Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire Versions - A Pokémon Paraspective
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
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The journey continues. I will be taking a look at EVERY official Pokémon video game release in exact North American order. All 66+ games. Thirteenth is when we enter Generation 3 with the ones that kicked off the Game Boy Advance era: Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire.
Title sequence, thumbnail, background, Pallet Town remix and "Where's That Parasect?" by Joshua C. Griffin
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“Blaziken is fire/fighting, something new for the series”
If only we knew
I have honestly never seen the connection to gen 1, but I think it's pretty interesting, especially with the Pokemon. I remember people constantly comparing gen 1 and 5 Pokemon, but not these guys (especially ralts). Gen 3 really feels like Pokemon settled it's its format from then on.
Yeah I love a lot of the Hoenn Pokémon but it’s hard for me to not compare most of them to their Gen 1 counterparts. At least they aren’t all like that
I remember comparing gen 1 and 3 as well. In fact I myself have never heard of gen 5 comparisons to gen 1
I'll be honest with ya, maybe it was true they "settled" on a style from them on, but gen 2 was not only much smaller than the previous one but felt extremely novel at the time.
It may seem crazy seeing as there's so so sooo many gens now but even back then people were already saying stuff like "Game freak running out of ideas bleh bleh"
TLDR: It was the third generation dude. There was not a lot to compare to so anything that was in any way similar was bound to stand out
Both team magma and team aqua have Lex Luther’s plans from two different Superman movie
I like how you not only talk about the games as if they just came out. But I also love how you let us know what was popular in the world at the time as well. Really puts a new perspective on the games for me.
I’m a very nostalgic person by nature so I feel like discussing the time period is important! I’m so glad other people tend to agree.
I believe you mean "Really puts a new Paraspective".
Fun fact (and this also applies Emerald): As soon as you step foot into a new location with preset berries, if you ignore or miss them, there is a chance they will permanently delete themselves due to failing to "replant". So, it is advised to pick up berries whenever you see them so a type of berry plant doesn't go "extinct" in Hoenn.
Sure, certain NPCs will give you a berry, yet that is only once per day. Plus, this is does not account for the cartridge battery running dry and needing to be replaced with a new one and the Berry Glitch in Ruby and Sapphire.
It's fun listening to how you considered yourself too old as a freshman and then DEFINATELY too old as a Junior because I had a similar but somewhat different experience.
Gen 3 came out when I was in middle school and 4 hit when I was a Sophmore in Highschool.
Gen 3, little 13 year old me was too old for Pokémon, but my sophomore year I had opened back up to more kiddish games because "fuck you, they're fun" and so dove right into Gen 4 when it came out.
Shoutout to my level 40 blaziken when I was 6 and didn’t know how to switch out Pokémon🙏rly carried my team of lvl 6 wurmples and a torkoal
Haha that immediately made me think of the one trainer in Morty’s gym on Gold/Silver who talks about how he and his Haunter trained through all of the seasons together.
That opening will forever be ingrained in my mind.
Pokemon Sapphire was the first game i ever owned for myself.
Seeing Duskull appear is always a treat
Playing Sapphire when it was new was a very unique experience for me. I had just finished 4th grade at the time, and I distinctly remember Pokemon as a whole falling out of style around this time. While the first 2 gens were games I played alongside friends, gen 3 was more of a solo experience since Pokemon was seen as kind of a social faux pas. A lot of kids back then thought Gen 3 would be the last games because it just wasn't 'cool' to like Pokemon anymore.
I actually suffered a bit of burnout around the time too, didn't really get back into the series until Platinum and HGSS.
Your videos are nostalgic af and really well done. Under rated channel dude.
Why thank you!
Ruby was my first pokemon game. Tbh Pokemon didnt catch my attention until Gen 3 came out. Something about the designs just stood out to me. Tho Emerald is undoubtedly the GOAT of Gen 3.
I moved to Alaska (for a time) around the release of these games. Those sunny beaches and tropical environs kept me warm during those long cold winter nights...
I also managed to carry my original team though each successive generation until finally returning home to Hoenn in the Gen VI remakes, that's where I ended up retiring from my own personal pokémon journey. Gen III Forever!
Dear Diary
Gen III was my childhood, was obsessed with Pokémon sapphire as a kid.
“play “in da club” by 50¢ to get in the spirit. it was the no. 1 song that week.”this dude then proceeded to play it in the background 😂😂
It seemed like the only option ☺️
@@Paraspectre solid choice my man.
