Completed Pokémon Hydro Bliss

Folk · Oct 5, 2025

5PastPoliwag said:
The Flowerist-Florist trainers on the ship have now been fixed. Thank you for finding and reporting this bug!

Custom art for each gym leader and the main character are in the plans. The ready-made character customization tools I found were either not free or used a gen 4/5 art style. I appreciate your feedback!

Edit: Someone was kind enough to send me a script for a better speed up option, so as of 2.10.2 you can press T to speed up everything!

As for the church torches... There's no documentation on it and I prefer not to hand out the solutions to the game's secrets, but if you are open to joining the Discord server, I'm sure there are people eager to help you out.

Since you already addresses the original sprite suggestion because of that I think i don't need to write about that again so this is my review

The game is composed into region, this game give considerable freeodm to explore in sense of choice where to go and what gym to battle in adventure is not many game give already give this game amazing feel, the 36 gym also great for people's who love battle but maybe only me i feel some gym more easier than another especially in haido so maybe a tweaking in gym trainers team and gym leader team for type counter this also same for some trainer on the route.

The graphics in this game is amazing, every environment sure feels different and every city have it's own culture, but i feel haido region feels fall short in graphic compared to kosei so I think maybe if you have time someday nas if you are healthy you can change the graphics and upgrade haido region by no mean the region bad it just how it looks different make it feel I don't know i don't have better word than jarring if being side to side after playing in kosei first.

The story is optional in one place I'm understand it hard to make story on open world but in other hand it just forgettable so yeah i think this part about story is different from people to people's how they see it but one thing fit sure is the rival need to be flashed out in term of personality and role.

Maybe if there really something that can be said as problem in the game is how the performance of this game really sometime destroys players good times if they not having patience, fps from after long period of time drop like after 3 hour or 2 hour playing is make the experience being hit especially when in tall grass looking for Pokémon while experience fps drop because of that it's unfortunate this game running on older pokemon essentials

I'm overall the game is fun although not perfect and thank you for the experience. Please stay healthy

5PastPoliwag · Oct 5, 2025

Fushisoup said:
Just letting you know the discord link is invalid when I tried opening it the invite was said to be invalid

I refreshed the Discord-link. If it's still not working for you, feel free to send me a dm!

The lack of story and the mapping in Haido are obvious weak points, I thoroughly agree with that. Haido was created first and it is basically the practice region. Remaking and polishing old maps is something I enjoy doing but understandably it takes a lot of time. The performance issues are hopefully less agonizing with the new speed up script (press T like before). Transferring to a newer version of Essentials is not something I have time for, unfortunately. Gym leaders will be adjusted based on your feedback! I'm not really trying to make a super difficult game, but I do want every major battle to offer some kind of unique challenge (on Intense mode).

Thanks a ton for your replies, I hope you all have a good time playing!

Ptfigo · Oct 5, 2025

Hi downloaded the zip file…. Got a huge array of folders but can’t seem to find the actual game file. Any help greatly appreciated…. Maybe because I’m doing it through files on my iPhone? Was looking forward to Delta emulating this. Thanks

5PastPoliwag · Oct 5, 2025

Ptfigo said:
Hi downloaded the zip file…. Got a huge array of folders but can’t seem to find the actual game file. Any help greatly appreciated…. Maybe because I’m doing it through files on my iPhone? Was looking forward to Delta emulating this. Thanks

On PC, "Game.exe" is the actual file that launches the game. For Android, there's JoiPlay emulator, but I'm not convinced the game can be played on iPhone. Maybe someone else might know better!

Keroro04 · Oct 5, 2025

5PastPoliwag said:
The Flowerist-Florist trainers on the ship have now been fixed. Thank you for finding and reporting this bug!

Custom art for each gym leader and the main character are in the plans. The ready-made character customization tools I found were either not free or used a gen 4/5 art style. I appreciate your feedback!

Edit: Someone was kind enough to send me a script for a better speed up option, so as of 2.10.2 you can press T to speed up everything!

