is remarkably generous for a game with this sort of difficulty. Actually, Desolation in general is actually very generous with its rewards, but then again, I found all of the gym leaders in Desolation to be far harder than in Reborn/Rejuvenation thus far.

Yeah, you're gonna quickly learn in this game, if you're heading out of town, be prepared to buy a ton of repels. There's an upcoming stretch of game where you're likely to burn through dozens of them. There's a reason why during beta testing the latest episode, I suggested putting repel vendors at specific areas.

You don't need to do the credits thing at all, but doing so is HIGHLY recommended because there's something in there that acts as a fast travel teleport between all the towns in the game. To move on in the story, you have to head elsewhere, deeper into the maze.

The topic remained consistently active while you were gone for the past four months or so. That's a testament to how well-designed this game is. Personally I'd rank it among Rejuvenation and Reborn, if not even higher. And I'm still of the opinion that this fangame should have gotten its own subforum ages ago.

The sprite work is incredible. I'd be thrilled to help out with the testing as well.

Caz said around two months ago that he was suddenly dealing with major IRL issues, so development is now on limbo indefinitely until everything's sorted out.

Move Relearner is available but you need to clear a sidequest to gain access to him first. There is a hidden Shiny Stone available just before reaching Blackview City. That should be enough of a hint as to where its location is. Togepi/Azurill/Cleffa/Igglybuff are from the same event, you can only choose one. The event is also deliberately hard - you'd need to prepare a team capable of taking down four fully evolved Lv. 70 fairies. As such, most people probably won't stand any chance at all before clearing the current story. Dawn Stone is not yet available, but should be in the next release

There's still a small part of the caves that's accessible after clearing that part of the story. You just need to use the alternate entrance that leads to the main boss fight, not the main entrance to the village. You still get a small space to roam around in to look for Bidoof. Also for the book, you need to clear all of the Ranger sidequests in Route 2 before you're allowed access into the area that has it.

Bidoof can be found in the Keneph Caves.