Pokemon Revival

Pokemon Revival is a big, ambitious project that is almost on par with its competitors, but it may very well fall under its own weight. I consider this addon fairly well-made, as it has a lot of content to offer and recreates the Pokémon-inspired mechanics pretty faithfully. There is actually only one annoying thing about it, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Credits: LegendaryAddonsStudios

A Convoluted Start

On the first world load, the addon shows you a welcome screen. It instructs you to open the Dex and take on your first quest. The quest tells you to go find Professor Oak. It doesn't show you where, but says that you should find him on some hill, and the direction should be on your location bar. Well, my location bar showed nothing, so I went to the addon's Discord server only to find out that you need to set up the addon properly first.

Setting Up the Addon

• To get everything working, you need to follow these steps:
• Turn ON Cheats.
• Turn ON all experiments.
• Enable player waypoints in the world settings.
• Run the following commands to give yourself the proper permissions: /tag @s add Owner and /tag @s add Admin.
• Run this command to spawn the town: !ready.
• Now you will be able to find Professor Oak and everyone else.
• Talking to Oak will allow you to choose your starter Pokémon.

But How Do I Catch Them All?

Well, you just throw Poké balls at them, right? Yeah, but it wasn't a very intuitive experience for me. First, you need to grab Poké balls from somewhere. You can get them from multiple sources, such as completing quests, buying them in town, or crafting them. 

To craft them, you need Apricorns, but it seems like they don't grow in the wild; you have to buy seeds in town first and grow them in your backyard. The easiest way is to follow the main quest, which rewards you with some Poké balls just for talking with Professor Oak.

At first, I thought the catching mechanic worked like in Pokédrock, where you just toss a Poké ball as if it were a snowball. But in Pokemon Revival, it is actually more like the original Pokémon games: you need to engage with a Pokémon and, instead of fighting it, choose to throw a Poké ball from your inventory.

The Ultimate Enemy: The UI

Now we're getting to the part that ranks this addon lower than Pokédrock for me. The menuing here is just too much and is incredibly frustrating. First of all, it's not very responsive and has noticeable delays. The second problem is that some options are hidden in submenus.

Sometimes I accidentally hit the button to transfer all of my items from my inventory into the Dex, which I didn't intend to do. In the end, I liked the Pokémon design and how faithful it is to the classic games, but the UI definitely needs work.

Comparison with Other Addons