Pokemon duel was the best one. I was sad when it was discontinued. I didn't pay for anything except one time because i wanted to support the game. Just playing gave me a ton of figures to use. Even weaker figures could be used to great effect. Pokemon smile is great for those of us with adhd. It helps me remember to do it and get every surface. I loved Magikarp Jump too.
If you have an iPhone, if you make a Chinese Apple ID (super easy, just need a Chinese address which can be any Chinese address), you can explore the Chinese version of the game! Though it may be a little hard if there’s no translations haha, I loved Pokemon quest too
THANK YOU! I was just waiting for this video to talk about it but I feel like I wasted my time and the video missed the opportunity to tell people about the best app game I've ever played!
Ah, I feel like Shuffle has so much potential for cool events. The game could've been great if they actually continued updating it, though event Pokemon reruns sure are a lot better than eos
Magikarp Jump was wild. Over the span of like 2 or so years I actually ended up finishing it. Like, in terms of completing all leagues. Without spending any money on microtransactions at all you will not have enough currency by the end to have bought everything, unless you pay real money of course. the late game of this game is more repetetive than the base game itself, forcing you to replay the last league again and again, watching through the same 3 cutscenes for hours at a time, with the only thing ever changing being the magikarp you fish after completion lol
Pokemon Smile is also really good for people struggling with mental health. :3 I don't usually have issues with it as far as brushing your teeth, but it's nice.
I literally said to myself "I wonder if this would help me remember/want to brush my teeth" when he started talking about this. Might have to check it out. I have ADHD (forgetfulness) and depression (makes me just not want to)
Can confirm it absolutely helps me remember/want to take care of myself! Not only brush my teeth but helped me get into a solid morning/night routine as well. For sure recommend anyone who is forgetful or suffers from a mental hurdle (or both, hi its me I'm both) to give it a try :)
About Unite. Yes, Pokemon Unite has a more hardcore playerbase, it's not the microtransactions, those are easy to never even get close to paying for stuff. It's more of the balancing, especially in normal matches, high ranking players will get in a match with someone from low ranks and it stops being fun for the person who doesn't know the game that well/doesn't play too often
I can't even remember the amount of times i (ultra) got matchmaked with someone from either veteran or expert i don't remember, and they're always using the worst held items possible, whilst the other team is filled with ultra/master rank, or just ppl who know how to play the game Yet after all this issues, I still love unite and will play it until it gets shutdown
@@Brisolo32 same, I love the game, but I can only play ranked and have fun when I reach master rank, other than that, I may end up fighting people with higher ranks or fight with people with lower ranks, which both sucks
the pokedex 3d app was so monumental to me- all I'd do is sit there and create stories about all the b&w pokemon as I looked at them. I was very easy to entertain as a child with an extremely active imagination. I had no idea it was shut down though, so I always wondered why I could never find that app again.
Pokemon Sleep genuinely helped fix my sleeping schedule and body clock. I have pretty bad depression and waking up each morning can be tough, but the game really incentives you to go to sleep at regular times and rewards you with rarer Pokémon n stuff. to put it into perspective, when I started using the app I used to sleep at 4am and wake up at 1pm the next day. A few months later I now go to sleep at 10:30pm and wake up at around 9am. Idk what people are doing to make their phones overheat, its never happened with me. I just set it to sleep, put the phone face-down which makes the screen black while keeping the app running and have it lay next to me on the mattress. Only time it gets slightly warm is if a pillow falls on it or something.
I really wanted it to work for me to help with the Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, but the app just felt so clunky and slow and didn't help me wake up necessarily "rested". How does the game progress as you go along?
I love pokémon smile! I'm 21 and played it last year, only stopped because I caught all the pokémon, so I hope they add more in the future! The art style is adorable and it was a good way to motivate me to spend more time brushing my teeth. It also genuinelly helped me feel less miserable when I was going through a hard time, because I would play it at night and go to bed happy thinking about the cute pokémon I caugh.
Pokémon Duel was my favorite mobile game for a while and I was so sad when I couldn’t play it anymore. The figure based system with the chess like movements were perfect for me.
I'm a long-term Pokémon Masters EX player, and honestly, it's the most genuinely free-to-play friendly gatcha I've ever played, though... the UI is a lot, especially in Japanese. It's a bit less crowded in English, but... not by much...
I find it disgraceful that you didn't mentioned pokemon shuffle, being probably one of the best mobile games even if it's a bit more underwhelming than it's 3ds counterpart
You forgot one. Pokemon Shuffle. Very very obscure. It look even more like Candy Crush than Cafe Remix. No it's literally candy crush, level progression and gameplay and all.
Pokemon Duel was actually excellent. I only found out it was discontinued through this video :( You could get good figures fairly easily because I remember getting Lugia and using him literally always, and I never paid for anything. It had a solid element of strategy and I remember luring the other player into traps many a time.
There always are some fangames you know. I even remember about one with the visual novel style, in a school setting, and of course the characters have been aged up a bit and designed in that style to get simps. I think Moopsten might have made videos about it at some point, not sure though.
In Pokemon Go there is a story infact multiple stories known as "Special Research" also there a raids that you can do with friends and random people just like that first trailer with mewtwo but even on the higher tier raids the most people nowadays that do them are like 6 - 8 people.
Yeah the thing about Pokémon go is that it’s pretty much a hardcore collectors game. you want to get all the shinies but you also want to get them with really high stats since they can’t be changed like in the mainline games, and it’s really dependent on where you live and if you have a community of other players. if you don’t live in big town/city or have any other players then you’re pretty much screwed over and can’t really do much
Something very tragic about pokemon duel was that they made it a LOT worse over its lifespan with the microtransactions. Back when the game first launched you could save up and buy pretty powerful figures and experiment with upgrades yourself, and it was a very forgiving game in terms of experimentation. Later on the power creep on newer figures got really rough, mix that with the fact that it became WAY harder to get the currencies needed for newer figures *AND* they increased the price on getting new figures too. Turning it into almost a necessity to spend real life money. It was scummy as hell and a complete turn around on the games design just to get more money. That was 100% a huge reason into why it died so fast.
I know! The early days were really fun, and it felt pretty balanced! Then ultrabeasts arrived to the game and it was basically impossible to win without any of the new figures
You're not missing out on anything with Unite. I played regularly for a little over a year before I just couldn't do it anymore. Microtransactions aren't even the issue. You can VERY easily get your held items to the optimal level. It's the SBMM, the way they have ranked setup, and the lack of consequences. Balance is also a big issue at times, but the 3 I named have been an issue since day 1. PokemonGO is about the constant never ending grind to get the perfect Pokemon for various situations, as far as the gameplay is concerned. The real draw though is the sense of community. I ran my local scene for about 3 years by organizing raids everyday and events for everyone to get together. Even the devs want this to be what the game is for. To bring people together IRL. If you don't at least have 1 other person to enjoy the game with and "compete" with, then it really isn't all that fun. I can't play anymore due to an accident, but I most certainly would if I could. Niantic is a headache to deal with, but it was worth it to get to enjoy catching Pokemon with my best friends while making new ones.
