Pokémon PureRed [Game] IGDB
Jan. 15, 2023
genre: Role-playing (RPG) platform: Game Boy developer: Vortiene
This is a purist's enhancement of Pokémon Red. The goal is to enhance the original games for excellent replayability without bringing in mechanics, moves, sprites, visuals, type matchups, or Pokémon that were introduced in later games. The 2.0 version is based on the disassembly and has hundreds of new optional features / fixes!

finished playing Pokémon PureRed 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
[Finished]
Pretty decent modern take on gen 1. the Github page claims it is for purists and I have to disagree as this hack takes quite a lot of liberties even though you can turn a large chunk of them off. The balance gets real poor at the end but I mean the original games balance was lacking as well. The restored content is interesting even if it is just bad puzzles. Though the worst offender is the #Pokemon under the Pokemon Tower in Lavender Town just creepy pasta cringe. There is a lot of interesting concepts with "powered up" Pokemon like a Dragonair that does not evolve but has raised stats and a Ice typing added I think that stuff is really neat. To be honest if someone has never played GameBoy Gen 1 I would probably recommend this over base game just based on how much is fixed while the original spirit is still there.