Completed Forgotten Saint

Altarax · Aug 11, 2024

Updated the game with some minor bug fixes

floodryan123 · Aug 12, 2024

what a cool concept!

Altarax · Aug 13, 2024

I made some more bug fixes.

Altarax · Aug 22, 2024

Updated the game with some polishing

Altarax · Aug 22, 2024

Sorry for upping once again, but I wanted to let know that I updated once gain the game.
Please download the new version if you are stuck on the battle against Machamp.

WolfTaiko · Aug 25, 2024

Hi, there's a softlock in the Gen 3 city where I'm supposed to go to an orange house to talk to BOB.
If you go down the ledge from below that girl you are forced down the ledge to the left and then you're just stuck. Is there some way to recover my progress in this save or should I not save and go back like an hour?

Altarax · Aug 25, 2024

WolfTaiko said:
Hi, there's a softlock in the Gen 3 city where I'm supposed to go to an orange house to talk to BOB.
If you go down the ledge from below that girl you are forced down the ledge to the left and then you're just stuck. Is there some way to recover my progress in this save or should I not save and go back like an hour?

Hi, I made you a temporary fix : https://www.mediafire.com/file/wcv3nk8e5zw0zqt/ForgottenSaintV5tmp.rar/file
Save and downlod the new version, then put your old Save folder in the new version.
I made this tile passable in the new version:

WolfTaiko · Aug 25, 2024

Alr I got it thanks for the help!

Altarax said:
Hi, I made you a temporary fix : https://www.mediafire.com/file/wcv3nk8e5zw0zqt/ForgottenSaintV5tmp.rar/file
Save and downlod the new version, then put your old Save folder in the new version.
I made this tile passable in the new version:

Tomix9tomix · Aug 30, 2024

Played through Forgotten Saint! Really interesting game!
Some thoughts:

I had a lot of thoughts about the game, and I'm probably going to forget to write some of them in this comment, but right after playing I recorded an episode of a podcast called "Hints of Hisui" with Cadeorade5 and WolfTaiko where we went pretty in depth on it. But I'll try to summarise my thoughts here.

Overall, super cool game. I was a bit cautious at the start because the intro happened way too quickly for my liking. Plot development got piled on top of plot development because I had even walked a step in this world. It felt like I had just watched a whole game's worth of story play out as an intro. I came out of it feeling very lost and only having a vague sense of what was going on.

And honestly a lot of the way the story was told felt like that to me, and I think it comes down to the fact that the depth of the details given to me in the plot were way too deep for the time I had been given to handle them. This game has obviously been built with very intricate lore, and from the bits that I could understand and appreciate the meaning of, it's pretty cool stuff. But for a game of jam game length, it's way too much in way too little time.

ALL THAT BEING SAID, while I think the way the story was told just left me feeling lost, I could kinda vibe out a bit about the story being told, and I kinda really liked what it was going for? A story about the consequences of the butterfly effect, handling the responsibility of a power that can write someone out of existence just as quickly as it can erase them. It's really interesting stuff. And this sort of idea that no matter what we do, Golden Peak's downfall is inevitable. Yeah, I loved it! I can see that there is an interesting story here, and I can enjoy it, I just wish it was told a bit more smoothly and a bit more clearly.

AND WITH THAT BEING SAID, what really kicked ass in this game was the gameplay. Holy shit. The sigil system is awesome. It's really cool that you put custom ways to battle with pokemon in you fangames, like in Petra Mandala, and this sigil system was really masterfully implemented. You've laid the ground work of having the possibility of 12 different unique abilities, and being able to do double battles with this, mixing and matching sigils. You've shown how interesting and CLEANING the mew system can work. Going through the effort of having the relearn mechanic, making it so you only get prompted once per move per pokemon so you don't get spammed with learn prompts, giving each move 3 different versions for each dimensions. It's really a fully fleshed out mechanic and it plays awesomely. I also loved being able to use the lugia sigil alongside it, I WANT MOREEEEEEEE.

Other cool little mechanics that just make the game flow smoothly, no levels, I love it. No wild encounters to help match that change, I love it. Tightly controlled possibilities for team building while still giving lots of ways to use that team due to mew's sigil. I love it. Like really, I'm not a battling person, but I really enjoyed using these sigils in battle to gain an advantage instead of just being a high level, really awesome stuff.

Final thing for me to harp on about, the generation switching mechanic. It just felt super smooth, had a nice transition animation that wasn't too long, and I liked it being bound to a key. Seeing all the different versions of golden peak was cool.

If you continue to expand on this universe, I'd be happy to learn more about the world, and I'm looking forward to seeing the team take the criticism about how the story is told, and learn from it. You're really building a framework for what could be an awesome thing here. The writer's obviously have a lot of passion, and the game's framework is a gold mine of potential. Keep it up!

