Pokémon Sweet Version is a ROM Hack from Pokémon FireRed, set in an alternate version of Kanto where almost everything, from the buildings to the Pokémon themselves, is made out of different kinds of sweets.
The game can be downloaded here
. It later received a sequel, Pokémon Sweet 2th, available here.
Tropes exclusive to this fangame:
- Anthropomorphic Food: The Pokésweets are combinations of Pokémon and sweets. Divided into these categories: Cakes, Pies, Donuts, Candies, Cupcakes, Swirlies, Fudgies, Specials and Rare Sweets.
- Autocannibalism: The Hunger Stat Ailment. When a Pokémon is afflicted with it, it loses HP every turn by nomming on itself.
- Big "NO!": How Kyle reacts to his second loss outside the Rock Candy Mines.
- Bizarro Elements: All the types are themed after fruits and flavors.
- Color-Coded Characters: The Gym Leaders in this game seem to use more of a group of types in the same color rather than specializing in a single type. For example, the first Gym Leader uses Cherry, Strawberry and Apple-types, which are all red.
- Color-Coded Elements: Other than a few overlaps, each types is allocated into a color: Vanilla is white, Cherry, Strawberry and Apple are red, Orange is... orange, Banana and Lemon are yellow, Lime is green, Blueberry is blue, Grape is purple, Raspberry is pink, and Chocolate is brown.
- Damage Typing:
Word of God confirmed that there is no physical/special split by elemental types. A book at the school in the second town confirms this, listing which types are considered physical and which are special. - Drunken Master: Gym Leader Lavender is a trainer-equivalent, as she stayed intoxicated throughout the battle.
- Dual Boss: Ban and Lem fight together as the third gym leader.
- Edible Theme Naming:
- The names of the Pokésweets are named partly based on and their sweets motifs.
- Locations are also named after various fruits and pastries.
- Elemental Powers: There are 12 types total, in both games: Vanilla, Cherry, Strawberry, Apple, Orange, Banana, Lemon, Lime, Blueberry, Grape, Raspberry and Chocolate.
- Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: This◊ image shows the type chart present in this game.
- Food Porn: If you're a sweets lover, expect to go into a trance when you read the Cookbook entries.
- Game Mod: Of Pokémon FireRed.
- Gingerbread House: Just as you thought many buildings play this straight, you get to encounter Reginger, a Pokésweet found in Ginger Woods.
- Level Ate: The entire map is made up of sweets.
- Like Cannot Cut Like: All types except for Vanilla and Chocolate resist themselves.
- Mutual Disadvantage: Banana and Lemon share a mutual weakness towards each other.
- Mythology Gag:
- The first gym leader prides in rock-hard defense, referencing Brock's specialty in Rock-types.
- Non-Elemental:
- Vanilla-type plays it better than Normal-types, where it is neutral against all types, including itself.
- Downplayed with Chocolate-type, where other than being super-effective against itself, it has no type effectiveness against others either.
- No-Sell:
- For stat ailments, Apple-types cannot starve, while Orange-types cannot be burned.
- Lime-types are unaffected by Cherry Seed.
- For weather, hail will not damage Grape-types, while sandstorm will not damage Apple, Strawberry and Cherry-types.
- Peninsula of Power Leveling: Each gym can be rechallenged as many times as you want for money and experience.
- A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: The secondary antagonists after Team Sour are a group of pirates, first introduced antagonizing Chocobun on the S.S. Banana and appearing a couple more times afterward.
- Purple Is Powerful: Inverted with Grape, a purple-colored type that is the most inferior. It has only one type advantage (one of the least; second to Vanilla, tied with Chocolate) and three weaknesses (the second most after Orange).
- Riddle for the Ages: According to Lolliwak's dex entry, no one will ever know how many licks it'll take to get to the center of its lollipop.
- Shout-Out:
- When Mark loses at the bridge between Orange City and Orange Woods, he cries out "'Doh! I missed!", one of the Catchphrases of Wario from an early Mario Party game when he fails.
- Lolliwak's dex entry claims that no-one will know how many licks it'll take to get to the center of the lollipops it holds, a nod to classic Tootsie Pop commercials.
- One of the two minor trainers in Orange Gym is a swimmer named Kel, who says "Who loves orange soda?!" before fighting you. The other introduces herself as Oujay Samson, a pun on O.J. Simpson.
- In the Orange City Pokésweet Center, an NPC talks about Orange-types being able to inflict status conditions, ending with "Aren't oranges annoying?"
- There are areas named Donut Plains and Vanilla Dome (the former even has its theme from Super Mario Kart as background music), as well as a route named Grape Garden.
- Rain Dance is considered Chocolate-type. In other words, it's Chocolate Rain.
- Piestoise's design is a reference to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with its shiny form having the same colors as Michelangelo. Also, the four trainers in the Cooking Dojo are named Lee, Don, Raph, and Mike, and the dojo's master is named Splint.
- In Black Forest (the Safari Zone equivalent), you can meet a Hex Maniac named Ashley, who quotes the theme song of a certain other witch named Ashley.
- Status Effects: Small changes from the original game include renaming Poison as Hunger and how burned Pokésweets are "burning calories".
- Stealing the Credit: After you and your two rivals bust Team Sour from the Candy Manor, the third claims to be the one doing all the work instead.
- Strawberry Shorthand: Strawberry exists as one of the 12 Pokésweet types.
- Takes One to Kill One: Chocolate is weak against itself.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: One of your three rivals in the game who resembles Blue.
