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PokéClicker is a fanmade Idle Game based on the Pokémon franchise. You play as a pokemon trainer starting off in Kanto, and progress through a distilled version of each mainline Pokemon game's story.
The game can be found here
, and can either be played in-browser, or downloaded.
Tropes in this game include:
- Adaptation Distillation: The main storyline of each region is heavily compressed, usually just adapting the main beats of the story.
- Adaptation Expansion:
- The Sevii islands include the anime-only Valencia Island and Pinkan Island, the latter of which has its own sidequest where you help a disguised Team Rocket open a theme park there.
- The method to unlock Jirachi is heavily based on the plot of the movie Pokémon: Jirachi: Wish Maker rather than simply going to a special island (which is the way it is obtained in Pokémon Emerald) and adds its own follow-up questline where Butler wants to redeem himself by summoning Groudon safely this time.
- Getting Giratina involves helping Zero from Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior build a key to enter the Distortion World with the help of the Lake Trio (and then defeating him when he turns on you), rather than simply finding it in Turnback Cave after beating the Elite Four.
- Adaptational Badass: Manaphy, a mythical Pokemon whose only claim to fame in the offical games is its rarity and being the only Mythical who can bear offspring, is in this game an incredibly powerful asset because of how quickly it can be bred to increase its strength to super high levels, making it one of the best Pokemon in the entire Sinnoh region. Its offspring, Phione, is even more useless in the mainline games (as its moveset and stats make it just a weaker Manaphy) but in this game it makes up for its lower attack with having an even faster hatch time than Manaphy, making it very easy to breed to hugely increase its strength just like Manaphy.
- Awesome, but Impractical: While Legendary and pseudo-legendary Pokemon have some of the highest base-attacks in the game, they have such incredibly long hatch times that breeding them to increase that attack, which is the main method of progressing past the early game, would take a ridiculously long time.
- Beneficial Disease: Contracting the Pokérus virus (unlocked after defeating Team Galactic in Sinnoh) makes a Pokemon get stronger the more of that species you capture.
- Challenge Run: There are many different Challenge Modes that can be applied to make the game harder, ranging from ones that give a moderate amount of extra challenge (such as removing Master Balls) to ones that make the game much harder like 'Real Evolutions' mode (where you lose access to the previous form of a Pokemon when it evolves, requiring you to obtain another one to complete your pokedex and making already difficult to obtain Pokemon such as the starter lines far more difficult). While Challenge Modes can be turned off at any time, you can't turn them on again after a save file has been created.
- Chest Monster: Some Pokemon such as Dittos, Gravelers, and Electrodes will disguise themselves as chests inside dungeons, forcing you to fight them instead of giving you an item.
- Gotta Catch Them All: One of the two Challenge Modes that is enabled by default (the other being a debuff imposed on all Pokemon not native to a given region) requires catching every Pokemon in a region's pokedex before you're able to progress to the next region.
- Inexplicable Treasure Chests: Dungeons always contain brightly colored treasure chests, which contain items of varying rarity. Usually it's common items that can be purchased in shops, but they also sometimes contain rare berries or valuable held items that can be held by Pokemon to make them stronger. How much sense it makes for these items to be there depends on the dungeon: it makes more sense to find random discarded berries and items in a forest than inside a terrorist group's base, and why they're always inside treasure chests is never given an in-game explanation.
- Purely Aesthetic Gender: The few differences that gender made in the original games, such as requiring catching a rare female Combee to evolve into a Vespiquen, are eliminated. Once a Pokemon is caught, you're considered to have obtained both a male and female version and can thus obtain both gender-exclusive evolutions from the same Pokemon, such as getting both Mothim and Wormadam from the same Burmy. The only differences that are kept are the visible gender differences that some Pokemon have, and once you've caught a Pokemon, you can toggle it to display as either male or female at will.
- Random Drop: As in the regular Pokemon games, some wild Pokemon have a small chance of holding an item. Unlike in those games, the item is always obtained if the wild Pokemon is defeated, instead of requiring you to capture it.
- Shout-Out:
- During Christmas, you can catch a Celebi dressed like the Grinch.
- Several achievements are references to other video games:
- The achievement for digging up 1,000 items in the Underground is "This Is Definitely Not Minecraft"
- The achievement for reaching 10,000 attack is "FUS RO DAH"
- The achievement for defeating 100,000 Pokemon is "The Cake Is a Lie, but the Grind is Real"
- Snake Oil Salesman:
- Just outside of Fourtree City is a man who offers to sell you a very expensive (costing 1,187 crystals) "Chimecho", which he claims is an extremely rare Pokemon with a beautiful singing voice, can keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter, and can predict winning lottery numbers. This is all, of course, a lie: it's a common Hoppip painted to look like a Chimecho.
- Outside New Mauville is a fisherman who offers to sell you a very expensive (costing almost 6,000 battle points) Feebas, which can usually only be obtained from a lucky hatch of a Water Egg. In reality, of course, it's just a Magikarp painted to look like a Feebas.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After you've gathered the necessary materials and created a key to enter the Distortion World, Zero (who had asked you for your help in making the key) tells you that you're no longer needed and tries to take the key from you by force, requiring you to beat him in a battle to progress.
YMMV
- Junk Rare:
- Red Spearow can only be caught for a few days each year and has a tiny chance of appearing at random throughout Kanto, making it very annoying to catch. As it's stats are identical to regular Spearow, its got the strength of an early game Com Mon, but unlike it will never evolve into the actually useful Fearow.
- Magikarp (Feebas) is a Magikarp painted to look like Feebas that costs a ton of Battle Points (which require grinding at the Battle Frontier to obtain), but will never evolve into the actually-useful Gyarados.
- Hoppip (Chimecho) is a Hoppip painted to look like a Chimecho that costs a ton of Crystals to obtain, and will never evolve into a more useful Jumpluff; its only value is its rarity and its unique appearance.