As somebody who has trouble keeping up a sleep schedule, Pokemon Sleep actually motivates me to go to sleep earlier so I can catch more Pokemon lol It probably won't work for everyone, but it helps in my case
IMO and experience, Pokemon Go’s big win is building a community or a network on top of a very enjoyable game. ive been a player since 2016 and never stopped up to this day and it made an avenue for me to meet different people from all walks of life.. even my core group of players now are composed of professionals (a lawyer, a university professor, a politician to name a few). The inclusion of live/real events really made this mobile game stood out among the rest, it isn’t a perfect game (and yes, i also despise the recent plethora of paid add ons) but it’s the company of friends and acquaintances that makes me continue playing
Well, I’m a huge Pokémon Go fan. The reasons that I stood with the game ever since 2016 is because of 3 simple reasons: 1) I’m also a huge Pokémon main series fan, I’ve played through every Pokémon region from Gen 5 and onward 2) I enjoy collecting and registering mons to my Pokédex. Whenever I look through my Pokémon collection, I have that sense of accomplishment and seeing how far I’ve come since I’ve started in 2016 3) Getting loads and loads of shinies and maybe even getting lucky enough to find some rare mons. It’s a simply just an adrenaline boost
One that no one ever talks about is Pokemon Shuffle, idk if you can still download it or anything but it's still on my phone to this day. It's a simple puzzle game that plays into mega evolution, I never see anyone talk about it but I personally find it really fun! Simple yet engaging and though it has micro transactions its not at all in your face about it. I believe it was released on the 3DS as well! Also this might be wrong but I think Pokemon picross was on mobile devices at some point? I know it was on 3DS but I think they cross released it like they have a handful of other Pokemon mobile games
I got recommended Pokemon Shuffle on my app store a couple of months ago, and me and my boyfriend have been playing it since, I had no idea it had been around for so long! The Special Stages still change on certain dates so I assumed it wasn't abandoned, but apparently in 2018 they did a final update and those stages are set on a cycle that repeats until 2037
Pokemon Masters EX has one of my favorite things just hidden in plain sight. In the Johto Games, Pokemon Champion Lance has his Dragonite use Hyper Beam on an actual human, a Black Belt trainer class. In Masters EX, it was discovered that there's a Black Belt who talks about working in Mahogany town (where this took place) and that he's been afraid of dragon-types ever since. As a massive Pokemon fan who has basically all the Pokemon Apps still available for download.... it's a bit sad that I haven't played them all (still haven't started Masters EX). I remember I did have Pokemon Duel, it was real fun. Magikarp Jump is fun, and I use Pokemon Smile to help me brush my teeth b/c AuDHD makes that hard. And Pokemon Sleep is what I use every night, I've gotten quite a few shinies through it.
Fun fact: There's even a medal if you beat a blackbelt's mon with Hyper Beam. There are a few units that can use it now, but when the medal got added, only Lance and Dragonite could use it. And the medal is depicting a dragonite during the Beam at the head of a blackbelt. AND the name of the medal is Dragonite, use Hyper Beam! Honestly, you should start now. Because there's a log un bonus of 10 tickets, each giving a 10 pull on a banner with a lot of limited units (even the rarest ones) and the number of 5 stars is big enough so that you'd often get one. Plus the gems as another log in bonus for the 4.5 anniversary.
Interesting thing about Pokemon Quest, there is a separate Chinese port that is still being updated (I think they’ve added Pokemon up to Galar now). It also has PvP, bosses, and player customization. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the game was licensed to a different company in China but GameFreak just gave up on the global one, so it stopped being updated.
I think the hump with getting into Pokémon Go is realising that the main gameplay loop IS catching Pokémon. You need to catch heaps to power up the ones you want to keep, catch to get stardust/candy for that, catch to keep getting Pokémon for the things you want to do. Best if you enjoy doing PvP (which is pretty garbage compared to main line games) or if you enjoy collecting them all. If you don’t enjoy catching lots of Pokémon it’s probably not the game for you… which niantic would make it more interesting to play more actively.
I loved Magikarp Jump while I had it, honestly so much fun and such a weird silly distraction as a clicker game. The aesthetic is so endearing even though I do wish there was some more actual interaction.
You have no idea how much I was itching for you to mention one of my favorite Pokémon mobile games, and I was about to be SO DEVASTATED if you happened to forget it… but you didn’t! Pokémon Duel is and always will be one of my absolute favorite Pokémon mobile games ever. I have screenshots dating back to 2019 before the game shut down of me playing and it was such a fun game for me to pass time, as I downloaded it just as a distraction-but let me tell you when I got insanely into it. The game itself managed to make Larvesta (of all Pokémon) one of my favorites LOL! I’ll never forget how sad I was once the game was shut down. Great video!
Let me tell you, Camp Pokemon was insane fun, the perfect game to get me in the summer mood, I used to replay it every summer. I can confidently say that Playhouse was NOT a good successor and I was bored within 30 minutes of starting
am glad you like masters, its honestly one of the best sources for lore and character interactions for those who love the worldbuilding and story, and its honestly still really polished
thank you so much for resurfacing my memory of camp pokemon. i genuinely forgot about it but i loved it as a kid. i remember just playing it to watch the movie clips it had in the stupid tent thing
R.I.P Pokémon TV. Literally free and you could watch most if not all the episodes. “Oh,” I thought “I have Amazon Prime I can watch it on there!” Little did I know they removed it from Prime. Now I am anime-less and alone. 😔 (I don’t know why I made this so dramatic 😂)
I recently beat Magikarp Jump, and honestly, you have to love Magikarp if you're going to finish that game. It is pretty shallow and casual, very low maintenance, but there's a beautiful little story there between you and all of your little virtual fish, being so good at jumping. Yeah, it's not flashy and dangerous like pokemon battling, but it doesn't mean it's not impressive for a so called "useless" fish to jump so high! I certainly can't jump that high. It was a fun, sweet little game, and I'm glad I was able to finish it, especially without paying money lol
The idea that some people think your phone can catch fire if you sleep with it is utterly ridiculous. Its not possible unless your phone was defective in the manufacturing to begin with. If that is the case, you have MUCH bigger problems then worrying about if you should sleep with it.
Camp Pokémon was my CHILDHOOD... I am now depressed I had all of the pokemon and probably collected each of them 3 times over, at the minimum. It was a amazing game and I will miss it.
One thing i quite like about pokemon go is hunting for shinnies, since there are events like community day and others where the chances of finding one is quite high. If you get a friend to play one of this events with you, you can in the end trade the shiny with an old pokemon (like from 2016 or before) and it guarantees that it will become a lucky pokemon (lucky pokemon is a whole can of worms, but the simple part is that it rerolls it's iv for a high value, maybe even perfect ivs). After that, you can send some of this pokemon to pokemon home, and from there, you can place them in a lot of mainline games, which in my opinion is a quite fun way for shiny farming.
I would love to see some more Pokémon content from you!! I know that I personally have moved more into playing Pokémon / watching Pokémon YT content, now that Animal Crossing new content has been....well absent. So I know that I'd love to see you doing some stuff on Pokémon, just in your style/editing way. This is obviously just my opinion though, please keep doing whatever makes YOU happy, whatever sustains your channel & fulfils you, as thats the most important thing. But just wanted to say that I'd def support you doing some more Pokémon/Non-Animal Crossing content. Great video though! 🌟
there are some story elements in pokemon go now with diff reseach quests where npcs will talk to you, but pokego is still most popular for collecting, its events, and of course playing with others! there are so many events now, i always have an excuse to go for a walk! ive even made friends with some neighbors and we play together sometimes. :) like when we raided for hisuian decidueye as a group
I still play Pokemon Go. I'm actually a daily, active, free-to-play player. I min-max on are there to continue playing this way. I see Pokemon go as a great way to bridge the gap to complete my dex and to get easy shinies for the mainline games.
