Words can't describe how much I loved this game. Impeccable lore and story that really raised the stakes compared to the first two games, with fun side mechanics and the best partner Pokemon ever. Ukulele Pichu is the only ukulele player I trust anymore.
Oh yeah, the Pinchers didn't set fire to Nema's house, shes a scientist so her experiment blew up and that's why she's like "WE HAVE TO PUT THIS FIRE OUT BEFORE MY PARENTS COME HOME-"
The ranger games are some of my favorite in the franchise !!!! Theyre so well written and they’re super nostalgic for me. I’m so glad to see you play this!!
1:16 I loved Pokémon Ranger Guardian Signs so much, it was one of my favorite games growing up, it gives me nostalgia about when I got that game for Christmas and I was playing that game all the time, it left a big impact on me.
12:32 Apparently in crocheting, knitting, and weaving there are specific codes to make certain objects and if you know what you are doing you could encode a message via pattern as the pattern is codified
Still can't believe this game had the balls to literally nuke the tutorial island aka your Partner Pichu's home and it NEVER COMES BACK. IT'S COMPLETELY WIPED FROM THE MAP OF THE REGION
I remember playing this when it first came out as a young teen and my jaw literally dropped. I actually started to tear up because I legitimately thought all the pokemon were killed and felt for Ukulele Pichu. It was a major relief when I saw Booker saved them.
Friendly warning for the first game, you can’t lift your stylus mid loop. Pokémon have a number above their head that tells you how many loops you need to do. If you remove your stylus it resets. Also the Manaphy egg may be one per cartridge (not save, I haven’t tested this rumor).
Gaurdian signs was my first ever Pokémon game,I still remember booting up that save file at the local Giant,and seeing my beloved ukelelechu for the first time Miss that little dude,wish they brought him back for an event
I love the Ranger games so much, theyre a lot of fun with good stories and lore in my opinion. Then again, this is coming from a person who has beaten all 3 of them multiple timee and filled the browser for all of them. I get that the guide probably doesn't talk too much about the post-game and quests, but those are a huge part of these games and I can't recommend them enough. Shadows of Almia is my personal favorite, but Guardian Signs is also phenomenal! Excited for you to play the others (and likely have the worst time with the original Ranger game, the capture system is frustrating to say the least)
If you havent you need to play the special episodes!! By following a guide on YT i was able to download all the special episodes for Almia and Guardian Signs, I havent played the GS episodes yet but the Almia ones are super fun!! Ive 100% the first two games, but the multiplayer in the third is little daunting so i have yet to do that yet
I REMEMBER THIS GAME! It was the only Rangers game I'd gotten, and I think it was given to me as a present for Christmas or my birthday. I'm SO happy to see you covering this. I can already hear the Pichu playing it's ukulele like it did so long ago. I'm definitely going to enjoy this video, this is a blast of nostalgia I'm more than happy to get.
I know it might never happen, since it's going to be hard finding out a way to make the capture system work on something that isn't the DS, but ever since the release of the switch, i've been hoping for a reboot of the series, it's easily one of the most unique pokemon spin offs, and my favorite aswell :) Shadows of Almia was soooo good
Belive me or not but I am still playing this game today. I still grind the "online" mode from time to time but beating levels intended for up to 4 players is a crazy grind, even in this kids game. I have over 80 hours in this game from my current run, I had even more before. Thank you for making this video, this game somehow means a lot to me. I wish you had shown how the sky fortress obliterated the whole starting island. This was the crazyest moment of the game to me
Guardian signs is one of the best Pokemon games honestly. Especially the lore and post game legendaries quests. You can even get Arceus in the final mission of the game which is impossible without more people or cheats
it's been so long since i've played this! I completed the browser for it, I think twice. I played shadows of almia a few more times than guardian signs, but i really liked this one. loved how the water looks in aqua resort.
