Thanks. =3

Graphics; 5 / 10: The Graphics are basically the same thing as Fire Red and nothing really stood out to me. Being a girl I played as the girl character and I found myself liking how she looked, but I disliked the pixel art for my partner character. It wasn't the outlines that were off, but rather the colours. It reminded me slightly of a zombie and coming from me that's not a compliment. But maybe that's me needing to put my glasses on. I'm rating the graphics 5/10 because it's basically copied graphics and the little that is written isn't anything that jumps out at you.

Sound 5 / 10:; My hatred for sound in video games is about as high as my hatred for ... actually, I don't think I hate anything more than the stupid repetitive sound tracks that seem to repeat themselves every 15 seconds. I did play the soundtrack for a few seconds to rate. During one room in the base nothing was playing, but in the main area of the base I heard a soundtrack directly from the main game itself. In Saffron City another track was playing, also copied directly from the main game. So once again I'm rating it 5 / 10 because you really can't give credit for something copied. The soundtrack could have been changed into something more dramatic fitting a "will I get caught" music, but instead it's really repetitive and dull.

Story 7/ 10: As I said before, the story of the game seems to be to allow you to rise through the ranks of Team Rocket by doing missions. There really isn't much else to say here. The trainers you battle are really hard and while I saw some reviews complaining about this, who really wants another "easy" Pokémon hack? The starter you get is Rattata and I happen to love Rattata and Raticate, so I didn't complain. Their Hyper Fang that you get early on is quite the powerful move. In my opinion. But the game does fall into the same pitfall as many promising games. While it has a nice idea, most of the changes I saw were in the script. You get the same TM from the same guy in Saffron City, with the only real difference being in what he says when he gives it to you. You can't walk up to anyone and demand things from them. Neither can you steal a Pokémon in the middle of a trainer battle when the whole point of Team Rocket is to steal Pokémon.  This really confuses me. It seems that you can not really steal anything if the plot doesn't call for it. But why not? All you can really do is talk to them and hope that they give things to you. The story also has a flaw in healing. Because you can't buy anything in Marts or use the Pokémon Center, healing is restricted to Fresh Water, Soda, Lemonade (bought at the base) and the Nurse Moe (think I got the name right) that is in the base. I'd love to be able to have to search for well hidden nurses that will heal my Pokémon in Secret. Sadly I didn't discover the lemonades until after my mission. So every time I got a status problem or lost HP I had to run between towns to heal. Something that really killed it. I really hope that the final version will not have me running from across the region simply because one Pokémon is poisoned. 

Depth; 9/10: This game is only a beta and so I'm going to treat it as such. I'm not going to scream "oh, It's so short". The game gets a high rating here because while it does have flaws it still offers you a unique take on the Pokémon world. Instead of the classic "collect eight badges and become Champion in nothing but the name itself" you are playing the bad guy. But as I said, this game is flawed. One big plot in the original games was as simply as talking to one person in this version and this is really disappointing. 

You play as Jessie and your rival is James. That's nice. The pokémon seem to be Pikachu, Lapras and Eevee. However, where it says 'do you want Pikachu", the image shows an Eevee. Where you are asked if you want an Eevee, the image shows Pikachu. This creates confusion. Your house looks like a Pokémon Center, but on the plus side the region has been redrawn. You can get a Dratini on the very first route, though that isn't really a big plus since Dratini is pretty much useless until it evolves. It takes ages to train and getting it this early on isn't appealing. The game did remove the "walk to the next town, get one item and then walk all the way back down" by placing the Mart right behind the Pokémon Center. 

Instead of needing the HM move Surf, you seem to just "buy" (it's free in the Mart, but you do get it through the guy who sells items) a board and you sail on that. 

I also just noticed that the first route has a lot of different Pokémon and at this point I'm "oh, it's one of those games". Where the Pokémon available right from the start are so many that you don't have the funds to get them all. I also noticed a wild Lapras right on the first route, making my starter Lapras feel not as special. The beauty of starters is that you can't get them anywhere else, they feel unique. This is ruined by being able to catch them. I can also recall playing this game previously and I recall the routes being very confusing with a lot of swimming. I suppose it is supposed to be based on the Orange Islands as the professor is Professor Ivy, but it feels a bit much.

So in short, the idea of the starters is nice, but a serious glitch early on ruins your hopes for the games. If the one who uploaded this game managed to explain it maybe you had hope for it, but the flaws are just one too many. Confusing route, too many wild Pokémon right from the start and glitches just destroy the game.

Please note that this is only a first impression. It's a nice idea, but it doesn't seem to have put through any testing. It was just created and left at that, skipping both Alpha and Beta testing. 

That being said, it is a nice concept for a game. It's just glitches as if the game was never tested. If it was there seems to be no desire to fix glitches. Although there is one problem with it. Given the starter Pokémon, you tend to faint during your first trip to New York City, the first city. By the time I could buy Pokémon I had only 791 or so cash left to spend on Pokéballs. This made me forced to only get Charmander and an Eevee. This is rather frustrating since the route where the rival is located has all starter Pokémon, Pikachu and Eevee. 

If the glitches were fixed, the rival levels were changed and the problem with not being able to move forward were edited it would be worth playing, but as of now it isn't.