History VideoGame / PokemonUranium

* DoorToBefore: If you want to go to Nowtoch City, you'll see that a bunch of rocks block the way, forcing you to cross Passage Cave. However, when you go back to Kevlar town, an NPC Ranger will appear and clear all the rocks from the path, allowing you to return without having to backtrack.

* StoneWall: The Cocaran line. They have very poor attack and special attack, but amazing defense and special defense.

* PlayingThePlayer: The final boss seems to be designed to exploit the player being WrongGenreSavvy with regards to boss fights. [[spoiler:For the Champion's League, you're told you can't use items during fights, and your Pokémon are always fully healed between fights, giving you no incentive to stock up on healing items. Every Pokémon you fight in the League is level 70, so you likely won't be inclined to grind beyond 75 tops. And when Actan interrupts the finals, it offers to join you after you defeat it, giving you a level 80 Steel type legendary right before the fight with CURIE and her [[OneWingedAngel Gamma Urayne]]. Before beginning the final fight, you're given the opportunity to save, which you'd likely be inclined to do. Guess what? Gamma Urayne is level ''85'' and comes packing Overheat, so Actan ''will'' fall on the first turn, and Urayne's Chernobyl ability nullifies the Nuclear type's weaknesses, so ''nothing you have'' can land super-effective hits, assuming they can get a hit in, going back to the level point. Cue TotalPartyKill and GameOver text telling you how they went on to destroy Tandor because you weren't strong enough. And when you reload, since you saved before the fight, you have no way to go back and better prepare. [[UnwinnableByMistake Have fun]] [[CycleOfHurting with that.]]]]

[[ScrewedByTheLawyers The game's creators removed the official download links from their website to prevent possible DMCA takedown notices from Nintendo of America]]. By that time, however, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the game had already been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, and was subsequently adopted by another team]]. Though the main storyline is complete, a lot of post-game content has yet to be added, and the game includes a patcher for any updates the creators plan on adding.

** In a more abstract way, Nuclear Pokémon seem to take some inspiration from Shadow Pokémon — once normal Pokémon corrupted from some outside force, resulting in hostility, a different appearance, a new type, and matching moves. They are super-effective against all types except other Nuclears and Steel (much like Shadow in ''Gale of Darkness''), but have a major drawback (they are also weak to almost every type). Both forms of corruption can also be undone, though it's less complete on Nuclear Pokémon (they lose their hostility and that's it).

What happens when you put the music of Generation 4, the storyline of Generation 5, the gameplay of Generation 3, and a little bit of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonClover Clover]]'' in there in general for good measure into a blender? ''Pokemon Uranium'', that's what.

''Pokemon Uranium'' is a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fangame made over the course of nine years in UsefulNotes/RPGMaker. It stars [[PlayerCharacter an aspiring young Pokemon trainer]] about to take their first job exploring the Tandor region and [[GottaCatchEmAll obtaining research specimens]] for Professor Bamb'o, in order to support their aging aunt who took care of them after [[MissingMom their mother disappeared in a nuclear reactor meltdown]] and [[WhenYouComingHomeDad their father threw himself into his Pokemon Ranger work]] to forget about her. As they journey across the region, collecting Pokémon and Gym Badges one step ahead of their [[BrattyHalfPint less-than mature rival]], they begin to uncover information surrounding the mystery of their mother's accident, and its consequences.

** Any Nuclear Type that isn't Nucleon is handicapped for most of the game by obedience problems akin to traded Pokémon. It's only after you get all of the badges and complete a story event that you get the means to solve this problem. At this point, some Nuclear types, particularly the pure-Nuclear Xenomite line you can find in said story event, can be seen as strategically better than Nucleon due to having more diverse movepools than Hyper Voice.

** If you chose Eletux as your starter, Theo will eventually have a Archilles with Solarbeam, which Archilles can't learn by any means.
** Similarly, Hinata's Flareon knows Solarbeam, which Flareon can't learn either. And on top of that, her Whimsicott knows Spiky Shield, a move no Pokemon in this game can learn.

* DarthVaderClone: CURIE wears a black and green armor with a RageHelm, is a master of the dangerous Nuclear type Pokemon, [[spoiler:and is the player character's mother]].

* EveryTenThousandPoints: Unlike the official ''Pokémon'' games, Professor Bamb'o will give you actual, material rewards every time you reach certain milestones in your Pokédex, such as [=TMs=] and rare Pokémon eggs.

** In the Tandor Luxury Cruise, two of the [=NPCs=] you can battle are Picicker Nia, Black Belt Evan, Hiker Derek and Lass Jade who are rather blatant expies of [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Nepeta, Equius, Dirk and Jade respectively, complete with their typing quirks in the dialogue]].