Not surprised you didn’t beat the first Ranger game. It’s honestly pretty rough and difficult compared to the other two, and I’d recommend starting the series with the second or third game.
this was my first pokemon game i ever played as a kid and its so cool that you were able to make a nintended video about it. it was so cool to watch someone play through it again and relive the memories i had playing it as a kid. riding the legendaries is still the coolest thing to me ever and i love that they brought it back kinda in oras with the soaring mechanic, and kind of in pla with ride pokemon (but theyre not the same in my eyes ;0;) regardless!! it was so awesome to watch this video
11:52 you can if you have flying Pokemon caught in the sky but the guide didn't say that as I have played blindly through the whole of Guardian Signs single player campaign, the multiplayer unlocks the one per cartridge distribution Pokemon like Deoxys and Manaphy
I loved the ranger games so much! I swear apparently I don’t remember too much of this game though outside of ukelele pichu and the legendary dogs being mounts cause I thought that was the sickest thing as a kid.
Pokemon Ranger, especially Guardian Signs and Shadows of Almia, are such nostalgic games. I remember playing them when I was younger, and I still enjoy replaying them to this day. They hold up really well in my opinion and I'd be so over the moon if a fourth game is ever made. A girl can dream
Like the other games say, the 'loops' transfer for feelings of friendship and desire not to cause them harm. You're basically asking for the Pokémon to help you, whereas the bad guys basically mine control the Pokémon.
I love the Ranger games so much. So sad there isn't any anymore, even though they could make one with the joy con's gyro-sensors (aka drawing circles just like the Rangers themselves) FunFact btw, the Islands in this game start with Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti
I could be wrong but I think you can use those summon signs during battle to summon the pokemon as a free poke assist but it's hard to do without the enemy pokemon breaking your symbol
My youngest brother played both the OG Ranger and Shadows of Almia in the lead-up to the release of Guardian Signs. GS is the only one that I played, and I remember loving that game. Have never gone back to it, since I no longer own a NDS, but would very much like to when I have a chance
I always preferred Shadows of Almia’s story, but I have such fond memories of playing the multiplayer mode for this game with my cousin over that summer. We never finished it, we hit a wall against (I think) an Electivire, but we spent hours playing that together.
I love Pokémon ranger more than the mystery dungeon games, and I absolutely love the PMD games. The story was great and summoning Pokémon in PRGS was sooo cool to me as a kid
When pokemon black and white came out my brother and i went to spend our Christmas money to get one of each game and play against eachother, but we didnt have enough money so we ended up buying these. This was the first pokemon game i ever played, and he and i had so much fun talking about the game and playing them together. While i kinda wish we gotten black and white instead im still happy that i own this game, one of the first games i ever fully beat
Pokemon ranger 1,2 are goated games they were awesome idk who told you they were bad or no one played them but thats not true they are amazing spinoffs and deserve new games
I got this game probably used when I was a kid, and played it to the point I had hurt my wrist from doing the small circles and rubbed the stylus against my hand to the point my parents got me fingerless gloves to assist with it lol. I remember after beating the game i loved playing with the symbols to just run around with each legendary we could call on.
i played shadows of alima first (The second game) then got this watching you call the capture stylus a beyblade freak out about ukulele pichu and etc.just made me giggle
The multiplayer in this game is also surprisingly fun. It’s unfortunately super hard and close to impossible to beat solo, and this game wasn’t exactly popular enough to play with even 1 other person that often (let alone 3 others), but if you can make it happen I highly recommend it.
I know you don't have a guide yet but you REALLY should have started with the first game because going from 3rd and 2nd to the 1st is going to be very jarring. You won't notice it at first but once you get to some of the bosses you will. Fundamentally the games are the same but their is one thing different, just one tiny little thing that makes the first game the most brutal in the series. You can never, EVER break the loop. The other 2 games allow a grace period where you can stop looping without losing progress, to avoid attacks or use an assit. Not for the first game, oh no, you have to do it all in one go and when you're at mid to late game bosses? Rather then a progress bar for capture the pokemon had loop counters and some required you to do 80+ loops with massive screen wide attacks. Some bosses literally needed you to hide your styler in the corner and hope an attack doesn't reach you because you're only 15 loops away from succeeding and lifting up the stylus will set you right back to 0. CHARIZARD GAVE ME PTSD! It seems so small yet that change was a MAJOR improvement.
The ranger games are my FAVORITE Pokemon games, full stop. I was really disappointed as a kid when everyone only played mystery dungeon, and nobody played ranger. The 2nd game in the series though is absolutely my favorite, and I recommend it to everyone. But honestly, all the games did stuff that the main series didn't even get around to yet at the time, like facing the bosses in any order, or having overworld encounters. I really want more people to play these games. I wish they'd make a new one, though I get that it'd be hard with less precise touch controls compared to the DS days. That's why as a kid I was so disappointed since the 3DS would have been perfect for more games in the series.
