History VideoGame / PokemonReborn

** Shelly is the first Gym Leader that clearly covers her team's weaknesses, and her lead uses Rain Dance to both weaken fire-type arracks and prevent from you destroying her field so easily. She is also the first leader you fight in double battle.
* WhamEpisode: By the end of Episode 18, Agate City is now freed from Team Meteor, [[spoiler:Lin has taken control of Gardevoir and is using her black hole power to imprison her enemies, Cain, Luna and Samson/Ciel are all stuck in said black hole, Eve and Lumi are back in their own bodies and helping you, it's revealed Anna and Noel are Radomus's children, and a mysterious voice is threatening the player. [[BolivianArmyEnding The game ends there until Episode 19 releases]]]].

** Whether or not you save all the police officers in the Beryl Ward will change [[spoiler:whether Corey is exposed as Meteor Admin, difficulty of his Gym, and the reason why he commits suicide]]
** Whether or not you [[spoiler:cover up for Taka at Water Treatment Center [[ForAWantOfNail changes the whole tone of Episode 17]], splitting it into the Zekrom and Reshiram paths. If you don't cover for him but refuse to let him accompany you in the desert, you are put on a version of the Zekrom path with some elements of Reshiram.]]

** Whether or not you save all police officers Beryl Ward will change [[spoiler:whether Corey is exposed as Meteor Admin, difficulty of his Gym, and the reason why he commits suicide]]

** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with the storyline branch in which you [[spoiler: reveal Corey as a member of Team Meteor in front of his daughter.]] To do this, you have to [[spoiler: find and rescue all the Policemen ''before'' completing the double battle against Taka and ZEL]]. This is pretty obscure because [[spoiler: it's entirely possible to never even start the sidequest]], but most players who know about it will do it anyway since it rewards you with two very good Pokémon. Then again, you won't know that you'll get these Pokémon from this sidequest unless you look it up on the forums, so...

*** It is worth noting, however, that the woman from whom you "acquire" the Ponyta/Buizel later is found buying stolen Pokémon on the black market, and she is noted on the Pokémon summary as ''not'' being the original trainer of the Ponyta/Buizel. Future encounters with her further drive home how [[KickTheSonOfABitch awful she is]]. In all likelihood, you were doing the Pokémon a favor by stealing it.

* ArcSymbol: A circle surrounded by 4 rectangles resembling the wheel on [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVFamilies Arceus's]] back appear almost everywhere in the game including a host of doors that cannot be opened. Similarly, The colors [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald,]] and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Amethyst]] also seem to appear everywhere. [[spoiler: It is revealed by Solaris that at least one of the doors was built by a [[PreCursors civilization where Reborn now resides]] to enshrine where Arceus fell to earth and is sealed by the four respective stones in the form of jewelry, which later become the main [[MacGuffin Mac Guffins]] for the ongoing plot.]]

** Blake extorts the Ruby Ring away from the player and flees up the peak of Ametrine Mountain. At the top, once the player beats him, Shelly suggests that since Blake lost, he has to give the player the ring... only for Blake to refuse and mock her. Not only is he an enemy, but he's an enemy with no respect for the rules—why the hell would he play along? On the other hand his pokemon all being fainted also means that he doesn't have any way to defend himself when [[spoiler: Cal and Heather swoop in on the backs of their flying pokemon to take back the ring from him.]]

See also ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRejuvenation Pokémon Rejuvenation]]'', which is another UsefulNotes/RPGMaker Pokémon fan game that was inspired by this one.

* CutsceneIncompetence: One definite and one possible one after the other. Taka on Azurine Island explains that the PULSE Pokemon Team Meteor needs is caged in the observation post there. After defeating Taka, he lampshades that the player character could grab the PULSE Pokemon right then and there to stop their plan... and then the player character just stands there and lets them all get away for no apparent reason. A bit later at Pyrous Mountain the player could then defeat Solaris' Garchomp, upon which the player character just stands there while [[TheBattleDidntCount Solaris uses an item to heal it]] and then [[spoiler:kills Kiki with it.]]

* AntiGrinding: Similar to the main series games, Pokémon that have their levels too high will not obey you if you do not have enough gym badges. Unlike the main series however, it does not matter if they are trade or not, forcing players to keep watch over their levels to prevent going over the current cap. Fortunately, there's an opposite to the Rare Candy, the Common Candy, which lowers a Pokémon's level instead of raising it should that ever happen.

