"Actions Speak Louder Than Words since he was a toddler." I love the idea that Red has been, like, nonverbal his entire life. Blue trying to have a conversation with him, and he's just like "..." at five years old or something
Your long form videos are as good and even better than some of the leading longform video game video essayists. You're not just summarizing the game, you're digging into the development history, game mechanics and features, fan theories, as well as your own lived experience and history as a fan of these games. Bravo
Glad someone else thinks let's go is how pokemon should look!!! Also I'm very glad to hear a reviewer who doesn't only nostalgia dump about the earliest games
Lets go is absolutely the direction the series should've went visually, I look at stuff like concierge and Cafe with thier bright color schemes and get real jealous the main stuff didn't go that direction. Also, the nostalgia dump for gen 1 is quite past my time, now when we get to sinnoh.....we might have a sprinkle of nostalgia or two 🤏
Visually yes, direction I get it, its lets go and its fine just wish it had a mode that played like say gen 3, but it did help flesh out certain characters and it did respect what came before, you fight red, green and even blue whom was gonna be used as the female trainer who borrowed a lot from her manga adaption. Mostly her playfulness and quirk tossing pokeballs at you. They are optional boss trainers and I loved that. It gave us poke buddies to follow and even ride on. Since it was gen 7, alolan variants got to show up and some changes here and there.
Saaaame, love these deep dives.... I don't want some short, copycat script about Red or Gold that seems like it could have been written by an AI. Let's talk about this shiiiiiiiz.....
God love this kind of long form content especially on one of my favorite franchises! This is so well made and I'm super excited to watch the second video and the rest of the series in the future
I can absolutely not agree on the yellow hate. Yellow is by far the best version of Gen 1. The redrawn sprites, that actually look like they are supposed to alone are worth the choice. It also has some minor tweaks to some Pokemons movesets, like Charizard being able to learn Fly. Movesets in Gen1 are absolute dogwater, so even the slightest improvement is worth pointing out. The levelcurve "issue" was a way Gamefreak tried to fix how brokenly OP the stat XP system was in favor of the player. Since enemies all have 0 stat XP, your own team is basically allways 10 level higher than what it looks like, once you reach the midgame. If this was 99, and the question is, is Yellow worth getting, when you allready had Red/Blue, then the answer is probably no, since there aren't that many differences that make that purchase worth it, but today, if the plan is to either revisit Gen 1, or play it for the first time, then there is no reason to not choose Yellow. Unless you purposely wanna see the bad sprites i guess. But then again, there is also no reason to not just play Yellow Legacy, which has fixed all the issues Gen 1 has.
100% agree. I was so perplexed by the yellow hate. Like ok Koga has some venonats but the game gifts you a charmander lol. Sabrina is the only real challenge but even then you can delay that fight until after Blaine if you’re really struggling. Although it’s a bit more challenging than Red and Blue, Yellow is not exactly a hard game and is still way easier than e.g. Pokémon Black and White imo.
@@woollychannel6759 Koga's "team" is the closest they could get ingame to mimicking the anime style of one Pokemon constantly getting stronger and evolving mid battle. Sabrina does the same thing. Also Sabrina suffers from the Gen 1 trainer AI, where she is completely useless if you just fight her with a Psychic type of your own, because the AI just starts spamming recover. She's completely helpless against a Hypno or Exeggutor.
This is an amazing video. The jokes are top-tier made me laugh out loud multiple times which I was not expecting your whole thing with Erica's gym was hilarious. You're angry at pokémon yellow, which I don't understand. Was still interesting to listen to count me. Interested in your channel. Definitely going to watch the rest of your pokémon content at least
You don't know how kids figured out Oaks Parcel? Maybe if someone couldn't read that could be a problem but otherwise, it was completely obvious. There is an NPC that literally tells you to visit a mart, you don't have many other things to do, since the Pewter route is blocked, and the guard won't let you past towards Victory Road. So after speaking to everyone and checking out every route, you'll eventually enter the Pokemart, where the guy tells you to bring that parcel to Oak. Since there is nothing else to do, might as well run that errand, and be rewarded with progress. Now the thing i'm 98% sure almost nobody found out. If you decide to go back to Viridian, beat the Rival, and go back to Oak without ever buying any Pokeballs, he'll gift you 5. It's pretty logical you wouldn't find that, since the first time you enter the mart, the guy won't sell you anything, so you'll be inclined to go back and try to buy something after you ran the errand, and buy your Pokeballs. The reason modern EXP share is unliked is that it boosts the amount of EXP earned significantly, since every mon participating gets full XP, and every other gets half. Gen 1 EXP all split half the XP between participating mons, and the other half between everyone else, meaning you would still only get 100% EXP, instead of 350% minimum. Thats a huge difference. Actually in Gen 1 thanks to rounding you probly even lose XP by using EXP all.
I'm definitely looking forward to seeing the spinoffs get their own retrospectives, particularly the Mystery Dungeon series. I initially got hooked by your Fossil Fighters vid. Though, I must admit that I'm curious if you're familiar with the Spectrobes series as well.
Thank You so much! Spectrobes has been requested quite abit on the channel recently, I have no personal experience with the series but I do plan on checking it out. I just need time to familiarize myself with the games.
@@Chubby_Bubby Luckily, it doesn't seem like they're hard to get ahold of. Or at least as far as the DS games go. There are also guides for the card inputs, so you don't need to have them all to get the rewards from them.