It’s finally here. This game is *the* reason I became a Pokémon fan. No, scratch that- there’s an argument to be made that this game was pretty much made for me.
the protag and the tech feel so 2000s like gen 3 era. I really wish there would be another one. ill even take a mobile spin off at this point if not switch
I've played all three myself. Shadows of Almia was my first if I remember correctly and in my opinion is the best of the three. The gimmicks in this game though of going back in time (better in co-op) and using signs to call forth specific pokemon are fun.
be glad you bought it then, i have this one, and then pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of sky, my local game store priced it at $100. insane prices rn. then wanted $10 for my action replay LOL
I got the Pokemon Ranger Ukulele Pichu game (the one in this video) because I thought Black 2 was a simple rehash of Black, boy I sure was mistaken but enjoy that I saw Ukulele Pichu before most people.
Words can't describe how much I loved this game. Impeccable lore and story that really raised the stakes compared to the first two games, with fun side mechanics and the best partner Pokemon ever. Ukulele Pichu is the only ukulele player I trust anymore.
Yeah, this was one of my favorite games, too! I loved the Pokemon Ranger series!
When I saw what happened to Dole island towards the end of the story, I was actually emotionally moved, so good
It looks like words just described how much you love this game.
@@Ed_G_Boise what other ukulele players can I trust? Pichu’s all I got
Hearing “Murph is such an unassuming guy” is so funny as a ranger fan because he is one of the most important characters in the whole series
This is what I was looking for. The audacity of this man to even speak those words is unfathomable
I was about to make this same comment!
This was a severely underrated game. I loved it as a kid and am actually working through a replay right now! Thanks for the memories!
i would be doing the same but i lost my stylus's :( ill have to rebuy some at some point
Oh yeah, the Pinchers didn't set fire to Nema's house, shes a scientist so her experiment blew up and that's why she's like "WE HAVE TO PUT THIS FIRE OUT BEFORE MY PARENTS COME HOME-"
And then when you do meet them, she tells them that the house was hit by lightning…
The ranger games are some of my favorite in the franchise !!!! Theyre so well written and they’re super nostalgic for me. I’m so glad to see you play this!!
1:16 I loved Pokémon Ranger Guardian Signs so much, it was one of my favorite games growing up, it gives me nostalgia about when I got that game for Christmas and I was playing that game all the time, it left a big impact on me.
Same man
@@mr.omeganer8120 Thanks dude, I’m glad you understand. 😊👍
First game was a lot harder. Each pokemon had a number of circles needed to capture and they had to be continuous
BROOO thank you for playing through this! Ranger holds such a special spot in my heart and it’s great to see more people play it
12:32 Apparently in crocheting, knitting, and weaving there are specific codes to make certain objects and if you know what you are doing you could encode a message via pattern as the pattern is codified
Still can't believe this game had the balls to literally nuke the tutorial island aka your Partner Pichu's home and it NEVER COMES BACK. IT'S COMPLETELY WIPED FROM THE MAP OF THE REGION
I remember playing this when it first came out as a young teen and my jaw literally dropped. I actually started to tear up because I legitimately thought all the pokemon were killed and felt for Ukulele Pichu. It was a major relief when I saw Booker saved them.
The celebi thing when you time travel and fight arceus is probably the peak of my entire life
Im trying to get there single player at the moment, any recommendations to make the grind easyer?
@@mr.omeganer8120 i did that as a si gle player when I was a child so I really don’t remember how the fuck I did it😭
Friendly warning for the first game, you can’t lift your stylus mid loop. Pokémon have a number above their head that tells you how many loops you need to do. If you remove your stylus it resets. Also the Manaphy egg may be one per cartridge (not save, I haven’t tested this rumor).