** In the Tandor Luxury Cruise, two of the [=NPCs=] you can battle are Picicker Nia and Black Belt Evan, who are rather blatant expies of [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Nepeta and Equius, respectively]].

** [[http://pokemon-uranium.wikia.com/wiki/Nupin Nupin]], which can be hatched from an egg fairly early in the game. It has fantastic Special Attack, a useful type combination for offense, and a lot of draining attacks that can potentially give it a lot of staying power… if it wasn't slow as molasses. When it evolves at level 35, it gains massive stat boosts, particularly in speed, allowing it to actually use its draining attacks proactively while also being a powerful SquishyWizard.

* MegaMicrobes: The Nupin line is classified as the Germ Pokémon and is described in the Pokédex as "the largest single-celled organism on the planet." This is presumably excluding its evolved form Gellin, which is classified as the Amoeba Pokémon.

* {{Alucard}}: Referenced with [[http://pokemon-uranium.wikia.com/wiki/Vilucard Vilucard]], which also looks like a vampire.

* FireIceLightning: Slightly modified with the elemental insects: [[http://pokemon-uranium.wikia.com/wiki/Smore Smore]], [[http://pokemon-uranium.wikia.com/wiki/Sponee Sponee]], and [[http://pokemon-uranium.wikia.com/wiki/Tricwe Tricwe]] are all pure Bug-types that evolve into a more powerful Bug/Fire, Bug/Water, and Bug/Electric respectively upon learning a specific move. Water is strong against Fire, Electric is strong against Water, and Fire, while neutral against Electric, is strong against Bug. With the Royal Jelly, they can instead evolve into the powerful [[InsectQueen Seikamater]], which in addition to being Bug/Normal, also gets a 1.5x bonus when using Fire, Water, and Electric attacks thanks to its ability, Elementalist.

* BlindedByTheLight: [[http://pokemon-uranium.wikia.com/wiki/Birbie Birbie]] has Flash ''right from the get-go''.

* RaymanianLimbs: The ears and tail of [[http://pokemon-uranium.wikia.com/wiki/Nucleon Nucleon]], as well as its bowtie-like appendage, are not connected to its body.

** Played straight with Nucleon, an original Eeveelution made for this game.

* PlagueDoctor: Spritzee's evolutions, Aromatisee and [[http://pokemon-uranium.wikia.com/wiki/Miasmedic Miasmedic]], especially the latter.

* ...AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: One of the gym leaders introduces themselves with a story in this manner.

''Pokemon Uranium'' is a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fangame made over the course of nine years in VideoGame/RPGMaker. It stars [[PlayerCharacter an aspiring young Pokemon trainer]] about to take their first job exploring the Tandor region and [[GottaCatchEmAll obtaining research specimens]] for Professor Bamb'o, in order to support their aging aunt who took care of them after [[MissingMom their mother disappeared in a nuclear reactor meltdown]] and [[WhenYouComingHomeDad their father threw himself into his Pokemon Ranger work]] to forget about her. As they journey across the region, collecting Pokémon and Gym Badges one step ahead of their [[BrattyHalfPint less-than mature rival]], they begin to uncover information surrounding the mystery of their mother's accident, and its consequences.

* HaveANiceDeath[=/=]ItsAWonderfulFailure: Losing to the main villain treats you to a cheerful little screen about how your failure doomed Tandor to 100 years of nuclear winter. The first one outright says you were never heard of again, but it's probably a safe assumption that your fate in the second isn't any better.

** Played straight with Nucleon, an original Eeveolution made for this game.

* HaveANiceDeath: Losing to the main villain treats you to a cheerful little screen about how your failure doomed Tandor to 100 years of nuclear winter. The first one outright says you were never heard of again, but it's probably a safe assumption that your fate in the second isn't any better.

** Theo's reaction when he sees Urayne for the first time is "Holy shit!" Keep in mind that [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes the kid's 11.]]

* HaveANiceDeath: Losing to the main villain treats you to a cheerful little screen about how you retire in shame and never seen again, unable to face your failure.

* {{Irony}}: Gamma Radiation is the most powerful and most damaging type of radiation. The Nuclear attack Gamma Ray is the ''weakest'' Nuclear type move that isn't a status or fixed-damage move, basically being the Nuclear type's answer to Thunder Shock.
* JustAKid: Theo gets hit with this a lot, especially when it comes to rescue and assistance efforts during nuclear plant meltdowns. So do you, but at least your skill is recognized, so you're still allowed to help.

** After completing the Venesi City Gym, you can battle Theo as many times as you'd like and obtain large amounts of experience and credits. However, once you proceed onwards with the main quest, you can't do this anymore.
* PhlebotinumDependence: [[spoiler:This is CURIE and Urayne's primary motivation for attacking power plants — Urayne needs nuclear fuel to survive in its beta form; without it, it enters a dormant "alpha form".]]