The “Smell ya later” thing DID come from a cartoon. It’s one of Nelson the bully’s catchphrases on The Simpsons. That’s probably where the localizers got it from.
Adored this retrospective. I’ve only played Let’s Go Pikachu out of the Kanto games so learning the ins and outs of the other games’ strengths and flaws was great.
This was such a fun retrospective, I really enjoyed it & had a big smile on my face throughout. It's also pretty rare for me to find a video of this length & agree with the bulk of the rants. [About the only thing I didn't agree with would be the opinion on Yellow. I see it as equal to RGB.] LOVED your thoughts on Trace, listen I am the Gen 7 Defender and I was cheering at my TV at that shit. I also appreciate sharing your teams, whenever I watch retrospectives I ALWAYS wish for a section where they'd do EXACTLY what you did!
WE WILL ALWAYS REP TRACE AT THIS HOUSE 🏠 🙌 Also about the teams IKR I'm always so curious about the teams people use cause I think it's probably the most interesting part of a monster taming experience. BUT PEOPLE NEVER TALK ABOUT IT!
I personally like yellow more than red/blue. It's more challenging and the Elite 4 aren't as easily manipulated (bring any poison type against Lance's dragonite).
Really great retrospective! I'm really happy you tackled ALL Kanto games sequentially to see how it evolves, since most people save the remakes for their gen of origin. Also nice to see an appreciation for the original 151 when it doesn't seem like it was your childhood era!
I don't know if someone has already mentioned, but there are 5 non-posion Grass types in Gen 1 not just one; Tangela, Paras, Parasect, Eggsecute, and Eggsecutor.
You did such an amazing job on this and I’m so excited to see you do this for the whole series. Your commentary is both well thought out, and hilarious in the best ways possible. Please keep up the amazing work ✊🏽😫
criminally under-rated video. Glad to be one of your early subscribers before the algorithm picks you up. I want to especially compliment your tangents. You seem to write what comes to mind. But manage to make naturally fit your greater narrative. That is a huge strength. And I loved the video all the more for it
Thank you! Especially that last part, the tangents are genuinely one of my favorite part of the script writing cause it is something I do alot irl. So I'm pretty well practiced, though I still get nervous that they may go on a bit too long 😅 By the way which one of my videos made you sub?
@@Chubby_Bubby Well I only found you just before bed. So the Kanto Retrospective. But I look forward to going through all your content. Been looking for more longfrom stuff!
In the Let’s Go games what I think should have happened is that the “new” Pokemon added would be like the baby Pokemon (and even introduce breeding), and all the evolutions of Kantonian Pokemon from Gen 2 onward (as long as the conditions could be met). Like you could evolve Eevee into Glacian at Sea Foam islands or Leafeon in Virdian Forest for example. Another thing I would do, in order to peak curiosity is to have trainers from other regions visit and even battle you with Sinnoh, Hoenn, Unova, even maybe introduce a (then new) Galar Pokemon…but you catch them because they’re not native to Kanto. You get to battle them sure, and maybe Professor Oak explains to you about different regions and how while the Kanto Regional Pokedex might be 151, there’s untold numbers of Pokemon throughout the world and if you wanna learn more, he’ll tell you to one day go visit Professor Magnolia in the Galar Region and she’ll teach you. Make the world feel lived in.
Idk how everyone figured it out, but as far as oaks parcel, i wanted to catch pokemon so i B-Lined for the pokemart and my helpful child self just went about the request and continued on. Never knew you couldnt juat walk through there until my second time and never thought about how i learned of the parcel again.
'i don't know how kids back in the day got through this' ie finding out to talk to the person the mart it's easy. you want pokemon, you go to the pokemart to get pokeballs. you can't get pokeballs b/c you gotta deliver the package. you take the package, go to oak and deliver it then go back and get your pokeballs. it's basic exploration and common sense back when games let you figure things out than holding your hand like you aren't smart enough to do the math. great retrospective video btw; i'm watching through them all. that statement just puzzled me.
Just came off your gen 2 video, excited to watch this, excited for future videos but also, "Videos I made in 8th grade going from kanto to galar" I took fucking psychic damage from that, ow. Hahah. Meanwhile here my ass is still happily playing each gen since the first released when I was in like...second grade.
Original Blue is definitely not a complete ass, the stuff he says comes off more "big brother teasing". Though I do really like Pokéspe Blue, and I think his shittyness is similarly childish. Also, I like that Blaine's gym trainers are all burglars. I don't remember if it's canon or fan theory but I like the idea that he was picking them up from the mansion in Cinnabar and giving them a stable job. Also, Bill is kinda insane. Forget the whole swapping bodies thing, Bill took the PC system made for storing items and not only made functionality for storing Pokémon but also provided *multiple* sections of it for free for every trainer. You literally don't even know you're using his system until you meet him.
I always found it funny that the pc just says "someone's" pc til you find the regional IT guy! As a kid I just assume we stole someone else's box and didn't tell em LOL 😂
Love the video. Ive seen just about every pokemon retrospective but this regional retrospective format is really unique. I really like your analysis whether i agree with certain points or not. Subbed bc i cant wait to watch all of them. Fun fact for you. The reason only 202 were in RSE was bc the feedback they got for Gen 2 was it felt the same as Gen 1 due to the fact the Gen 2 pokemon took a huge backseat to Gen 1 pokemon during the main story in availability and representation in trainer teams. So they scrapped their plans to do the same with Gen 3 and originally only wanted Gen 3 pokemon in the game. Like BW way before its time. They only added in older mons to balance the game. I agree with this decision as i do feel Gen 2 mons are largely ignored before postgame in GSC hardly any of the important trainers use them and it does feel more like Gen 1 in that regard. I disagree the games feel the same Gen 2 added so many new mechanics idk what ppl are talking about. Sorry this is getting a little TLDR but thought that was an interesting tidbit.
