I’m not concerned about the gender change. I’m concerned that the lady is an adult class while the rich boy is a child. She aged like 10 years in just 2. Bro, I mean Sis is on that anti-anti-aging cream.🤣
Pokemon Emeralds move tutors existed to primarily give access to tm moves that were in gen 2, but don't exist in gen 3 as TMs. FR/LG move tutors also took the place of TMs that were in gen 1 but don't have a tm anymore in gen 3
That Whismer at 12:42 is awesome in so many ways. STAB body slam, but also rest with sleep talk for healing with less downside, and howl for attack boost. Silk Scarf for bonus to normal-type attacks. Adamant nature for +attack -special attack.
The only real problem with Emerald is not being able to fight Courtney. The other 3 Admins are there so she should have been there. Make her a miniboss in the Magma base and/or in Mossdeep Space Center or something.
The trade locks are my biggest problem with Emerald. You can’t trade national dex Pokemon to Emerald until you get the national dex. The only work around is to trade from colosseum or XD. The locks are just an annoyance. Ruby and Sapphire didn’t have them. Even more annoying nowadays because of the price of the gamecube and games. Not that I could afford them as a kid either.
Magic the gathering the trading card game has a standard rules based on whatever is released that’s usually called “modern” which involves some cards being restricted. Draft is a basically “go into store, buy packs, build something based on what you find on that same day/session, play universal rules” or something to that effect.
@@ajamid0145on average it would take 27 years of you getting on the game every day to see Mirage Island if you never traded to get any other ID numbers
Even though I know it's not being referenced in the way I'm implying, having The Police being named that lead to some pretty hilarious lines in this video, ngl. Truant police taking no action and being weak to fighting, huh?
I think another thing that gets missed with Emerald is that it fixes a few glitches (as well as adding some) like the roamers IV's getting fixed so if you want to frontier cheese with a decent latios you can. Additionally, the frontier battle facility also suffers from a IV glitch that works against you, making it more difficult. I think players look fondly on emerald mainly because it essentially makes the frontier a theme park for harder content. I don't think you mentioned it, but Emerald was the start of abilities having out of battle effects which in my opinion is another great change. For me I actually prefer the UI of Emerald, the text isn't spamming all caps like R/S did. I also just have a bias for emerald as I got it as a gift from my mum. :) Great video
cool video, but you mentioned with FRLG happening, emerald was delayed, but then kept saying emerald had 2 years of dev time? lol. really enjoy the series tho!
yeah, it's complicated. I would have expected them to release Emerald before FRLG, but given they chose to release it after, then I DO think they should have aimed higher, or just not bothered releasing it at all and focused energies into the next games. They don't need our sympathy for _choosing_ to release a different game in between, it wasn't some inescapable burden :/ thanks for the comment!
@@ji_mothyI will say that this game is definitely better than the other two by far as the battle frontier is something to actually train and try for endlessly.
This got me thinking that Black & White 2 really are the best "third" instalments of a Pokemon generation. They went so hard that they had to make it a full-blown sequel
@Venemofthe888 yeah dude I know, that's why I put "third" in inverted commas. If you're familiar with the game's production, they began as a third installment and then expanded beyond the scope of a third installment and became an entirely distinct title
It's a happy day when ji_mothy posts a new video, doubly so when it's on my favorite pokemon generation! Also, since starting Metaphor: ReFantazio, I've been keeping in mind your analysis videos and been intentionally playing into the design developers intended for players. They "conveniently" give a you a class with strike attacks and holy magic, perfect against the undead enemies weak to it in the first major dungeon. Keep up the great work!
The Move Tutor in Mauville City is the only possibility to teach Lickitung the move Rollout in the third Generation. It can evolve with this attack and levelling up when it gets transferred in the fourth generation. (Swinub can learn Ancient Power trough cross-breeding.)
There is a Lickitung in XD you can catch and once purified has Rollout in its moveset. In fact a few pokemon who evolve in Gen 4 that are in XD have moves that help them evolve when transferred.
14:02 I got lots of value from the move tutor for substitute as it was useful for setting up on status moves Also the explosion move tutor is good for giving your Pokémon a nuke button. (especially in link battles)
Always glad for another Mothy video. I never really thought about it much in gen 3, but there really isn't that much of a difference across rs to e. Very interesting to think about
41:49 In the Pokemon Adventures Manga (Ruby & Sapphire Arc), this was explained in a flashback where Wallace turned down the Hoenn Champion Title and went with the Sootopolis Gym Leader Position. This is the most minimal spoiler I can give if you want to read the mangas.
