Overall 9.1 Graphics 8.5 Sound 8 Addictive 4 Story 6 Depth 4.5 Difficulty 8.5
10
Pokemon Rocket Strike - Review Sabo
I found this game on pokemonhackersonline and it really caught me, so I came to this site to play it because you can finally play as a Member of Team Rocket, and well I think everyone wanted to play them, just for once.
So for the Graphics, I can tell you that he took some effort to change sprites etc. Other than that I really liked it because, he also used Pokemon FireRed and I thank him for that, because I do not like the graphics of Pokemon Emerald,my opinion on that :)
The sound is pretty standard, but I think that's ok because the standard ones are really nice and, why should you change something that is already good. But it would be nice if the romhacker decides to put some other sounds in it.
The game can be addictive in some ways, because you play a different role and you are in a completely different situation.
The best points on this game is the story. I gave the hack a "10" because I think the idea is really good. I like to play for once the evil ones, who steal Pokemon etc. I also liked that the romhacker put some funny jokes in it. This gave it a nice atmosphere and reminds me a bit of Jessie&James Jokes.
The depth is okay. I mean it could be bigger but because it is his first romhack, I think a "7" is suitable.
I like the difficulty of the game because I think the normal Pokemon games are way too easy and I like to have the challenge that this game offers.
Well and that's it for my review, I recommend you to play this game and give it a try, because it has really good attempts and I hope the romhacker continues on this hack.
Graphics 9 Sound 8 Addictive 7 Story 10 Depth 7 Difficulty 9
Review Rating: 4/5
Submitted: 02-12-14
Review Replies: 1
7.5
Not good at all.... Deadend136
Where to begin on this AWFUL hack. Since this was apparently the creator's first hack I wanted to go easy on him/her but after playing up to Bill's house I quickly changed my mind. As a hack maker myself (which all my hacks I released are on here) I can tell you all that I know what I am talking about most of the time when it comes to Pokemon hacks and could tell when a lot of work was done vs someone just spending an hour on a hack and throwing it up for some extra viz. This hack was worked on a good amount so again I will try my best to go easy on this first timer but I have MANY negatives about this hack that needs to be said and to be perfectly honest there is no way I can hold back since I am just very straight forward and to the point.
Overall: 7.5
This I felt was a fair rating not only because this was a first hack attempt but also because it had some interesting changes despite all of the awful text bugs, terrible learnset changes, and weird map changes that actually made the hack worse in my opinion. No idea why this game isn't as child friendly as it should be considering this is a family based website to play games on but since you apparently are with team rocket I guess it makes a little sense. (But mods you really should look into that). The hack had me playing through like normal except for the fact that the first starter I chose I had to start over and pick a new starter just because for some odd reason from the start you needed like 400 exp points just to level it up to lv.6 and in the beginning you REALLY do not want to deal with that. Your rival is actually May the whole time which could have been easily fixed if this wasn't a first time hack so just keep that in mind when you think your rival is Gary. I was very disappointed because I actually really like Gary but also because there were absolutely 0 changes made for the text which made everything awkward and not enjoyable as a player.
Graphics & Sound: 8
Graphics were awkward because of some of the sprites that were included. Why the heck would you include a sprite of Sheldon floating in the air?!?!? Other than that the sprites and battle graphics were like the normal Fire Red which since Fire Red had the better graphics than everything up to Emerald this category deserved an 8. If it wasn't Fire Red this would probably be rated lower in my opinion just because of the terrible sprite
selections which were made.
Sound I do not really leave on during gameplay especially when I am first trying out a game so I kept this rating an 8 just because I usually always try to keep Graphics and Sound together as a single rating.
Addictiveness:1
Pewter City had an interesting city layout/change that actually made me want to give this hack a higher rating since it is something I actually thought of doing as well for one of my hacks. It was changed in a way where it wasn't annoying but quite smart(You all will know what I mean if you try this hack out which I do not recommend). Once I got to Cerulean I realized it was only a city change for Pewter city which was very disappointing since I was actually considering playing through just from the map change in Pewter city. NO NO NO! May stays your rival the whole time with not 1 text change! Also before you enter a building or when you enter you might have to fight some trainers which is SO ANNOYING especially when you have 1 remaining party member, you just got out of the cave to Cerulean, no potions or revives, and you go into a Pokemon center and a Magikarp has the move Hyper Beam! Yes I was able to defeat the trainer instead of starting over but oh my goodness that was not a "Oh it is probably for higher difficulty" but rather "This is totally annoying and I want to stop playing now!" Unlike Brock, Misty didn't have a team change like I was expecting which was incredibly a let down, but wait, your rival had a team change and is more annoying than usual since you were at least expecting Gary or at least a text change! Oh and there are awkward buggy text changes throughout this hack as I saw so do not make the excuse on how "Oh the hacker probably did not know how to do it." Also there were VERY awkward map changes especially in the cave that again was more annoying than enjoyable so this category just deserves to be a 1. -_-
Story: 2
Sprite changes do not equal a story change. Nothing much to say other than that. It is basically Fire Red with a bunch of sprite changes, buggy text, buggy map areas, weird/awkward looking battle sprites, and the hacker tried to make you go up against Team Magma instead of the good guys which again was just A BIG LETDOWN! So this deserves a 2 rating just because there was an attempt to try and change the story around but really all it was were sprite changes......
Depth: 2
Pretty much the same as the story rating above. Sprite changes and buggy maps do not make this category a high rating! Deserves a 2 rating just because there were double battles involved randomly, gym leader team changes, and some character changes which were actually VERY AWKWARD!
Difficulty: 8
Basically Fire Red with harder gyms, sprite changes, harder rival, and learnsets messed up(Nidorino Male does not learn Helping Hands at level 25! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?) Fire Red in general was kind of difficult if you were not used to the leaders in the game but this hack actually deserves an 8 rating because it was difficult for me to want to play to at least get to Bill's house.
So there is my review which I made non biased and from a fellow hacker's point of view. Hope you all enjoyed and I do not recommend trying out this hack. But I do recommend making this a beta hack and fixing it up A LOT and really it has potential but too many bugs and negatives involved right now for this version. :(
~Deadend136
Graphics 8 Sound 8 Addictive 1 Story 2 Depth 2 Difficulty 8
Review Rating: 3.1/5
Submitted: 01-29-14
Review Replies: 11
User Notice 
)and this is my first attempt at Pokemon Rom hacking. So please have this in mind as you play this hack that I've tried my best since the idea of being a member of Team Rocket has always fascinated me.