I startd my Pokemon journey with Yellow and I dropped off around the 4th or 5th gen, though I kept playing for half of Sun/Moon but pretty much on autopilot after Sinnoh. I still love Pokemon, I know of the newer gens and like a few of the new Pokes, but I really only play an online pokemon mmo now, which has the early Pokes.
I agree a lot with all the complaining LMAO Specially in Yellow, and Let's Go...I actually stopped playing Let's Go because I got SO bored. Like, cute graphics but I ALREADY did this back in 98 😅 I hated Pikachu so much, its an ok electric but I would prefer an Electrabuzz or even a Magnamite now. Or you know...Raichu. Also Bulbasaur Master Race 😎 I tried other pokemons but Bulbasaur is the best for 1st Gen, until Erika he is ready to take down everything
Man I don't know why Gamefreak hate Double Battles so much. It gives the battle system automaticilly huge amount of depth without changing the formula. But nope, remakes only in the Battle Tower. And removed in Let's Go. Gamefreak wtf. Excellent video my friend! 🧡
Great video man ! And don't feel guilty for liking Let's Go, you do you. I personally don't care too much about it(Losing my save file kinda soured my thought on it), but there is some things that can only be found there, which makes it really interesting to go back on.
"I'm sorry Vaporeon, but maybe you would appreciate it not being in the puplic eye" HOOOOLD UUUP 😂 Is that referring to what i think it's referring to, what you referred to other "references" with that? 😂
In Gen 3, at least for Emerald as it is the game that I own, there is a limit on the number of items you can have in your inventory in the Items part of the inventory. However, you have to accumulate a lot of items to do that. I always put things like heartscales, evolution stones, shards, and certain held items that I currently don't have a use for in the PC as their usage is very niche and are not necessary for you to have them with you all the time. I wished they kept it for Gen 4 because scrolling in the inventory to find a specific item is significantly slower than it was in Gen 3.
I agree and I disagree. Basically, I agree, besides your take on yellow, and I didn't like Trace because I thought he was annoying, but I get why you like him now. With yellow though, I think whether you'll prefer it or the originals depends on how much you like the original series' icons. They're basically the same experience as far as I know (but I grew up on Yellow, so that may be my bias showing). Anyway, if you like the iconic stuff from the show like having all the starters, Pikachu following behind you, or Jessie and James showing up now and then, you'll probably prefer yellow to red/blue. If you don't like the Pikachu though, it's not like you can't send him to computer jail and play it similar to red or blue, just with all of the starters over just the one. I like the sprites better too. I would play FR/LG over yellow, but yellow over R/B. I like the Let's go games, but the control really kneecaps the game unless you play handheld. Nice video though, I liked it. And yeah, the Teachy TV is a perfect compromise on tutorials.
I get what you mean, if I grew up like that I'd probably prefer it aswell. (Though no raichu is kinda dealbreaking) How do u feel about lets go? In alot of ways it very much an HD yellow, but I never hear much about it in comparison to yellow.
@Chubby_Bubby I think it feels like a pretty accurate remake of yellow. There's even a few neat easter eggs here and there. I believe it was in the Pokémon fan's house where you get the voucher, he's got memorabilia for Pikachu, Eevee, and Clefairy, which is a cute reference to Pokémon pink. I like the new catching mechanics in concept, but the control needs a lot of work. If you could map buttons to play it like you're in handheld mode I might pick it over FR/LG, honestly. Though the lack of a post game and Johto Pokémon still makes that a tough decision. Paywalling Mew instead of making it a mini event was a bit of a mistake. Wasn't that around the time the first movie remake came out? I forget. If it was though, missed opportunity for it to be tied to movie ticket sales or a mystery gift or something. The follow Pokémon mechanic was perfect, and I would almost excuse the dex cut if every game had this kind of feature...almost. Here, it feels like it works though. I kinda wish you could get SOME Johto 'mons after the champion. I just really love Furret, he's just so cute. Anyway, the loss of the Sevii islands was a bummer, but understandable. I remember liking some of the challenges where you raised a specific Pokémon to fight a champion of that species one on one, and I was gonna do most of them but it got stale with nothing else to do besides the character rematches every day. I liked the teams of the old cast, but wish Red would occasionally use his G/S/C team to parallel the player if they took all the Pokémon like the original game Red did (and I did in my run for nostalgia). I think they're using their Manga teams though? Which is cool if they are. I think this art style is perfect, and they really should have stuck with it. I liked being able to pet your Pikachu or Eevee, but I never bothered to dress Pikachu up. I think toward the end I gave him that slight spike hairstyle to differentiate him from other Pikachu, but that was it. It was more trouble than it was worth though 🤣 It's a fun game, but has some glaring flaws. I started shiny hunting in D/P/Pt, but I prefer how it works with the catch chain in this one. I got a black Charizard and named him Charcoal ^^ Sorry about the wall of text, I had a fair bit to say. I revisit it every once in a blue moon, but not nearly as much as the GBA or DS games.