The Manaphy is true, as I got a used copy and even after starting a new file, it still had the "hope manaphy is doing well" cutscene
Gaurdian signs was my first ever Pokémon game,I still remember booting up that save file at the local Giant,and seeing my beloved ukelelechu for the first time
Miss that little dude,wish they brought him back for an event
I will not die until they make another Pokemon Ranger game. I will live one thousand years out of spite
I love the Ranger games so much, theyre a lot of fun with good stories and lore in my opinion. Then again, this is coming from a person who has beaten all 3 of them multiple timee and filled the browser for all of them. I get that the guide probably doesn't talk too much about the post-game and quests, but those are a huge part of these games and I can't recommend them enough. Shadows of Almia is my personal favorite, but Guardian Signs is also phenomenal! Excited for you to play the others (and likely have the worst time with the original Ranger game, the capture system is frustrating to say the least)
If you havent you need to play the special episodes!! By following a guide on YT i was able to download all the special episodes for Almia and Guardian Signs, I havent played the GS episodes yet but the Almia ones are super fun!! Ive 100% the first two games, but the multiplayer in the third is little daunting so i have yet to do that yet
Loved the opening hardly know her joke. A true classic
I REMEMBER THIS GAME! It was the only Rangers game I'd gotten, and I think it was given to me as a present for Christmas or my birthday. I'm SO happy to see you covering this. I can already hear the Pichu playing it's ukulele like it did so long ago. I'm definitely going to enjoy this video, this is a blast of nostalgia I'm more than happy to get.
This was one of my FAVORITE games as a kid and I totally forgot about it til now. Definitely gonna find my old copy and play again
The dialogue in Pokémon Ranger games is absolute gold. It just never misses
Shadows of Almia is definitely the best ranger game, imo, but the series is seriously underrated and honestly how I want the pokemon world to work
"Nobody plays this game"
I literally have memorized many of the signs and i even have one in my android lock pattern lol
I know it might never happen, since it's going to be hard finding out a way to make the capture system work on something that isn't the DS, but ever since the release of the switch, i've been hoping for a reboot of the series, it's easily one of the most unique pokemon spin offs, and my favorite aswell :) Shadows of Almia was soooo good
Yes,the switch has a touch screen so it could work
Sad that the screen is absolutely not strong enough
ahhhh i have always enjoyed this series but this is literally my favourite pokemon game so im so glad you’ve done it!! thank you 😁
Belive me or not but I am still playing this game today. I still grind the "online" mode from time to time but beating levels intended for up to 4 players is a crazy grind, even in this kids game. I have over 80 hours in this game from my current run, I had even more before.
Thank you for making this video, this game somehow means a lot to me.
I wish you had shown how the sky fortress obliterated the whole starting island. This was the crazyest moment of the game to me
1:55 "because nobody plays Pokémon Ranger games", but I did play the Ranger games lol.👁👄👁
Guardian signs is one of the best Pokemon games honestly. Especially the lore and post game legendaries quests. You can even get Arceus in the final mission of the game which is impossible without more people or cheats
it's been so long since i've played this! I completed the browser for it, I think twice. I played shadows of almia a few more times than guardian signs, but i really liked this one. loved how the water looks in aqua resort.
Not surprised you didn’t beat the first Ranger game. It’s honestly pretty rough and difficult compared to the other two, and I’d recommend starting the series with the second or third game.
Lmao fr I got stuck on the last boss for 5 hours the first time I played 😂😭
this was my first pokemon game i ever played as a kid and its so cool that you were able to make a nintended video about it. it was so cool to watch someone play through it again and relive the memories i had playing it as a kid. riding the legendaries is still the coolest thing to me ever and i love that they brought it back kinda in oras with the soaring mechanic, and kind of in pla with ride pokemon (but theyre not the same in my eyes ;0;) regardless!! it was so awesome to watch this video
11:52 you can if you have flying Pokemon caught in the sky but the guide didn't say that as I have played blindly through the whole of Guardian Signs single player campaign, the multiplayer unlocks the one per cartridge distribution Pokemon like Deoxys and Manaphy
I loved the ranger games so much! I swear apparently I don’t remember too much of this game though outside of ukelele pichu and the legendary dogs being mounts cause I thought that was the sickest thing as a kid.
Never heard someone say raikou so many times
Pokemon Ranger, especially Guardian Signs and Shadows of Almia, are such nostalgic games. I remember playing them when I was younger, and I still enjoy replaying them to this day. They hold up really well in my opinion and I'd be so over the moon if a fourth game is ever made. A girl can dream
Nintendo only released Pokemon Ranger on the WiiU so we'd destroy the gamepad and have to buy a new one 🤣
I actually have this book and used it quite a bit as a kid. Unironically one of the better strategy guides I’ve owned.