The intro to ruby/sapphire is so nostalgic that my finger twitched to go press A to skip the intro and load my save.
There are a lot of fun things to learn about this gen from listening to the creator's interviews. For example, he really wanted this game to feel completely new and refreshed since people apparently complained that gold/silver was too similar to red/blue. The only reason we see any of the old pokemon is for balancing reasons; there wasn't enough variation in the new stock to justify a complete separation from the oldies.
Wow, I feel like these are much more similar to Red/Blue than Gold/Silver ever were. Even in name alone
@@Paraspectre Parallels are definitely there! It was meant to be the red/blue of the new times, new tech, new graphics. If everything went as planned, there wouldn't even have been trading from the previous games into ruby/sapphire because it was meant to be it's own soft reset.
Many of the designs reflect this too as he tried to make pokemon that pushed a humanoid form and made people question what could be a pokemon. It's all very fun stuff to look into if you're interested, especially the thoughts behind torchic's evolution line.
Nothing in my life has ever been more relatable than the "I didn't even bother buying Crystal and definitely thought I was too cool for Pokemon by the time R/S came out because I was busy playing Animal Crossing and Magic the Gathering" bit. That 90s kid life
Swap out "Magic the Gathering" with "Yugioh" and you have the late-90s kid life too lol.
My favorite generation of Pokémon. Such a beautiful region. Such great memories.
Yeah I really do like Hoenn
Your videos are literally amazing!
It doesn’t matter if we already know the information, I love the way you set the scene & how you story-tell!
Thank you man ☺️🙏🏼
I appreciate that! I’m sure most people watching know more than I do, but there’s always that one piece of info that somebody may not know.
I do feel bad for having negative feelings towards the Hoenn region. I was 16 in 2002 and that was an extremely difficult year for me as my grandmother painfully and suddenly passed away, when Ruby and Sapphire released it felt like I was denied something sentimental since I couldn’t trade the Pokémon I had caught and raised while she was alive.
I was resentful until I was able to inject those original cartridge saves over the 3DS eShop copies. Lately I’ve been trying to give RSE a second chance.
I can see that being difficult to get into the games if you’re going through a hard time too. I feel like my childhood mons are forever stuck on Stadium 2
Missing out on the best games in the series. Understandable why you skipped back then
@@AkamexAris1023 I didn’t skip them, I just couldn’t connect with them. I have to credit FRLG, XD, and Colosseum for drawing me back.
I just found your channel through your vintage TCG content, something VERY close to my heart since the GBC game first came out all those years ago. I'm at home recovering from an injury, and binging your channel has brought me a lot of joy
I've been playing Pokemon since Red and Blue. Until SwSh I ended up loving each generation of Pokemon. For the longest time I've never been able to single out a favorite but over the past couple of years my nostaglia for Sapphire and Ruby has really deepened and I'd say that Pokemon Sapphire is my favorite Pokemon game ever. I picked Pokemon Sapphire because sapphire is my birthstone.
My top 5 Hoenn Pokemon are: Camerupt (I love it so much that it is my second most favorite Pokemon in the entire series), Grumpig, Claydol, Cacturne, and Banette.
I distinctly remember when I first started the game being sorely disappointed that it did not have a day/night cycle like Crystal. I was even more disappointed when we couldn't go back to Kanto/Johto after beating the Elite 4.
I love the music in this game so much. That legendary 7/10 that Gamespot gave it for too much water and too many trumpets feels like a personal attack against me.
Hoenn's starters are ok. I don't have any strong feelings towards them and I don't have a favorite start among this trio like I do with others. They're all just super well designed.
Sapphire is probably the Pokemon gmae I played the most and I will get into that more when we get to Platinum.
Even though the nostalgia for these games isn’t there for me, I think they’re still really fun games. It’s a nice middle era between classic Pokémon and the DS/3DS ones. Also, nice top 5 list. I always felt like I SHOULD like Banette more than I do.
15:40 Gamefreak: You want to see me do it two more times?
The Spy Who Loved Me is an awesome film. When I finally got a Gameboy Advance, Pokémon Sapphire was my first game.
Then you realize they have the exact same plot. It was meant to be
@@Paraspectre "Nobody Does It Better"
Nice I am so excited for this video!
Duskull in a top 10? I see you're a man of culture.