I’ve played gen 1 a lot at this point and I like to use my GameShark to enhance my experience now. For example one time I gave a scyther twin-needle for me to use in my play through and it was super fun. I try not to make myself overpowered but rather do some basic game balancing like giving scyther a bug move or, if I’m playing Red or Blue, give Charizard fly
I dont mind the catching mechanics in Lets go. Once you get the angles down in terms of which direction to throw is very easy. It does take time to get used to it but essentially one specific angle will always throw perfect to the left right and center. You just have to experiment with what the angle actually is. I can throw near perfect with the joy con everytime. I find it to be satisfying to get it down. I much prefer the standard wild battles but for a one off i think its fine. I really like Let's go. There was clearly a lot of love and care put into it. Also i hate the term "guilty pleasure". Like what you like be confident about it. Enjoyment of media is entirely subjective and there is no right or wrong opinion. Only the technical aspects of game are truly objective.
As someone who agrees that Charizard is over saturated and knows that venusaur was reds starter. I think it makes sense that they corrected the starters, I mean tell me it doesn’t make more sense for red to get the fire type, blue to get the water type, and green to get the grass type
1:23:00 the reason i stopped playing pokemon after/during gen 3, wasnt the amount of mons but the defacto impossiblity to "catch them all". I stick with my gen 1+2 games. Even the remakes make it so you cant cause you need even more of them and arent able to.
A mix of johto Pokemon would have been appreciated in let's go, that's for sure. But while i would like a mix in Fire Red/Leaf Green the main problem was the Gen 2 Pokemon were almost all trade locked for the new evolutions. Basically useless as an addition -_-
Game freak explained hypno didn't understand talking a kid was wrong. It eats dreams kid makes dreams bro just took him some fast food lol the kid was fine.
I personally appreciate Dexxit for a few reasons 1. It helps with the pokedex 2. Imagine the framerate on Scarlet and Violet if all 1000+ pokemon were popping up left right and center 3. It makes your teams more unique 4. It makes it more of an adventure since as someone who dosent know half the mons available in each game it makes it a suprise when for example i get jumped by a horde of Scyther in Scarlet and Violet (yes this has happened and i legit forgot i got Koraidon as a ride pokemon and started cursing as the got closer and closer while i ran for my life) 5. For some regions it makes sense like do you think you would find Kyogre in Kanto Also preach on the Chase love my man is overhated
your second point is null and void because if they actually cared, they'd make a game that wasn't so poorly optimised. also, just because the pokemon are programmed into the game, doesn't mean they're going to be popping up everywhere. do you even know what a national dex is? its clear that you don't know what youre talking about. editing this comment to also say, it does not make teams more unique. less pokemon = less diversity = less unique.
After doing all pokemon games can you do a retrospective of all yakuza games and all kingdom hearts games and all persona games and all final Fantasy games if you do that i will subscribe to you ok so yeah 😉👍🏻
You do get a chance to see Bill's rare Pokémon collection. You can see Eevee, Vaporeon, Flareon and Jolteon on his PC!
See that's what I thought too, but I wasn't able to get that to work when I played the games. I could've sworn I saw that somewhere though!
@@Chubby_BubbyLeave the house and re-enter, then examine the PC. It should pop up
Yep
can you steal it
"Actions Speak Louder Than Words since he was a toddler."
I love the idea that Red has been, like, nonverbal his entire life. Blue trying to have a conversation with him, and he's just like "..." at five years old or something
Your long form videos are as good and even better than some of the leading longform video game video essayists.
You're not just summarizing the game, you're digging into the development history, game mechanics and features, fan theories, as well as your own lived experience and history as a fan of these games.
Bravo
Thank You Very Much!!
Glad someone else thinks let's go is how pokemon should look!!! Also I'm very glad to hear a reviewer who doesn't only nostalgia dump about the earliest games
Lets go is absolutely the direction the series should've went visually, I look at stuff like concierge and Cafe with thier bright color schemes and get real jealous the main stuff didn't go that direction.
Also, the nostalgia dump for gen 1 is quite past my time, now when we get to sinnoh.....we might have a sprinkle of nostalgia or two 🤏
Visually yes, direction I get it, its lets go and its fine just wish it had a mode that played like say gen 3, but it did help flesh out certain characters and it did respect what came before, you fight red, green and even blue whom was gonna be used as the female trainer who borrowed a lot from her manga adaption. Mostly her playfulness and quirk tossing pokeballs at you. They are optional boss trainers and I loved that. It gave us poke buddies to follow and even ride on. Since it was gen 7, alolan variants got to show up and some changes here and there.
I'm all in on this video and future ones. This is what I'm looking for.
Saaaame, love these deep dives.... I don't want some short, copycat script about Red or Gold that seems like it could have been written by an AI. Let's talk about this shiiiiiiiz.....
FRFR
Honestly i think you are 100% right about Blue in the original games.
Giving a like and following because of the venusaur as the red official starter
God love this kind of long form content especially on one of my favorite franchises! This is so well made and I'm super excited to watch the second video and the rest of the series in the future
The bit at Erika's gym of the mean girls sent me 😂😂😂
I can absolutely not agree on the yellow hate.
Yellow is by far the best version of Gen 1.
The redrawn sprites, that actually look like they are supposed to alone are worth the choice.
