Sometimes as fans, we can really go the distance for the stuff we love. For a group Pokemon fans, it took them nine years to finally come up with a fan-made Pokemon game that might actually be worth playing.
Update: Due to receiving multiple takedown notices from Nintendo America, the official download links have been removed. You can read their full statement here.
The game is called Pokemon Uranium, and unlike its original counterparts, it can’t be played on a Nintendo handheld. Instead, it runs on the PC via a .exe file. So what can we expect from this fan-made Pokemon game?
As you can see from the trailer below, the game retains much of the Pokemon games’ aesthetics so it will be familiar to longtime fans of the game. It’ll also be in a tropical setting, have 150 custom made, fan-conceived Pokemon, the ability to talk to the Pokemon and even a new class of them – Nuclear Pokemon.
That’s not all; there is also some technical difference that Pokemon Uranium has from the original games, namely online trading and battling, something that many fans of the games would have loved to see, even in the current Pokemon GO.
Considering how many fan-based projects start off with big, grandiose plans, but end up falling short, or not even finishing at all, the fact that the team that put this game together actually finished the game is a feat that is worthy of respect.
So if you can’t wait for Pokemon Sun and Moon and are a bit tired of Pokemon GO, maybe you should give this little gem a try.
You can download the game here. Hopefully, Nintendo and the Pokemon Company lets this fan-game slide. It’s a not-for-profit game after all and that nine years of effort shouldn’t just go down the drain.
