Pokemon Elpis: Days pass by slowly on your small island, in the sun-embraced Phaos Archipelago. When not graced by the presence of the irregular tourist, your only source of novelty becomes the monthly visit of mainland ships, bringing in goods, explorers, researchers, and the occasional new species of Pokémon you've never seen before. You often wonder what the mainland looks like, or what people eat, aside from Magikarp. Is it true that they eat apples that come from the earth, called "potatoes"? Silly rumors, one would assume, according to your grandparent, and only family. The peaceful and relaxing days give off a feeling that time has truly stopped. But that would soon prove to be wrong, since your savvy grandparent's tourist exploitation tricks, helped bring in enough dough to buy you a ticket for your 18th birthday. A ticket to Leukos Island, the Archipelago's biggest island. Overjoyed, you kiss them goodbye, and board the Jerry Ferry.
Features:
A seafaring, island-hopping, open-world adventure!
A huge ocean featuring a dynamic npc-spawning eventing system, which includes Overworld Encounters on PSDK for the first time!
The first fangame to feature actual zooming out when travelling in the overworld!
The first fangame to feature pushing AND pulling boxes around!
Actual naval battles!
A wide variety of aquatic (and land) mons, whose spawnable levels and species scale with your progress
My disappointment that I couldn't take a vacation this year, and some obscure childhood dreams of the sea, along with a poem that touched me, turned into a game
Authentic music befitting the setting. I did a lot of work to dig up veeeery old folk MIDIs from the internet, and turn them into something new-ish that followed some of the franchise's musical conventions. Kudos to Epiphany for the audio mastering side