Top tier ghost right there
R/S/E was my first Pokémon game and still my favorites to this day. :')
Well like with Yellow and Crystal, Emerald will be getting its own episode ☺️
Wally catching ralts teaches the player of rarer pokemon in grass too. Also in the desert theres a trainer that says his sandshrew loves his sandwitches, it's cute.
That’s a good point. It wouldn’t have the same impact if it was a Wurmple that you’ve been seeing 30 times
Really enjoying your Paraspective videos!
Thank you! There are so, so many more to go
Don't be sorry for the long intro. Love the whole dive into the rest of pokemon media at the time in addition to the actual games.
I personally think it’s very important. I wish I discussed this more thoroughly in past episodes actually
I skipped Ruby and Saphire at first as well, until a friend of mine and I started playing the original Red/Blue because we wanted to be cool like the kids in Megaman NT Warriors (yeah). Then the remakes came out and that kickstarted Phase 2 of my Pokémon love and I went back to Ruby/Saphire.
I remember hearing about FireRed and LeafGreen coming out but almost nothing about Ruby/Sapphire. It’s like I put blinders on for these back then or something
Awesome video, really enjoyed the context for the time that the games originally came out.
This was a great retrospective video! The timeline intro was great! hope to see a similar format for future retrospectives.
As someone who was a kid during gen3 I do have the nostalgia for this generation. I appreciate the take of someone who was around during the original pokemania. Nice videos dude I hope you blow up in subscriber's just one will have to do for now through.
It’s cliche but “every 1 counts!” Now if I could just figure out this algorithm…
Parasect is super cool, and your channel is as well.
Ah Ruby, my first game. I still revisit Ruby and Sapphire often, and I ended up taking up Emerald speedrunning during lockdown. :) It's nice to take a look at it from the perspective of a younger self again.
Emerald speedrunning is so wild because it's like 99% standard Pokemon speedrunning stuff, 1% BE INSANELY GOOD AT THE FAST BICYCLE IN RAYQUAZA TOWER
I’ve surprisingly never played Emerald
@@loulou3676 Sky Pillar biking is the stuff of nightmares honestly.
Even though I have been playing since Red and Blue. 3rd gen was and still my favorite.
Yes! Another Gardevoir fan! Gardevoir is my favorite Pokémon because of how elegant yet mysterious it looked as well as being a powerhouse. I did not find out what the internet did with Gardevoir until almost a decade after first encountering and having it as my favorite.
It is saddening and darkly sweet yet disturbing that it will attempt to create what is essentially a black hole to save its trainer. Yet, Mewtwo, which should technically be more powerful, does not have its powers exaggerated to that degree.
I’m with you on the #2 and #1 favorites. Love the content!
Top tier ghosts right there
12:00 I was today years old when I realized the R/S intro was dew on leaves. I somehow never registered that before.
Lmaooo in da club was a banger. I remember bumping that and crashing latios in ruby 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha I was wondering if anybody played these games to the songs I feature
If anyones wondering, many if not all gba pokemon fakes can still allow to trade with legit copies. Might not work with gamecube titles and time based events wont occur in RSE
The paras line is underrated
I would have to agree
Played a lot this game when my mother bought me the Gameboy advance SP and the amount of masterball I farmed playing over and over this game was a lot
Good old time clocks. By far my favourite kind of clock.
Sucks that it doesn’t matter all too much
Finally! A video of yours in which I am relevant. Mwahahaha.
I actually had this name since 2003. My second ever online account name... and it stuck! Glad to see it's also your 10th favourite GenIII Pokemon!
It's also a brand of insecticide here in Australia!
Nice, Flygon is awesome. Possibly my favorite Dragon
Forgot about Rayquaza 😅 Basically, Flygon is up there
@@Paraspectre Don't worry about it. I'm glad to be around at all hahaha.
Gen 3 BABY! Can’t wait for the next part! ❤
This will be interesting, as I’ve only ever played R/S and FireRed among the whole Gen 3 era ☺️
Damn, my most played and favorite Pokémon games!
Literally just found a fucking goldmine of content, thanks man. Keep pushing, more people are gonna learn about ya, and then you will have a fuckin mansion or some shit
Haha 10/10 comment. Appreciate it!
Another brilliant paraspective :D I love these games
Thank you!
Love your video and love you bro :3 So high quality
Haha thank you!