The Torkoal May has is actually a mistake since she was suppose to have a Numel instead but loaded the wrong index number since Torkoal and Numel are right next to each other. Also if you go to Sky Pillar before you are suppose to has the door locked. Something to note is that Trapinch & Flygon have the same base attack at 100
@@enoyna1001 Torkoal's moveset is just the default moveset for Torkoal at lv13, so I don't think you can fairly argue it's inclusion was a deliberate choice. GF don't manually choose the moves for every single trainer; I believe they can set movesets to the default for that pokemon's level. As such, someone probably used the wrong index number, set the default moveset and it never came up in testing.
Emerald retconned some berries to reduce EVs, which wasn't possible before. It gave more abilities their overwold effects. And these aren't even all changes I can't remember that you mentioned.
They literally programmed four more battle engines (Ruby and Sapphire only has two) just for the battle frontier. It's literally half of the game. Making a video about Emerald and then just glancing over what actually makes Emerald Emerald is a super reductive disservice
I was wondering about this. Knowing that I'm not going to bother finishing the video. It's hilarious whenever someone who has never tried to make a game tries to assume how much time was needed. Probably as bad as me saying I could make this video in a day and just end up reading someone else's review over a static background and claiming it's just as good.
He talks about it in advance, talks about it when he reaches it, plays through a chunk of it, praises it thoroughly, and concludes that it's the main feature of Emerald which makes it stand out from the other games and worth playing instead. What more do you want?
Munchlax was teased for gen 4, but it was 3 years after Emerald's release so it may not have been developed yet. It was featured in Pokemon Dash (an obscure racing game for the DS) and Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness (an awesome Gamecube game where all of your battles are double battles and you can steal some of your opponent's pokemon that have turned evil rather than catching them in the wild, mostly).
(I mean obviously they could have put in the code for a 387th pokemon, like XD made it available in those weird rental battles, but then it'd be this annoying thing that broke trade compatibility with RS and FRLG, which seems like a no-no for gamefreak back in the day - less so by the time of the Hoenn remakes)
24:20 "The volbeat I lost my sanity catching." /snicker 35:35 "Blast this unfair thing into tomorrow." /rofl 40:10 Sheer Cold even affecting ice types just has me slow blinking in confusion.
no torchic is good but mudkip is a game breaking staple until hidden abilites swampert is probably the best starter competitive wise and in the campaign there is only one trainer not gym one trainer that has pokemon that hit for super effective damage
One move tutor that’s at least kinda useful is the explosion tutor. Most users of the move only learn it in the 40s-50s range and it’s really useful for nuking Tate and Liza’s lead mons that don’t resist it. This is the only way you can get the move without passing T&L’s level cap Also notable for granting access to the move to metagross who often runs it in competitive
One of the cosmetic changes that always bothered me in Emerald is the Zigzagoon following the Professor. I mean, Poochyena is known to attack people BUT ZIGZAGOON? But changing the Machokes for Vigoroth doing the house moving was clever
For real! Once I had decided Marill was canon for the run, I just looked for ways to make it interesting and huge power/rollout is the best I found. Waterfall could have done work
@@TheRealYeezus2002 that's so wrong lmao. breloom was faster than machamp with a higher attack stat, and had access to spore. breloom was never bad, just consistently solid enough.
Third editions were always about the stealthy changes. They look like they really have nothing to offer, but if one actually looks at a changelog, there is a lot there for each.
when i was 10 years old, this is how i did it: borrowed sapphire and ruby from friends, played through both, then bought emerald for myself, 200IQ, would do it again xD
"Between Wally, May, Steven, and Scott Emerald has this uncanny Truman Show vibe of being monitored and steered by strangers" Something that only got worse and worse each generation after.
My guess as to why they developers put Marill sooner in the game is because Pikachu clones need more time in the spotlight. RSE kinda drowns you in water types, but only one of them was mistaken for a new evolution for the series mascot.
