Hi Jan, and everyone else reading it, this is a reply from a french fan on this wonderful game. I apologize if my english seems kinda bad sometimes.
My journey with pokemon fangame started with a recommandations on YT to a pokemon remixed song made by Glitchxcity. On the comments, I have seen many guys writting "hey i've heard it on reborn". There we go I started reborn. I finally discovered the HARDMOD of Pokemon by chosing intense mod. The concept of die and retry in a pokemon, with the nostalgia of every single pokemon generations + remixed music i used to listent again and again and again, thousand times.
And here comes Rejuvenation, at first i was saying that reborn was better... Until I discovred Angie, to me it is one of the most iconic ennemy in the game. An OST just made for here, the first rly hard trainer i had to think about hours and hours. I have been stuck for month, and left the game 3 or 4 times. But guess what, your game is so epic and nice designed, that Ihave and im sure other challenger player must have think about surpassing themself, and I haven't even finish the V13 YET!
Your game Jan is a fan made, and he is impossible to glitch, as even nowadays... new pokemon diamond and pearl are full of easy glitch breaking the game.
Well I could continue for a thousand lines more about what intense mode brought to all challenger player. I just can say THANKS YOU. You can't imagine how I enjoyed this game, I used pokemon and needed them as I would never imagine possible once in my lifen, and imagine weird strategy to beat your intense mode gym leader. ( Big up to you Crawli, I had to use 6 talonflame gale wind to beat you ahahaah). And the better things that brough me intense mode is F-U-N. I REALLY MEAN IT !! I usually streamed the game to a friend, and he loved to help me out to fight a strategy to beat the tough battle. We also burst out laughing by seeing illegal EV's max ( Hi Hazuki, welcome with -252 speed EV ahahah, thats so fun and I loved to have to battlle this, you had to think 15 times !). Surnamed the ennemy trainer a lot of time by " cheaaaaaaateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer" but always with a big smile.
I would now like to talk a bit about the community you discribed. I often needed help in this game, sometime don't understanding every single dialogue from a game might slow you a bit.
And EACH TIME, I asked for help, i always recieved what I needed, the community you create on your discord is amazing, everyone is here to help you, even continue the discussion in private message. They always answ fast, and give their time to help. I used to do it aswell as much time I could, sharing what I learnt from this hard experience to others.
Well I just hope intense mode will have an other life and this is not his extinction. I guess im talking for many players, and we beg you to ever give a better end for intense mode. I can understand that this mod can be really frustrating, but I never feel that feelings once with your game. And you can't imagine how proud your player are after beating those "cheater" we love so much.
PS : There is so many Players from the traditionnal game from the Pokemon Licence, that are disappointed from the easy mode... The message I want to underlign is, there is many player that don't even know the game I would love to join rejuvenation for his mod, more than the story the game propose I guess... (I love both, the difficulty and even the story, Playing a game in english in dream for me, I LOVE ENGLISH AHAH). Thank you, for creating the best pokemon game. I write it from the bottom of my heart. ❤
Baleine, (thats means whale in french )
