From the Essentials wiki: Pokémon Essentials is a pre-fanmade RPG Maker XP game project that is designed to be edited to create a role-playing game with the game mechanics of the main series Pokémon games.
So Essentials more-so refers to an already made pokemon game with a lot of assets, which serves as a starting point for making your own fangame.
Back to the engine part though. Normally RPG Maker XP games use the engine that comes with said RPG Maker XP. This engine is from 2004 or so though, and really not optimized.
So it's generally really slow. A few months ago someone made a new engine which is way more up to date and faster, called MKXP. from:https://github.com/night-burst/mkxp-z
This is the new engine that reborn (and now desolation as well) uses.
It's good to have informations like this. Really love Reborn, rejuv and deso. I was planning on having some fun using RPG Maker XP+ Essentials by myself just for fun, so those informations are really useful (I might not use MKXP right now though, since I am beginning my first experiences with rpg maker, but will consider that on the future)
Pokemon Reborn Engine?
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It's good to have informations like this. Really love Reborn, rejuv and deso. I was planning on having some fun using RPG Maker XP+ Essentials by myself just for fun, so those informations are really useful (I might not use MKXP right now though, since I am beginning my first experiences with rpg maker, but will consider that on the future)