Released Pokemon Legends: Apotheosis

safr · Aug 11, 2024

delusionsofgrandr said:
by delusionsofgrandr
Made in RPG Maker XP
Pokemon Essentials v21.1

Welcome to the peaceful Huajiang region, a land of lush forests, radiant rivers, and a mysterious mountain. Your peaceful life as a junior disciple studying under a hermit sect is thrown into disarray when your sect leader gives you a quest to fulfill: to travel around Huajiang and speak with the leaders of the region's Four Great Sects. The fate of all of Huajiang could depend on it. Are you up to the task?

Along the way, you'll meet with friendly faces, both new, and perhaps just a little on this side of familiar. Among them are your friendly rivals and fellow cultivators, Mingze and Yingxian! They'll grow together with you on your journey through Huajiang.

Featuring:

Custom graphics (Like... a lot of them...)

Resource Gathering and Item Crafting System

Side-quests to complete for bonus rewards

Unreal Time System

Hidden Grottoes

Screenshots

Downloads
Download Demo Here:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/tg9k3zxbb4pa2vc/Pokemon_Legends_Apotheosis.zip/file

Resource Pack:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/tjw129n8f29to6g/Pokemon_Legends_Apotheosis_Resource_Pack.zip/file

Known Bugs

Locations on the town map don't quite tally with the player's actual location sometimes.

Checking Wild Pokemon areas in the Pokedex sometimes causes the game to crash.

Player selection in the Trainer UI jumps from the leftmost option to the rightmost option, skipping over the character in the middle. You can still select the middle character by hitting left from the rightmost option.

Credits

"Pokémon Essentials" was created by:
Flameguru
Poccil (Peter O.)
Maruno

With contributions from:
AvatarMonkeyKirby
Marin
Boushy
MiDas Mike
Brother1440
Near Fantastica
FL.
PinkMan
Genzai Kawakami
Popper
Golisopod User
Rataime
help-14
Savordez
IceGod64
SoundSpawn
Jacob O. Wobbrock
the__end
KitsuneKouta
Venom12
Lisa Anthony
Wachunga
Luka S.J.

and everyone else who helped out

"mkxp-z" by:
Roza
Based on "mkxp" by Ancurio et al.

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Tilesets
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Magiscarf
WesleyFG
SailorVicious (Formerly known as Heavy-Metal-Lover)
Shawn Frost
NSora-96
PeekyChew
Kyle-Dove
Claisprojects.com
Minorthreat0987
The-Red-Ex
UltimoSpriter
TyranitarDark
DarkDragonn
rafa-cac
Phyromatical
Alucus
Newtiteuf
ChaoticCherryCake
moca
zetavares (cr. 07harris/Paranoid 19dante91 27alexmad27 874521 Alistair Alucus Alucus Atomika Bakura155 Blue Beedrill Boomxbig Bulbapedia and Bulbaforums chimcharsfireworkd Chio CNickC/CNC Dewitty Flood Fused G-olden help14 Jesse TBPro lordindy Kizemaru_Kurunosuke klnothincomin Kuroda-Taiki Kymotonian Newtiteuf Novus Pokemon_Diamond PrinceLegendario Reck Red-Gyrados REMY35 RHN Saurav Scarexshivaking Seiyouh SL249 spaceemotion spypoke megafc ThePokemonChronicles WesleyFG)
MegaMew47
inkaline
KingTapir
aveontrainer
Assets compiled by the Pokemon Bushido team
Cave tileset compiled by the Pokemon: The Last Wish II team

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Music and Sounds
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ENLS's Prelooped Music Library

Gen 4 Sound Effects Pack:
Deo

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Trainer and overworld sprites
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kyledove (Security Corps F and M)
Wergen (Security Corps F and M, Villager F and M, Anvin)

-ALL Official Gen 4 Overworld Sprites-
Neo-Spriteman
VanillaSunshine
PurpleZaffre
Maicerochico
AtomicReactor

Character Customisation Resources (Gen 4):
Coffee Cup/ Poltergeist

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Other visuals
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Hisui Items Pack:
lichen