For Gen4, I was thinking what Starter & Egg move you'd choose to showcase next. 1 interesting team member I could see going along with Infernape is Hippowdon, as unlike nowadays, Slack Off used to be an Egg move for it, but only if u picked Chimchar, u can breed that on it. Would just've to delay Monferno's evolution lvl by an extra 10 tho.
Sometimes the UA-cam algorithm really does know me and weird ways. I just watched your dark souls 2 video. Decided to subscribe and see what other content you had. I recognize like 20 of your thumbnails...
Emerald feels like that awkward middle child of the 3rd Version Release lineup, like it knew it could have made more content and changes but it wanted to be too much like a mix of older siblings Ruby and Sapphire that it took the plot from them to blend into a fanfiction of sorts, add in combat additions a la Battle Tent/Tower and rematch calls because it likes play fighting so much, and then make these arbitrary encounter changes and availabilities "Just Because". And it's really rough for its placement among the other third versions when you have Platinum coming up in Gen4 to be the one kid that just naturally shows up all the others.
You said you would’ve changed the Pokémon in the egg you get given to Munchlax but it wasn’t available until gen 4 so not possible. I think the only baby introduced in gen 3 was Azuril so maybe that?
The music that starts at 19:20 is a miserable listening experience... Left channel is just 2 loud noises repeating. Please never use it again. Everything else about the video, on point as always.
Both Gen 2 and Gen 3 had generational hardware gimmicks. For Crystal it was the mobile adapter, which never left Japan because nobody else had their weird insular mobile phone ecosystem. For Gen 3 it was the e-Reader, which was kind of a flop. This probably contributes to Crystal and Emerald feeling lacklustre. (I feel like fans overapply the idea of a "third version"-Yellow was created to onboard the large number of people who got into Pokemon as a result of the cartoon, not to produce a "definitive Gen 1 experience"; similarly, Crystal tied into the media emphasis on Unown, although the film opted for Entei rather than Suicune. Emerald and Platinum are the only ones which seem to have aimed for a definitive version of their respective plotlines, and they were created in very different circumstances; Emerald was a stopgap measure to buy time to develop Gen 4, and Platinum was a do-over since Diamond and Pearl have atrocious performance and some severe problems with game balance.) The thumbnail asks what about Emerald justifies having taken two years to make it; the answer is that it's a case of a lot happening under the hood for very little change to the presentation. Game Freak knew about the DS fairly early in the Gen 3 development cycle, so they did a bunch of plumbing work to abstract the engine created for Ruby and Sapphire from the GBA hardware. FireRed/LeafGreen was the first fruit of that labour, and then while continuing to develop Diamond and Pearl in the background they reimplemented Ruby and Sapphire on top of them to produce Emerald.
38:50 Prob because flamethrower has higher attack and is special, so not affected by intimidate. Also I think mighteyena has worse special defense than defense lol
I for one never had a problem with you benching your starters. I see the merits of each team you have built in these games and sometimes the starter simply isn't part of the equation. It's a perfectly fine way to play these games and you shouldn't mind those who take issue with it.
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just 2 years to go from rich boy to lady? good for her happy for her transition. ❤
I’m not concerned about the gender change. I’m concerned that the lady is an adult class while the rich boy is a child.
She aged like 10 years in just 2. Bro, I mean Sis is on that anti-anti-aging cream.🤣
Ngl I saw the thumbnail & thought the same thing
TTD
@@Fuhualover towed torpedo detector
i clicked on this video just hoping to make this joke
Pokemon Emeralds move tutors existed to primarily give access to tm moves that were in gen 2, but don't exist in gen 3 as TMs. FR/LG move tutors also took the place of TMs that were in gen 1 but don't have a tm anymore in gen 3
Fun fact: Emerald and Colosseum were the only ways you could get a Johto starter until HGSS launched.
Technically in XD too, but it's very tedious (not as tedious as how you get them in Emerald though)
That Whismer at 12:42 is awesome in so many ways. STAB body slam, but also rest with sleep talk for healing with less downside, and howl for attack boost. Silk Scarf for bonus to normal-type attacks. Adamant nature for +attack -special attack.
If you don't start the chapters with a 00:00 timestamp, it doesn't create chapters.
good to know for me, thanks.
@ThePigeonStoop You're welcome!
Waiiitt I think he read the comment because he added a 00:00 timestamp let's go 🗣
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that in the Emerald version you can catch Rayquazza before the eighth gym 😮
I love these videos so much, Mothy. They’re just so cozy. They really take me back.
Excellent stuff as always!
The only real problem with Emerald is not being able to fight Courtney. The other 3 Admins are there so she should have been there. Make her a miniboss in the Magma base and/or in Mossdeep Space Center or something.
There's a fan hack called Emerald Legacy that's doing that, at least.
The trade locks are my biggest problem with Emerald. You can’t trade national dex Pokemon to Emerald until you get the national dex. The only work around is to trade from colosseum or XD. The locks are just an annoyance. Ruby and Sapphire didn’t have them. Even more annoying nowadays because of the price of the gamecube and games. Not that I could afford them as a kid either.
Despite his name, BrakeFluid never hit the brakes. He edged till the very end
What a guy
"it's like going to friday night magic and playing draft instead of modern format"
i...i don't know what that means
Magic the gathering the trading card game has a standard rules based on whatever is released that’s usually called “modern” which involves some cards being restricted. Draft is a basically “go into store, buy packs, build something based on what you find on that same day/session, play universal rules” or something to that effect.
Draft is a format where fresh packs are opened and passed around, and each person slowly draws from the same pool of cards until everyone has a deck.
Water routes should have had more to it than just trainers and that log town
Don't forget catching a Wynaut once every twenty seven years!
Not even an exaggeration, this is the actual chance on average.
@@guillemtb1671im sorry what?!!! How have i never heard of this.
@@ajamid0145on average it would take 27 years of you getting on the game every day to see Mirage Island if you never traded to get any other ID numbers
@@ajamid0145 I'm talking about the Mirage Island. It's really cool but they really gave it too much of a low chance.
Damn I was really eagerly waiting to see the photoshoped face on Rayquaza.
I need a haircuttttt 😆
4:49 wait wait wait. “Fanpie”? Do they mean “Phanpy” pronounced as “Fan-pee”?
what, do you pronounce it as puh-han-pie?
Yessssssss. It's taken me 8 hours to get here, but I've been salivating all afternoon.
Another great video, mothy!
You deserve more love. You're right up there with other creators of this type of content. I've been enjoying this series so much!
Hell yeah
Well this a good way to end a work day. Ready for this on my drive home! Thanks bro!
That groan tube impression caught me so off guard.
Love the content!
Even though I know it's not being referenced in the way I'm implying, having The Police being named that lead to some pretty hilarious lines in this video, ngl. Truant police taking no action and being weak to fighting, huh?
I didn't want to like _write_ jokes for The Police and just let the humor happen XD kinda like naming my hoothoot Heehee in gold
Love that Sega Lion King soundtrack at the start 🎶😎
The Groan tube impression had me wheezing for 90+ seconds straight, I got abs cause of you.
any Gen 3 run that uses beloved Flygon on a team is a good one.
Stellar stuff!
I think another thing that gets missed with Emerald is that it fixes a few glitches (as well as adding some) like the roamers IV's getting fixed so if you want to frontier cheese with a decent latios you can. Additionally, the frontier battle facility also suffers from a IV glitch that works against you, making it more difficult.
I think players look fondly on emerald mainly because it essentially makes the frontier a theme park for harder content.
I don't think you mentioned it, but Emerald was the start of abilities having out of battle effects which in my opinion is another great change.
For me I actually prefer the UI of Emerald, the text isn't spamming all caps like R/S did.
I also just have a bias for emerald as I got it as a gift from my mum. :)
Great video
"I want the police to have the best chance of one shotting his opponents"
Mothy, thats just a gun. Youre describing a gun
cool video, but you mentioned with FRLG happening, emerald was delayed, but then kept saying emerald had 2 years of dev time? lol. really enjoy the series tho!
yeah, it's complicated. I would have expected them to release Emerald before FRLG, but given they chose to release it after, then I DO think they should have aimed higher, or just not bothered releasing it at all and focused energies into the next games. They don't need our sympathy for _choosing_ to release a different game in between, it wasn't some inescapable burden :/ thanks for the comment!
@@ji_mothyI will say that this game is definitely better than the other two by far as the battle frontier is something to actually train and try for endlessly.
