Countryball: Catch em' All is a Pokémon ROM hack by /int/ members based on the Polandball comics and released in 2018. It has you explore the region of Terra, with monsters replaced by countryballs.
The game's official website can be found here
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Compare Pokémon Clover, another 4chan-based ROM hack with plenty of Crosses the Line Twice humor.
This game provides examples of:
- Battle in the Rain: The fight with Theodore Roosevelt has rain falling. Bad news for his already 4x weak to Water Yemen and Qatar.
- Critical Annoyance: There's a constant beeping noise if the Countryball has little HP.
- Dropped-in Speech Clip: The track "March Under the Flag" that plays while fighting a Chrono Corps Admin has one of Adolf Hitler's speeches starting from 0:41 to 1:00 alongside the instrumentation.
- Eagleland: Burgers are an example of the Boorish, being morbidly obese American stereotypes on scooters.
- Emoticon: Yemen's Flagbook entry features a ":'(" to emphasise it's tiredness.
- Friendly Rival: Your brother is the rival, but he's typically friendly and gives you the Nike's (this game's equivalent to Running Shoes) for instance.
- Glitch Entity: Flagknight uses a ??????????, which is a ball based on the original ?????????? with it only being a question mark at lv. 0 with an odd typing and can only use Last Stand.
- Life Drain: Data Leak steals HP from the enemy country and gives it to the user.
- Previously on…: Since it's a FRLG romhack, you get a list of things you've previously done when loading the save file, like withdrawing items from PC or saving the game.
- Starter Mon: You can choose between Colony US, England, and the Grand Duchy of Moscow as your starter, with the rival picking the one that has the advantage.
- Warm-Up Boss: Theodore Roosevelt, the first Flagmaster faced. He has a lv. 12 Yemen and a lv. 14 Qatar. Unfortunately, both of his countries have a 4x weakness to Water and Grass with their Rock and Ground typing and there's rain which boosts the Water move power by 50% beforehand. Picked England, he's pathetic. Picked Colony US, there's no rain benefit but it's still no issue. He can only pose a challenge if the player picked the Fire-type Grand Duchy of Moscow, but the Water type Mayotte is available.
