VN Ren'Py Pokemon Academy Life Forever [v8.15b.2024] [Pokémon Visual]

[michael1984]

The dungeon crawler game could be fun if it was a bit more simplified

But as it is now its horrendous to play

Those items could be proccured in the poke mart with different prices and the whole thing would be solved easy like that

instead having to do a dungeon crawler

 

[Donutmaester]

Now this is the pessimist in me talking, but in order to get those items to appear in the poke mart you'd need to invest in Gardenia with a lot of money and it's impossible currently without earning money from selling the items to her. So in a way they are forcing you to do the dungeon crawl whether you like it or you don't. The optimist in me is saying that they'll provide support later on for anyone that doesn't like the dungeon with the best example being the introduction of the crafting mechanic within electives to make you able to create the items in exchange for missing a proficiency increase.

 

[Omnom88]

Now, on the flipside concerning the diffculty of the minigame, I don't want to sound rude but anyone having a hard time might want to turn off the minigame at your first possible chance, because honestly compared to the images shared by beta testers this is like getting a hug from an ashy baby while beta testers were getting slammed face first onto the concrete with sharp rusty rebar poking out 100 times.

Because i kinda started the cascade with my initial post. I wanted to clarify.
I do like the content & overall the systems are easy to understand. Even the DnD tutorial game with our housemates was very well explained.
Its also easy to stomp everything with the range attack due Pikachus type change ability.

My sole issue is the ui/control scheme. As previously mentioned in the mode switch i somehow skipped turns. All i wanted to do was use the other 3 party members. Now with a cheese strat by just using MC/Pikachu & running away i managed to clear the first dungeon. Took me a while because i could only use our main character. So for me the content & overall encounter loop are fine as is. Its cool that they replicate the og pixelart mystery dungeon style.

However....
If we could use our keyboard to emulate the GBA/DS inputs that would be great. I am not sure if its possible with the logistics behind the game. As PALF is already a colossus project on its own.

Maybe future updates resolve whatever is going on with the FE mode on my end. Its not my first rodeo with indie games so things like that happen.
I will beat the dungeons to rescue everyone.
No matter how many times i have to reload.

 

[Kylie Bloodmoon]

Because i kinda started the cascade with my initial post. I wanted to clarify.
I do like the content & overall the systems are easy to understand. Even the DnD tutorial game with our housemates was very well explained.
Its also easy to stomp everything with the range attack due Pikachus type change ability.

My sole issue is the ui/control scheme. As previously mentioned in the mode switch i somehow skipped turns. All i wanted to do was use the other 3 party members. Now with a cheese strat by just using MC/Pikachu & running away i managed to clear the first dungeon. Took me a while because i could only use our main character. So for me the content & overall encounter loop are fine as is. Its cool that they replicate the og pixelart mystery dungeon style.

However....
If we could use our keyboard to emulate the GBA/DS inputs that would be great. I am not sure if its possible with the logistics behind the game. As PALF is already a colossus project on its own.

Maybe future updates resolve whatever is going on with the FE mode on my end. Its not my first rodeo with indie games so things like that happen.
I will beat the dungeons to rescue everyone.
No matter how many times i have to reload.

Your dedicated, i respect that, but this was enough for me to uninstall the game. Ive mentioned in the past issues i have with the new devolpers forced dialogue confirming your character as Bi regardless of your choices, its made any interactions with male characters in the game worrisome for me as i personally dont want to see or here that. And now this attroceous minigame that i cant choose to skip. I personally could care less about the items. I have focused only on dragon pokemon and ground(solely for larvitar) and anything else is redundant. So its another forcee feature but this one is game breaking for me. It was a terrible choice to add it to the game. Regardless of how it may or may not have been explained. If thdy had added it but stuck to the movement feature and any encounter is like a regular pokemon battle and then you can level up and get experiance through the dungeoun then fine, that would have been okay. But im done for now. Ill keep an eye on the thread and maybe in 2 years when they put out their next update, maybe they will unfuck it. But i highly doubt that.

 

[michael1984]

I agree if the dungeon crawler was more like actual pokemon battles it would be perfectly fine

It could be easily done i think they could keep the look of the dungeon crawler and the movements but when u encounter a enemy just make it a regular pokemon battle

 

[jffgvz]

Your dedicated, i respect that, but this was enough for me to uninstall the game. Ive mentioned in the past issues i have with the new devolpers forced dialogue confirming your character as Bi regardless of your choices, its made any interactions with male characters in the game worrisome for me as i personally dont want to see or here that. And now this attroceous minigame that i cant choose to skip. I personally could care less about the items. I have focused only on dragon pokemon and ground(solely for larvitar) and anything else is redundant. So its another forcee feature but this one is game breaking for me. It was a terrible choice to add it to the game. Regardless of how it may or may not have been explained. If thdy had added it but stuck to the movement feature and any encounter is like a regular pokemon battle and then you can level up and get experiance through the dungeoun then fine, that would have been okay. But im done for now. Ill keep an eye on the thread and maybe in 2 years when they put out their next update, maybe they will unfuck it. But i highly doubt that.