These games are so fun. I remember getting so excited when characters would come back in 2 and 3.
7:45 if you played the games in order, you’d probably know to talk to him. Murph is in all the Ranger games, so you’d probably recognize him.
Oh yeah this game. I loved it so much it was fun to see a different world of pokemon with the rangers.
Wished they bring it back
I clicked this video so fast when I saw it. I love this series so much, it was nice to see someone play it for the first time too haha
Like the other games say, the 'loops' transfer for feelings of friendship and desire not to cause them harm. You're basically asking for the Pokémon to help you, whereas the bad guys basically mine control the Pokémon.
I love the Ranger games. They’re incredibly underrated. On another note it would be neat to see a Nintended video on Pokémon Conquest
That was the most savage "your mom" joke yet and I love it.
I love the Ranger games so much. So sad there isn't any anymore, even though they could make one with the joy con's gyro-sensors (aka drawing circles just like the Rangers themselves)
FunFact btw, the Islands in this game start with Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti
The original Switch had a touchscreen. You could easily have docked/portable circling mechanics. They missed that opportunity.
I could be wrong but I think you can use those summon signs during battle to summon the pokemon as a free poke assist but it's hard to do without the enemy pokemon breaking your symbol
My youngest brother played both the OG Ranger and Shadows of Almia in the lead-up to the release of Guardian Signs. GS is the only one that I played, and I remember loving that game. Have never gone back to it, since I no longer own a NDS, but would very much like to when I have a chance
I loved the Pokemon Ranger games. Shadow of Almia is my favourite of the Ranger games. Hope to see a vid on it soon.
PaPaSea never misses!!! Man i loved this game so much.
I always preferred Shadows of Almia’s story, but I have such fond memories of playing the multiplayer mode for this game with my cousin over that summer. We never finished it, we hit a wall against (I think) an Electivire, but we spent hours playing that together.
After you've "hammered away at this", you need to be "laying down the law" on Diamond/Pearl with that Manaphy!
So Red-Eyes, Blue-Eyes, and Purple-Eyes are based on Red-Eyes, Blue-Eyes, and Dark Magician, right?
Is it bad that I want them to make a ranger game for the switch and the joystick can be the styler press A and spin
i loved all the ranger games so much, still remember playing them so much as a kid
Pokemon Rangers was my jam growing up. Good memories watching this
I love Pokémon ranger more than the mystery dungeon games, and I absolutely love the PMD games. The story was great and summoning Pokémon in PRGS was sooo cool to me as a kid
When pokemon black and white came out my brother and i went to spend our Christmas money to get one of each game and play against eachother, but we didnt have enough money so we ended up buying these. This was the first pokemon game i ever played, and he and i had so much fun talking about the game and playing them together. While i kinda wish we gotten black and white instead im still happy that i own this game, one of the first games i ever fully beat
Pokemon ranger 1,2 are goated games they were awesome idk who told you they were bad or no one played them but thats not true they are amazing spinoffs and deserve new games
I love love loved this game growing up! I had to have completed it some 5 times 😂 awesome to see it again
I got this game probably used when I was a kid, and played it to the point I had hurt my wrist from doing the small circles and rubbed the stylus against my hand to the point my parents got me fingerless gloves to assist with it lol. I remember after beating the game i loved playing with the symbols to just run around with each legendary we could call on.
This. Fucking. Game. Literally my childhood, I miss playing this so so much
The final antagonist is not Edward actually, it's Purple Eyes. The build-up to this final battle is well done when we think about it.
Entei jumps Entei Cuts Entei Runs.
i played shadows of alima first (The second game) then got this
watching you call the capture stylus a beyblade
freak out about ukulele pichu and etc.just made me giggle
The multiplayer in this game is also surprisingly fun. It’s unfortunately super hard and close to impossible to beat solo, and this game wasn’t exactly popular enough to play with even 1 other person that often (let alone 3 others), but if you can make it happen I highly recommend it.
