Pokemon Unbound - ROM Hacked

When it comes to Pokemon rom hacks, there are a few that stand out from the crowd for their immense quality, attention to detail, and overall sense of direction.

Pokemon Unbound by Skeli is well known to be one of those games, and, in my opinion, continues to be the cream of the crop years after it's full, completed release.

If you don't know about Pokemon Unbound yet, it's basically a wholly original Pokemon game, hacked on top of Pokemon FireRed, with a huge new region, tons of customization, features and Pokemon that go all the way to Generation 8...
and some features that are even unique to itself, AND, on top of all of that, an actually engaging story-line that takes many creative turns alongside introducing many interesting characters and histories.

All centred around Hoopa Unbound, the mascot Pokemon for the game, but that's far from all the game has to offer. It is densely packed with content, and all of it is highly engaging.

To top it all off, it's the premier way of showcasing the Complete FireRed Upgrade, which Skeli also developed as a means to allow for future rom hacks to be more robust with even more features than previously thought possible in GBA rom hacking.

If you're not already aware of Unbound, it's the best of the best, and well surpasses the standards of quality of the official franchise releases.

It's a must-play, and I'm gonna tell you exactly why that's the case.

[rpgclipdatabase]

Unbound is still the absolute best. None have truly reached it's level.

[ivanzoneBR]

Oh man, it just occured to me that I haven't commented in your Mario Golf Super Rush video from 2 weeks ago, when I really wanted it to say something about it, I think I brushed it aside because I got other problems to deal with, I don't wanna to give much detals but I've being through hell recently, my dad got the dengue infection and mostly everything stopped here in my house, including production of the video I'm making, thankfully he is feeling considerably better and this week I will go back to make that video and others a reality.

Ps. I realize hell might be too strong of a word to describe the situation, but because of my anxiety it feels like at times, but you don't need to worry too much now.

[terrymoss]

Unbound is the go-to, these days. Gonna be for a lot of the 2020s, I imagine.

[CatsandDragons]

I absolutely loved my time with Unbound. The only complaint I had was that the amount of battles against legendaries got kind of exhausting after a bit - but everything else was top notch. Even the cave/dungeon sections were enjoyable and those are rarely done well in romhacks.

Haven’t done any of the postgame yet, but I would like to at some point. Though I didn’t know there is a NG+ mode?? What carries over there?

[linamoss]

The name "unbound" is really just a name to show how crazy amazing Skeli's work on the CFRU is

[DonleyDoesIt]

Game came so far from its humble beginnings, i remember giving one of the early versions a go a few years back and was unimpressed, then down the road playing an update and being like "didnt i play this before and holy shit its gotten so much better", its probably a little thick in some spots for casuals, but it is the best overall rom hack out there at this moment. There are others that do certain things better, there are fan games that can compete with it, but there arent any other rom hacks that are more complete while also being fresh.

[TegPi]

Pokemon Unbound has more polish and heart than anything The Pokemon Company put out on switch.

[karatgaming]

This game looks amazing, a huge step up from the classics indeed!

[thomasdocking]

There are so many good rom hacks around these days, i genuinely can't decide whether to start with Unbound, Gaia, Glazed or Prism.

[joelgrebinsilvestri]

This is my fav game it could be an original game... for me its almost perfect... my fav pokemon game

[DMkiller]

its my #1 of all romhacks ever
but another very good rom hack is Pokemon Clover.

[GregPlaysGames]

I'm doing my first play through now. Just got through the Cube Space 😤

[olive]

I bought it as a cartridge and its amazing to play this the same way you used to play so many pokemon gems 😍

[Cuprite]

I did start playing this one a while ago, but the first gym being themed around weed *really* took me out of it, cause it just made it hard to take the game seriously. Figured if it was willing to do something stupidly edgy like that once, it was gonna do it again. But since you've said it seemingly ended up removing some of that stuff (I.E.: Houndoom murder), I gotta ask, was that also changed?
If not, that's unfortunate, but I hope my original assumption was wrong and that that's just a one-time occurrence, cause I genuinely am interested in this game since people love it so much. I *want* to like this game.

[TheHunchy]

Does anyone know if this is playable on android? And if yes where can I download it?

[RoseSupreme]

2:58 So are you saying the scene from this clip is from an older version of the hack? Because I won't lie, just straight-up murdering someone is messed up in Pokémon. Hacks that get this edgy with stuff like that and swearing just turn me off.

[Pax_Mayn]

I've never played a pokemon game, should I start with Clover or this?

[Xerxxxx]

do you have a link to download that game?