6:56 the 50 cent instrumental In the background 😂😭
It’s synonymous with Ruby and Sapphire 😎
Every time you read off the back of the boxes you sound like the narrator for the half-life full life consequences videos
Haha is that good or bad? I’ve been doing that stupid voice since the Bond retrospective. I can’t stop now!
Really great video and series, I look forward to more.
I’ve been playing Pokémon since age 7 in 2002, so I grew up with Gen 3 although I started with Gen 1&2 in 2002.
Got a Blaziken tattooed on my thigh, my first partner!
That’s pretty badass. I love its design
Ruby and Sapphire were excellent games. Blaziken is my favorite fire starter. Team Magma could be like Mad Max.
In my opinion, fire starters keep getting better. Blaziken > Typhlosion > Charizard. Yeah I said it.
@@Paraspectre You'll hear no argument from me!
I was 10 when this game came out. Easily the best game update. I went from playing DBZ on my GBA to exclusively this game it was that good. And we didn't play games as much back then.
In da club was a slapper bro oh yeah I got sapphire
These are the first pokemon games I played, so I have a lot of nostalgia for them. I do prefer Emerald though, it's just better
I’ve honestly never even played Emerald!
About to be a banger
HECK YEAH I’ve been waiting for this video for OVER A MONTH
I hope the month hype didn’t disappoint! 😅. But I appreciate that.
Love these videos ❤
Thank you for keeping up with them!
Gameboy advance was dope
I really haven’t played many GBA games. It was a weird time in gaming for me
Dang forgot there was another pinball game 😂. Remember when this gane hit my BF went to reserve Ruby, but couldn't cause many already did before, so he ended up with Sapphire. Also remember how much he invested on getting Latias lmao, good times. Great vid as always.
Were there a lot of preorder problems back then? Interesting. And I haven’t played Pinball R/S yet but I haven’t heard many great things 😅
They were the best games for the Gameboy advance at that time.
Do you have the full version of The In the Club Pokemon remix?
It’s on UA-cam somewhere ☺️
The edgelord chooses for the fav 10 pokemon LOL. idk if any are on my top 10 lol. glad u like them tho
I can hear the brass instruments already
Still to this day, i play Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald with my brother as a regular basis.
All the data from the secret bases of my friends from that time is like a time capsule from those days.
I’m the same way with R/B/Y and G/S/C. I’m actually playing Crystal (casually) again right now
@@Paraspectre you know a game is really great when you can go back to it and enjoy it, even if it's from 20 years ago.
Blazekin is also my favorite starter
I think it’s a great line overall!
Haaaaaahaha you should definitely just catch a Shroomish
I have a stupid question for everyone. Are any of the standard top-down Pokémon games available as an iPhone app?
Seems like it should be a thing
great info and video! i love these games!
Thanks!
3:e6 how fuck that is the biggest decrease iv ever seen in a series.
great stuff!
:-)
Did you say "the spy who loved me?" - I've never heard of that movie. Only "the spy who shagged me".
The Spy Who Loved Me is the legit Bond title for the book and movie that Austin Powers is parodying
13:14 It’s pronounced ‘Kiooshoo’ 🙂
Fair enough. I wouldn’t have any idea 🤷🏻♂️
A real movie buff nice!
"Engage in intense multi battles with up to four friends!"
So it's max 5 person multiplayer? You and 4 friends?
Also Kyushu, not Kayushu :P
Yeah that’s true, it DOES insinuate that five people will be involved. False marketing ☺️ As for the pronunciation, I just winged it.
*too much water*
I was waiting for this!
this might be nostalgia goggles, but I really feel like the Ruby/Sapphire box art was inferior and um, maybe rushed, especially compared to Crystal.
Naw you right. The TCG style art was superior imo
I completely agree.
Yeah I would agree with that but I’m not sure why. I will say that when I was getting the Groudon art to show, it’s literally the exact same pose. Crystal’s pose of Suicune is unique to that cover.
No love for my boy Wailord
Wailord eh? I’d say I’m neutral on it.
What about the shiny version? Big pink?
He looks so happy to be there.
What’s everyone’s home console and why?
Thank you
Yeah, gen 3 was when Pokémania was truly over and it shows. Didn't play them at all, honestly. Just played Emerald when I was 27 or so.
The connection to gen 1 is interesting, it felt as if gen 2 was basically gen 1+, but gen 3 was the 1st time Game Freak made a game to stand on its own feet similar to gen 5 later.