I’ve played Pokemon Go since it’s launch in 2016! I did have some breaks in 2017-2018 though. On top of catchin em all, my personal dumb quest is to gild gym badges, I’m currently at 400+ unique gyms! PoGo has helped me a lot with my anxiety. The best thing about it to me is the community (my small-ish city in Finland has a super active player base). I’ve met and befriended some really cool & diverse people I would have never met without playing PoGo. Also the fact that it makes me go out a lot is a huge plus 😁
I think the part about Pokémon go that’s still appealing is the collection of it. Like I’ve been playing pikmin bloom pretty consistently for the past couple months cause it’s basically Pokémon go and the main thing that keeps me coming back is how many pikmin types there are to collect and i feel like that’d be the same for go
Personally, around 2 years ago I had my Pokémon Go resurgence and I’ve been playing the game consistently ever since. For a while, I never really played avidly because it got pretty boring pretty quickly. What got me back into it was playing with my friends and getting really competitive with all the mons we could find! This past weekend there was an event in LA that we got to participate in and it was a great reminder of how much I love the game cause we got to meet a bunch of really cool people who also loved Pokémon! I’m the first to say that the game is far from perfect, but there’s something really fun and special about getting to play with people who are as into it as you are.
Pokemon go is perfect for collecting. If you aren't a big collector at heart, if may not be for you. It's also a good distraction for a short phases of boredom. It gets you out of the house and you meet people. I've met SO MANY people through this game and I keep seeing some of them regularly through the weekly raid hours or other events. Meeting someone for an evening to trade some Pokemon is fun and there's also the PVP league if you like to play competitive. There are many goals you can give yourself, like, getting a max IV mon of each type, a living dex, collect all the shinys or some crazy goals like having a shiny legendary of each type and form. But you really need to do either pvp or raids to have a reason to max out and pursue stronger Pokemon. Because, if you want to power up your Pokemon, you need Stardust which means you need to catch a ton of Pokemon. So you just keep catching. getting more and getting better.
what got me back into pokemon go was the 2 pokestops and gym at the college near my house. it's only fun when you can play competitively with other people and do gym battles + raids
As someone who doesnt own any switch or consoles that support pokemon, i often find myself leaning towards pokemon go or pokemon unite.. I think these two are the best, pokemon go for collecting pokemon and giving you somewhat of a reason to go out more, and pokemon unite giving you that battle aspect. Even tho it isnt like the original games
Im a bit disappointed you gave up on Pokemon Sleep so fast. It’s actually an entire game, behind the initial appearance of being a sleep tracker. In my opinion, its one of the most well-thought-out and mechanically-deep pokemon games weve had in a long time. It is a criminally underrated game.
Love the video! Was fun seeing a lot of apps I either never heard of or have a weird nostalgia for. Instant subscribe. Love the Animal Crossing avatar too. I think one really minor nitpick I have is the paper background animates way too fast. I found it often distracting. But that's such a minor complaint it basically doesn't matter.
Fun fact: Magikarp Jump had a specialized episode in Pokemon Journeys. Its when Go& caught some XXXL^2 Magikarp then a follow up episode, the Jump contest was there.
"some XXXL^2 Magikarp" You will put respect on the name of the Lord of the Lake. (In case you didn't know, it is a thing in Platinum where you can find in the Resort Area some water in which there's a Magikarp of every level, from 1 to 100 included, the level 100 one being the Lord of the Lake.)
@@clemente3966 The tremendous size resemble its Godlike capabilities, I've heard. As the wonderful Creature's size Shows its Loyal Power, *Our* Diglets don't share this prestigious count.
Magikarp Jump I think was the inspiration for an episode in Pokemon Journeys.. well half-episode. Where Goh teaches his magikarp to jump high. which it does.. and didn't come back down for days.
It's worth noting, and a LOT of people miss this, that being able to buy item enhancers in Pokemon Unite with real money wasn't intended. At launch, Item Enhancers were locked to only being buyable with the in-game currency (you can see it at 18:21, where every item except Item Enhancers has a price in both coupons and gems). The problem was that when you try to use an item you have zero of, a menu pops up saying "would you like to buy more?" People noticed pretty quickly that they forgot to remove the "buy with gems" option from that menu. So they were stuck in a state where they'd have give back a lot of money if they actually fixed the bug. Instead, they just added a New Player reward where everyone who starts playing gets 300 free Item Enhancers (enough to max out a full loadout of three items, so new players aren't gimped).
As someone who just recently got back into Pokemon go, the fun for me at least is just having something to do when I’m on a walk or on a break at work. It’s not a game with a “goal” imo, it just enhances sorta mundane things. And the option to put your shinies or good Pokemon into a main line game is really cool too and is usually in the back of my mind when you fully evolve a charzard or something like that. And getting to hatch eggs which are pretty much loot boxes from walking a lot like I do at work is always a plus lol (Also Pikmin bloom is awesome. A lot more hands off and is pretty much a fun step tracker. If you walk a lot it’s fun to send your Pikmin on a expedition and coming back to to pull some Pikmin or plant some flowers)
I LOVED CAMP POKEMON thank you so much for yhis nostalgia wave I wish i could go back and experience it again even if its not intended for my age group anymore lol
Pokemon Go is a game that definitely has had a bit of history with the community. However one of the best things about Pokemon Go is the people you meet along the way. Because of Pokemon Go I have met hundreds of interesting people within my state and outside my states due to Pokemon Go's Tour or Go Fest events. This allows you to meet people that are very unique and may not have same interest with you. But you both have one common thing. You guys like Pokemon. The core base of Pokemon Go is basically just a catch em all. You want to catch them all you will go ahead and do so. We have Mega's Shinies, Costumed you name it. There's events that will feature location exclusive pokemons with location backgrounds. It makes you feel good. There's also their own PVP which is it's own story that allows you to battle other people in their own tournaments via the app. The game also features events almost every week where you can meet with people. Community Days, Raid Hours/Days. There are routes you can follow for bonuses and of course raids. There's more I can talk about in the ends it's about the community.
i remember playing pokemon duel back when i had my old phone before said phone broke. i suddenly remembered the game years later, and was confused as to why it wasnt available anymore. my curiosity has finally been fed!
I actually really enjoyed my time with Pokemon Duel. The figures looked really cool and the way the game was set up made me feel like I could actually do well with my favorites and not just the really good ones. I was honestly heavily invested in the story and was excited for when it would reach its conclusion, but then it suddenly disappeared from my phone and I never really knew what happened to it
21:35 The thing that keeps me going in Pokémon Go is the shinies and exclusive Pokemon and community days and events like the Sinnoh World Tour Event which is a series of annual events in the game happening for one specific region each year and go fest.
