Pokémon Brick Bronze was a turn-based role-playing Experience created by the BrickBronze Version group (led by lando64000, now renamed to Llama Train Studio) on October 21, 2015. It was based on the popular Pokémon series of JRPG video games for the Nintendo handheld systems. Due to a DMCA claim by The Pokémon Company, it was removed from Roblox on April 18, 2018.
Gameplay[]
Normal Mode[]
Normal Adventure Mode is the vanilla form of this Experience. It is the mode which all other modes are based upon. Normal Mode is available to all Users at the start of this Experience and has been since the Experience demo was released on October 24, 2015.
Features[]
- All events and encounters work as originally intended.
- A Trade Resort for exchanging Pokémon and items with other Users.
- A Battle Colosseum for battling other trainers and accessing additional services in the Colosseum Marketplace.
- Different Experience modes that offer distinct sets of rules or experiences in the world of Roria. Once the User acquires 3 Gym Badges, a new "More Adventures" option will appear below the "Continue" option on title screen. It allows the User to access other Experience modes in separate save files.
Randomizer Mode[]
Randomizer Mode is the first additional Experience mode from "More Adventures" menu added in Version 15.4 on November 13, 2017, for all Users with Float Badge — the third Gym Badge in-Experience, from Rosecove Gym. This new Experience mode is stored in a completely separate save file, so the data in Normal Mode will not be erased. There is no change to the plot, but in this mode, as the name suggests, many of the Pokémon encountered will be totally random!
Features[]
- All 802 Pokémon up to Pokémon Sun and Moon are available in this mode. Additional Forms and new Ultra Beasts in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon are not added yet.
- Certain special forms of Pokémon currently disabled in Normal Mode are also not implemented in Randomizer Mode, such as Therian Forms for Forces of Nature, Keldeo's Resolute Form, Pikachu in a cap or Cosplay Pikachu.
- Custom-made Pokémon such as Rainbow Bidoof and Red Heart Pikachu are not available.
- Every Pokémon offered as Starter Pokémon in Mitis Town by Prof. Cypress and his assistant David, encountered in the wild, as well as those owned by Trainers are all randomized. These Pokémon retain the levels for those areas or encounters.
- Pokémon are not randomized during Set Encounters (including Roaming Pokémon), waves and palm trees on Rosecove Peach, trees for Headbutt on Route 9, honey tree on Route 10, or Pokémon found through Rock Smash.
- Rivals Jake and Tess have randomized Pokémon when battling against them, but use their normal teams during Double Battles when they team up with the User.
- For Users in Randomizer Mode, their numbers of Pokédex entries on Users' list are coloured blue in contrast with the white numbers for Users in Normal Mode.
- Users are not allowed to access Battle Colosseum and Trade Resort from the RTD. All services in Colosseum Marketplace, including BP Shop, Hyper Trainer, Move Deleter and Reminder are inaccessible, while Pokémon with Trade Evolutions cannot evolve.
Bugs[]
- Double battle bug – The most major glitch is the Experience is the double battle bug. The Experience usually deals with single battles, and not doubles. Because the this, the Experience is soft locked and the User has to rejoin the server and restart from the last Save Point they had. The bug has not been patched, but the issue was fixed with different pathways opening up to the User.
- Kyogre cutscene bug – After beating Team Eclipse, at Rosecove City, Tess is supposed to come out of the door after her grandfather saids, "It's all clear to come out, now". However, Tess gets stuck at the door, causing the User another soft lock. However, if the User can move around during cutscenes, he/she is able to help Tess break out of the glitch and continue the story normally.
Plot[]
Currently the story is about a User going to a Pokémon adventure. But later a villainous team called "Team Eclipse" kidnapped the User's parents for unknown reasons. The professor later tells the User to meet with his friend Linda at Cheshma Town. But Linda later steals the User's necklace given by the User's parents and runs into the forest. The User then meets up with the his/her friend Jake to help find her. After the User finds Linda and defeats her and gives the User the necklace back. The User then goes to beat the first gym (Electric Type), located in Silvent City. After beating the first gym, Jake gives the User a tool called the RTD (Recreational Teleportation Device) which can be used to go to the Battle Colosseum and the Trade Resort.
Deletion[]
From a tweet by lando64000.
On April 18, 2018, Brick Bronze was struck with a content deletion. Its name, thumbnails, Passes, Player badge thumbnails and Player badge names were all affected while the Experience itself was placed under review, preventing anyone from playing it. One major observation that stood out was the fact that lando64000 and his team cashed out from the Experience's revenue using DevEx despite the fact that many assets in Brick Bronze were directly stolen from the 3DS Pokémon games, so ultimately The Pokémon Company filed a DMCA to prevent their intellectual property from being monetized by lando64000's team any further.
Although Users who have invested time, effort and Robux into the Experience have complained, this was expected by many users to happen at some point due to the direct violations of copyright that were present in the Experience.
Controversies[]
Following the deletion, users on Twitter started the #BlameTaymaster tag. This was due to Taymaster originally posting a Tweet in which he shows a screenshot of having emailed Nintendo about 5 Pokémon GO fan Experiences that were created on Roblox. This was a huge overreaction and a major inconvenience to Tay, who had also seen death threats from Brick Bronze Users despite not actually having anything to do with directly requesting Brick Bronze's deletion.
In 2017, the Experience was supposedly leaked by a user named script_ing by a Roblox security breach that led to many Experiences being leaked at the time. After the official Experience was taken down, many other Pokémon Brick Bronze reuploads came as an attempt to keep the Experience alive. This led to many Users being terminated due to copyright infringement.
In May 2020, the original Brick Bronze team deleted many images that the Experience used to attempt to stop the reuploads from being brought back. Despite this, some of the copy owners reuploaded the Decals.
Today, reuploads of Pokémon Brick Bronze get released every day, despite the fact that users know they will be deleted. Some use 3rd party back-ups that transfer User data to a new copy of the Experience when the original gets deleted. These reuploads often receive thousands more Users in comparison to what Loomian Legacy, the successor to Pokémon Brick Bronze, receives at peak hours.
Replacement[]
A replacement known as Loomian Legacy began development after Pokémon Brick Bronze's deletion and was released to the public on July 20, 2019, being published directly over Brick Bronze's place ID.
Trivia[]
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- Originally the developers planned to release backpacks as an in-Experience feature where the Poké Ball in your party would be shown like keychains on the backpack. This was never released due to unknown reasons.
- Some time in 2018, the developers were developing the Roria League, the equivalent to the Pokémon League in the Pokémon games. This however was never released due to the Experience being taken down before development was finished.
- Loomian Legacy still retains some assets from Pokémon Brick Bronze, such as the wild encounter music, battle UIs, PC box backgrounds, and more.
- In the 4th Annual Bloxy Awards, the Experience won in 2 categories (favorite breakout Experience and Experience of the year) and nominated in 6. Their second trailer, Pokémon Brick Bronze Trailer 2, also won the award in video of the year.
See also[]
- BronzeReborn/Brick Bronze Bronze Reborn – a notable copy of this Experience
- Community:521B0ko/Prоject Brоnze Fоrever – a notable copy of this Experience
- Community:Yoyoyoman199/Brick Bronze Prоject Brоnze Fоrever – a notable copy of this Experience
- Pokémon Uranium/URANIUM RANDOMIZER – a notable copy of this Experience