* AnyoneCanDie: And ''do they''. Human, Pokémon... no one is safe in this game. Thus far, [[spoiler: Corey, Kiki, Tara, Eclipse, Ame, and (depending on your choices) Taka]] have all perished.
* AscendedFridgeHorror: In the canonical Pokédex, it is said that Chandelure can burn away a person's soul with its flames. [[spoiler: Team Meteor Commander [[GreaterScopeVillain Sirius]] has a Chandelure. Come [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Eclipse's]] [[HeelFaceTurn betrayal]], take a wild guess what happens.]]

* AliceAllusion: Luna, the Dark-Type Gym Leader, has her Pokémon nicknamed after Alice In Wonderland characters. The first female protagonist's official name is also Alice.
* AllForNothing: By the half-way point of the [[spoiler: Magikarp]] side quest, [[spoiler:after you purchase it for two Blue shards, it gets stolen by Dashing Rogue [[MeaningfulName Corin-Rouge]], and you beat several Corin-Rouge imposters, only for the real deal to escape, you finally have one last showdown with him at the Tourmaline Desert. During this last battle (specifically when he's down to his ''last'' Pokémon), Corin-Rouge reveals what the supposed Pokémon is, expecting it to be ultra-powerful... only to be confused and disappointed that he did all of this just to get a Magikarp. Out of sheer embarrassment at the effort he put forth for a pathetic Pokémon like Magikarp, he decides to turn himself in.]]
* AmbiguousGender: ZEL, [[spoiler:who is actually 2 women and a man stuck in the same body]]. You can choose to play as a non-binary protagonist, as well.
* AntiGrinding: Similar to the main series games, Pokémon that have their levels too high will not obey you if you do not have enough gym badges. Unlike the main series however, it does not matter if they are trade or not, forcing players to keep watch over their levels to prevent going over the current cap. Fortunately, there's an opposite to the Rare Candy, the Common Candy, which lowers a Pokémon's level instead of raising it should that ever happen.

* PollutedWasteland: The Byxbysion Wasteland is an unusual example: It was not created by humans and is continuously growing despite few people dumping their trash there. An attempted cleanup for the expansion of the city was met with failure when all the trash that was there reappeared overnight when they attempted to clean it up. [[spoiler: it is heavily hinted that this is the result of a [[TalkingAnimal talking]] Garbodor, Mr. Bigglesworth, finding and empowering itself with a discarded PULSE.]]

* MagicSquarePuzzle: In the fake Devon Corp, there's a 6x3 magic square that has TM24 Thunderbolt, a Gardevoirite, and a Darkinium-Z as rewards. It also provides a password you can tell a woman in Agate City in exchange for a Manectite and a Department Store Sticker.

* MagicSquarePuzzle: In fake Devon Corp, there's a 6x3 magic square that has Thunderbolt, Gardevoirite, and Darkinium-Z as rewards. It also provides a password you can tell Agathe City woman in exchange for a Manectrite and a Department Store Sticket.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Certain cutscenes will have amusing happenings in the background, such as Julia spinning circles around Florina as you scale the waterfall back from the Water Treatment Plant.

** [[spoiler: during the Lin route postgame there is a part where she asks for you to thank her and [[ButThouMust your only dialogue options are to say thank you]]. However if you decide to press the cancel button to exit the conversation Lin will actually react to it and [[ActuallyPrettyFunny lets you off the hook]]]]

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''Pokémon Reborn'' is an episodically released [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]], now complete, fan game set in the newly created Reborn region which contains 18 gyms, one for each type, as well as the elite four and champion. ''Pokémon Reborn'' is an UsefulNotes/RPGMaker game with its plot and characters loosely based on the personas shared among the players of the [[RealLifeWritesThePlot now defunct Pokémon Reborn League online role-playing group.]]

The game can be downloaded on its [[http://www.rebornevo.com/index.php?/pr/index.html/ official website]]. There's also a fairly active forum, which has developed its own internal memes. (Just ask about [[NoodleIncident Terra's couches.]])

* SilentProtagonist: Par for the course in a ''Pokémon'' game. In the postgame, [[spoiler:it's revealed that this is [[JustifiedTrope justified]]: the protagonist is an avatar created by Lin, and it's tricky for her to make them speak.]]