As for the church torches... There's no documentation on it and I prefer not to hand out the solutions to the game's secrets, but if you are open to joining the Discord server, I'm sure there are people eager to help you out.

You fixed the one on the first floor, not the two on the third floor. Please patch this as soon as you possibly can cause I just wish to fight them for more XP.

Folk · Oct 6, 2025

5PastPoliwag said:
I refreshed the Discord-link. If it's still not working for you, feel free to send me a dm!

The lack of story and the mapping in Haido are obvious weak points, I thoroughly agree with that. Haido was created first and it is basically the practice region. Remaking and polishing old maps is something I enjoy doing but understandably it takes a lot of time. The performance issues are hopefully less agonizing with the new speed up script (press T like before). Transferring to a newer version of Essentials is not something I have time for, unfortunately. Gym leaders will be adjusted based on your feedback! I'm not really trying to make a super difficult game, but I do want every major battle to offer some kind of unique challenge (on Intense mode).

Thanks a ton for your replies, I hope you all have a good time playing!

Thank you for answering, using the speed up still give fps drop but it's okay I can't be helped with old engine and I'm glad in the future you will update haido

AbsurdToastling · Oct 6, 2025

The new speed up is a huge improvement. The FPS drop in the overworld is fine since it likely won't be used there much, but battles move at a much brisker pace now with less crawling screens and bars.

If I had any other nitpick/aspect of improvement, the ability to map a hotkey for the DexNav or being able to put it under the F menu along with registered key items and overworld moves would be a convenient bit of menu trimming. It really is just a nitpick, but I do find myself checking it a lot, since I like catching everything available to me before moving on from an area. Living that Dex Filler Life lmao

Having a lot of fun with the game so far. The freedom thus far is nice... feels like what ScarVi wanted to do but didn't.

DuomoDiSirio · Oct 6, 2025

Game looks outstanding from what I've seen. One thing I think could be improved on the options menu is the game actually telling you the specific of what each setting does, it's a bit confusing to differentiate what some settings do.

BayleyDosStraps · Oct 6, 2025

The game looks fantastic, the only detriment is I can't control it with my Xbox Controller that I have connected to my computer via Bluetooth. Any way that can rectified? Thanks!

DuomoDiSirio · Oct 6, 2025

BayleyDosStraps said:
The game looks fantastic, the only detriment is I can't control it with my Xbox Controller that I have connected to my computer via Bluetooth. Any way that can rectified? Thanks!

I have a Steam app called Controller Companion which works well. If it costs anything, it's extremely cheap. I've used it for the old versions of the Tomb Raider Steam releases as well as RPG Maker fangames.

5PastPoliwag · Oct 6, 2025

BayleyDosStraps said:
The game looks fantastic, the only detriment is I can't control it with my Xbox Controller that I have connected to my computer via Bluetooth. Any way that can rectified? Thanks!

JoyToKey allows your controller to pretend it's a keyboard and then the game should be able to detect it. You can map the controls to what you want in game. Controller support has been requested a lot and I'm looking to add it, but no promises on that.

In the upcoming patch (2.10.7), there will be a shortcut for DexNav. Press D! Some of the options are certainly less than intuitive. Help texts that explain all the alternatives will be added in the near future.

BayleyDosStraps · Oct 6, 2025

5PastPoliwag said:
JoyToKey allows your controller to pretend it's a keyboard and then the game should be able to detect it. You can map the controls to what you want in game. Controller support has been requested a lot and I'm looking to add it, but no promises on that.

In the upcoming patch (2.10.7), there will be a shortcut for DexNav. Press D! Some of the options are certainly less than intuitive. Help texts that explain all the alternatives will be added in the near future.

Sure, what is JoyToKey? I've never heard of this before. Is it some kind of add-on for these types of games?

5PastPoliwag · Oct 6, 2025

BayleyDosStraps said:
Sure, what is JoyToKey? I've never heard of this before. Is it some kind of add-on for these types of games?

I'm not familiar with it myself tbh. But yes, it is an add-on for Windows games. If possible, join the Discord-server and someone will surely be able to help you set it up.

