In the world of Pokémon, a fan-made game was created under the name PokeRogue. The unannounced appearance of the game started off slow and eventually climbed its way up and now it is a very popular game.
PokeRogue is a roguelike game. The question comes, “What is a roguelike?” A roguelike game is characterized by procedural generation of levels and maps, permadeath (or permanent death of a character), and often turn-based or grid-based gameplay. The fact that it is turn-based matches Pokémon because Pokémon is a turn based-game itself with Pokémon fighting each other in a turn-based fashion.
Now onto the gameplay. When you first start the game, you can choose any starter from any generation in the mainline game series (from Kanto to Paldea) and along the way when you play, you can decide to catch a Pokémon to join your team and make it stronger. You would also get that Pokémon in your starter list to pick them whenever you feel like (the first stage, to be clear).
Also, you have 10 points to select your Pokémon. Every Pokémon costs a certain amount. If you ever just want to get better Pokémon or you are stuck, you can just head on to the “Daily Run”. That changes every day and you get a random team and enter a random biome. It’s the perfect time to get new and powerful Pokémon.
Another way to get Pokémon is through eggs. Eggs are a powerful tool to use in the game but they can be tricky to get because in the game you need to use “egg vouchers”. You can roll 1 of 3 machines (I will talk about them later). There are three ways to get vouchers. The first way is to get a lucky drop from the end of the round drop. The second way is to defeat gym leaders and the rule is that if you defeat them for the first time, you get an egg voucher plus (egg voucher plus = 5 pulls). If you defeat them before the current time, you get a normal egg voucher (normal egg voucher = 1 pull). Also the gym leader battles start at level/stage 20 or 30. The third and final way is to beat the game.
While you are playing and doing levels and battles, there is a hidden system that is going on while you play. The system is the “candies system”. When you have a Pokémon participate in a battle (attacks in a battle or on the field for 1 whole turn), while it is attacking and using moves, it is gaining friendship points. Once you have enough, they convert into candies, but in a twist, if the Pokémon faints, the friendship points decrease.
In the two different runs, classic and endless, they get different amounts of points that you earn even if you do the same exact thing. For example, say you battle a wild Pokémon and you defeat it in endless, you get about 30 friendship points, but in classic you get 60. In other words, if your Pokémon faints in endless, you lose 10 points, but in classic, it becomes 20 points. So long story short, classic is two times the points as endless.
Finally, I will talk about the machines and what the candies do. Let’s start with the three machines you can pick from: the “Move Up” machine, the “Legendary Up” machine, and the “Shiny Up” machine.
The “Move Up” machine makes it more likely to get a Pokémon that hatches from it to get their rare egg move.
The “Legendary Up” machine makes it more common for you to get the chosen legendary on the machine when pulled.
The “Shiny Up” machine raises the chance to get a shiny Pokémon (differently colored than the original) from an egg. Shinies matter in this game because Shinies give luck and give you a higher chance to get better items from the end of the round drop.
And now for the candies. The candies can do 3 things. First, this is used to unlock the Pokémon’s passive ability, which powers them up and makes them stronger in battle. The second thing you can do is you can reduce the cost of the Pokémon so you can fit more party members (as long as it doesn’t go past the 6 Pokémon limit). The last thing is you can buy a Pokémon egg that guarantees the Pokémon you bought it from and you can get a stronger version of the Pokémon and you can get egg moves from the egg.
Egg rarity and amount of Rounds:Common=10 rounds
Rare=25 rounds
Epic=50 rounds
Legendary=100 rounds
Manaphy=50 rounds
Now the final words, my readers, as the Pokemon saying goes, “Gotta catch them all”.
