Pokemon Blue Kaizo ROM

Pokemon Blue Kaizo is a GBC ROM Hack by SinisterHoodedFigure based on Pokemon Blue. It was last updated on September 12, 2016.

Description

Here is a hack of Pokemon Blue, where storywise, Blue Kaizo is faithful to the original pokemon blue. Gameplaywise, it is compared to the original, considerably more challenging, with enemies having better rosters, move pools, as well as more diverse, where you can catch all 151 Pokemon throughout the game, with great variety early on.

But its not just trainers that have been modified; many areas have been changed, such as Viridian forest. Movepools have been altered for all 151 Pokemon, so you can catch Pokemon with new level-up movepools. You can catch wild starters at the left of Viridian City if you ever wanted a full team of starters. Fire types like Vulpix, Growlithe, and Ponyta, get flamethrower around level 16, the same level where Charmander evolves into Charmeleon.

There are more water types, like Krabby, Poliwag, Psyduck, around the Viridian forest. And there are additional grass types oddish and Bellsprout, with very useful and unique moves compared to Bulbasaur, for diversity. Many of them evolve much earlier than the original, some about the same time as the starters, while others, around level 20. All of these Pokemon are very easy to catch, due to improved catch rates, and Pokeballs with lowered prices.

The encounter rate is very high, in many areas, and the levels go at a steady pace, so grinding isn’t an issue. Of course, if encountering many Pokemon is a problem for you, you can repel as early as Pewter city, and they are much cheaper as well. You can get different evolution stones when you reach Mt. Moon, getting stronger Pokemon, not just the starters. In addition, this new update also has HM05 flash, unlike the original Blue Kaizo, so you don’t have to blindly wander the new layout of Rock Tunnel, or cheat for flash.

As mentioned before, Pokemon gyms are much tougher. Early on, the gym leaders only use four Pokemon, but nearly halfway, you will encounter gym leaders with a full team of six, with five powerful rosters relative to their type theme, and one wildcard to add diversity to the boss fights. Gym trainers are a bit more diverse, however, and shouldn’t be taken lightly.

Finally, you can catch 151 Pokemon, but to actually succeed in this task, you will have to beat the whole game since there are some Pokemon only available late-game and post-game. This first-gen Pokemon hack is more than Nuzlockable, so the difficulty isn’t extremely high, it is on par with difficulty hacks such as Firered Omega.