In the new patch, there's explanations for each option (level cap, difficulty modes etc.) as requested!

AbsurdToastling · Oct 7, 2025

I see the Pokedex says Feebas evolves in an unknown way, and the Item Locations document doesn't list a Prism Scale anywhere. Is there some new method to evolve it? I'd love to have a Milotic on my team as my Surfer

EDIT: I should also note the Seed Sower ability does not work, or if it does, not as described. I've had it on my Smolliv, now a Dolliv, from day one but it does nothing.

5PastPoliwag · Oct 7, 2025

AbsurdToastling said:
I see the Pokedex says Feebas evolves in an unknown way, and the Item Locations document doesn't list a Prism Scale anywhere. Is there some new method to evolve it? I'd love to have a Milotic on my team as my Surfer

EDIT: I should also note the Seed Sower ability does not work, or if it does, not as described. I've had it on my Smolliv, now a Dolliv, from day one but it does nothing.

Feebas evolves with high beauty or Prism Scale. Check Item Locations doc for "evolution items".

I'll implement Seed Sower for the next version! Thx for pointing out it's missing its functionality.

Terminus · Oct 7, 2025

Hi! I'm really enjoying this game so far.
I'm on Patch 2.9.9 as far as I know, and when I went to enter Tenebric River, it seems like the map just didn't load for some reason. This happens consistently.
The trainers are there, I can walk and get to bump what would be impassable walls/trees, but the map itself is black.

Please let me know what I can do to fix this, or if this is a bug that needs to be patched. Thankfully as this is an open world game I'll just take another route, but I do hope this gets addressed. Thanks!

5PastPoliwag · Oct 7, 2025

Hey! There was an issue with the tileset used in Tenebrio-Phanravie area. As you said, the tileset doesn't load and you only see the trainers. This was fixed in 2.9.11, but you will have to download the entire batch of files again (game download) as I was unable to fix the issue with a simple patch. Your save file is stored seprately, so you don't need to do anything about that to get the new version going.

AbsurdToastling · Oct 8, 2025

Seems the pond in Supaze Town cannot be surfed on? I've been able to surf everywhere with my Drakloak so far, but there isn't even any dialogue for trying to interact with it. In fact, the Fishing Rods don't work, either. Seems to be completely missing its water tile data.

Terminus · Oct 9, 2025

I've been making progress and have now reached the 4th gym, and just obtained the Exp All.
I was excited to finally be able to have faster leveling... except this Exp All for some reason divides the enemy mon's EXP by 6 and distributes it evenly across the whole party, instead of working how it does in the original games (KOing mon gets full EXP, back party gets 50% or like 25% depending on the game).
I think it's a much fairer option and would love if you could fix this. I'm playing with level caps so overleveling is not an issue. This would make for a great QoL option to lessen the grinding.
Thanks!

5PastPoliwag · Oct 9, 2025

Terminus said:
I've been making progress and have now reached the 4th gym, and just obtained the Exp All.
I was excited to finally be able to have faster leveling... except this Exp All for some reason divides the enemy mon's EXP by 6 and distributes it evenly across the whole party, instead of working how it does in the original games (KOing mon gets full EXP, back party gets 50% or like 25% depending on the game).
I think it's a much fairer option and would love if you could fix this. I'm playing with level caps so overleveling is not an issue. This would make for a great QoL option to lessen the grinding.
Thanks!

100% + 5*25% = 225% which means that even the weak version of Exp. All more than doubles exp gains. This does three things.
1) The level curve gets absolutely wrecked without level cap which many players don't want to use.
2) The item becomes so powerful that it feels mandatory to have. And that would mean it would need to be handed out immediately (doing battles before getting Exp. All is inefficient). Players would feel incentivized to skip everything until they get the item.
3) All the other exp boosting items and grinding methods I've created would become obsolete.

As a compromise, I made it so that level capped mons give their share of the exp to other Pokémon. That makes Exp. All a very convenient item without any drawback. It also multiplies EV gains by 6, which alone is ridiculous compared to something like Macho Brace. I hope this helps everyone understand my unpopular game design choices!

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