I know you don't have a guide yet but you REALLY should have started with the first game because going from 3rd and 2nd to the 1st is going to be very jarring. You won't notice it at first but once you get to some of the bosses you will. Fundamentally the games are the same but their is one thing different, just one tiny little thing that makes the first game the most brutal in the series.
You can never, EVER break the loop. The other 2 games allow a grace period where you can stop looping without losing progress, to avoid attacks or use an assit. Not for the first game, oh no, you have to do it all in one go and when you're at mid to late game bosses? Rather then a progress bar for capture the pokemon had loop counters and some required you to do 80+ loops with massive screen wide attacks. Some bosses literally needed you to hide your styler in the corner and hope an attack doesn't reach you because you're only 15 loops away from succeeding and lifting up the stylus will set you right back to 0. CHARIZARD GAVE ME PTSD!
It seems so small yet that change was a MAJOR improvement.
The ranger games are my FAVORITE Pokemon games, full stop. I was really disappointed as a kid when everyone only played mystery dungeon, and nobody played ranger. The 2nd game in the series though is absolutely my favorite, and I recommend it to everyone. But honestly, all the games did stuff that the main series didn't even get around to yet at the time, like facing the bosses in any order, or having overworld encounters. I really want more people to play these games. I wish they'd make a new one, though I get that it'd be hard with less precise touch controls compared to the DS days. That's why as a kid I was so disappointed since the 3DS would have been perfect for more games in the series.
I love the ranger games, they're like my favourite spinoff games. Shadows of Almia is my favourite!!
This game was so much fun, I remember playing under my covers at night
you must have been like 15 when this game came out though
@@PaPaSea I was 14 and you're never too old to be gamin under the sheets
Ukelele pichu is the best electric-type pokemon
It’s finally here. This game is *the* reason I became a Pokémon fan. No, scratch that- there’s an argument to be made that this game was pretty much made for me.
Cool profile picture
@@marcobelli6856 Thanks! 🎸🎶
this game made me love the johto trio of dogs cause you could RIDE THEM
Eyo that your mom joke was outta pocket 💀.
the protag and the tech feel so 2000s like gen 3 era. I really wish there would be another one. ill even take a mobile spin off at this point if not switch
"Nobody plays Pokémon Ranger games." You know me too well.
I've played all three myself. Shadows of Almia was my first if I remember correctly and in my opinion is the best of the three. The gimmicks in this game though of going back in time (better in co-op) and using signs to call forth specific pokemon are fun.
Plan Z, of course! The one where Plankton stole Neptune's crown!
i only bought this game for the heatran, manaphy events to transfer to heartgpld but ended up loving it despite rushing to the end
10 year old me was shook by this games twist villains
I LOVED this game as a kid, about as much as the mainline games. I put so many hours into this game.
The mum joke gave me a good giggle
be glad you bought it then, i have this one, and then pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of sky, my local game store priced it at $100. insane prices rn. then wanted $10 for my action replay LOL
Pichu bout to drop an apology song
Best your mom joke so far IMO 😂
Weird i remeber progressing real far in this game when i was younger but never had to do these diving scenes at least not that i remember
bruh im still playing this game after 9 year im trying to get rank S on every mission
I got the Pokemon Ranger Ukulele Pichu game (the one in this video) because I thought Black 2 was a simple rehash of Black, boy I sure was mistaken but enjoy that I saw Ukulele Pichu before most people.
Miss these spin-offs.
The first Pokémon Ranger game was the destroyer of the DS lower screen
Pokemon Ranger Shadows of Almia remains my favorite DS game of all time
every time he said something about no one playing ranger games i cringed. i am no one
This game is automatically the best because it incorporates Corsola, the best pokemon ever.
Yasss the ranger series! Absolutely love them! Such a great series of games! I recommend you play through the whole series though!
Leave my mother out this!!! lol
I absolutely love the rangers games but especially guardian signs. I easily have 100+ hour on my cartridge because of how much i would play
you know what you did interaction farmer
This game doesn’t get enough love 😢 such a great part of my childhood
I ruined my touch pad playing this game. Man I loved the ranger series.
Thanks for another amazing "Playing X as Nintended" video. I'm loving the series incredibly much.
One love ❤️
I played this game as a kid and I hated calling Latias because it was always so hard to do.
Same lol
I used to play this, it was pretty fun as a game.
I LOVE the Ranger games, they're so much fun!!