I just finished watching the part about Pokemon quest, so I'm sure that you repeatedly said there are only the first 151 but showed the rest without mentioning that the game is continued in China because legally it's considered as another game there compared to the rest of the world or something. Anyway, no mention of that explanation, that's not cool. Then, for Masters EX. Aside from a few pieces of video showing more recent things, those were all from the early stages of the game, and the commentary shows you don't know much about it so I'll add onto it: not only do older characters return, but nearly every character can end up getting other partners associated with amternative outfits, from Sygna Suits to anniversary outfits, while passing through seasonal ones (Christmas, Easter, summer,etc.) and other categories. The official pkmn yt channel even put an illustration of Sygna suit Gladion on their community post from yesterday. And let's not forget about the music, since the game gets remixes and even personal versions of the E4 theme for each member in each region (check out Koga's theme btw), better yet, some characters got their themes extended or even turned into fighting ones. There's just so much to say to cover this game, so I'll stop there. You actually did Magikarp Jump justice, nothing to say about that. And I'm mentioning Masters EX and Jump because both made their way to the anime: Cynthia got a first alternate outfit with Kommo-o, and during the Journey series, when she appeared, she used one there too. While Magikarp Jump went into a double-episode, in the first half of it and as the solution for the second episode. It also was a reference to the Lord of the Lake of Sinnoh. I might add later to the comment, but for now, I'll watch the rest. Alright, time for part 2. Pokemon tcg live was a technological mess when I left it after that Lugia expansion during Sword and Shield, and I bet it's still that bugged and lagging, so honestly, nothing to miss there until they fix it, you got that on point. Unite isn't that niche. It has its own official world tournament, and which game other than it, the main games, the tcg and go have one? None that I know of, so Unite is one of the biggest side games, no way it is niche. Add to this that some hype came back when Zacian and later on when Mewtwo at the anniversary of the game, plus the upcoming Miraidon (btw, I see you got some test servers footage, did you get it from another video or did you already have access to them or did you get access to them only for this video?). And don't forget to explicitly mention how broķen nearly each new mon has been. Like, Lapras, then Umbreon, then Goodra just never die, Mewtwo is so op it got emergency nerfs, Miraidon will get the same thin, I'm betting on it.... Also the draft mode finally available.... for those who get into master rank 1400, and everyone in the match has to be that high for everyone to get it....... Go is just Go, what hasn't been said about it now tbh? Duel was nice. The reason it got discontinued is because of Masters EX. I mean, it ended in 2019, right? The same year Masters got released, both being a gacha game, but Masters inherently bringing more money thanks to the nostalgia of old characters.
6:27 I completely forgot about this game but I used to play it all the time in 2019/early 2020! One of the dining halls on my campus was sit down only unless you paid like $20 dollars for their to-go program (they had reusable plastic takeout containers, you’d get one and they trade it for a clean one the next time you went) and as someone who was usually eating there by myself cause my friends didn’t like that dining hall I’d play this anytime I got food from there. It’s definitely a simple game but I personally found it really enjoyable, and it’s also a game that you can easily play one handed. Literally redownloading it rn 😂
I’m a big Pokémon go guy, for me, I believe that the fun of Pokémon go is very similar to collecting the cards. Excahnge EXs for the trill of getting a shiny. I really enjoy the community aspect of it as me and my brother play it all the time and I love doing community days and Go fest. Like I look forward to Go Fest like a holiday.
I LOVED Pokemon Camp and Pokemon Duel as a kid, they were some of my favorite games I had I also played pokemon playhouse but I don't think I was as invested as the others
pokemon rumble rush was great for those of us who really liked the pokemon rumble series, but it took away the one thing that made it hella fun, the co-op multiplayer with friends. it just kinda became another grind game that get real repettitive real quick. Atleast when u played with friends u had more fun
For me, Pokemon Go the "end goal" of Pokemon go is to collect a sort of scrapbook of memories using Pokemon. Pokemon have their hatch/catch location tied to their ID in game. Every catch is associated with a different moment in my life. I still have some memorable ones from back in 2016. My friends and I hiked 2 miles through the woods for the promise of a Vaporeon and ended up all catching it, which was a big deal back then. Or my shiny Registeel from 2020. My dad and I don't connect over much, but we both enjoy getting out and playing go. After spending all day doing raids and talking about strategy I ended up finding my shiny. All of this is to say that Pokemon go is much more about community and memories then it is about Pokemon, at least to me anyway.
The main reason I play Pokémon GO still is because the game has an absolutely insane shiny rate of 1/500 *as it's standard rate,* meaning it can go lower during events like GO Fest and speaking of the events, they are on another level, sometimes adding shiny mythical Pokémon that you can then transfer to the mainline games.
Basically, imagine seeing a shiny Fennekin in an ultra ball, and it's not hacked in. If you told me that back in the X and Y days, I would not believe you, yet here I am with one I got while casually walking across my college campus trying to get to the cafeteria.
the essence of pokemon Go for me is the PVP side of it. You join the never ending events in the game to hopefully build yourself PVP ready pokemon and rank up as much as you can.
Pokemon duel was the best one. I was sad when it was discontinued. I didn't pay for anything except one time because i wanted to support the game. Just playing gave me a ton of figures to use. Even weaker figures could be used to great effect.
Pokemon smile is great for those of us with adhd. It helps me remember to do it and get every surface. I loved Magikarp Jump too.
Actually there is a custom server for pokemon duel by kaeru team but it only has multiplayer right now
How do I get it
pokemon duel was fun
@@michaelw5633 kaeru team has a guide on their website
Nah that game was full of sweaty whales, the only fun part was playing with friends
Really sad that Pokemon Quest was abandoned outside of China. It honestly was a wonderful experience
You mean china. It doesn’t get updates in Japan either.
@@Luke68028Ah thank you for the correction. I'll edit my original comment to match!
Wait IT’S RECEIVING UPDATES IN CHINA?!
@@johnnyknadler1157yep, has gen 2 pokemon, maybe gen 3 & 4 too, also a pvp mode
If you have an iPhone, if you make a Chinese Apple ID (super easy, just need a Chinese address which can be any Chinese address), you can explore the Chinese version of the game! Though it may be a little hard if there’s no translations haha, I loved Pokemon quest too
You went to basically every pokemon game , except Pokemon Shuffle Mobile, the best Pokemon puzzle game ever.
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I second this motion!
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THANK YOU! I was just waiting for this video to talk about it but I feel like I wasted my time and the video missed the opportunity to tell people about the best app game I've ever played!
LMAO isnt that pokemon's version of candy crush ?
Ah, I feel like Shuffle has so much potential for cool events. The game could've been great if they actually continued updating it, though event Pokemon reruns sure are a lot better than eos
Magikarp Jump was wild. Over the span of like 2 or so years I actually ended up finishing it. Like, in terms of completing all leagues. Without spending any money on microtransactions at all you will not have enough currency by the end to have bought everything, unless you pay real money of course. the late game of this game is more repetetive than the base game itself, forcing you to replay the last league again and again, watching through the same 3 cutscenes for hours at a time, with the only thing ever changing being the magikarp you fish after completion lol
I really liked Magikarp jump, mostly just collecting the different kinds of karp but it was a nice little mobile diversion
the random encounters after training and stuff was very appealing to me
Personally i love the repetitive gameplay only because i have the attention span of a magikarp 😭😭
Rest in peace Pokemon Duel. The best pokemon mobile game by far, and they just killed it for no good reason.
I was so excited when Duel came out because I loved the figure game and was sad when it went away. then i was sad when duel also went away...
That one was a really good game. I'm so mad that there's not more games like that
I loved Pokémon Duel before it was discontinued. It was really sad to see the “L, you can’t play this game anymore” message
I wanted to play it back then, and when I tried to play it, it's already discontinued.
so true i loved it
somebony know if a game like pokemon duel exist ?
I'm really sad it went away too, I thought it was so much fun... Although on its final days power creep was very real
I'm still sad about it, it was my favorite
Pokemon Smile is also really good for people struggling with mental health. :3 I don't usually have issues with it as far as brushing your teeth, but it's nice.
I literally said to myself "I wonder if this would help me remember/want to brush my teeth" when he started talking about this. Might have to check it out. I have ADHD (forgetfulness) and depression (makes me just not want to)
Yeah it actually really helped me get into the habit of brushing my teeth a few years ago when it first dropped
Can confirm it absolutely helps me remember/want to take care of myself! Not only brush my teeth but helped me get into a solid morning/night routine as well. For sure recommend anyone who is forgetful or suffers from a mental hurdle (or both, hi its me I'm both) to give it a try :)
Imagine not being able to brush your teeth like a Normal human being
@@phantommontalbanoinc.447ikr mental illness is truly awful
About Unite. Yes, Pokemon Unite has a more hardcore playerbase, it's not the microtransactions, those are easy to never even get close to paying for stuff. It's more of the balancing, especially in normal matches, high ranking players will get in a match with someone from low ranks and it stops being fun for the person who doesn't know the game that well/doesn't play too often
I can't even remember the amount of times i (ultra) got matchmaked with someone from either veteran or expert i don't remember, and they're always using the worst held items possible, whilst the other team is filled with ultra/master rank, or just ppl who know how to play the game
Yet after all this issues, I still love unite and will play it until it gets shutdown
@@Brisolo32 same, I love the game, but I can only play ranked and have fun when I reach master rank, other than that, I may end up fighting people with higher ranks or fight with people with lower ranks, which both sucks
Very true. Idk if its just the player base being small or something but i sometimes struggle with rank matches because of the unfair matches
Did I miss the part where he spoke about Pokémon Shuffle? It was my favorite pokemon mobile game, I was looking forward to hearing him talk about it.
Yes was thinking that too!
I think it’s missing. Also had it in mind.
yeah i thought the same! loved it
it was on the 3ds originally!
Pokemon rumble rush: Do you think they remember us?
Pokemon duel: Though faded memories of nostalgia.
And they were two of the best 😭😭😭
You mean Pokémon Rumble Rush because World was on 3DS.
I REMEMBER RUMBLE RUSH OMG!! THAT WAS MY CHILDHOOD :(
the pokedex 3d app was so monumental to me- all I'd do is sit there and create stories about all the b&w pokemon as I looked at them. I was very easy to entertain as a child with an extremely active imagination. I had no idea it was shut down though, so I always wondered why I could never find that app again.
I had it too!
Until 3DS finally took it.
Pokemon Sleep genuinely helped fix my sleeping schedule and body clock. I have pretty bad depression and waking up each morning can be tough, but the game really incentives you to go to sleep at regular times and rewards you with rarer Pokémon n stuff.
to put it into perspective, when I started using the app I used to sleep at 4am and wake up at 1pm the next day. A few months later I now go to sleep at 10:30pm and wake up at around 9am.
Idk what people are doing to make their phones overheat, its never happened with me. I just set it to sleep, put the phone face-down which makes the screen black while keeping the app running and have it lay next to me on the mattress. Only time it gets slightly warm is if a pillow falls on it or something.
I really wanted it to work for me to help with the Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, but the app just felt so clunky and slow and didn't help me wake up necessarily "rested". How does the game progress as you go along?
I love pokémon smile! I'm 21 and played it last year, only stopped because I caught all the pokémon, so I hope they add more in the future! The art style is adorable and it was a good way to motivate me to spend more time brushing my teeth. It also genuinelly helped me feel less miserable when I was going through a hard time, because I would play it at night and go to bed happy thinking about the cute pokémon I caugh.
Yeah I also catched 'em all, so I created a new user with a diff Pokemon and my goal was to 100% pokedex with every pokemon (eevee, pikachu, main 3)
Pokémon Duel was my favorite mobile game for a while and I was so sad when I couldn’t play it anymore. The figure based system with the chess like movements were perfect for me.
I'm a long-term Pokémon Masters EX player, and honestly, it's the most genuinely free-to-play friendly gatcha I've ever played, though... the UI is a lot, especially in Japanese. It's a bit less crowded in English, but... not by much...
The company that made it ran one of the more free to play friendly Final Fantasy gachas before Masters took off, so that makes sense.
I find it disgraceful that you didn't mentioned pokemon shuffle, being probably one of the best mobile games even if it's a bit more underwhelming than it's 3ds counterpart
I found shuffle was way more fun than Cafe. I got bored of Cafe pretty quick
@@campomambo understandable
You forgot one. Pokemon Shuffle. Very very obscure. It look even more like Candy Crush than Cafe Remix. No it's literally candy crush, level progression and gameplay and all.
The gameplay is very different from candy crush, the only "power-up" you can use during the puzzle is mega evolution, IF it's even worth using
shuffle is not "very very obscure" lmao relax
Pokemon Sleep is amazing! The way the gameplay elements encourage you to actually commit to your sleep schedule is great.
Yeah i'm fully addicted and it's absolutely improved my sleep,
I couldn't get hooked, didn't suit the way Im addicted to using the phone right when I wake up, isn't healthy for my productivity lol
it was fun at first but after like 8 months it is an exhausting chore more than anything. probably going to quit soon
Tbf i have never got any sleep issue but gosh i love Pokemon Sleep such an underrated game
I use Sleep. Only sounds it picks up is my very chatty cat.
Pokemon Duel was actually excellent. I only found out it was discontinued through this video :(
You could get good figures fairly easily because I remember getting Lugia and using him literally always, and I never paid for anything. It had a solid element of strategy and I remember luring the other player into traps many a time.
Rocket Elijah: I'm a Halo UA-camr.
Pokemon: "I'm about to change this man's whole career."
Now he's Team Rocket Elijah.
@@David_the_Psalmist He should actually change his handle to that.
"Did you know there's a pokemon game where you can date?"
Me: WHERE-
"Oh but it doesn't exist"
Me: SON OF A BI-
*Cries in Simp*
I mean, Masters gets kinda close to that with the Lounge :D
There always are some fangames you know.
I even remember about one with the visual novel style, in a school setting, and of course the characters have been aged up a bit and designed in that style to get simps. I think Moopsten might have made videos about it at some point, not sure though.
@@clemente3966 It stopped development unfortunately. I heard someone else took over but I don't if that's true.
In Pokemon Go there is a story infact multiple stories known as "Special Research" also there a raids that you can do with friends and random people just like that first trailer with mewtwo but even on the higher tier raids the most people nowadays that do them are like 6 - 8 people.
Yeah the thing about Pokémon go is that it’s pretty much a hardcore collectors game. you want to get all the shinies but you also want to get them with really high stats since they can’t be changed like in the mainline games, and it’s really dependent on where you live and if you have a community of other players. if you don’t live in big town/city or have any other players then you’re pretty much screwed over and can’t really do much
Something very tragic about pokemon duel was that they made it a LOT worse over its lifespan with the microtransactions. Back when the game first launched you could save up and buy pretty powerful figures and experiment with upgrades yourself, and it was a very forgiving game in terms of experimentation. Later on the power creep on newer figures got really rough, mix that with the fact that it became WAY harder to get the currencies needed for newer figures *AND* they increased the price on getting new figures too. Turning it into almost a necessity to spend real life money. It was scummy as hell and a complete turn around on the games design just to get more money. That was 100% a huge reason into why it died so fast.
I know! The early days were really fun, and it felt pretty balanced! Then ultrabeasts arrived to the game and it was basically impossible to win without any of the new figures
You're not missing out on anything with Unite. I played regularly for a little over a year before I just couldn't do it anymore. Microtransactions aren't even the issue. You can VERY easily get your held items to the optimal level. It's the SBMM, the way they have ranked setup, and the lack of consequences. Balance is also a big issue at times, but the 3 I named have been an issue since day 1.
PokemonGO is about the constant never ending grind to get the perfect Pokemon for various situations, as far as the gameplay is concerned. The real draw though is the sense of community. I ran my local scene for about 3 years by organizing raids everyday and events for everyone to get together. Even the devs want this to be what the game is for. To bring people together IRL. If you don't at least have 1 other person to enjoy the game with and "compete" with, then it really isn't all that fun. I can't play anymore due to an accident, but I most certainly would if I could. Niantic is a headache to deal with, but it was worth it to get to enjoy catching Pokemon with my best friends while making new ones.
The fact that Cafe Remix isn't a cooking game made me so mad when I tried it. I thought it was gonna be a cooking game, not a puzzle game :(
As somebody who has trouble keeping up a sleep schedule, Pokemon Sleep actually motivates me to go to sleep earlier so I can catch more Pokemon lol
It probably won't work for everyone, but it helps in my case
It used to help for me but i went back to my bad sleep schedule again after i started interning
IMO and experience, Pokemon Go’s big win is building a community or a network on top of a very enjoyable game. ive been a player since 2016 and never stopped up to this day and it made an avenue for me to meet different people from all walks of life.. even my core group of players now are composed of professionals (a lawyer, a university professor, a politician to name a few). The inclusion of live/real events really made this mobile game stood out among the rest, it isn’t a perfect game (and yes, i also despise the recent plethora of paid add ons) but it’s the company of friends and acquaintances that makes me continue playing
Well, I’m a huge Pokémon Go fan. The reasons that I stood with the game ever since 2016 is because of 3 simple reasons:
1) I’m also a huge Pokémon main series fan, I’ve played through every Pokémon region from Gen 5 and onward
2) I enjoy collecting and registering mons to my Pokédex. Whenever I look through my Pokémon collection, I have that sense of accomplishment and seeing how far I’ve come since I’ve started in 2016
3) Getting loads and loads of shinies and maybe even getting lucky enough to find some rare mons. It’s a simply just an adrenaline boost
One that no one ever talks about is Pokemon Shuffle, idk if you can still download it or anything but it's still on my phone to this day. It's a simple puzzle game that plays into mega evolution, I never see anyone talk about it but I personally find it really fun! Simple yet engaging and though it has micro transactions its not at all in your face about it. I believe it was released on the 3DS as well! Also this might be wrong but I think Pokemon picross was on mobile devices at some point? I know it was on 3DS but I think they cross released it like they have a handful of other Pokemon mobile games
I got recommended Pokemon Shuffle on my app store a couple of months ago, and me and my boyfriend have been playing it since, I had no idea it had been around for so long!
The Special Stages still change on certain dates so I assumed it wasn't abandoned, but apparently in 2018 they did a final update and those stages are set on a cycle that repeats until 2037
Fun fact: In Pokémon Sword and Shield: The Isle of Armor, you can find Mustard playing Pokémon Quest on his Nintendo Switch!
The thing is these games are good. most of them...
They're about as good as mobile games can get, which certainly isn't that great.
Pokemon Masters EX has one of my favorite things just hidden in plain sight. In the Johto Games, Pokemon Champion Lance has his Dragonite use Hyper Beam on an actual human, a Black Belt trainer class. In Masters EX, it was discovered that there's a Black Belt who talks about working in Mahogany town (where this took place) and that he's been afraid of dragon-types ever since.
As a massive Pokemon fan who has basically all the Pokemon Apps still available for download.... it's a bit sad that I haven't played them all (still haven't started Masters EX). I remember I did have Pokemon Duel, it was real fun. Magikarp Jump is fun, and I use Pokemon Smile to help me brush my teeth b/c AuDHD makes that hard. And Pokemon Sleep is what I use every night, I've gotten quite a few shinies through it.
Fun fact:
There's even a medal if you beat a blackbelt's mon with Hyper Beam. There are a few units that can use it now, but when the medal got added, only Lance and Dragonite could use it. And the medal is depicting a dragonite during the Beam at the head of a blackbelt. AND the name of the medal is Dragonite, use Hyper Beam!
Honestly, you should start now. Because there's a log un bonus of 10 tickets, each giving a 10 pull on a banner with a lot of limited units (even the rarest ones) and the number of 5 stars is big enough so that you'd often get one. Plus the gems as another log in bonus for the 4.5 anniversary.
Interesting thing about Pokemon Quest, there is a separate Chinese port that is still being updated (I think they’ve added Pokemon up to Galar now). It also has PvP, bosses, and player customization. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the game was licensed to a different company in China but GameFreak just gave up on the global one, so it stopped being updated.
"I played every pokemon mobile game"
>leaves out the one mobile spinoff that I sunk the most hours into
Pokémon duel was SO good, still have it downloaded on my phone
Pokemon Masters is PEAK
It tells the entire Pokémon Games’ history in a nutshell.
Best music in the series as well
It's the best game, lore-wise
@@HerooftheWild it’s also quite fun
God bless your soul for uploading right as I finish making my food so I can be an I pad kid for the next few minutes
Pokemon duel will always have a special place in my heart, that game was amazing and I wish they would keep supporting it
I think the hump with getting into Pokémon Go is realising that the main gameplay loop IS catching Pokémon. You need to catch heaps to power up the ones you want to keep, catch to get stardust/candy for that, catch to keep getting Pokémon for the things you want to do. Best if you enjoy doing PvP (which is pretty garbage compared to main line games) or if you enjoy collecting them all. If you don’t enjoy catching lots of Pokémon it’s probably not the game for you… which niantic would make it more interesting to play more actively.
The Pokémon sleep meta is actually very in depth. I’ve never had the phone heat problem. It auto darkens like Pokémon go does
I loved Magikarp Jump while I had it, honestly so much fun and such a weird silly distraction as a clicker game. The aesthetic is so endearing even though I do wish there was some more actual interaction.
You have no idea how much I was itching for you to mention one of my favorite Pokémon mobile games, and I was about to be SO DEVASTATED if you happened to forget it… but you didn’t! Pokémon Duel is and always will be one of my absolute favorite Pokémon mobile games ever. I have screenshots dating back to 2019 before the game shut down of me playing and it was such a fun game for me to pass time, as I downloaded it just as a distraction-but let me tell you when I got insanely into it. The game itself managed to make Larvesta (of all Pokémon) one of my favorites LOL! I’ll never forget how sad I was once the game was shut down. Great video!
Let me tell you, Camp Pokemon was insane fun, the perfect game to get me in the summer mood, I used to replay it every summer. I can confidently say that Playhouse was NOT a good successor and I was bored within 30 minutes of starting
bro forgot the peak of pokemon mobile games (pokemon shuffle play pokemon shuffle its not updated anymore but its still very good
Pokemon Duel was SO GOOD. I'm so mad it got disconnected
am glad you like masters, its honestly one of the best sources for lore and character interactions for those who love the worldbuilding and story, and its honestly still really polished
thank you so much for resurfacing my memory of camp pokemon. i genuinely forgot about it but i loved it as a kid. i remember just playing it to watch the movie clips it had in the stupid tent thing
R.I.P Pokémon TV. Literally free and you could watch most if not all the episodes. “Oh,” I thought “I have Amazon Prime I can watch it on there!” Little did I know they removed it from Prime. Now I am anime-less and alone. 😔 (I don’t know why I made this so dramatic 😂)
YES, HE MADE THE VIDEO!!! MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!!!
(Magikarp Jump was a big part of my childhood, for some inexplicable reason)
haha lol same I loved that game as a smol child for some reason lmao
Yall are making me feel old saying you were small kids when the game came out 😭 I was 18
I recently beat Magikarp Jump, and honestly, you have to love Magikarp if you're going to finish that game. It is pretty shallow and casual, very low maintenance, but there's a beautiful little story there between you and all of your little virtual fish, being so good at jumping. Yeah, it's not flashy and dangerous like pokemon battling, but it doesn't mean it's not impressive for a so called "useless" fish to jump so high! I certainly can't jump that high. It was a fun, sweet little game, and I'm glad I was able to finish it, especially without paying money lol
Pokémon sleep is actually SO fun and such a master class of systems design
The idea that some people think your phone can catch fire if you sleep with it is utterly ridiculous. Its not possible unless your phone was defective in the manufacturing to begin with. If that is the case, you have MUCH bigger problems then worrying about if you should sleep with it.
Sadly, you never got to play Pokémon Duel which was the best pokemon phone game ever released. I miss it so much.
Camp Pokémon was my CHILDHOOD... I am now depressed
I had all of the pokemon and probably collected each of them 3 times over, at the minimum. It was a amazing game and I will miss it.
One thing i quite like about pokemon go is hunting for shinnies, since there are events like community day and others where the chances of finding one is quite high.
If you get a friend to play one of this events with you, you can in the end trade the shiny with an old pokemon (like from 2016 or before) and it guarantees that it will become a lucky pokemon (lucky pokemon is a whole can of worms, but the simple part is that it rerolls it's iv for a high value, maybe even perfect ivs).
After that, you can send some of this pokemon to pokemon home, and from there, you can place them in a lot of mainline games, which in my opinion is a quite fun way for shiny farming.
What about Pokemon Shuffle? I know it was on the 3DS, but it's on mobile devices. I thought you would mention this one lol
Pokémon camp was my favourite mobile game, no joke. For like 2 years. Or something, I was addicted to this shit
I would love to see some more Pokémon content from you!! I know that I personally have moved more into playing Pokémon / watching Pokémon YT content, now that Animal Crossing new content has been....well absent. So I know that I'd love to see you doing some stuff on Pokémon, just in your style/editing way. This is obviously just my opinion though, please keep doing whatever makes YOU happy, whatever sustains your channel & fulfils you, as thats the most important thing. But just wanted to say that I'd def support you doing some more Pokémon/Non-Animal Crossing content. Great video though! 🌟
I'll always have a bit of love for Pokemon Smile because it got me brushing my teeth again after a major depressive slump.
This is gonna be really chaotic lol
Off-topic, but I’m waiting for new leaf video I will wait five years. I don’t care how long it takes.🤣
It will come…eventually
eventually is the key world@@RocketElijah
It will be when he’s on his deathbed and even then it still won’t be pit
@@RocketElijah I will wait until the eventually comes
there are some story elements in pokemon go now with diff reseach quests where npcs will talk to you, but pokego is still most popular for collecting, its events, and of course playing with others! there are so many events now, i always have an excuse to go for a walk! ive even made friends with some neighbors and we play together sometimes. :) like when we raided for hisuian decidueye as a group
I still play Pokemon Go. I'm actually a daily, active, free-to-play player. I min-max on are there to continue playing this way. I see Pokemon go as a great way to bridge the gap to complete my dex and to get easy shinies for the mainline games.
Let's go I always wanted to see you playing most of these Pokémon games
I’ve played Pokemon Go since it’s launch in 2016! I did have some breaks in 2017-2018 though. On top of catchin em all, my personal dumb quest is to gild gym badges, I’m currently at 400+ unique gyms!
PoGo has helped me a lot with my anxiety. The best thing about it to me is the community (my small-ish city in Finland has a super active player base). I’ve met and befriended some really cool & diverse people I would have never met without playing PoGo. Also the fact that it makes me go out a lot is a huge plus 😁
I think the part about Pokémon go that’s still appealing is the collection of it. Like I’ve been playing pikmin bloom pretty consistently for the past couple months cause it’s basically Pokémon go and the main thing that keeps me coming back is how many pikmin types there are to collect and i feel like that’d be the same for go
Pokemon Shuffle was the best one in my opinion. It was like a good mix of Pokemon Cafe Remix and Disney Emoji Blitz
Personally, around 2 years ago I had my Pokémon Go resurgence and I’ve been playing the game consistently ever since. For a while, I never really played avidly because it got pretty boring pretty quickly. What got me back into it was playing with my friends and getting really competitive with all the mons we could find! This past weekend there was an event in LA that we got to participate in and it was a great reminder of how much I love the game cause we got to meet a bunch of really cool people who also loved Pokémon! I’m the first to say that the game is far from perfect, but there’s something really fun and special about getting to play with people who are as into it as you are.
Pokemon go is perfect for collecting. If you aren't a big collector at heart, if may not be for you. It's also a good distraction for a short phases of boredom. It gets you out of the house and you meet people. I've met SO MANY people through this game and I keep seeing some of them regularly through the weekly raid hours or other events. Meeting someone for an evening to trade some Pokemon is fun and there's also the PVP league if you like to play competitive. There are many goals you can give yourself, like, getting a max IV mon of each type, a living dex, collect all the shinys or some crazy goals like having a shiny legendary of each type and form. But you really need to do either pvp or raids to have a reason to max out and pursue stronger Pokemon. Because, if you want to power up your Pokemon, you need Stardust which means you need to catch a ton of Pokemon. So you just keep catching. getting more and getting better.
what got me back into pokemon go was the 2 pokestops and gym at the college near my house. it's only fun when you can play competitively with other people and do gym battles + raids
As someone who doesnt own any switch or consoles that support pokemon, i often find myself leaning towards pokemon go or pokemon unite.. I think these two are the best, pokemon go for collecting pokemon and giving you somewhat of a reason to go out more, and pokemon unite giving you that battle aspect. Even tho it isnt like the original games
Im a bit disappointed you gave up on Pokemon Sleep so fast. It’s actually an entire game, behind the initial appearance of being a sleep tracker. In my opinion, its one of the most well-thought-out and mechanically-deep pokemon games weve had in a long time. It is a criminally underrated game.
Thank you for the information! I also subbed because the button blinked; never saw that before so i thought it was extremely unique.
Love the video! Was fun seeing a lot of apps I either never heard of or have a weird nostalgia for. Instant subscribe. Love the Animal Crossing avatar too.
I think one really minor nitpick I have is the paper background animates way too fast. I found it often distracting. But that's such a minor complaint it basically doesn't matter.
It's cool that you made a part 2. This must have been a lot of work.
Fun fact: Magikarp Jump had a specialized episode in Pokemon Journeys.
Its when Go& caught some XXXL^2 Magikarp then a follow up episode, the Jump contest was there.
"some XXXL^2 Magikarp"
You will put respect on the name of the Lord of the Lake.
(In case you didn't know, it is a thing in Platinum where you can find in the Resort Area some water in which there's a Magikarp of every level, from 1 to 100 included, the level 100 one being the Lord of the Lake.)
@@clemente3966 The tremendous size resemble its Godlike capabilities, I've heard. As the wonderful Creature's size Shows its Loyal Power, *Our* Diglets don't share this prestigious count.
Magikarp Jump I think was the inspiration for an episode in Pokemon Journeys.. well half-episode. Where Goh teaches his magikarp to jump high. which it does.. and didn't come back down for days.
It's worth noting, and a LOT of people miss this, that being able to buy item enhancers in Pokemon Unite with real money wasn't intended. At launch, Item Enhancers were locked to only being buyable with the in-game currency (you can see it at 18:21, where every item except Item Enhancers has a price in both coupons and gems). The problem was that when you try to use an item you have zero of, a menu pops up saying "would you like to buy more?" People noticed pretty quickly that they forgot to remove the "buy with gems" option from that menu.
So they were stuck in a state where they'd have give back a lot of money if they actually fixed the bug. Instead, they just added a New Player reward where everyone who starts playing gets 300 free Item Enhancers (enough to max out a full loadout of three items, so new players aren't gimped).
As someone who just recently got back into Pokemon go, the fun for me at least is just having something to do when I’m on a walk or on a break at work. It’s not a game with a “goal” imo, it just enhances sorta mundane things. And the option to put your shinies or good Pokemon into a main line game is really cool too and is usually in the back of my mind when you fully evolve a charzard or something like that. And getting to hatch eggs which are pretty much loot boxes from walking a lot like I do at work is always a plus lol
(Also Pikmin bloom is awesome. A lot more hands off and is pretty much a fun step tracker. If you walk a lot it’s fun to send your Pikmin on a expedition and coming back to to pull some Pikmin or plant some flowers)
man I got a wave of nostalgia when yu mentioned pokemon camp I swear I just unlocked some long buried memories
also RIP duel loved that game
I LOVED CAMP POKEMON thank you so much for yhis nostalgia wave
I wish i could go back and experience it again even if its not intended for my age group anymore lol
30:57 That Feraligatr though.... So many jokes...
Pokemon Go is a game that definitely has had a bit of history with the community.
However one of the best things about Pokemon Go is the people you meet along the way. Because of Pokemon Go I have met hundreds of interesting people within my state and outside my states due to Pokemon Go's Tour or Go Fest events. This allows you to meet people that are very unique and may not have same interest with you. But you both have one common thing. You guys like Pokemon.
The core base of Pokemon Go is basically just a catch em all. You want to catch them all you will go ahead and do so. We have Mega's Shinies, Costumed you name it. There's events that will feature location exclusive pokemons with location backgrounds. It makes you feel good. There's also their own PVP which is it's own story that allows you to battle other people in their own tournaments via the app. The game also features events almost every week where you can meet with people. Community Days, Raid Hours/Days. There are routes you can follow for bonuses and of course raids. There's more I can talk about in the ends it's about the community.
i remember playing pokemon duel back when i had my old phone before said phone broke. i suddenly remembered the game years later, and was confused as to why it wasnt available anymore. my curiosity has finally been fed!
I actually really enjoyed my time with Pokemon Duel. The figures looked really cool and the way the game was set up made me feel like I could actually do well with my favorites and not just the really good ones. I was honestly heavily invested in the story and was excited for when it would reach its conclusion, but then it suddenly disappeared from my phone and I never really knew what happened to it
21:35 The thing that keeps me going in Pokémon Go is the shinies and exclusive Pokemon and community days and events like the Sinnoh World Tour Event which is a series of annual events in the game happening for one specific region each year and go fest.
@RocketElijah
I just finished watching the part about Pokemon quest, so I'm sure that you repeatedly said there are only the first 151 but showed the rest without mentioning that the game is continued in China because legally it's considered as another game there compared to the rest of the world or something. Anyway, no mention of that explanation, that's not cool.
Then, for Masters EX.
Aside from a few pieces of video showing more recent things, those were all from the early stages of the game, and the commentary shows you don't know much about it so I'll add onto it: not only do older characters return, but nearly every character can end up getting other partners associated with amternative outfits, from Sygna Suits to anniversary outfits, while passing through seasonal ones (Christmas, Easter, summer,etc.) and other categories. The official pkmn yt channel even put an illustration of Sygna suit Gladion on their community post from yesterday. And let's not forget about the music, since the game gets remixes and even personal versions of the E4 theme for each member in each region (check out Koga's theme btw), better yet, some characters got their themes extended or even turned into fighting ones.
There's just so much to say to cover this game, so I'll stop there.
You actually did Magikarp Jump justice, nothing to say about that.
And I'm mentioning Masters EX and Jump because both made their way to the anime:
Cynthia got a first alternate outfit with Kommo-o, and during the Journey series, when she appeared, she used one there too.
While Magikarp Jump went into a double-episode, in the first half of it and as the solution for the second episode. It also was a reference to the Lord of the Lake of Sinnoh.
I might add later to the comment, but for now, I'll watch the rest.
Alright, time for part 2.
Pokemon tcg live was a technological mess when I left it after that Lugia expansion during Sword and Shield, and I bet it's still that bugged and lagging, so honestly, nothing to miss there until they fix it, you got that on point.
Unite isn't that niche. It has its own official world tournament, and which game other than it, the main games, the tcg and go have one? None that I know of, so Unite is one of the biggest side games, no way it is niche. Add to this that some hype came back when Zacian and later on when Mewtwo at the anniversary of the game, plus the upcoming Miraidon (btw, I see you got some test servers footage, did you get it from another video or did you already have access to them or did you get access to them only for this video?). And don't forget to explicitly mention how broķen nearly each new mon has been. Like, Lapras, then Umbreon, then Goodra just never die, Mewtwo is so op it got emergency nerfs, Miraidon will get the same thin, I'm betting on it.... Also the draft mode finally available.... for those who get into master rank 1400, and everyone in the match has to be that high for everyone to get it.......
Go is just Go, what hasn't been said about it now tbh?
Duel was nice. The reason it got discontinued is because of Masters EX. I mean, it ended in 2019, right? The same year Masters got released, both being a gacha game, but Masters inherently bringing more money thanks to the nostalgia of old characters.
6:27 I completely forgot about this game but I used to play it all the time in 2019/early 2020! One of the dining halls on my campus was sit down only unless you paid like $20 dollars for their to-go program (they had reusable plastic takeout containers, you’d get one and they trade it for a clean one the next time you went) and as someone who was usually eating there by myself cause my friends didn’t like that dining hall I’d play this anytime I got food from there. It’s definitely a simple game but I personally found it really enjoyable, and it’s also a game that you can easily play one handed. Literally redownloading it rn 😂
I’m a big Pokémon go guy, for me, I believe that the fun of Pokémon go is very similar to collecting the cards. Excahnge EXs for the trill of getting a shiny. I really enjoy the community aspect of it as me and my brother play it all the time and I love doing community days and Go fest. Like I look forward to Go Fest like a holiday.
The thing that keeps me addicted to Pokémon go are community days, go fest go tours ,raid days etc 21:32
"The music was a banger for Pokemon GO"?!
I never thought I'd hear that, ever.
I loved Pokémon Duel so much, I was so sad when it got removed
I LOVED Pokemon Camp and Pokemon Duel as a kid, they were some of my favorite games I had
I also played pokemon playhouse but I don't think I was as invested as the others
pokemon rumble rush was great for those of us who really liked the pokemon rumble series, but it took away the one thing that made it hella fun, the co-op multiplayer with friends. it just kinda became another grind game that get real repettitive real quick. Atleast when u played with friends u had more fun
I love magikarp jump.. I’m so sad when my magikarp have to leave to retire but sometimes they swim past your lake and that makes me smile
For me, Pokemon Go the "end goal" of Pokemon go is to collect a sort of scrapbook of memories using Pokemon. Pokemon have their hatch/catch location tied to their ID in game. Every catch is associated with a different moment in my life. I still have some memorable ones from back in 2016. My friends and I hiked 2 miles through the woods for the promise of a Vaporeon and ended up all catching it, which was a big deal back then. Or my shiny Registeel from 2020. My dad and I don't connect over much, but we both enjoy getting out and playing go. After spending all day doing raids and talking about strategy I ended up finding my shiny. All of this is to say that Pokemon go is much more about community and memories then it is about Pokemon, at least to me anyway.
The main reason I play Pokémon GO still is because the game has an absolutely insane shiny rate of 1/500 *as it's standard rate,* meaning it can go lower during events like GO Fest and speaking of the events, they are on another level, sometimes adding shiny mythical Pokémon that you can then transfer to the mainline games.
Basically, imagine seeing a shiny Fennekin in an ultra ball, and it's not hacked in. If you told me that back in the X and Y days, I would not believe you, yet here I am with one I got while casually walking across my college campus trying to get to the cafeteria.
the essence of pokemon Go for me is the PVP side of it. You join the never ending events in the game to hopefully build yourself PVP ready pokemon and rank up as much as you can.
I LOVED pokemon duel, amazing figures and fun gameplay