Overworld Items Pack:
- Sprites:
Wergan
ImZero
- Formatting:
ImZero

Custom Gen 4 Day & Night Tones:
VanillaSunshine

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Plugins
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Deluxe Battle Kit, Modular UI Scenes, Enhanced Pokemon UI and Improved Field Skills (Lucidious89)
Generation 9 Pack (Caruban) (see full credits below)
Item Crafting UI Plus (ThatWelshOne, Vendily)
Luka's Scripting Utilities (Luka S.J.)
Marin's Map Exporter, Marin's Scripting Utilities (Marin)
Modern Quest System + UI (ThatWelshOne_, mej71, derFischae, Marin)
Storage System Utilities (Swdfm)
Tip Cards (wrigty12)
Unreal Time System (FL)
v21.1 Hotfixes (Maruno)
Visible Overworld Wild Encounters (derFischae)
Voltseon's A-Star Pathfinding, Voltseon's Pause Menu (Voltseon)

With reference to Advanced Items Field Moves (Bergium, TechSkylander1518,Moyo,Marin)

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Generation 9 Pack Credits
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Scripts:
-Caruban
-Lucidious89
-Eskiss (Original Legend Plate script)
-StCooler (Original PLA Expansion script for Gen 8 Project in v18 and Status sprites)
-PorousMist and curryofthepast (Adapting the PLA Expansion script script for v19.1 use)

PBS:
-Caruban
-Lucidious89
-PorousMist (Updated the abilities, items, and moves description)
-DJChaos (TM Items)
-Futuresushi (Shortened abilities and moves description)

Pokemon Battler Sprites:
-Gen 1-5 Pokemon Sprites - veekun
-Gen 6 Pokemon Sprites - All Contributors To Smogon X/Y Sprite Project
-Gen 7 Pokemon Sprites - All Contributors To Smogon Sun/Moon Sprite Project
-Gen 8 Pokemon Sprites - All Contributors To Smogon Sword/Shield Sprite Project
-PLA Pokemon Sprites - Smogon Sprite Project
Blaquaza, KingOfThe-X-Roads, KattenK, Travis, G.E.Z., SpheX, Hematite, SelenaArmorclaw
-Gen 9 Pokemon Sprites - KingOfThe-X-Roads, Mak, Caruban, jinxed, leParagon, Sopita_Yorita, Azria, Mashirosakura,
JordanosArt, Abnayami, OldSoulja, Katten, Divaruta 666, Clara, Skyflyer, AshnixsLaw, ace_stryfe
-Gen 9 Vanilla style sprites - KingOfThe-X-Roads, Mak, Caruban, jinxed, leParagon, Sopita_Yorita, Azria, Mashirosakura, JordanosArt, Scept, NanaelJustice, SoyChim, KRLW890, AnonAlpaca, PokeJminer, Red7246, Carmanekko, Eduar, Lykeron, GriloKapu10, Mesayas, Erkey830, QDylm, PorousMist, OldSoulja, AlexandreV2.0, Z-nogyroP, lennybitao, Ruben1986, GRAFAIAIMX
Blaquaza, KattenK, Travis, G.E.Z., SpheX, Hematite

Pokemon Icon Sprites:
-Gen 1-6 Pokemon Icon Sprites - Alaguesia, harveydentmd
-Gen 7 Pokemon Icon Sprites - Marin, MapleBranchWing, Contributors to the DS Styled Gen 7+ Repository
-Gen 8 Icon Sprites - Larry Turbo, Leparagon
-Shiny Icon Sprites - StarrWolf, Pokemon Shattered Light Team
-PLA Pokemon Icon Sprites - LuigiTKO
-Gen 9 Icon Sprites - ezerart, JordanosArt
-PLA Vanilla Icon Sprites - LuigiTKO, Pikafan2000, Cesare_CBass, Vent, Cesare_Cbass, MultiDiegoDani, leParagon, JWNutz
and thanks for Pokémon Icons Act 2.9 - Teracristalizando
-Gen 9 Vanilla Icon Sprites - Vent, Katten, leParagon, Cesare_CBass, AlexandreV2.0, Carmanekko, GRAFAIAIMX
also thanks to Axel Loquendo, CarmaNekko, Divaruta 666, Okyo, JLauz735, and ClaraDragon for Iconos 9na Gen gba completos