This got me thinking that Black & White 2 really are the best "third" instalments of a Pokemon generation. They went so hard that they had to make it a full-blown sequel
I feel like they arent a 3rd version by being a sequel
@Venemofthe888 yeah dude I know, that's why I put "third" in inverted commas. If you're familiar with the game's production, they began as a third installment and then expanded beyond the scope of a third installment and became an entirely distinct title
ji_mothy has blessed us with a new video
The goat has returned
It's a happy day when ji_mothy posts a new video, doubly so when it's on my favorite pokemon generation! Also, since starting Metaphor: ReFantazio, I've been keeping in mind your analysis videos and been intentionally playing into the design developers intended for players. They "conveniently" give a you a class with strike attacks and holy magic, perfect against the undead enemies weak to it in the first major dungeon. Keep up the great work!
Ahh I love that I inspired you to pay attention! Thank you and enjoy
The Move Tutor in Mauville City is the only possibility to teach Lickitung the move Rollout in the third Generation. It can evolve with this attack and levelling up when it gets transferred in the fourth generation. (Swinub can learn Ancient Power trough cross-breeding.)
There is a Lickitung in XD you can catch and once purified has Rollout in its moveset. In fact a few pokemon who evolve in Gen 4 that are in XD have moves that help them evolve when transferred.
14:02 I got lots of value from the move tutor for substitute as it was useful for setting up on status moves
Also the explosion move tutor is good for giving your Pokémon a nuke button. (especially in link battles)
Yes! i was waiting for this!
you making the reggie ice sound was iconic
the poketuber has returned
Always glad for another Mothy video. I never really thought about it much in gen 3, but there really isn't that much of a difference across rs to e. Very interesting to think about
41:49 In the Pokemon Adventures Manga (Ruby & Sapphire Arc), this was explained in a flashback where Wallace turned down the Hoenn Champion Title and went with the Sootopolis Gym Leader Position. This is the most minimal spoiler I can give if you want to read the mangas.
The Torkoal May has is actually a mistake since she was suppose to have a Numel instead but loaded the wrong index number since Torkoal and Numel are right next to each other. Also if you go to Sky Pillar before you are suppose to has the door locked.
Something to note is that Trapinch & Flygon have the same base attack at 100
Why do you assume it's a mistake? Torcoal's moveset is its own and so is the ability.
@enoyna1001 cause she never uses a torkoal again in any of her other fights and if you fight the male rival he doesn't a torkoal
@@Venemofthe888 That's just guessing.
@@enoyna1001 Torkoal's moveset is just the default moveset for Torkoal at lv13, so I don't think you can fairly argue it's inclusion was a deliberate choice. GF don't manually choose the moves for every single trainer; I believe they can set movesets to the default for that pokemon's level. As such, someone probably used the wrong index number, set the default moveset and it never came up in testing.
Emerald retconned some berries to reduce EVs, which wasn't possible before. It gave more abilities their overwold effects. And these aren't even all changes I can't remember that you mentioned.
Each video takes us closer to Black 2 White 2 supremacy. There are only 5 main games more before we get to it or 7 counting Colosseum and XD.
Mothy's impression of a groan tube at 38:43 was so unexpected and so funny XD
i'm so READY
They literally programmed four more battle engines (Ruby and Sapphire only has two) just for the battle frontier. It's literally half of the game. Making a video about Emerald and then just glancing over what actually makes Emerald Emerald is a super reductive disservice
I was wondering about this. Knowing that I'm not going to bother finishing the video. It's hilarious whenever someone who has never tried to make a game tries to assume how much time was needed. Probably as bad as me saying I could make this video in a day and just end up reading someone else's review over a static background and claiming it's just as good.
He talks about it in advance, talks about it when he reaches it, plays through a chunk of it, praises it thoroughly, and concludes that it's the main feature of Emerald which makes it stand out from the other games and worth playing instead. What more do you want?
The frontier is garbage.
How does someone simp so hard for some garbage post game content?
glancing over? There is literally a section about it and he says it is good.
Great video!
16:41 Introducing gen 4 Munchlax in the gen 3 emerald would have been a crazy hype teaser for the next gen
Munchlax was teased for gen 4, but it was 3 years after Emerald's release so it may not have been developed yet.
It was featured in Pokemon Dash (an obscure racing game for the DS) and Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness (an awesome Gamecube game where all of your battles are double battles and you can steal some of your opponent's pokemon that have turned evil rather than catching them in the wild, mostly).
If Munchlax was introduced in gen 3....then it wouldn't be a gen 4 Pokémon, it'd just be Gen 3 like every other Gen 3 mon
Love this series!
Folks, is this Jimothy individual cool?
Funny joke, but now I'm really wondering what would ACTUALLY be a good pokemon to replace the Wynaut egg with, since Munchlax is... naut there
(I mean obviously they could have put in the code for a 387th pokemon, like XD made it available in those weird rental battles, but then it'd be this annoying thing that broke trade compatibility with RS and FRLG, which seems like a no-no for gamefreak back in the day - less so by the time of the Hoenn remakes)
BEST answer would have been to reprise the odd egg from Crystal and have a few possibilities!
Odd egg is GOAT. High shiny chance too.
24:20 "The volbeat I lost my sanity catching." /snicker
35:35 "Blast this unfair thing into tomorrow." /rofl
40:10 Sheer Cold even affecting ice types just has me slow blinking in confusion.
I'm surprised the Police was actually useful for this run, congratulations!!
Seadra doesn't evolve with a King's Rock, it evolves with a Dragon Scale.
no torchic is good but mudkip is a game breaking staple until hidden abilites swampert is probably the best starter competitive wise and in the campaign there is only one trainer not gym one trainer that has pokemon that hit for super effective damage
One move tutor that’s at least kinda useful is the explosion tutor.
Most users of the move only learn it in the 40s-50s range and it’s really useful for nuking Tate and Liza’s lead mons that don’t resist it.
This is the only way you can get the move without passing T&L’s level cap
Also notable for granting access to the move to metagross who often runs it in competitive
Development of Pokemon Emerald did not take 2 years. Did you forget we got the Gen 3 remakes before it?
20:20 sorry the sound playing in my left ear is taking me out, it's really distracting
One of the cosmetic changes that always bothered me in Emerald is the Zigzagoon following the Professor. I mean, Poochyena is known to attack people BUT ZIGZAGOON? But changing the Machokes for Vigoroth doing the house moving was clever
The fact that marill has huge power yet water is special really is a tragedy in gen 3 😂
For real! Once I had decided Marill was canon for the run, I just looked for ways to make it interesting and huge power/rollout is the best I found. Waterfall could have done work
21:45 Oh hey, the thing I said last time made it into the new video. Noice.
yeah! it's a good idea :)
Shroomish isn't a junk pokemon. Breloom is a beast.
breloom ingame might as well be a machamp with more weaknesses.
Breloom wasnt good until Gen 4
@@TheRealYeezus2002 that's so wrong lmao. breloom was faster than machamp with a higher attack stat, and had access to spore. breloom was never bad, just consistently solid enough.
@@oatmeal2752 i guess your right
Third editions were always about the stealthy changes. They look like they really have nothing to offer, but if one actually looks at a changelog, there is a lot there for each.
Genius thumbnail
I guess it's harder to see and find, or access for footage, but what about the NPCs which change after you go and connect to other players?
What about them?
when i was 10 years old, this is how i did it: borrowed sapphire and ruby from friends, played through both, then bought emerald for myself, 200IQ, would do it again xD
"Between Wally, May, Steven, and Scott Emerald has this uncanny Truman Show vibe of being monitored and steered by strangers" Something that only got worse and worse each generation after.
Maybe they shifted Marill to route 104 to show how abilities can drastically change how a pokemon works.
My guess as to why they developers put Marill sooner in the game is because Pikachu clones need more time in the spotlight. RSE kinda drowns you in water types, but only one of them was mistaken for a new evolution for the series mascot.
Hereeeeeeeeeeee’s Mothy!
Meowth trade is actually worth it since it's the only way to get it without trading.
I liked that you could catch Pokémon in Magma Hideout
Damn walrein really hit the 30% if regice was 2 levels higher it would have been immune
Hey mothy would you consider doing a continuation of the mass effect series? I really enjoyed the first one
Naming the regice Denzel makes me assume jimothy thinks Ice-T and Denzel Washington are the same person
If mothy has compelling criticism of this game that I can’t stick my head in the sand and ignore (he will), I’m gonna cry
mostly of the project management really!
It ALWAYS takes longer to find Ralts than it does Seedot for me
How do you know Rayquaza is at the sky pillar it's the only one you haven't been to at that point and it clearly wasn't in the other two
For Gen4, I was thinking what Starter & Egg move you'd choose to showcase next. 1 interesting team member I could see going along with Infernape is Hippowdon, as unlike nowadays, Slack Off used to be an Egg move for it, but only if u picked Chimchar, u can breed that on it. Would just've to delay Monferno's evolution lvl by an extra 10 tho.
Also the rival fight in rustboro is completely optional. Thought that was an interesting tidbit
Sometimes the UA-cam algorithm really does know me and weird ways. I just watched your dark souls 2 video. Decided to subscribe and see what other content you had. I recognize like 20 of your thumbnails...
Emerald feels like that awkward middle child of the 3rd Version Release lineup, like it knew it could have made more content and changes but it wanted to be too much like a mix of older siblings Ruby and Sapphire that it took the plot from them to blend into a fanfiction of sorts, add in combat additions a la Battle Tent/Tower and rematch calls because it likes play fighting so much, and then make these arbitrary encounter changes and availabilities "Just Because". And it's really rough for its placement among the other third versions when you have Platinum coming up in Gen4 to be the one kid that just naturally shows up all the others.
You said you would’ve changed the Pokémon in the egg you get given to Munchlax but it wasn’t available until gen 4 so not possible. I think the only baby introduced in gen 3 was Azuril so maybe that?
The music that starts at 19:20 is a miserable listening experience... Left channel is just 2 loud noises repeating. Please never use it again. Everything else about the video, on point as always.
10/10 thumbnail
eternal atake 2: bloated and boring
emerald played as intended: amazing and accurate
thank you for never disappointing jimoth
Sonic 3 music love it
Yoo it’s mothy for short
2 years to avoid losing sales on the OG 2 games
But yeah, this game could have done a lot more
Why is there Crash Bandicoot music?👍
Swampert is by far and away the best starter for their game in the series.
Both Gen 2 and Gen 3 had generational hardware gimmicks. For Crystal it was the mobile adapter, which never left Japan because nobody else had their weird insular mobile phone ecosystem. For Gen 3 it was the e-Reader, which was kind of a flop. This probably contributes to Crystal and Emerald feeling lacklustre. (I feel like fans overapply the idea of a "third version"-Yellow was created to onboard the large number of people who got into Pokemon as a result of the cartoon, not to produce a "definitive Gen 1 experience"; similarly, Crystal tied into the media emphasis on Unown, although the film opted for Entei rather than Suicune. Emerald and Platinum are the only ones which seem to have aimed for a definitive version of their respective plotlines, and they were created in very different circumstances; Emerald was a stopgap measure to buy time to develop Gen 4, and Platinum was a do-over since Diamond and Pearl have atrocious performance and some severe problems with game balance.)
The thumbnail asks what about Emerald justifies having taken two years to make it; the answer is that it's a case of a lot happening under the hood for very little change to the presentation. Game Freak knew about the DS fairly early in the Gen 3 development cycle, so they did a bunch of plumbing work to abstract the engine created for Ruby and Sapphire from the GBA hardware. FireRed/LeafGreen was the first fruit of that labour, and then while continuing to develop Diamond and Pearl in the background they reimplemented Ruby and Sapphire on top of them to produce Emerald.
13:32 go bills!!!
38:50 Prob because flamethrower has higher attack and is special, so not affected by intimidate. Also I think mighteyena has worse special defense than defense lol
Okay, on the topic of bad hygiene.
Rasputin got plenty of partners in his lifetime. Let's be totally honest.
Is this not OG Crash Bandicoot music? Am I losing my mind???
18:33 based Josh Allen moment🫡
I for one never had a problem with you benching your starters. I see the merits of each team you have built in these games and sometimes the starter simply isn't part of the equation. It's a perfectly fine way to play these games and you shouldn't mind those who take issue with it.
BRAKE FLUID!? 😂😂😂
do you not think phanpy rhymes with puppy??
numell im losing my mind
acab includes slaking
Glad you agree with blaziken supremacy, but i do leik mudkips.
Either way we can all agree treeko is kind of a let don.
70 base power leaf blade, no good moves through level up, poultry attack stat when it's only good moves are physical. tragic.
Elden bling as intended when
This is a joke, kind of
yes. yes it is
Scott might be a pun on Scout since he kinda acts like a talent agent
I actually really like this