It also has some minor tweaks to some Pokemons movesets, like Charizard being able to learn Fly.
Movesets in Gen1 are absolute dogwater, so even the slightest improvement is worth pointing out.
The levelcurve "issue" was a way Gamefreak tried to fix how brokenly OP the stat XP system was in favor of the player.
Since enemies all have 0 stat XP, your own team is basically allways 10 level higher than what it looks like, once you reach the midgame.
If this was 99, and the question is, is Yellow worth getting, when you allready had Red/Blue, then the answer is probably no,
since there aren't that many differences that make that purchase worth it, but today, if the plan is to either revisit Gen 1, or play it for the first time, then there is no reason to not choose Yellow. Unless you purposely wanna see the bad sprites i guess.
But then again, there is also no reason to not just play Yellow Legacy, which has fixed all the issues Gen 1 has.
100% agree. I was so perplexed by the yellow hate. Like ok Koga has some venonats but the game gifts you a charmander lol.
Sabrina is the only real challenge but even then you can delay that fight until after Blaine if you’re really struggling.
Although it’s a bit more challenging than Red and Blue, Yellow is not exactly a hard game and is still way easier than e.g. Pokémon Black and White imo.
@@woollychannel6759 Koga's "team" is the closest they could get ingame to mimicking the anime style of one Pokemon constantly getting stronger and evolving mid battle. Sabrina does the same thing.
Also Sabrina suffers from the Gen 1 trainer AI, where she is completely useless if you just fight her with a Psychic type of your own, because the AI just starts spamming recover. She's completely helpless against a Hypno or Exeggutor.
This channel is criminally underrated
I second this!!
This is an amazing video. The jokes are top-tier made me laugh out loud multiple times which I was not expecting your whole thing with Erica's gym was hilarious. You're angry at pokémon yellow, which I don't understand. Was still interesting to listen to count me. Interested in your channel. Definitely going to watch the rest of your pokémon content at least
You don't know how kids figured out Oaks Parcel? Maybe if someone couldn't read that could be a problem but otherwise, it was completely obvious. There is an NPC that literally tells you to visit a mart, you don't have many other things to do, since the Pewter route is blocked, and the guard won't let you past towards Victory Road.
So after speaking to everyone and checking out every route, you'll eventually enter the Pokemart, where the guy tells you to bring that parcel to Oak. Since there is nothing else to do, might as well run that errand, and be rewarded with progress.
Now the thing i'm 98% sure almost nobody found out. If you decide to go back to Viridian, beat the Rival, and go back to Oak without ever buying any Pokeballs, he'll gift you 5. It's pretty logical you wouldn't find that, since the first time you enter the mart, the guy won't sell you anything, so you'll be inclined to go back and try to buy something after you ran the errand, and buy your Pokeballs.
The reason modern EXP share is unliked is that it boosts the amount of EXP earned significantly, since every mon participating gets full XP, and every other gets half. Gen 1 EXP all split half the XP between participating mons, and the other half between everyone else, meaning you would still only get 100% EXP, instead of 350% minimum. Thats a huge difference. Actually in Gen 1 thanks to rounding you probly even lose XP by using EXP all.
Bro you are hillarious. Literally gonna watch every Pokémon vid you got. Hope you continue this series till the end
I'm definitely looking forward to seeing the spinoffs get their own retrospectives, particularly the Mystery Dungeon series. I initially got hooked by your Fossil Fighters vid. Though, I must admit that I'm curious if you're familiar with the Spectrobes series as well.
Thank You so much! Spectrobes has been requested quite abit on the channel recently, I have no personal experience with the series but I do plan on checking it out. I just need time to familiarize myself with the games.
@@Chubby_Bubby Luckily, it doesn't seem like they're hard to get ahold of. Or at least as far as the DS games go. There are also guides for the card inputs, so you don't need to have them all to get the rewards from them.
The “Smell ya later” thing DID come from a cartoon. It’s one of Nelson the bully’s catchphrases on The Simpsons. That’s probably where the localizers got it from.
THATS PERFECT 💯
It wasn't Nelson. It was the main character Bart Simpson.
@@kellevichy no it was definitely Nelson
Adored this retrospective. I’ve only played Let’s Go Pikachu out of the Kanto games so learning the ins and outs of the other games’ strengths and flaws was great.
This was such a fun retrospective, I really enjoyed it & had a big smile on my face throughout. It's also pretty rare for me to find a video of this length & agree with the bulk of the rants. [About the only thing I didn't agree with would be the opinion on Yellow. I see it as equal to RGB.] LOVED your thoughts on Trace, listen I am the Gen 7 Defender and I was cheering at my TV at that shit. I also appreciate sharing your teams, whenever I watch retrospectives I ALWAYS wish for a section where they'd do EXACTLY what you did!
WE WILL ALWAYS REP TRACE AT THIS HOUSE 🏠 🙌
Also about the teams IKR I'm always so curious about the teams people use cause I think it's probably the most interesting part of a monster taming experience. BUT PEOPLE NEVER TALK ABOUT IT!
Ive never seen Blues character broken down like that's A+ research
Chubby: ... home to so many great games (and yellow).
Scott: And I took that personally.
I personally like yellow more than red/blue. It's more challenging and the Elite 4 aren't as easily manipulated (bring any poison type against Lance's dragonite).
