Touhoumon Purple ROM

I’m sure that you’ve heard of Touhou Puppet Play (referred to as “Touhoumon” from this point on) at least once by now, and that’s what this is. For those of you innocent enough to not know what it is, it is a Japanese fakemon hack of Pokemon Fire Red that replaces Pokemon with characters from the Touhou Project series while still following the basic progression of Fire Red. The latest version, 1.8, was another huge shift which was more focused on balancing the power creep between obtainable characters along with a new type chart and the Physical/Special class split for moves.

There are two main features to 1.8. The first main feature is that stats are very balanced and nearly everything (barring a few joke characters) is viable without abusing X Items or overleveling, and the second is that the vast majority of the cast has multiple evolutionary paths they can take by either leveling or simply using an evolutionary stone. As an example, something’s level evolution could be a slow bulky special attacker, but by using a stone it could choose to become a fast physical attacker instead. This allows for a large amount of variety in team building, and adds replay value.

Now that the boring preface is out of the way, let’s get to the main draw here: this is a hack of Pokemon Emerald (U) that uses Touhoumon’s lineup of obtainable ‘mons to take everything you know about Pokemon and snap it in half. This hack follows Hoenn’s basic plotline and gameplay progression, but the changes to the ‘mon lineup, attacks, and type chart changes the game rather drastically. Its mostly vanilla Hoenn since that was my aim, but there’s a few curve balls thrown at you to keep you on your toes.