The Pokémon franchise is celebrating a pretty major anniversary this year, with 30 years passing since the first games debuted in Japan, back in 1996. As part of that, a certain nostalgia has definitely overtaken the community as a whole, who have been returning to the older games in the series by their thousands.
The only issue with that is that we have all played those games through to completion hundreds of times in their base form, which is happily where fan projects come into plan. ROM hacks and fan games really have become a genre of their own over the years, and the latest release in that pantheon really does do a lot with the original formula.
As first noted by Pokémon Fangame News, Pokémon Timeless Diamond and Spaceless Pearl are out now, building on the legacy of their namesake games with intuitive changes and some additions from Platinum that just make sense from a gameplay perspective.
The big change is that the regional Pokedex has been expanded significantly, with 242 Pokémon available to capture, including some of the aforementioned additions from Platinum. There are also some story additions drawn from the latter, as well as entirely original narrative...