You CAN choose not to engage with the dungeons. Granted, you are going to miss like half the update, but storywise the only difference will be that the Saturday Fight will be a tad harder, thats it

 

[michael1984]

You CAN choose not to engage with the dungeons. Granted, you are going to miss like half the update, but storywise the only difference will be that the Saturday Fight will be a tad harder, thats it

Not really we gotta rescue 3 characters as well

 

[Omnom88]

Okay hit the finish line with Blue incoming original evolution of evee. I assume it will be unique art like pikachu. Or do we finally get a bug, poison or dragon type evee? We can dream/cope after all.

Overall the differences are really drastic between the old team & new dev/devs.

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[BadmanBaxter]

Okay hit the finish line with Blue incoming original evolution of evee. I assume it will be unique art like pikachu. Or do we finally get a bug, poison or dragon type evee? We can dream/cope after all.

Overall the differences are really drastic between the old team & new dev/devs.

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Not sure on sun and moon but if you choose the rock elective the teacher is Olivia bus so far she is the only one. I remember the ambitions of the original devs and to be fair making a game like that would work to an extent if you can keep creating a story just might need to do them in 3 different games which if they felt they could do I wouldnt be opposed but I am hopefull of this game but low key hope that we can choose our enemies as well as I will certainly want to get Cheren back onside because he was one of my favourite original roommates as I liked being friends with Hilda and Hilbert

 

[michael1984]

playerparty[X].GainExperience(Y) see iv code for X=. Y=amount of xp to give. Pokemon will level up if available.

anybody know what to put as x ? is it the name of the pokemon ? or were can i find the iv code if thats whats needed

 

[alteros]

playerparty[X].GainExperience(Y) see iv code for X=. Y=amount of xp to give. Pokemon will level up if available.

anybody know what to put as x ? is it the name of the pokemon ? or were can i find the iv code if thats whats needed

x is the position in the party from 0 to 5 with 0 being the first pokemon and 5 being the last

 

[QuestionableTree]

you'd need to invest in Gardenia with a lot of money and it's impossible currently without earning money from selling the items to her

Gardenia's investments were changed in this update. She caps your investment total at 20,000, which if you actively invested your money in it as much as possible is already entirely possible for you to have overshot by now. It's easy to get that initial investment money just by playing the game normally without farming for items.

 

[QuestionableTree]

Not really we gotta rescue 3 characters as well

No, you don't. It's optional. Which is what was explained to you. You do not have to successfully rescue anyone, but you are rewarded for doing so, and rewarded even more if you rescue all three of them. Not rescuing them just increases the difficulty of the encounter that happens after the deadline.

 

[DarkKane]

My fellow Pokémon Trainer, Are you a generalist or a specialist? I want to be a specialist but I can't decide on a type of Pokémon.... how do you choose yours?

 

[alteros]

The game is right in suggesting that you stick to maybe 3 types. You might have the leeway to switch later down the road since your level progression slightly outpaces difficulty but for the first 4 weeks at least, you should stick to 3 types. I went with Dark Fairy Dragon personally. You can check the list of available pokemon and decide what you want.

 

[michael1984]

The game is right in suggesting that you stick to maybe 3 types. You might have the leeway to switch later down the road since your level progression slightly outpaces difficulty but for the first 4 weeks at least, you should stick to 3 types. I went with Dark Fairy Dragon personally. You can check the list of available pokemon and decide what you want.

You can cheat tho with console ccommands and get the lvl caps as high as u want with all ur pokemon electives

But without cheating ur right its best to stick with 3 electives

 

[QuestionableTree]

My fellow Pokémon Trainer, Are you a generalist or a specialist? I want to be a specialist but I can't decide on a type of Pokémon.... how do you choose yours?

Start with focusing on 1 type. A type that applies to your starter. Go deep so you can catch up in levels to the content that's going on, then spread out into other types for other Pokemon you want to use. It's most ideal to focus on 2-3, but if you work really hard at it, the game alleges you could just about master 6 types.

I'm a specialist though, because I like to do monotype runs. I supplement one type with classes in the secondary types of my Pokemon to get them items, moves, etc.

 

[Donutmaester]

My fellow Pokémon Trainer, Are you a generalist or a specialist? I want to be a specialist but I can't decide on a type of Pokémon.... how do you choose yours?

I'm a generalist focusing on 6 types, the game isn't that hard for me at this current time but I'll likely start facing consequences later on. Especially considering that I'm still being socially active (which limits my lvl increases) and I switched one of my types this update making me weaker than the average specialist build.

 

[BadmanBaxter]

You can cheat tho with console ccommands and get the lvl caps as high as u want with all ur pokemon electives

But without cheating ur right its best to stick with 3 electives

How do you open the console. I thought it was shift and o but I tried that and it didn't work

 

[BadmanBaxter]

My fellow Pokémon Trainer, Are you a generalist or a specialist? I want to be a specialist but I can't decide on a type of Pokémon.... how do you choose yours?

In normal games I am a generalist who tries to balance there team. In this game however I am trying to pretend I am studying with ambitions of becoming a gym leader/ elite 4 member/ champion in a monotype format like maybe he works his way up but that is his future. I tend to look at weaknesses of they type and work out what a may need down the line and until I can have a monotype team I will catch others to sandbag. Pikachu may be my only exception to a monotype team. I didn't pick 1 I am doing 18 runs simultaneously.