How many have played through Gen 2 and thought: “Wow that would have been much better with a logical level curve.” Or just wanted a remake of Johto with a higher difficulty? Welcome to Grueling Gold, a difficulty fan game of Gen 2, developed in v20.1 of Pokemon Essentials. Some things you’ll find:
- mega evolution, including some custom megas
- updated base stats and movesets for normally underused Pokemon
- competitively challenging boss battles, gym leaders and rivals
- added story elements to combine the nostalgia with a fresh take
- custom moves and abilities to give a more interesting competitive battling scene
- 2 difficulty levels
- an option to removing grinding and EVs
- a nuzlocke option
- A Dexnav that works with day and night cycle so you can chain hunt encounters for shinies or egg moves and hidden abilities
- use of Essentials Deluxe to insert boss Pokémon and certain gimmicks within battles
- a completely reworked and custom AI to optimize the battle experience and make the game actually difficult
- Pokémon from gens 1-9 (DLC mons released as of 2.0! Kanto later!)
- a fully working randomizer that can randomize encounters, static and gift mons, trainer teams, level up moves,
- abilities and base stats
- Expert mode now plays a good bit differently from normal mode! (1.2.0 update)