Really great retrospective! I'm really happy you tackled ALL Kanto games sequentially to see how it evolves, since most people save the remakes for their gen of origin. Also nice to see an appreciation for the original 151 when it doesn't seem like it was your childhood era!
Aight sold in the first few seconds from the energy.
I don't know if someone has already mentioned, but there are 5 non-posion Grass types in Gen 1 not just one; Tangela, Paras, Parasect, Eggsecute, and Eggsecutor.
You did such an amazing job on this and I’m so excited to see you do this for the whole series. Your commentary is both well thought out, and hilarious in the best ways possible. Please keep up the amazing work ✊🏽😫
Thank You So Much! I will do my best to make the best content I can!
criminally under-rated video. Glad to be one of your early subscribers before the algorithm picks you up. I want to especially compliment your tangents. You seem to write what comes to mind. But manage to make naturally fit your greater narrative. That is a huge strength. And I loved the video all the more for it
Thank you!
Especially that last part, the tangents are genuinely one of my favorite part of the script writing cause it is something I do alot irl. So I'm pretty well practiced, though I still get nervous that they may go on a bit too long 😅
By the way which one of my videos made you sub?
@@Chubby_Bubby Well I only found you just before bed. So the Kanto Retrospective. But I look forward to going through all your content. Been looking for more longfrom stuff!
In the Let’s Go games what I think should have happened is that the “new” Pokemon added would be like the baby Pokemon (and even introduce breeding), and all the evolutions of Kantonian Pokemon from Gen 2 onward (as long as the conditions could be met). Like you could evolve Eevee into Glacian at Sea Foam islands or Leafeon in Virdian Forest for example.
Another thing I would do, in order to peak curiosity is to have trainers from other regions visit and even battle you with Sinnoh, Hoenn, Unova, even maybe introduce a (then new) Galar Pokemon…but you catch them because they’re not native to Kanto. You get to battle them sure, and maybe Professor Oak explains to you about different regions and how while the Kanto Regional Pokedex might be 151, there’s untold numbers of Pokemon throughout the world and if you wanna learn more, he’ll tell you to one day go visit Professor Magnolia in the Galar Region and she’ll teach you.
Make the world feel lived in.
Crazy video, bro. Very well edited and narrated.
I need an Eevee backpack. Can you imaging a big, fat, bearded guy in his mid 30s with that on his back? 😅
Mid 30s guys ... the kind of guys (like me🤣), who watch gen1 / 2 stuff like this😇
Very glad that this was recommended to me
Idk how everyone figured it out, but as far as oaks parcel, i wanted to catch pokemon so i B-Lined for the pokemart and my helpful child self just went about the request and continued on. Never knew you couldnt juat walk through there until my second time and never thought about how i learned of the parcel again.
Pokemon yellow was the first pokemon game i ever played. I currently have a japanese copy i picked up while i was living in Japan
You asked how kids knew to take the package back to oak back in the day. We bought strategy guides from the store for almost every game.
'i don't know how kids back in the day got through this' ie finding out to talk to the person the mart
it's easy. you want pokemon, you go to the pokemart to get pokeballs. you can't get pokeballs b/c you gotta deliver the package. you take the package, go to oak and deliver it then go back and get your pokeballs. it's basic exploration and common sense back when games let you figure things out than holding your hand like you aren't smart enough to do the math.
great retrospective video btw; i'm watching through them all. that statement just puzzled me.
Just came off your gen 2 video, excited to watch this, excited for future videos but also, "Videos I made in 8th grade going from kanto to galar"
I took fucking psychic damage from that, ow. Hahah. Meanwhile here my ass is still happily playing each gen since the first released when I was in like...second grade.
Oof yeah, sorry to sideswipe you with that 😅
But thanks for enjoying the video!
Original Blue is definitely not a complete ass, the stuff he says comes off more "big brother teasing". Though I do really like Pokéspe Blue, and I think his shittyness is similarly childish.
Also, I like that Blaine's gym trainers are all burglars. I don't remember if it's canon or fan theory but I like the idea that he was picking them up from the mansion in Cinnabar and giving them a stable job.
Also, Bill is kinda insane. Forget the whole swapping bodies thing, Bill took the PC system made for storing items and not only made functionality for storing Pokémon but also provided *multiple* sections of it for free for every trainer. You literally don't even know you're using his system until you meet him.
I always found it funny that the pc just says "someone's" pc til you find the regional IT guy!
As a kid I just assume we stole someone else's box and didn't tell em LOL 😂
But we all know its someones PC.
Love the video. Ive seen just about every pokemon retrospective but this regional retrospective format is really unique. I really like your analysis whether i agree with certain points or not. Subbed bc i cant wait to watch all of them. Fun fact for you. The reason only 202 were in RSE was bc the feedback they got for Gen 2 was it felt the same as Gen 1 due to the fact the Gen 2 pokemon took a huge backseat to Gen 1 pokemon during the main story in availability and representation in trainer teams. So they scrapped their plans to do the same with Gen 3 and originally only wanted Gen 3 pokemon in the game. Like BW way before its time. They only added in older mons to balance the game. I agree with this decision as i do feel Gen 2 mons are largely ignored before postgame in GSC hardly any of the important trainers use them and it does feel more like Gen 1 in that regard. I disagree the games feel the same Gen 2 added so many new mechanics idk what ppl are talking about. Sorry this is getting a little TLDR but thought that was an interesting tidbit.