Pokemon Gen 9 Overworld sprites:
-Gen 1-5 Pokemon Overworlds - MissingLukey, help-14, Kymoyonian, cSc-A7X, 2and2makes5, Pokegirl4ever, Fernandojl, Silver-Skies, TyranitarDark, Getsuei-H, Kid1513, Milomilotic11, Kyt666, kdiamo11, Chocosrawlooid, Syledude, Gallanty, Gizamimi-Pichu, 2and2makes5, Zyon17,LarryTurbo, spritesstealer, LarryTurbo
-Gen 6+ Berry Tree Overworlds - Anarlaurendil
-Gen 6 Pokemon Overworlds - princess-pheonix, LunarDusk, Wolfang62, TintjeMadelintje101, piphybuilder88
-Gen 7 Pokemon Overworlds - Larry Turbo, princess-pheonix
-Gen 8 Pokemon Overworlds - SageDeoxys, Wolfang62, LarryTurbo, tammyclaydon
-PLA Pokemon Overworlds - Boonzeet, DarkusShadow, princess-phoenix, Ezeart, WolfPP
-Gen 9 Pokemon Overworlds - Azria, DarkusShadow, EduarPokeN, Carmanekko, StarWolff, Caruban

Pokemon Footprints :
-Gen PLA-9 Pokemon Footprints - Caruban

Pokemon Cries:
-Gen 1-6 Pokemon Cries - Rhyden
-Gen 7 Pokemon Cries - Marin, Rhyden
-Gen 8 Pokemon Cries - Zeak6464
-PLA Pokemon Cries - Morningdew
-Gen 9 Pokemon Cries -
Edited from Lightblade Absol's Gen 9 Cries compilation video
Edited from HeroLinik's Pokemon Scarlet and Violet - Walking Wake and Iron Leaves Cries video
Edited from HeroLinik's Pokemon Scarlet and Violet - All Teal Mask Cries video

Item sprites:
-Gen 9 item sprites - lichenprincess, Caruban, jinxed
-PLA item sprites - AztecCroc, 3DJackArt, Caruban, lichenprincess

Pokeballs battle animation and summary icon:
-Caruban
-WolfPP (Beast ball battle animation)

Compilation of Resources:
-Gen 9 Pack - Caruban
-Gen 8/9 Resized Sprites - http404error
-Gen 8 Pack - Golisopod User, UberDunsparce

Full Sprites Credit List

The game already someone save file when i play this game and when i open menu in game some text appear about missing something

delusionsofgrandr · Aug 11, 2024

safr said:
The game already someone save file when i play this game and when i open menu in game some text appear about missing something

Oh no! Could you show me a screenshot? It’s late where I am, but I’ll try to repackage the game again tomorrow.

M.T.Pockets · Aug 11, 2024

Not sure if a screenshot was sent, but yeah when you log in there's already a save file. Personally, I didn't load it, I just started a new game. Worth noting though that voltseon's pause menu isn't working so it gives you a big thing of text and then reverts to the old one. Still very excited to play though! :D

EDIT: I've also noticed the event with the old lady from your hometown who gives you five potions loops.

Another EDIT: So the first time I ran into a pokemon the game crashed. Something about a missing event in the error message. I will say though, I think I'll be a huge fan of how you handled the "skills" thing once I have more information. This does make me wonder if I should have picked the grass starter instead of the water starter though. It was such a hard decision for me, but I think I'll stick with what I chose.

Geoswag · Aug 11, 2024

I don't know if this is supposed to happen (I'm guessing not) but when I enter the first cave the room gets absolutely filled with Pokemon:

and then as another person has mentioned, the game crashes when the first battle starts:

I really hope you can fix this as I was looking forward to playing!

delusionsofgrandr · Aug 12, 2024

Thank you for your feedback everyone, I'll get these fixed after work today and upload a patched game ASAP

EDIT:
Hi all, I managed to do some quick bug fixing during my lunch break. The link to the patched game is up in the main post!

M.T.Pockets · Aug 12, 2024

Thanks for the fix! Where are the save files stored? I want to grab my old one and move it over to the new version because I spent a lot of time resetting for a really good one.

delusionsofgrandr · Aug 12, 2024

M.T.Pockets said:
Thanks for the fix! Where are the save files stored? I want to grab my old one and move it over to the new version because I spent a lot of time resetting for a really good one.

It should be the “Game.rxdata" file either in the folder "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Pokemon Legends Apotheosis” or in the game folder itself. I realised I forgot to delete my test save when I was packaging the game for export, so that’s why there was an existing save file

M.T.Pockets · Aug 12, 2024

I ended up just restarting because when I transferred the save file over, the game crashed when encountering wild pokemon. I also ran into this bug in the cave and now again out here. I don't have anywhere to upload images to but it reads "Script '[Visible Overworld Wild Encounters 002_add_on_additional_animations.rb' line 131: SystemStackError occurred. stack level too deep"

EDIT: Also I forgot to mention Hisuian Growlithe is using the front and back sprites for regular growlithe.

delusionsofgrandr · Aug 12, 2024

Au

M.T.Pockets said:
I ended up just restarting because when I transferred the save file over, the game crashed when encountering wild pokemon. I also ran into this bug in the cave and now again out here. I don't have anywhere to upload images to but it reads "Script '[Visible Overworld Wild Encounters 002_add_on_additional_animations.rb' line 131: SystemStackError occurred. stack level too deep"

EDIT: Also I forgot to mention Hisuian Growlithe is using the front and back sprites for regular growlithe.

Augh! Okay, I’ll sort this out and hopefully have the new patch out tomorrow.

Kingofclouds190 · Aug 12, 2024

what are the shiny odds???

M.T.Pockets · Aug 12, 2024

I finished the game. Giving credit where its due lots of art was taken from Bushido, but the stuff you did (and there was plenty) was so beautiful! So many nice overworld sprites and trainer sprites. It was all just so pretty!

I was pleasantly surprised by the difficulty too. You really need to diversify in this game and have at least three pokemon. The sect leader in the demo provides a good challenge too.

I'll provide story-related feedback in a spoiler, but overall I'm really looking forward to whenever the day comes you release the next chapter in this game. As far as I can tell, this is your first release and I hope you're proud ^_^ (because you should be)

I really liked the basic premise because it seemed like a new approach. When it twisted into an 8 gym challenge I initially didn't notice and was all "woah plot twist". By the time it donned on me that is was essentially an 8 gym challenge I didn't really mind because I'd been pulled in by everything else. I really loved the set up with the succession dispute. It felt more grown up then a regular game, but never dark or edgy. Most importantly, it was intriguing. For example: I did have trouble keeping track of who is who though. Mingeze's overworld sprite is hard to distinguish from the rest of his sect and his name is really similar to his brother's. You had an extremely helpful story guide which explained the lore and could be reviewed later. I think it would be good to have some pages on major characters so people can keep up with the political drama and recall what was happening as updates are likely to be spaced out. Alternetively you could do something like the fame checker from FRLG.

Thanks for making a fun game!

delusionsofgrandr · Aug 13, 2024

Kingofclouds190 said:
what are the shiny odds???

Apart from the starters, which have 1/10 odds of being shiny, vanilla shiny rates apply!

M.T.Pockets said:
I ended up just restarting because when I transferred the save file over, the game crashed when encountering wild pokemon. I also ran into this bug in the cave and now again out here. I don't have anywhere to upload images to but it reads "Script '[Visible Overworld Wild Encounters 002_add_on_additional_animations.rb' line 131: SystemStackError occurred. stack level too deep"

EDIT: Also I forgot to mention Hisuian Growlithe is using the front and back sprites for regular growlithe.

Just checking in on this error, by any chance do you remember if you pressed the F12 key before the SystemStackError popped up?

M.T.Pockets said:
I finished the game. Giving credit where its due lots of art was taken from Bushido, but the stuff you did (and there was plenty) was so beautiful! So many nice overworld sprites and trainer sprites. It was all just so pretty!

I was pleasantly surprised by the difficulty too. You really need to diversify in this game and have at least three pokemon. The sect leader in the demo provides a good challenge too.

I'll provide story-related feedback in a spoiler, but overall I'm really looking forward to whenever the day comes you release the next chapter in this game. As far as I can tell, this is your first release and I hope you're proud ^_^ (because you should be)

I really liked the basic premise because it seemed like a new approach. When it twisted into an 8 gym challenge I initially didn't notice and was all "woah plot twist". By the time it donned on me that is was essentially an 8 gym challenge I didn't really mind because I'd been pulled in by everything else. I really loved the set up with the succession dispute. It felt more grown up then a regular game, but never dark or edgy. Most importantly, it was intriguing. For example: I did have trouble keeping track of who is who though. Mingeze's overworld sprite is hard to distinguish from the rest of his sect and his name is really similar to his brother's. You had an extremely helpful story guide which explained the lore and could be reviewed later. I think it would be good to have some pages on major characters so people can keep up with the political drama and recall what was happening as updates are likely to be spaced out. Alternetively you could do something like the fame checker from FRLG.

Thanks for making a fun game!

Thank you

It's my first time spriting and I was screaming internally the entire time trying to make everything look good. I decided I had to draw the line at buildings or I was gonna go insane.

I'm also glad to hear that the difficulty provides the right amount of challenge! I wanted to create a game where the player would have to think a little bit about their strategies, but I didn't want to go full competitive Pokemon strats b/c I'm mostly a casual player and don't know much about the competitive scene. I'm glad I was able to find the right balance!

Thank you! My plan is to have different plot segments/challenges for each sect so that it's not a straightforward "beat this leader" thing. I was going to include a second sect in the demo, but I ran out of time to work it in.

Thank you for the feedback on Mingze's sprite! My reasoning at the time was that Mingze actually doesn't want to stand out, he doesn't want to fight with his brother for the sect heirship, he'd rather be part of the rank and file and support the sect that way. I'll find a way to make him stand out more.

(Full confession, I am also not great at editing overworld sprites, and there are definitely other characters whose sprites I'm planning to revamp after the judging period is over.)

Thanks for your suggestion on providing a way to keep track of the major characters! I am... not the best with coding stuff, so I may just release a supplementary document together with future updates.

M.T.Pockets · Aug 13, 2024

delusionsofgrandr said:
Apart from the starters, which have 1/10 odds of being shiny, vanilla shiny rates apply!

Just checking in on this error, by any chance do you remember if you pressed the F12 key before the SystemStackError popped up?

Thank you It's my first time spriting and I was screaming internally the entire time trying to make everything look good. I decided I had to draw the line at buildings or I was gonna go insane.

I'm also glad to hear that the difficulty provides the right amount of challenge! I wanted to create a game where the player would have to think a little bit about their strategies, but I didn't want to go full competitive Pokemon strats b/c I'm mostly a casual player and don't know much about the competitive scene. I'm glad I was able to find the right balance!

Thank you! My plan is to have different plot segments/challenges for each sect so that it's not a straightforward "beat this leader" thing. I was going to include a second sect in the demo, but I ran out of time to work it in.

Thank you for the feedback on Mingze's sprite! My reasoning at the time was that Mingze actually doesn't want to stand out, he doesn't want to fight with his brother for the sect heirship, he'd rather be part of the rank and file and support the sect that way. I'll find a way to make him stand out more.

(Full confession, I am also not great at editing overworld sprites, and there are definitely other characters whose sprites I'm planning to revamp after the judging period is over.)

Thanks for your suggestion on providing a way to keep track of the major characters! I am... not the best with coding stuff, so I may just release a supplementary document together with future updates.

In regards to the system stack error I think it's very possible I had hit f12 relatively recently in both cases, but I don't recall for sure. As I said, I restarted so I'd been resetting for a starter. The error came a little while later when I was exploring the cave. In the other case, it would have been shortly after that fight to see if you're ready for the outside. I know I had to reset this because unfortunately, I'd never managed to find a phanpy or meinfoo like I wanted so I only had two pokemon.

If that is the difficulty you were going for, I'd say you managed it perfectly!

Yeah I like the concept for Mingze's sprite, but I kept mixing him up the guy he helped for example. You absolutely could have fooled me if that's how you feel about doing overworld's sprites. All the custom ones looked so good!

A supplementary document should do the trick.

delusionsofgrandr · Aug 13, 2024

M.T.Pockets said:
In regards to the system stack error I think it's very possible I had hit f12 relatively recently in both cases, but I don't recall for sure. As I said, I restarted so I'd been resetting for a starter. The error came a little while later when I was exploring the cave. In the other case, it would have been shortly after that fight to see if you're ready for the outside. I know I had to reset this because unfortunately, I'd never managed to find a phanpy or meinfoo like I wanted so I only had two pokemon.

If that is the difficulty you were going for, I'd say you managed it perfectly!

Yeah I like the concept for Mingze's sprite, but I kept mixing him up the guy he helped for example. You absolutely could have fooled me if that's how you feel about doing overworld's sprites. All the custom ones looked so good!

A supplementary document should do the trick.

Thanks for your reply! I'll see if I can manage to replicate the error, but it might be something I can't fix at my skill level :x

Waaaah, thank you!

Oh yeah, Jianyu's sprite is definitely on my list of people to revamp ijfiorjf. Thanks for the feedback!

TheNawaf258 · Aug 14, 2024

I actually loved it and only crash I ran into was resetting the game that’s it the rest of the game were fun and finished demo you might wanna fix hisuin growlite it might get confused

delusionsofgrandr · Aug 14, 2024

TheNawaf258 said:
I actually loved it and only crash I ran into was resetting the game that’s it the rest of the game were fun and finished demo you might wanna fix hisuin growlite it might get confused

Thanks for the feedback! I actually figured out the problem with Hisuian Growlithe (and probably other Pokemon with forms?) and will be uploading the files needed to fix it later today.

EDIT:
I've uploaded the Graphics folder, which should fix the issue with Hisuian Growlithe's front and back sprites. You just need to unzip file and drop the Graphics folder inside the main game folder. Sorry for the trouble!

The link is in the main post, but I'll post it here too: https://www.mediafire.com/file/k0s5u6uz57ed5lz/PL_Apotheosis_v0.1.1_Graphics.zip/file

TheNawaf258 · Aug 14, 2024

delusionsofgrandr said:
Thanks for the feedback! I actually figured out the problem with Hisuian Growlithe (and probably other Pokemon with forms?) and will be uploading the files needed to fix it later today.

EDIT:
I've uploaded the Graphics folder, which should fix the issue with Hisuian Growlithe's front and back sprites. You just need to unzip file and drop the Graphics folder inside the main game folder. Sorry for the trouble!

The link is in the main post, but I'll post it here too: https://www.mediafire.com/file/k0s5u6uz57ed5lz/PL_Apotheosis_v0.1.1_Graphics.zip/file

Is ok I had fun playing this game and loved it can’t wait to play fully completed

delusionsofgrandr · Aug 16, 2024

I've done some quick minor bug-fixing and released patch v0.1.2! I've also packaged a supplementary guide together with the game, so if you're interested in the worldbuilding that went into the game, want a sneak peek at some information I haven't released yet, or just want to know how to pronounce the Chinese names, go give it a look-see! I've included Chinese characters for some names that you can run through Google Translate to get a rough idea of what they sound like and will progressively include more as I update the document.

Also, I can't believe this but there's a let's play out!! Shout out to PokeHax on YouTube for literally making my entire week omg.

Lucifer · Aug 22, 2024

delusionsofgrandr said:
Also, I can't believe this but there's a let's play out!! Shout out to PokeHax on YouTube for literally making my entire week omg.

HeroVoltsy has also started playing it which is how it has gotten my attention.
Basic question I ask of all fangames: will save files be transferable to future versions?

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