Hello Phoenix Rising developer here. I want to add some context to what was talked about in the video here since it seems like some people have the wrong idea of what happened. The team that was working on the game is not the original team. We inherited the project from a different team after they wanted to stop working on the game completely. If we did not inherit it the game would have be officially dead long before now. The reason there were no additional episodes released is because the state the game was originally released in was a mess. I should know I am the lead programmer after all. Outside of the memory leaks that caused the slow downs that forced people to reboot the game after playing it for awhile there were numerous issues both from a story perspective and a technical perspective. The team tried very hard to work off of what the original team had made (for about a year) but due to how custom the underlying games systems were it was basically a house of cards waiting to fall. It's a miracle the original project works how it does. Due to these issues the decision was made to do a remake of episode 1 in the current modern version of essentials. Doing this would allow us to fix all of the previous mentioned issues as well as expand to other platforms such as Mac and Linux which the previous version of the game would have never worked under due to the custom encryption relaying on the Win32 API. A significant amount of work was put into this remake of episode 1. Code was be entirely rewritten from scratch, the story was being revamped, maps were being remade. The team was already nervous before the relic castle shutdown due to how aggressive Nintendo was in recent months, especially with the takedown of Yuzu. When relic castle fell it was the straw that broke the camels back for a lot of us in terms of us wanting to do a Pokémon game. We were doing this as a fan project in our free time. Were were putting in an extreme amount of effort to make something that could be shut down at any time and we just could not do that any more. So that's the story of how the Phoenix fell........but the game is called Phoenix Rising after all so that is not the end. In the announcement we made we talked about how the strengths of the game were it's narrative driven gameplay and it's original ideas and that we were not giving up entirely, that while yes the Pokémon version of the game is dead, we were going to take the story we crafted and make our own IP. With this the majority of the original team decided to leave to a development server to avoid possible harassment. I can not reveal details on the current direction of the game, it's progress or anything else. Not because we don't have anything but because we are not ready to share anything at this time but I'll tell you this. The game that we are going to release as our own IP is going to be more unique and better then what the community has seen so far. When the time is ready we will share what we have been working on. The Phoenix has fallen but it will rise from the ashes. ~InitSprite~ - Lead Programmer

Thanks for the kind words on the project. The original team were the nicest and most talented people I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with. Lifelong friendships were made. We worked really hard on it and had a lot of ideas but in the end development was too much so we handed it off. Curious to see where the new team takes the project.

Yet another remind of how beautiful pokemon could have looked if gamefreak stayed in 2D

If I recall, the original was made by a different set of people, and those who remained/a new group of people only recently began working on it again before relic castle got shut down. Due to the time that passed they were originally going to remake the game from the ground up to fit the newer version of Pokémon essentials, but after relic castle got shut down their plans changed. They did technically decide to stop developing the fan game, as in they really made the decision to detach the game from the Pokémon IP all together instead of stoping development, as they had so much story and ideas that they didn’t want to waste, which probably works out as they would have had to remake the game anyway. So, it’s not completely dead, but if they continue it won’t be a fan game anymore, rather it’s own game entirely.

They have a discord saying they were Afaird of the Pokémon company banning the game

It's so incredibly sad because this game was so fun and had so much potential

I played this beautiful game 6 years ago to the end of the first episode, finished every sidequest and maxed out the levels. I remember a bug that made the player fight a Kyogre in a sidequest Was upset that the game was seemingly abandoned until I saw the top programmer's comment on this video So thanks for bringing the hype for a new Phoenix Rising. I can't wait

That relic Tyrantrum looks so cool

Aww i was waiting for this to be completed ;-; It's one of the few pokemon fan games i wanted to really try out and play. rip

Nintendo is reaching the point where they envy others for their talent.

fwiw relic castle lives on through eevee expo but it did scare the team out of it. tbh tho with how slow development was going with it having been like 5 years since anything was released and how much the game kinda changed hands like... idk it seems like it was more so just the final nail in the coffin than the main thing that hurt it. btw check out rejuvination my personal favorite pokemon fangame and honestly my favorite game period. it's only about 75% finished but god it's amazing

The way this would have been the pixel version of Legends Arceus but with their own twist, sad that they just dumped the game after the first chapter :(((

That Ho-oh design rocks!

4:38 is it a inside joke u called Tyrantrum a Scraggy? haha Great vid tho! This was my dream for so long

It's so sad that they dumped this game, I kinda like this game ❤❤❤🎉

This game looks so detailed and cool Hope for a 2d 3d pokemon game.....in the octopath style...ugh man...

Doesnt adventure guide document your acts?

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Wow... i had no idea that Tyrantrum was Pronounced Scraggy...

Can you please showcase PokeXGames on your channel too?

Since this project is no longer under development, anyone knows where I can find the tilesets used here in order to use them in my own fangame? They’re terrific!

I feel like this would have taken over the community and game freak would have shut this down

Hold on they are still working on the game, they just ran into some trouble alone the way. Give them faith and don't count them out set.

4:30 "scraggy"

Pokemon Legends Arceus have quests

→ develop with original ip → leak a pokemon patch

"sillo"

How risky is it to make a fan game, a really good one, so good even Nintendo would want to take it down, or...why does Nintendo take down games HEAR ME OUT (which you cant lol 😂), Can anyone let me know that I can make a better like this game but with any copyright, I can code, but I'd really like the reassurance if the game doesn't feel like a cardboard cut out. Any discord I can check? Any online community or channel I can get educated on, since the internet are the people and the people are the internet so I'd hope you guys know what should be added in this game or not. Thanks for the inspiration creator this game is great!

We were robbed 😢

Fellas I have to say I hold no ill will against PR devs but I almost wanna finish the game out of spite.

That is not a scraggy

Name ena bro

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Just name the fking games fakemon ,change the poke all up and use only fakemon. What's with yal? Why do they always do that? Risk all their hard work just to use the name pokemon...

>Fan game >Good Yeah, i dont think so