A Too-Deep Look at Pokemon Uranium: Part 2 | MSCC
10In August of 2016, Pokemon Uranium -- a surprisingly well-realized fan game made in RPG Maker -- exploded onto the scene in a finished version. Within a week, Nintendo employed the nuclear option. Of course, good luck purging something like that from the internet. Uranium is, as an amateur attempt goes, pretty interesting, but it’s full of a bunch of little flaws. Today I’m putting on my HAZMAT suit and doing a deep dive on all of these, so we can get an idea of what Uranium does right, and what it does wrong. Uh, breeder reactor. I dunno, I ran out of puns an hour ago.
In part two of this two-part odyssey, I’ll be looking at specific examples of the writing, and how the game plays. Be warned, there is a lot of math in here! And also, David Cage, for some reason...
For more context, please watch Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvpTxO0uxxU
CONTENTS:
0:00 Intro
2:11 Plot and Writing (part 2)
9:36 Gameplay and Math
35:04 Conclusion
39:19 Postscript
40:36 Outro
Watch TieTuesday’s stream archives of Pokemon Uranium! He’s somehow even harder on the game than I am, at least in this video: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNG-p83v4xrGNZf7Ojf90RpnT_Kg-Mhhj
Pokemon Uranium wiki: https://pokemon-uranium.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
Involuntary Twitch’s blog: https://oripoke.wordpress.com/
Mother 3 fan translation interview: https://www.webcitation.org/6Qg5f3p8f?url=http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/10/no-edits-junk-test/
The article about Quantic Dream: https://web.archive.org/web/20180608015016/https://kotaku.com/detroit-developer-quantic-dream-sues-french-media-over-1825453518
And a fun fact to round out this journey we went on: some time when spoilers were going up for Pokemon Sword and Shield, someone posted a set of fake spoilers. One of them included Stenowatt, a Pokemon from this game. I don’t remember the full deets, just that that was a thing that happened. I wonder if I would have been fooled if I didn’t recognize it, but I guess I’ll never know.
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