What led you to Pokemon Reborn?
Well around the start of the year I played Pokemon Clover. A pretty stellar game albeit purposefully offensive. After that I played a couple of other Fangames and romhacks. I had always been told that Pokemon Reborn was super edgy and dumb, but my curiosity was peaked, so I did play it, and was quite surprised in it's quality. What do you think about the battle system in the game?
Phenomenal. The way the environment interacts with moves and abilities makes the possibility for strategy in every major fight a glee to invest in and think about. It gives you incentive to explore with new moves in new areas. I'm not really one to talk about gameplay since I know nothing. But that feeling when you're fighting Serra, use earthquake, and you find out the field shatters, its incredible.
What do you think about the stories/narrative in the game? In particular, what do you think about the queer characters in the game, like Cain and Adrienn?
The story is great, it feels like I'm reading some big shounen manga where there are so many pieces and mysteries to take into account. The length and story make it feel what pokemon is meant to feel like, a journey. Now I say that but I don't think I really even started liking the story until around the end of the orphanage arc.
As for the representation of queer characters. I'd say it does a great job. As gay as Cain is, he's not annoyingly flamboyant (At least to me), he's a actual person that has flaws and develops. I don't have any particular feelings about Adrienn to be quite honest. Titania and Amaria are kinda overbearing, but I still enjoyed both of their characters, very angsty, realistic and tragic.