Watching at x2 speed, I could easily get you confused for Scott the Woz.
47:23 yellow is the biggest arguement for using candies in Nuzlockes.
I startd my Pokemon journey with Yellow and I dropped off around the 4th or 5th gen, though I kept playing for half of Sun/Moon but pretty much on autopilot after Sinnoh. I still love Pokemon, I know of the newer gens and like a few of the new Pokes, but I really only play an online pokemon mmo now, which has the early Pokes.
"Having no idea why he won't shit or get off the pot" 😂 holy shit
I agree a lot with all the complaining LMAO
Specially in Yellow, and Let's Go...I actually stopped playing Let's Go because I got SO bored. Like, cute graphics but I ALREADY did this back in 98 😅
I hated Pikachu so much, its an ok electric but I would prefer an Electrabuzz or even a Magnamite now. Or you know...Raichu.
Also Bulbasaur Master Race 😎 I tried other pokemons but Bulbasaur is the best for 1st Gen, until Erika he is ready to take down everything
500 views club!! Wonderful video 👏👏
Its wonderful retrospective series..
I also recommend to read pokemon adventure manga for the story and continuity
Man I don't know why Gamefreak hate Double Battles so much.
It gives the battle system automaticilly huge amount of depth without changing the formula.
But nope, remakes only in the Battle Tower.
And removed in Let's Go. Gamefreak wtf.
Excellent video my friend! 🧡
As a og pokemon player, we just went back home and then to oak with the parcel.
Great video man ! And don't feel guilty for liking Let's Go, you do you.
I personally don't care too much about it(Losing my save file kinda soured my thought on it), but there is some things that can only be found there, which makes it really interesting to go back on.
Good review 👍
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! 👍
"I'm sorry Vaporeon, but maybe you would appreciate it not being in the puplic eye"
HOOOOLD UUUP 😂
Is that referring to what i think it's referring to, what you referred to other "references" with that? 😂
Pokemon Snap was the best pokemon game eveeerrrrrrrrrr
No other game lets you evolve Slowpoke the canon way. Therefore Snap is superior
Don't forget that Prof. Oak is also a world renowned poet/philosopher.
26:34 It's called "Oaks package", I think it's self explanatory
In Gen 3, at least for Emerald as it is the game that I own, there is a limit on the number of items you can have in your inventory in the Items part of the inventory. However, you have to accumulate a lot of items to do that. I always put things like heartscales, evolution stones, shards, and certain held items that I currently don't have a use for in the PC as their usage is very niche and are not necessary for you to have them with you all the time.
I wished they kept it for Gen 4 because scrolling in the inventory to find a specific item is significantly slower than it was in Gen 3.
I agree and I disagree. Basically, I agree, besides your take on yellow, and I didn't like Trace because I thought he was annoying, but I get why you like him now.
With yellow though, I think whether you'll prefer it or the originals depends on how much you like the original series' icons. They're basically the same experience as far as I know (but I grew up on Yellow, so that may be my bias showing). Anyway, if you like the iconic stuff from the show like having all the starters, Pikachu following behind you, or Jessie and James showing up now and then, you'll probably prefer yellow to red/blue. If you don't like the Pikachu though, it's not like you can't send him to computer jail and play it similar to red or blue, just with all of the starters over just the one. I like the sprites better too.
I would play FR/LG over yellow, but yellow over R/B. I like the Let's go games, but the control really kneecaps the game unless you play handheld.
Nice video though, I liked it.
And yeah, the Teachy TV is a perfect compromise on tutorials.
I get what you mean, if I grew up like that I'd probably prefer it aswell. (Though no raichu is kinda dealbreaking)
How do u feel about lets go? In alot of ways it very much an HD yellow, but I never hear much about it in comparison to yellow.
@Chubby_Bubby I think it feels like a pretty accurate remake of yellow. There's even a few neat easter eggs here and there. I believe it was in the Pokémon fan's house where you get the voucher, he's got memorabilia for Pikachu, Eevee, and Clefairy, which is a cute reference to Pokémon pink.
I like the new catching mechanics in concept, but the control needs a lot of work. If you could map buttons to play it like you're in handheld mode I might pick it over FR/LG, honestly. Though the lack of a post game and Johto Pokémon still makes that a tough decision.
Paywalling Mew instead of making it a mini event was a bit of a mistake. Wasn't that around the time the first movie remake came out? I forget. If it was though, missed opportunity for it to be tied to movie ticket sales or a mystery gift or something. The follow Pokémon mechanic was perfect, and I would almost excuse the dex cut if every game had this kind of feature...almost. Here, it feels like it works though. I kinda wish you could get SOME Johto 'mons after the champion. I just really love Furret, he's just so cute.
Anyway, the loss of the Sevii islands was a bummer, but understandable. I remember liking some of the challenges where you raised a specific Pokémon to fight a champion of that species one on one, and I was gonna do most of them but it got stale with nothing else to do besides the character rematches every day. I liked the teams of the old cast, but wish Red would occasionally use his G/S/C team to parallel the player if they took all the Pokémon like the original game Red did (and I did in my run for nostalgia). I think they're using their Manga teams though? Which is cool if they are.
