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Released Pokémon Ashen Frost [Case 20 + Revamp]

This project has a release available. The full version is still a work in progress.
Project Status
Released
Project Version
1.2.1
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A Game By @Michael And @Ekat​
Pokémon Ashen Frost, formerly Pokémon Present, revolves around Sylvester, a kind, albeit surly, officer-turned-detective in Riverview City. Sylvester works alongside his not-quite-canine unit, Swinub, to solve minor cases. Tracking down missing cheques and ice sculpture vandals doesn't come without risks, however; the frigid metropolis is home to ordinary people and criminals alike. To uncover the truth, Sylvester steps on the toes of some of the city's most important figureheads... as well as the mafia's.

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  • A Story-Focused Detective Game
  • A story-driven game currently consisting of 20 cases, involving searching for clues, presenting evidence and solving mysteries.
  • A fully-fledged case system, complete with its own UI and features.
  • The option to have dialogue with information important to the case highlighted.
  • A continuously expanding city to explore, complete with tons of side content
  • Over 200 quests to find and complete
  • Battles, Battles, Battles
  • Pokémon from Gen 1-9 available.
  • Significantly improved AI, thanks to @DemICE.
  • Choose between three difficulty modes to set the tone for your adventure.
  • The option of a soft or hard level cap.
  • Dynamic usage of Mid-Battle dialogue to set the tone… And to throw the occasional curveball in battle!
  • An optimization area to allow any party member to become battle-ready in no time!
  • An overworld encounter system, with areas involving wild grass being very far and few between.
  • A unique Battle Tower area, with an effect similar to the Battle Arcade and Battle Factory.

The current version is v1.2.2, however the above release is v1.2.0. Please ensure that you run the updater if you are playing on the Windows, Mac, or Linux build. If you are playing on Joiplay, please download and apply the associated two patch files below. Apply patch.rga first, followed by tilesets.rga.

A full set of the available guides can be found in the game's Walkthrough and Guides folder.

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Q: Is Ashen Frost a romhack or a fangame?
A: Ashen Frost is a fangame, developed in RPG Maker XP using Pokémon Essentials v20.1.
Q: How far along is Ashen Frost?
A: Pretty far! We anticipate that the finale of the game will be Case 24. We also intend to have a post-game to wrap up loose ends.
Q: How long is Ashen Frost?
A: On average, we see playtimes of anywhere between 40 to 60 hours!
Q: How do I play?
A: See the guides.
Q: What are the controls?
A: See the guides.

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Progress can be followed in a number of places. Some notable options include joining our Discord Server and following our Twitter. If you've read through this far, thanks for checking out the game! Hopefully you'll hear back from us soon with the next release! Cheers!

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A full list of credits can be found in the Master Documentation Sheet. If we've missed anyone or information is inaccurate, please let us know so we can amend it.
 

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TechSkylander1518

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Michael said:
The world was ugly, the story was a bit over-complicated and had some jarring plotholes, there was very little side content, the level and difficulty curve was atrocious, etc.
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Uh, having played the original, I definitely call BS on the world being ugly, and while I didn't get as far into the story to see major plot points, the writing was still very enjoyable!

It looks like this is going to have a lot of really cool improvements, though! That evidence UI looks nice and crisp, and the new scenes look like a lot of fun to explore!

(Also I hate to say this after seeing all this polish going into the game buuuuut there does seem to be a few typos in that last GIF- "Let's here... double cheese" is missing "see", I think, and "It's ok Detective" should have a comma after "ok")
 
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TechSkylander1518 said:
Uh, having played the original, I definitely call BS on the world being ugly, and while I didn't get as far into the story to see major plot points, the writing was still very enjoyable!

It looks like this is going to have a lot of really cool improvements, though! That evidence UI looks nice and crisp, and the new scenes look like a lot of fun to explore!

(Also I hate to say this after seeing all this polish going into the game buuuuut there does seem to be a few typos in that last GIF- "Let's here... double cheese" is missing "see", I think, and "It's ok Detective" should have a comma after "ok")
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Ah yeah, that's to be expected haha - these were actually just a bunch of old screenshots I pulled together because I was making the thread quickly; I'll put up a corrected post when I get the chance - good catch though!
 
Michael

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Updated the game once again - this addresses a bunch of issues found over the last few days, updates some outdated documentation and makes some Alolan and Galarian forms available.
 
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I have to say that I adore every bit of this game. The music, style, and quality are just incredible, but it also feels amazing to play. I do have a question, though. I looked through all the item documents, but I couldn't find out where to get the prism scale. Apologies if this has been answered already.
 
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Glacora said:
I have to say that I adore every bit of this game. The music, style, and quality are just incredible, but it also feels amazing to play. I do have a question, though. I looked through all the item documents, but I couldn't find out where to get the prism scale. Apologies if this has been answered already.
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You can get the prism scale through the Clefable sidequest in the docks which can be accessed at night. Alternatively, you can buy them in a building in the Winter Carnival/Fashion District (I don't remember which)
 
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Oh, this game looks epic. Gonna try this out since I love anything related to mysteries!
 
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Just finished case 14 and all I gotta say is WOW. This game is amazing! The storytelling, the characters, flow of the game, etc. Completely caught my attention for the past few weeks.

Very underrated game and I am surprised it is not more popular. I cannot wait until the next update!!
 
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