“Pokemon Thirst Trap” is a Completed GBA Rom Hack made by Unfolding. Explore Unfolding’s second romhaiku: a quirky, dystopian tourist trap adventure filled with silly puzzles, art, and dread!
Pokemon Thirst Trap Completed GBA Rom Hack
- Creator: Unfolding
- Base ROM: FireRed
- Language: English
- Latest Version: v2.0
- Released on: November 24, 2024
- Status: Completed
Also Check Out: Pokemon Exiled Emerald
Description
Hi, I’m Unfolding, and this is my second little romhaiku, which is a word I’ve made up to describe a really short but hopefully really polished hack exploring a single idea. This here is a silly, completely SFW romhack about not wanting to pay for overpriced water in a terrible tourist trap! I made it for MAGM 7, for the theme of Tourist Trap, and it did tie for first with Haven’s Escher Forest (an actual masterpiece), so go play that and then come back and play this one, lol.
Features
- A borderline dystopian capitalist world punctuated by some really silly jokes
- My usual obsession with making my hacks as original as possible
- Yet another absurd but self-consistent premise
- A ton of paintings and sculpture that will make you feel something and then interrogate you about it
- A mystery that’s equal parts fascinating and stupid
- A creeping sense of dread about not having enough money to make it in this town
- A bonus boss who is an actual cheater
- And not only the regular puzzles involving obscure game mechanics, but also one actually amazing puzzle by one of my puzzle heroes!
It’s a very short experience – if you’re a speedrunner, it’s beatable in less than 30 seconds, just like Accept Defeat. If you want to maintain your dignity / explore what this world has to offer, it should be about two hours!
Creator Notes
It’s hard but not impossible to throw away money to the point where the game becomes unwinnable, so don’t do that, hahaha. There shouldn’t be much level grinding or anything that’s really tedious, but the bonus boss is pretty tough even with a great team. Feel free to play with save states!
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Credits
Lu-Ho, for AdvanceMap
Haven, for HexManiacAdvance and the FastNewGame script <— This is the guy who made Escher Forest, the hack that this tied with!
Pret, for flags.h and misc decomp references
Anthroyd, for his Gen III Romhacking tutorial series
Shiny, for their Hex Maniac Advance tutorial series
Sierraffinity, for their MEGA-HUGE XSE Scripting tutorial
Gamefreak and Nintendo, for graphics and everything Pokemon
The one and only Andrea Gilbert, for her design of a No-Right-Turn maze
and Shiny, Phoenixbound, Yogia16, Archie, Asith, Jordank, Anthroyd, AGSMG, and Haven again, for answering my many dumb questions!
and I always like highlighting some other amazing fanworks in my credits, so:
Jdaster64, for TTYD Infinite Pit (and now the Tower of Trials holy crap go play it)
CraftyBoss, for SMO Multiplayer
Bradley Lovell, for the Looker