Altarax · Aug 30, 2024

Tomix9tomix said:
Played through Forgotten Saint! Really interesting game!
Some thoughts:

I had a lot of thoughts about the game, and I'm probably going to forget to write some of them in this comment, but right after playing I recorded an episode of a podcast called "Hints of Hisui" with Cadeorade5 and WolfTaiko where we went pretty in depth on it. But I'll try to summarise my thoughts here.

Overall, super cool game. I was a bit cautious at the start because the intro happened way too quickly for my liking. Plot development got piled on top of plot development because I had even walked a step in this world. It felt like I had just watched a whole game's worth of story play out as an intro. I came out of it feeling very lost and only having a vague sense of what was going on.

And honestly a lot of the way the story was told felt like that to me, and I think it comes down to the fact that the depth of the details given to me in the plot were way too deep for the time I had been given to handle them. This game has obviously been built with very intricate lore, and from the bits that I could understand and appreciate the meaning of, it's pretty cool stuff. But for a game of jam game length, it's way too much in way too little time.

ALL THAT BEING SAID, while I think the way the story was told just left me feeling lost, I could kinda vibe out a bit about the story being told, and I kinda really liked what it was going for? A story about the consequences of the butterfly effect, handling the responsibility of a power that can write someone out of existence just as quickly as it can erase them. It's really interesting stuff. And this sort of idea that no matter what we do, Golden Peak's downfall is inevitable. Yeah, I loved it! I can see that there is an interesting story here, and I can enjoy it, I just wish it was told a bit more smoothly and a bit more clearly.

AND WITH THAT BEING SAID, what really kicked ass in this game was the gameplay. Holy shit. The sigil system is awesome. It's really cool that you put custom ways to battle with pokemon in you fangames, like in Petra Mandala, and this sigil system was really masterfully implemented. You've laid the ground work of having the possibility of 12 different unique abilities, and being able to do double battles with this, mixing and matching sigils. You've shown how interesting and CLEANING the mew system can work. Going through the effort of having the relearn mechanic, making it so you only get prompted once per move per pokemon so you don't get spammed with learn prompts, giving each move 3 different versions for each dimensions. It's really a fully fleshed out mechanic and it plays awesomely. I also loved being able to use the lugia sigil alongside it, I WANT MOREEEEEEEE.

Other cool little mechanics that just make the game flow smoothly, no levels, I love it. No wild encounters to help match that change, I love it. Tightly controlled possibilities for team building while still giving lots of ways to use that team due to mew's sigil. I love it. Like really, I'm not a battling person, but I really enjoyed using these sigils in battle to gain an advantage instead of just being a high level, really awesome stuff.

Final thing for me to harp on about, the generation switching mechanic. It just felt super smooth, had a nice transition animation that wasn't too long, and I liked it being bound to a key. Seeing all the different versions of golden peak was cool.

If you continue to expand on this universe, I'd be happy to learn more about the world, and I'm looking forward to seeing the team take the criticism about how the story is told, and learn from it. You're really building a framework for what could be an awesome thing here. The writer's obviously have a lot of passion, and the game's framework is a gold mine of potential. Keep it up!

Thank you for playing and for your feedback.
I am looking forward to the Hints of Hisui episode

ranko · Sep 17, 2024

Heya! I beat the game! I had a really fun time playing through the game, and the custom mechanics and the implementations blew me away. I thought they were super neat, and the gameplay section of this game was done excellently. It seemed very well crafted and almost perfectly made, and almost every single situation was accounted for almost every single battle. I gotta say, I absolutely love how the story and gameplay elements worked together too, with every character seemingly having their own special and unique abilities that they even work in the gameplay!

I found the pacing of the early sections kind of strange, with us teleporting from place to place super quickly, and I wish I could've seen something like the giant Stakataka in the sky as part of an image or something (basic presentations gripes), but it was actually so cool seeing what every character does outside of battle in some of the later, like being able to communicate with Water-Pokemon, disguising themselves as another person. I'm very interested in seeing how the world is shaping up to be, and I honestly love the idea of their powers going to certain people over time, and seeing how every person ends up using them. It's a really cool world to set up in the Pokemon universe. I was a little sad that the game ended haha. I'd say my only big critiques would be the presentation and pacing, the rest is very well done!

Overall, I had a really great time, and I'm looking forward to the next parts in the series

Completed Forgotten Saint

Altarax

Novice

floodryan123

Trainer

Altarax

Novice

Altarax

Novice

Altarax

Novice

WolfTaiko

Ex-Ace Gamer

Altarax

Novice

WolfTaiko

Ex-Ace Gamer

Tomix9tomix

The beetle is waking up

Altarax

Novice

ranko

The Wind and Snow Continue to Stare