I will not stand for absol slander
Did I slander it? I don’t even remember what I said. I like Absol though…
Even as a kid, I couldn't understand why types were still restricted to physical or special in gen 3. The limits of the old system were so staggering.
I assumed the game internally classifies moves based on their name/assumed category 😂 Didn't matter anyway during in-game battles.
7.8/10
too much water
to me gen 3 was a step back from gen 2 especially crystal. no day and night, no timed events, no animations from pokemon, only one region. compared to other games like golden sun it looks pretty rough too. for me it just felt empty, gen 2 felt like a living breathing world that i went back to even when playing ruby to check if i won at the goldenrod radio station or see the clafairy on mt moon.
An actually decent level curve was nice though
@@alessandrolira4035 emerald maybe, but ruby and sapphire its a chore to grind to the elite four.
The irony is while not using a day/night cycle it still uses a clock. So all the problems of a clock battery in the cart (say goodbye to your save after some years) without any benefits.
@@eightcoins4401 and its even worse for the remakes. they could have changed it.
hey, do you need an editor? i find your videos, specifically the writing, intresting and worthwhile, but you seem to be struggling with some of technical aspects of video editing and presentation.
if you're open to it, id like to experiment in working together.
I’ll be the first to admit that there’s plenty I still don’t know about editing since I’m basically self taught, but I’d still prefer to handle it all myself at my pace. I feel like I could absolutely use some help with the audio portion of it. That stuff doesn’t click with me.
NOICE
Best gen pog
26:35 - Your favourite pokemon is... Sandshrew... not Parasect...
new here? welcome to the channel!
its a mascot, not his favorite lol
I had a handful of name/logo ideas when I started this of Pokémon I like and Parasect was the one I chose to go with ☺️
Here to remind everyone that TamashiHiroka claimed that Gen III told a story about Japanese politics when it merely took creative influence from those ideas. The game did not make a political statement or tell stories about real Japan.
You _would_ like Blaizeken
Blaizeken started the trend of furry starters. Starter pokemon who evolve to look _exactly_ like a person wearing a suit. Its out of control!
That grass kitty from Paldea, who evolves into a dirty furry, it broke my heart. I wanted a giant, leaf cat so bad.
I blame blaizeken for all of it! Blaizeken was so popular, the pokemon execs went "wow, kids really love these stupid, furry-looking pokemon, who are basically just a person in a costume, clucking like a chicken. We need to have _way_ more of these. Anthropomorphic starter pokemon in every generation!"
We need a cleansing fire 🔥 😫
Blaziken is cool but nowhere near a favorite Pokémon of mine
Very 2016 comment
@djason338 the problem has gotten much worse since then
Gamefreak knows that they get more "fan art" if the starters become Furries.
No Absol as a top contender??? Interesting...
I would personally put Absol in a B tier. It’s good.
@@Paraspectre it's strong and have an amazing design and lore and surprisingly no evolution or baby/pre Evo either
Damn, you’re almost 40?!?
I'm sure game freak intentionally did not allow gen 2 to 3 connectivity because they already planned fire red and leaf green.
Nah, they had a decent excuse back then. The Pokémon were programmed so differently between Gen 2 and 3, it would've been a major hassle to faithfully translate all the data over.
@@lilylopnco I felt the same at first, but after I saw Goppier make a home device and did the transfer by himself proves it's possible. This is what I watched. ua-cam.com/video/inMbtwmVlKQ/v-deo.html
@@RudyGGames Well sure but at this point we have 20+ years of the games existing, with hindsight and newly accessible technology to aid making a transferring process possible
I wouldn't doubt if Game Freak had to decide between adding features and put the time and effort together to hack together an adapter
@@lilylopnco I feel like randomizing stuff like abilitites, EVs, IVs, etc. wouldn't have been that difficult. But I don't know anything about programming so maybe not
Like with Pokémon Crystal, I also never got Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald (you guys already know why). I just played Ruby on an emulator. I did, however, got LeafGreen even though I had the option to get Emerald during that time. I guess nostalgia won over me during that time.
A year without a Pokémon release. We could only dream of such a year nowadays
Also. Sorry dude but this video was kind of uninteresting. Just a lot of stuff I already knew about the games.
That’s fair! It’s hard to surprise people with new knowledge for these 20 year old games but since I’m going through every game in the series, there’s gotta be stuff people don’t know, me included.
What’s your point? Most Pokémon videos are essentially the same with nothing new. We’re here for his opinions on them.
For al gore's rhythm
To Al! 🍻