I think this art style is perfect, and they really should have stuck with it. I liked being able to pet your Pikachu or Eevee, but I never bothered to dress Pikachu up. I think toward the end I gave him that slight spike hairstyle to differentiate him from other Pikachu, but that was it. It was more trouble than it was worth though 🤣 It's a fun game, but has some glaring flaws. I started shiny hunting in D/P/Pt, but I prefer how it works with the catch chain in this one. I got a black Charizard and named him Charcoal ^^
Sorry about the wall of text, I had a fair bit to say. I revisit it every once in a blue moon, but not nearly as much as the GBA or DS games.
Never ran across this channel before. This shit is dank bro.
„dOOGOONG“ took me tf outttt
And, til THIS FUCKING DAY, RBY aren’t even on the NSO 😂🙄
Love this video❤
Love the videos!
Thank You so much!
JOHTO NEXTTT
this is great!
Love your videos and your take one Pokémon(Although, your take is incorrect on Yellow)
I’ve played gen 1 a lot at this point and I like to use my GameShark to enhance my experience now. For example one time I gave a scyther twin-needle for me to use in my play through and it was super fun. I try not to make myself overpowered but rather do some basic game balancing like giving scyther a bug move or, if I’m playing Red or Blue, give Charizard fly
Great video, however you do get a down vote for the yellow hate, it’s the best version.
Rebellion (Charizard
Griffon (Zapdos)
Deadweight (Gyarados)
Arbiter (Nidoking)
Neo (Alakazam)
Chuck (Machamp)
Cool looking team 👍
Love that name for Gyarados btw!
One thing I could not stand with Yellow version is Pikachu’s tail animation while walking. Your emulator removed this feature for the better.
i also was under impression mew island event was in frlg not just emerald
I dont mind the catching mechanics in Lets go. Once you get the angles down in terms of which direction to throw is very easy. It does take time to get used to it but essentially one specific angle will always throw perfect to the left right and center. You just have to experiment with what the angle actually is. I can throw near perfect with the joy con everytime. I find it to be satisfying to get it down. I much prefer the standard wild battles but for a one off i think its fine. I really like Let's go. There was clearly a lot of love and care put into it. Also i hate the term "guilty pleasure". Like what you like be confident about it. Enjoyment of media is entirely subjective and there is no right or wrong opinion. Only the technical aspects of game are truly objective.
Fun fact reds most coninical starter is poliwag lol sense it's the only team of his that isn't player based and up for interpretation
Clefairy.
As someone who agrees that Charizard is over saturated and knows that venusaur was reds starter. I think it makes sense that they corrected the starters, I mean tell me it doesn’t make more sense for red to get the fire type, blue to get the water type, and green to get the grass type
Hope to see you cover RSE.
Lance is a flying type trainer with a dragon bias 3 of his pokemon are dragon all of his pokemon are flying type
1:23:00 the reason i stopped playing pokemon after/during gen 3, wasnt the amount of mons but the defacto impossiblity to "catch them all". I stick with my gen 1+2 games. Even the remakes make it so you cant cause you need even more of them and arent able to.
A mix of johto Pokemon would have been appreciated in let's go, that's for sure.
But while i would like a mix in Fire Red/Leaf Green the main problem was the Gen 2 Pokemon were almost all trade locked for the new evolutions. Basically useless as an addition -_-
Game freak explained hypno didn't understand talking a kid was wrong. It eats dreams kid makes dreams bro just took him some fast food lol the kid was fine.
Fighting gym in saffron city I always assumed was the idea of minor league gyms
....U named your Growlite WHAT????
Has anyone ever told you that you sound like Brock
I personally appreciate Dexxit for a few reasons
1. It helps with the pokedex
2. Imagine the framerate on Scarlet and Violet if all 1000+ pokemon were popping up left right and center
3. It makes your teams more unique
4. It makes it more of an adventure since as someone who dosent know half the mons available in each game it makes it a suprise when for example i get jumped by a horde of Scyther in Scarlet and Violet (yes this has happened and i legit forgot i got Koraidon as a ride pokemon and started cursing as the got closer and closer while i ran for my life)
5. For some regions it makes sense like do you think you would find Kyogre in Kanto
Also preach on the Chase love my man is overhated
your second point is null and void because if they actually cared, they'd make a game that wasn't so poorly optimised.
also, just because the pokemon are programmed into the game, doesn't mean they're going to be popping up everywhere. do you even know what a national dex is? its clear that you don't know what youre talking about.
editing this comment to also say, it does not make teams more unique. less pokemon = less diversity = less unique.
1:43:47
"Or whatever.. I'm not your Dad"
B-but... But... Would you want to be?
Bulbasaur is a frog, not a dinosaur...
BDSP should've used the lets go art style at least
Bulbasaur is a frog not a dinosaur
39:43 Mewtwo is basically ai
49:41 guys, play Pokemon Yellow Legacy, thank me later 🤙🏼
Is that a rom hack?
After doing all pokemon games can you do a retrospective of all yakuza games and all kingdom hearts games and all persona games and all final Fantasy games if you do that i will subscribe to you ok so yeah 😉👍🏻
1:52:23 one piece again
i love green 👍
can i kiss her? 🥴
The Lets Go gamee barely qualify in my opinion.
The reason they didn't go with Clefairy is because Pikachu is gender neutral and they wanted to stay that way, thus Eevee.
Something something kaiju yaoi
first tee hee haha
so true... 1:28:00 ,this graphics is much better compare to other main line pokemon this days cute and colofull..
The fucking explosion at 22:55 happened right as i was reversing and i SWORE I HIT THE CAR IT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME