Pokémon, but with Cults and Human Sacrifices

[@Alpharad]

Any other fan games or romhacks you want to see me play soon? :D

[@ArchiverOfWorlds]

Rejuvenation please!

[@icyhotnate5875]

Pokemon heads and tails, it's a fan made game where your a hero.

[@professoryugi131]

Play Pokémon Unbound I think you will have a great time with it

[@TheTitaniumSamurott]

Uranium 👉👈

[@sherifgamleldin1277]

Pokemon xenovervs

[@tyler-df3wy]

Cults in real life: we aren’t a cult, don’t call us a cult, we’re just a group of people Every group in Insurgence: hey wanna join our cult? :) We love doing cult stuff :)

[@RealCryptoTest]

I’d imagine it’s a little more appealing as a prospect when there are LITERAL CONFIRMED DEITIES THE CULT IS WORSHIPPING

[@thecanadiantaco5343]

It’s so wild to me how they think that’s how cults work cause no most people willingly won’t join a group where they could be sacrificed

[@Okguy-vy6pz]

Real

[@mathewricafrente5984]

At least they're being honest, I'll give them that

[@cheddarcheese4159]

If I remember correctly the Ancient Greeks weren’t particularly shy about it

[@Rot8erConeX]

The worst part of the fact that this game has "government-mandated vaccines are a way to mind control us" as a plot line? The creator's previous fan game was named Zeta/Omicron. When the Omicron variant of Covid was announced, he tweeted "If I had a nickel for every time one of my Pokémon fangames retroactively looks like antivaxxer propaganda..." alongside the relevant screenshot of Doofenshmirtz.

[@thatdarnseel7052]

that is hillarious

[@Iris_Descent]

This subplot is gonna haunt Suze forever, man.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

Oh dear.....

[@Shezestriakis]

Based game is correct. Purebloods shall inherit the earth.

[@Key-cf5yw]

@@Shezestriakisthat’s a strange thing to say in the comments of a pokemon video

[@awkward.anonymous]

Jacob's early game plan of only having edgy pokemon leading to him getting his ass handed to him many, many times in the early game is actual peak. Acting dark and cool only to self-sabotage yourself into being a giant loser is the most authentic expression of edge possible.

[@enricobaschenis4257]

He's Just Like Me For Real

[@LaplaceStevensNameless]

Spoken like a true normie there... Being edgy is the best thing you can be. Chuunibyou FOREVER. Embrace your inner darkness - that is the only way to be alive.

[@xacmashe3852]

Honestly his insistence to trying to be edgy at the beginning just made me roll my eyes so i was very glad he got humbled and dropped that crap quickly. The beginning had the energy of "how can i make this as annoying as possible while claiming its the game that is bad."

[@greencumulonlover6988]

@@xacmashe3852 you shouldn’t be watching alpharad

[@lukiwei9468]

@@xacmashe3852”I’m the antihero, Persephone” was definitely not Alpha’s fault

[@knight123x4]

"I am the anti-hero, Persephone. I am the chaotic-good character!" I can't help but wonder what they were thinking when writing that line, lol

[@sugaxshyxtype]

main character syndrome.

[@Saxdude26]

Probably the fact she's both the goddess of spring and the bride of Hades. Chaotic-Good is pretty spot on from a mythology standpoint. EDIT: Commas are important when I read things. 😅

[@Baiswith]

@@Saxdude26 To be fair, a lot of people would use a comma in that context as well - probably intending to indicate a dramatic pause.

[@mailcs06]

Persephone responds with something along the lines of "seems more like Lawful Evil to me" after he leaves which I find funny

[@kirbwarriork3371]

I thought that line was a really good way to communicate just how narcissistic he is. Those aren't really that similar, he's just trying to convince her (and himself) that he's a 'dark hero' and the one the world needs.

[@NirrumTheMad]

Of course the DNA has clothes, it's encoded in your jeans

[@FunnyFany]

Horrible. I love it.

[@CasualFanGirl-ff3fh]

Shut up and take my like

[@themasterofw4295]

Obligatory boooooo

[@bargainbrandmusician]

👏🏽👏🏽 but also 🍅🍅

[@FaisLittleWhiteRaven]

*wipes tear* Beautiful punage

[@Glace_cakes]

The way this game yo-yos between “predicting the future of pokemon” and “hilariously insensitive post pandemic” is hysterical

[@TheGentlemanDuelist]

I love that it’s all unintentional and the dev is just like 🙃

[@historicflame972]

@@TheGentlemanDuelist The dev is Walter in that damn car

[@sillyputtyisfun7567]

I wouldn't put it past Pokemon from stealing from fan designers. I mean their current Lawsuit against Pocket Pair kinda makes me think they aren't capable of honest business.

[@historicflame972]

@@sillyputtyisfun7567 Ok go home fun's over

[@hutyro]

@@sillyputtyisfun7567 Insurgence's delta pokemon were based off of a thing gamefreak had already done, and regional variants by gamefreak are based on real science

[@66Roses]

I love Insurgence for just how goofy and over-the-top it is. It understands that the assignment is _EDGE_ and doesn't pretend to be more than that.

[@daltongibson1033]

People love to act like "edge" is inherently bad or like something being "edgy" renders it dumb, cringe, and embarassing, but like. Personally, I love when something is this confident in what it is. Cynicism can go to hell, this is fun! And who gives a flying furby if it reeks of "teenager-who-wanted-to-make-something-cool"?

[@mr.stuffdoer8483]

Idk feels like it doesn’t go hard enough for it to come off as knowing what it is. I mean, 4 deaths? C’mon…

[@66Roses]

@@mr.stuffdoer8483 I feel there's a line between edgy and grimdark. Insurgence is edgy, Rejuvenation is grimdark.

[@hi-i-am-atan]

@@66Roses 5 deaths does not a grimdark make

[@Cruxin]

​@@hi-i-am-atan pretty sure wrong way around

[@iguessimhere2632]

The overexplaining of lore at every turn is so funny, like nothing is left to the reader’s imagination. The characters will explain everything to a ridiculous degree

[@daltongibson1033]

It very much seems to be a product of a young person's still-developing writing abilities, but it's far from the worst I've seen. I wrote worse than that in middle school, and honestly, even with all its flaws, it still has some impressive writing overall, especially considering its understanding of Pokemon lore and how well it uses all of the various elements of them together- namely through the utilization of all the different Legendaries. Given a bit of refinement, Insurgence could genuinely be a very good story; it's already not that far off from that.

[@possessedpicklejar4762]

“I love you son” *Sets up toxic spikes and spikes and max revive the Pokémon when he faints.*

[@Leonidas1210vc]

just like a true parent, gotta make sure that tough love is upfront and VERY personal

[@Grant-pv3vq]

Timestamp?

[@Honnojis]

Heyo! One of the devs for Rejuvenation here-there's a lot of people suggesting Rejuvenation as the next game you should play, but personally I would recommend holding off until V14 of the game is out. It'll include the addition of Gen 9 Pokémon and the end of Act 2, it's currently in development and has been for about 10-11 months now-while also being expected to not take nearly as long as the current public build, V13.5 (which took a bit over two years to be published). If you'd like to know anything else on the matter or would like to know more about the game as a whole (as there's some stuff that'd probably be useful to know up front), feel free to reach out! I'm more than happy to help o7

[@kiroonsmoon]

Hiii…I’m here commenting to boost this.

[@Fragmentsdev]

Boosting

[@ManhwaTalkAzz]

Love your fan game btw

[@sparklepool101]

That's so cool!!!

[@maylifarrey7176]

The boosting,anyways cool!

[@ThatFedoraGuyyy]

An Insurgence video? In the year 2024, localized entirely within Alpharad's channel? Time to get comfy then

[@Lopezelpesado2423]

Yes!

[@cobaltprime9467]

Can I see it?

[@JoeEnglish2010]

@@cobaltprime9467 no.

[@Chara_Dreemurr1]

​@@JoeEnglish2010 SEYMOUR! THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!

[@kernium]

​@@Chara_Dreemurr1NO MOTHER! IT'S JUST THE NORTHERN LIGHTS!

[@UnnecessarilyAGiantNerd]

I find it funny how most delta pokemon are edgy but sometimes there will be a cute little holloween oddish or fairy bulbasaur

[@johngrace1312]

So, btw, “Cult” was originally the word used to refer any specific group that worships a specific deity in polytheistic religions, a lot of cults weren’t death happy murder religions as depicted today, however a lot of them did keep their religious rights secret for reasons that vary from: Our god is he literal embodiment of death and we don’t want to risk earning g their ire, to… “We make the best wine, and since its important for our right, why would we give away that secret”

[@swordsmancs]

Persephone and Dionysus, the two everyone knows lmao Wish the cults in Isolation were more like the green secret cults with their own internal rituals and such

[@ManfredDudesonVonGuy]

IDK if the game makers are versed in Japanese culture, but they also have had a huge problem with cults since WW2. Because of the freedom of religion clause being new, the government of Japan was REALLY hands off on "religions." It's been a few decades, but there was a point where 1 in 5 Japanese citizens were members of a cult. The word has diverged in meaning even more there than it has here vis-a-vis the ancient meaning of cult.

[@auroraourania7161]

​@@ManfredDudesonVonGuyyeah, every time I talk online about my fascination with Greek and Roman myth, I end up having to give that little speech to preface that these were completely acceptable things to be part of generally, and were seen as an important part of society and of keeping the gods happy. It's easy for modern people too see "Cult obsessed with death and the underworld" when you talk about the orphic cult and make some hefty assumptions that would not be remotely accurate to historians understanding of it

[@johngrace1312]

@@ManfredDudesonVonGuy I was aware that Japan had a “cult epidemic” as I have heard some KZbinrs put it, but I was not aware of the specific statistics. That’s honestly really fascinating, if not quite saddening

[@bagfaceman1656]

Religious rites*

[@Amber-cx3yy]

4:54 he actually did kill those guys according to the insurgence wiki "When questioned if he killed the two cultists attempting to assassinate him in Telnor Town with the spell he used, Jaern responds that he only had them sent to Helios City. However, the incantation he recited, "Vinculorum mortae," is a Latin phrase which roughly translates to "Bonds of death" in English."

[@sachalec3548]

For a game that revolves around cults, less that 10 deaths is still not a lot

[@hazamaunlimited8131]

Which is really weird because you can see one of those cultists alive and well in a house in Helios city.

[@Amber-cx3yy]

@@hazamaunlimited8131 wait really? I guess that makes me wrong

[@lolthisshowisamazin6409]

@@Amber-cx3yy That makes it even funnier! "Let me invoke the Bonds of Death for my Teleportation spell!"

[@realname2883]

@@lolthisshowisamazin6409 not google translates proudest moment

[@theman6422]

Each time he explains a major plot point, I’m always like “oh, I guess we’re at the end of the video then” and then I check and like I’m only 10 minutes in each time

[@theman6422]

Nah how did we go from evil vaccines to trapping people in our brains to the average r/atheist inhabitant? I need to play this. Now

[@TehWhiteTiger]

I scrolled to comments, saw this and realized I'm still only half way through... How??

[@WailfulSeeker82]

Thats insurgence in a nutshell

[@TheZajicekfarber]

To be fair; if every "ordinary" group is calling themselves a cult, it'd make sense the actual cult wouldn't call themselves a cult.

[@alicebrown9034]

TRUEEEEE

[@ExeloMinish]

I love how they made custom material for damn near everything, but the victory music, a theme you're going to hear a thousand times, is just a RPG Maker default asset

[@lancehackman6304]

I love how most of the battle sound effects are RPG Maker default sound effects

[@EggoBoi]

Some sounds in battle are also from RPG Maker, such as when a stat of a Pokémon falls, being “Down1”

[@vanibath8814]

10:20 oh no its even better, delta scyther has ice cleats, which is just slush rush but it means that that single mon beat out gamefreak through both its name, abillity, and being an ice variant of a gen 1 mon

[@generalmcguffin593]

Delta pidgey is based on a cockatrice (a weird bird with a dragon tail and a plume on its neck) and they turn people to stone by looking at them. Pouring the blood of a cockatrice on the petrified victims will return them to normal :D

[@blazewalker7313]

I was thinking it's meant to be a Basalisk but that works too

[@hollowlord8548]

​​@@blazewalker7313 Same brooo..... What's the difference lol

[@Sirfinchyyy]

Ty, i was drawing a blank on that for some reason, although i would argue that getting pecked causes petrification and, if petrified, getting swept by the tail feathers restores someone to their normal state. Could be wrong i guess.

[@auroraourania7161]

​@@hollowlord8548 ​ pretty significant actually. A basilisk was, depending on the specific person writing it down, either a lizard or more rarely a snake, that killed people with its breath (some works change that to be turning to stone with a glance, but I've only seen that in modern works like Harry Potter or dungeons & dragons, and I think that may be a modern change inspired by the story of Medusa). A cockatrice, as stated, was more similar to a rooster, and in a lot of depictions turned people to stone via pecking rather than just via looking (I'm guessing that's also a variation between different sources. That's pretty common with mythology, it's rare for there to be one true version). A cockatrice was said to be born when a rooster laid an egg. And IIRC the way to destroy one was something about it hearing a rooster's call.

[@leafiot]

iirc, on wikipedia, the word 'basilisk' was actually a mistranslation of 'cockatrice' in some article, so the name stuck. the two terms are actually interchangeable! :D

[@thepuglist1322]

"There's an entire town, inside, my head. Why?" *Bridget's Theme Starts Playing*

[@jukesdtj656]

And everybody's voice!

[@mailcs06]

@@jukesdtj656 Only, I'm not there!

[@Hababalooo]

Just watching from afar

[@jenniiss]

I've wiped beating this game from my memory because every 5 minutes I'd be like ''Oh Alpha got further than I ever did! Only to then get hit 5 seconds later with shit like ''Oh yeah the rock-friend, Rayquaza fight, Library!, Grass-Snorlax, Half-deoxys-dad!'' etc. What a fucking fever dream.

[@cosmicrift2763]

exactly the same bro

[@dnidaz2553]

well that's becquse he isn't playing CBT mode aka hard mode

[@dzapps_]

Alpha NOT screaming “ITS LOST WOODS BABY” was the biggest surprise in this whole video

[@mailcs06]

The funny part is that it's not even lost woods it's just normal dark tunnels XD

[@J.Blazer]

I swept Reukra with a single pokemon: my starter. Imagine going on like "There is no such thing as a perfect pokemon; but there can be a perfect team", only to be solo'd by a mutant reptile _you_ created and the kid you gave it to a week ago.

[@dhampir_days]

not to mention the mutant reptile you called a freak and assumed would die

[@demirderinler5887]

How... HOW DOES THE LEAGUE WORK IF ONE OF THE GYMS IS IN A RANDOM DUDES HEAD?!

[@darkiusmc979]

It just doesn't. No one can beat all the gyms so no one can challenge the league.

[@Scarylyn14]

The first rule of ROM hack plots is that we don't ask too many questions😂

[@br0k3n_url]

its a romhack, they dont know how to write stories 99% of the time LMAO

[@ethan2060]

@@darkiusmc979 Yeah this is like a fundamental part of the story too haha

[@grahhhhimevil]

​@@br0k3n_urlthis is a fangame, not a romhack, fangames are usually made with rpgmaker xp and pokemon essentials

[@mx.e2176]

Delta Muk predicted: •Muk getting a new form prior to regional variants existing, one gen before they were introduced •A Pokemon eating another Pokemon (Cramorant) •A Pokemon made out of sand (Sandygast)

[@frostplays155]

Delta Muk predicted Gen 7 and 8 is what I'm hearing you say

[@enigmatic2878]

"I really want a pokemon that's like opposite types that don't make much sense. Kind of like grass/fire" *gen 9 releases* "Oh my gosh! I predicted scolvillain!" That's what i hear ya saying

[@Meltydown_]

I only watched one minute of this and Mew already licked blood to give you the DNA of a fucking cult member. Is this the peak Pokémon experience?

[@AdrieneTheDarkestHorse]

yes (I mean there are much creepier and more violent pokemon fan stuff out there but that's besides the point)

[@phoenixflamegames1]

And keep in mind, he played the MILD version (you can tell by the opening cutscene). Yes there is a different version that is more creepy and horror filled.

[@AdrieneTheDarkestHorse]

@@phoenixflamegames1 :O WHERE

[@blurb9319]

@@phoenixflamegames1 No, he's playing the dark version, the traditional has basically no murder.

[@austinish]

I think it does have the mild opening (pretty sure the dark one straight up says the augur is dead), but then goes into the dark version of the cult tutorial area (mild version, you get the DNA from an outfit lying around, and darkrai is just called by a machine). I might have played this game a bit too much.

[@eonblue9713]

44:25 The vaccine part got me CACKLING haahahahaha -- especially given the fact that this was before the covid

[@woogie_G]

This game really leads you to ask the most important questions in storytelling, keeping you on your toes, such as, "where the hell am I?" "What the hell am i doing?" and "what's going on?"

[@byrontheusurper6505]

1:07:50 greninja having a different color scheme with different protean types is crazy cool, I wish pokemon would do that

[@nerdsjvgamer1917]

It actually happens with cinderace in the anime

[@byrontheusurper6505]

@@nerdsjvgamer1917 love it

[@swordsmancs]

I’ll give the game credit, it _does_ make a certain kind of sense that every Legendary has their own cult. Like, did the creator make 17 cults because it was historically accurate to Ancient Greece (every Greek god had their own secret cult where much of the mythology we know today comes from) or because it makes sense that groups worshiping what are the Pokémon equivalent of living gods would spring up over the years? Absolutely not, they gave every Legendary a cult because cults are evil and bad and crazy and bad Does that mean the idea is entirely without merit? No, it definitely could have been done in a less edgy way though. Like, maybe have the Shaymin cult do their absolute best to return nature to the world, whether that’s through planting forests and fields of flowers or by destroying metropolitan areas to expand nature’s influence, or have Darkrai’s cult spend all their time sleeping to try and experience nightmares in an effort to grow closer to their lord, or have Dialga’s cult all squabbling over which method of measuring time is the most effective and try to effectively speedrun life to “make as much of the time we have as we are able”, that sort of thing Just make it _interesting,_ having all of them be cartoonishly evil gets old fast

[@no_nekos_here1214]

See, that would make them *religions*, not *cults*. *Cults* are, in fact, evil and bad and crazy and bad.

[@gallalameblook9911]

The game doesn't have 17 cults. It has 5 of them (+ ig you could count the Distortion people as another, but like, they're the only decent one narratively). It's mentioned there use to be 10 before the First Augur swept them with the crystal, but those previous cults are never described in detail. What it does have, is far too many 'players on the board' so to speak. You have the protagonist trio (MC, Damien and Nora), you have the 8 gym leaders, you have the 5 cults, you have Malde once he becomes a Deoxys, the Timeless and then the Distortion people. It does make for a long game with many boss fights (just from the main campaign alone, you get 6 Rival fights, 8 gyms leaders, 2 boss fights for the Abyssal, Infernal, Celestial and Darkrai Cults, 4 Taen fights for Perfection, and Nyx, for a grand total of 32 boss fights once you include the Elite 4+ Reukra), each of them pretty much happening in their own zone. Even Black&White which is famous for throwing Bianca and Cheren at you every time it feels like it only gets to 30 (with 12 rival fights, 5 N fights, 8 Gym leaders + E4, and the final Ghetsis fight, counting the starter fight tutorial as 2 whole boss fights. It's not like they didn't try, Persephone and Diana's backstory is complelling on paper, but they barely get 4 scenes to together because this game keeps rushing from plotpoint to plotpoint.

[@swordsmancs]

@@gallalameblook9911 this man has never heard of the word exaggeration in his life

[@xacmashe3852]

​@@swordsmancsit was bad exaggeration. You just copied Alpha and his exaggeration was dumb too.

[@swordsmancs]

@@xacmashe3852 dude I only watched the first half of the video, if Alpha said the same shit I did later on I never heard it

[@ForeveraBoss117]

The immediate terror felt the moment Miltank popped on the screen when Alpharad mentioned a new Mega evolution outweighs any survival horror game

[@P.A.L.09]

Literally this fangame was my childhood

[@bahhhhhs]

you grew up in a cult?

[@dante_dmc3]

​@@bahhhhhsYou didnt?

[@AdrieneTheDarkestHorse]

@@bahhhhhs yeah this is completely normal, we have blood sacrifices after every Wednesday dinner

[@Jack5628]

Hell yeah brother!!!!!

[@P.A.L.09]

@@bahhhhhs7 actually

[@brunette3cookie]

If you take the Will to the guy in...one of the cities near a desert who won't shut up about being a lawyer, you get an item because he can singlehandedly probate a Will I guess

[@jaybirdsgames]

You know, this game gets a lot of crap for being edgy, but I genuinely do love it. The music is great, I love the regional designs, I LOVE side quests (main games please give me side quests), and the difficulty isn't too easy. Even with the plot being ridiculous and cheesy, I prefer a ridiculous plot that is involved than an almost non existent one. The endgame of scarlet/violet was by FAR my favorite part. I know a lot of people like pokemon as an almost battle simulator/puzzle boss rush, and I get that (I do love elite redux a lot), but I like when fan games lean into the rpg aspect more, and I wish the main games would too. Plus the pokemon follow you, come on.

[@droidixbacon]

Can I add how just, perfect the random npcs can be at times? One of them is just an astrophysicist who hates how lackluster the pokemon move gravity you cant not love this

[@inapostle8th]

There's a lot of good Pokémon fangame with great story out there if you fancy that

[@jaybirdsgames]

@@inapostle8th I've probably played them lol. I've played a lot of the more popular ones. I just have a soft spot for insurgence.

[@guydooeinfinity]

fun fact: Delta Species pokemon originated with the TCG

[@toastr1255]

Yes! I was just about to comment this but wanted to see if anyone else did first. They were a TCG thing from gen 3 (I think?) where a pokemon would have a different type than usual. It was just the type that was different though, the designs were still the same as usual. In the design sense, insurgence does predate gamefreak since they didn't do that until gen 7's regional forms. But yes, the idea of a "delta" pokemon that has a different typing is an old TCG mechanic.

[@Meltydown_]

Oohhh, I knew the term was familiar! Funny how the fangame borrowed a mechanic of TCG and accidentally predicted a future thing from the games

[@mitkitty]

Yeah, i remember having an Electric Dragonite card back in the day

[@Cloudchaser_K]

this is actually kind of acknowledged in game- there was a pokemon tcg lore thing with the Holon region, which is where delta pokemon were appearing, and you can go there in the postgame of insurgence. There's a bunch of delta pokemon that aren't really in the main game there, and some of them are pretty cool, at least design wise. Aron, Mawile and Maractus are probably my favourites of the postgame deltas.

[@kenwillison9731]

I had a rock /steel blastoise show up in my collection one day and just stared, convinced it was a fake😂

[@Flof_353]

At 0:10 i totally read “pokemon insurance”

[@nodyajjaydon7306]

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[@hedonistredd4592]

14:50 For those unaware, it seems like its a play on the mythical creature Cockatrice, which had the body of a dragon and the head of a rooster at times! It also had the the power to petrify any living creature with its breath!

[@moodfox2988]

Isn't it with its gaze/stare? Or am i misremembering?

[@cosmorror3907]

Pretty sure it was a reference to a Basilisk (actual basilisk not the bastardised Harry Potter one) I may be wrong but that’s what I thought

[@hedonistredd4592]

​​@@moodfox2988it can be either/or in some tellings! Breath or gaze, but I also equate a petrifying gaze more to Medusa than a cockatrice!

[@hedonistredd4592]

​@cosmorror3907 there's actually some disambiguation for both of those, some accounts can be attributed to either a basilisk or cockatrice depending on the legends! Definitely closely related!

[@moodfox2988]

@@hedonistredd4592 Ah got it, Thanks!

[@NikkiNakka390]

Gonna be that guy and point out Delta Species were a thing in the TCG before this game. This game even uses the icon they use in the TCG for them

[@appledognugget2267]

Wait really? How did that work?

[@joshringo7287]

⁠@@appledognugget2267delta species pokemon in the tcg were just normal looking Pokemon with a different type than they usually had. I don’t know if there was any specific way they had to be played, I was never into actually playing the game. I used to have a couple delta species cards, one of them was a steel type delcatty I think

[@mailcs06]

I had a fighting/rock type elekid and a fire horsea. I think they were just played like normal pokemon. Also the symbol is just the greek lowercase delta.

[@drizzho]

Yes the mechanic is explained as it existing before but being more studied in insurgence

[@mailcs06]

@@drizzho Yeah they say it's originally from the Holon region which IIRC is where they're from in the TCG

[@baileycrosby6543]

Real life:"We are an organisation of loving people who care for one another" This game:"Yeah we a cult. Join we killing a kid next tuesday wanna join?"

[@comyuse9103]

i'd be way more likely to join a cult if they just tell me they are a cult.

[@Darkeon73]

Seems chill

[@badashe1364]

Insurgence is simultaneously the most wild and hilarious Pokémon experience I’ve ever had personally…and I absolutely adore it.

[@demonshade4120]

I’ve said this before but if you want a funny Pokemon game play reborn. It’s so ridiculously over the top edgy that it’s loops back to being hilarious. Every character is written like a tumblr fanfiction.

[@GamerNintendo25]

That battle where the Lanturn hit scald three times despite 4x minimise and Fissure hitting 3 times in a row was wild

[@sapphiredraggytheflygon8521]

Didn’t it hit scald like 6 times. Also yeah that single battle was the ground of the RnJesus

[@sgtpaintbrush]

I can't believe Alpha didn't mention Damian actually saying "You're not my REAL dad!!" to his stepdad

[@skotiaH2O]

There's so much story in the postgame, like the whole ending of Damian's character arc and a bunch of other things i already forgot

[@hedgehogpower194]

Hearing Alpharas beg for mercy against the Cinccino was honestly both hilarious and terrifying 😭

[@ScrungoJones]

You know, for as edgy as this game is, there's something really charming about how much love and sincerity was put into it.

[@chompon7120]

He finally did insurgence, my life is complete

[@BoopisMaximus]

holy real

[@aceplaysstuff2621]

And he made a force unleashed reference Real

[@dawnyzero0]

1:20:36 "I'm about to get hit by..." You've been struck by *a fire boss theme*

[@various3653]

Pokemon Insurance is one of my favorite Pokemon fan games and the one that got me into the genre. My all time favorite has to be Pokemon Rejuvenation, phenomenal in every way

[@insiv]

rebornverse trio has to be peak pokemon

[@MelodyLumina]

pokemon insurance is great but isn't it weird that it's only offered by private companies yet it's still a crime to battle uninsured?

[@thedeafeningdunce]

Fellow peak lover. You try out Vanguard?

[@JustSomeGuyWithoutSeasoning]

Pokémon Rejuvenation is amazing! Glad to see someone talking about it.

[@JustSomeGuyWithoutSeasoning]

@@insiv There-there’s a third one? I only know of Pokémon Reborn and Pokémon Rejuvenation. I’m really curious now, pls tell me.

[@UmbreonMessiah]

Is that Haxorus with it's axe blade replaced by *a fucking anchor?* SIGN ME UP!

[@sythrus]

I remember when Insurgence was making its first rounds around KZbin back when it was in demo (story went up to the first mega rayquaza fight). Then a few years later, it finally fully released and i was absolutely ecstatic, hell, i even wrote some of the wiki pages for it. This game was so much of my pre-teen to late teen years, and holy hell did i never realize the story was the way it was. Still kinda sad that alpha never went to the entire separate region though, that part of the game is fun

[@nin10doadict]

I loved seeing Reukra's portrait pop up for the final battle, because that face mimics mine after having seen all that

[@NurseValentineSG]

This game is such a whiplash. Like you have actual nice quality sprites and obviously making a game that looks like pokemon is nothing to sneeze at, that's alot of work. But those edgy designs. And the tryhard writing. Like, a corrosive lake? And then cute little Shaymin comes and saves everyone? Also I guess the assassins just follow the rules of pokemon battle and don't try to actually assassinate things? It's adorable, like someone in their mid teens wrote this and somehow got actual developers to create this game for them. EDIT: Turns out it actually was written by teenagers. It explains so much and now I adore this even more.

[@scottshanbom]

I think the designer was actually a teenager at the time. He also made Pokemon Zeta and Omicron

[@aclonymous]

the writers actually were in their mid teens

[@DrawciaGleam02]

@@aclonymous Yet people seem to enjoy a game designed by teens better than some of the official ones by Game Freak......

[@hi-i-am-atan]

@@DrawciaGleam02 yet?

[@dhruvcv9771]

​​​@@DrawciaGleam02Because it IS more fun to play. Over 100 hours of playtime, every single pokemon being catchable, and an actually decent challenge and cool new pokemon. Beat that.

[@JuliaJulia-vh4xc]

As a Pokémon Insurgence apologist, *god* I hope Alpha mentions the custom music for this game. It’s genuinely such a fucking banger, like the gym leader theme and Audrey’s theme is SO GOOOOD Edit: one hour and eight minutes into the video, he has not mentioned how good the custom music is, I’m canceling my twitch subscription /joking Edit Edit: NVM THEY ACKNOWLEDGED A CERTIFIED BANGER LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 1:20:40 Edit Edit Edit: “this is the first banger of the whole game” okay never mind I’m still canceling my twitch sub, my funny man has awful music taste

[@j.fischer707]

Amen brother

[@thediabolicalraisin8953]

The music's great but it loops like shit.

[@Angelofo]

This vid annoyed me a bit. Prolly just nostalgic babyrage but I didn't like the thick layer of irony he had for the whole story, felt almost like insulting the game to me 🤔

[@thundermarisol]

PREACH

[@SMPandanic]

1:20:39.. I mean this is something that he liked from the ost

[@Elite07-nc4wh]

the Balan wonderworld reference hits different surprised it came back

[@dragonITH-nk3yk]

The Mega Rayquaza jumpscare was amazing, this romhack really doesn't pull its punches lmao

[@stanzacosmi]

this game has a spot in my heart, because even though it's ow the edge edgy, it's also got some of my favorite fakemon form ideas and it's fun.

[@stanzacosmi]

also this game was started when the devs were teens that's why it's so edgy but i love it for that.

[@Ducktagon]

Blood Edge on his way to 5B the whole region is something I couldn't have predicted in this video

[@GrimmShane]

THE GOD KICK surpasses even the need for knowledge of Blazblue

[@deadlyqueen7858]

The most ridiculous part of this entire playthrough is that you didn't spend half your time playing Voltorb Flip in the desert arcade.

[@compatriot852]

I find it hilarious how Alpharad got so annoyed how this edgy game was refusing to kill people

[@kostasrakevicius2441]

"Hey it's been a while, I wonder Alpharad is doing..." Proceeds to watch a stream where he praises cults and becomes an edgelord.

[@dropkickaluki]

According to the Wiki, if you Mega Evolve Zoroark, while it's disguised as a pokemon that can't Mega Evolve, it simply won't play the animation, the actual quote is: "If Zoroark Mega Evolves while disguised as a Pokémon that can Mega Evolve, the Mega Evolution animation and text appropriate for the Pokémon it is disguised as plays and its appearance changes to that of its disguise's Mega Evolution. Otherwise, the Mega Evolution animation does not play and the Illusion is retained." So that's cool I guess

[@Zer0_TrueMoo]

3:04 Bloodedge? LIKE RAGNA THE BLOODEDGE (yes that’s is his actual name)FROM HIT FIGHTING GAME SERIES BLAZBLUE??? THAT BLOODEDGE??? LETS GOOOOOOOOOO! I LOVE MAKING REFERENCES WHERE THERE ISNT ONE!!!

[@MrPickleEdits]

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BLAZBLUE BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[@ismailkeskinklc5300]

LEZZ GOOO BLAZBLUE MENTIONED!

[@firefly56embers33]

Im glad i wasn't the only one thinking MY FELLOW BLAZBLUE FANS WE ARE NOTICED.

[@jingojay306]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BLAZBLUE MENTIONED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HELL IS A COHERENT STORY!!!!!!!!!

[@elidamonsterz4222]

BLAZE BLU BABBBBBYYYY

[@ethanvon222]

4:50 that latin is something about killing the cultists, so those 2 are just dead

[@christiancasaverdepertica1802]

Except we see one of them later on, so.... I guess he just has a flair for the edgy

[@JaegerV]

Notice how alpha started posting videos so much more frequently since that shiny Pokémon lets go… THATS HOW LONG THAT GAME TOOK

[@starvoltnexus3139]

Which one?

[@catsuneniku]

I cannot believe how poorly this game aged, mad respect to the dev for looking back on this as the absolute comedy that it is

[@jobah619]

We went from cult shenanigans to a legitimate Gnostic myth

[@starbit5065]

Pokemon but with Cults and Human Sacrifices? I've always wanted Alpharad to play a Shin Megami Tensei game!

[@howdoiturnssj3]

To be exact: Insurgence itself wasn't the first to feature Delta Pokémon. Zeta and Omicron (which were partly made by the same developpers) had them too, and if I'm not wrong, they're a reference to old TCG cards?

[@ltfunkin4241]

One of my all time favorite pokemon games that I 100%. This brings a tear to my eye that a popular KZbinr can show off this masterpiece to others

[@Subpar1O1]

12:50 using the mail feature to send threats to the player is such a funny and clever use of something that never made it outside the DS games

[@delphoxhoopa7289]

I question the mindset of the people who make these romhack stories. Someone seriously woke up and said, "Let's make a Pokemon game, but with cults." Not judging, I'm just REALLY curious about what inspired them...

[@sythrus]

Iirc there was a big wave of kids getting back into Pokemon at the tail end of gen 5/beginning of gen 6, so there were a lot of edgy pre-teens who were influencing this sort of stuff at the time (i know because i was one of them lol)

[@ACasualFool]

I mean with all these different legendary Pokemon who are each powerful enough to be seen as gods or being of worship, it honestly does make sense for there to be a few cults. Or would you tell me that people wouldn’t worship the gigantic whale who can flood continents and conceptually control water and the weather?

[@bobbybobv]

Is that not functionally the plot of the gen 3 and 4 games? You have these groups of people pledging allegiance to the destructive power of ancient gods. Put team Aqua in some black robes and bada bing you have cult.

[@InsertFunnyThingHere]

​@@bobbybobvgen 4 was moreso one guy wanting to kidnap a god to rebuild the universe for shits and giggles

[@AdrieneTheDarkestHorse]

Maybe Pokepastas and stuff

[@ohmygodtheykilledkenny4887]

2:55 "Pokemon beat Pokemon to the punch with Delta forms" Not to "um, actually" you, but Delta Pokemon were a thing even before Pokemon Insurgence. They were part of the TCG way back in 2005

[@Z3r0_t0n1n]

So Creatures beat Game Freak to the punch then

[@MarleyMothBard]

he was saying that delta pokemon as a regional form with design differences was done by insurgence first, which is true. tcg delta pokemon only had a type change, but visually stayed the same.

[@Arne83301]

@@MarleyMothBard Even so... it was an idea taken from the card game that was just expended upon. It wasn't in the card game, it wouldn't have been in Insurgence.

[@HadaHarabaz]

The sheer genius of using Shadow The Hedgehog OST for most of the video to show how edgy this romhack is.

[@ongkahheanryantnps6339]

Reason why this game is dark---It has Darkrai and you get to battle Satan, no questions ask.

[@possessedpicklejar4762]

18:49 Now I want to casually say “loser gets used for the ritual” in any competitive context.

[@ToyoTantrum]

"Well it's just Mega Blaziken, that's nothing crazy" I don't think Alpharad heard what he just said out loud lol

[@Caliber918]

Holy shit a feature length Alpharad video, we’re eating good today!

[@Pearl_Blossom]

They had to make up for that 40 minute ad from the other day

[@jordanflinn318]

I love how it looped around to 'no, the protagonist is the edgy one', after immediately committing to the bit about naming every Pokemon edgy names and using only edgy Pokemon,. Chef's kiss.

[@real_kel]

This reminds me of when i tried to do a nuzlocke of this game a couple years ago, despite having absolutely no experience with nuzlocking, it went terribly as you would expect, but it was fun! Shoutout to mario the azumarill, the pokemon i had that lasted the longest, absolute champ

[@kevinhachey635]

Proud of your mario!!!

[@lukasruston8618]

Me and my brother have been trying to a randomized soul link of this game for a while (because there isn't any way we're beating the nuzlocke with the trainers having their original teams) and let me tell you, it is suffering incarnate. The randomizer isn't properly set up to randomize one type of pokemon into another type of pokemon so instead, the game just picks one random pokemon for every single encounter which means you can encounter literally every pokemon in the game on the first route... really wish that would've gotten fixed because you'd be surprised how many of these pokemon learn Dragon Rage at early levels. We've attempted this at least 50 times I would say and we have not even made it to the first gym yet because of that. I even tried doing a solo randomized nuzlocke at one point and yeah, pretty similar results, I had a few attempts that got past the first gym, only one attempt that got past the second gym but once you get past that initial roadblock, it becomes way easier as evidenced by my one attempt that got past the second gym ended up making it all the way to the Elite Four.

[@minecraftman2226]

Honestly so glad Alpha got around to this game, it's been one of my favorites for at least 5 years now.

[@just_a_morningstar]

First guess: "I reckon the kill count will be about 16..." Second guess after seeing the video run time: "Ohhhhh... 416" Edit: HOW THE FUCK DID WE NOT EXCEED 10?????

[@riverkath]

I guessed about 4000.

[@ZaChemas]

tbh everyone of the distorted humans/Giratina cultists died after Nix is defeated, so... yeah more than 100 at least

[@RealLiver420]

I guessed 123

[@Dub03_]

Insurgence is one of my favourite pokemon fan games ever made, and it was a blast to watch you play through! I’d love to see you take on all the post game and side content as there is so much more to the game. I’d also love to see you play through pokemon reborn, it’s another edgy fan game with even more deaths and a really cool story!

[@willphillips2522]

YOU UN-COUNTED THE HIKER’S DEATH increase the final death count by 1

[@rantbot9176]

Its clipped out of order the news report happened after east got sacrificed but alpharad put it there for comedic effect so the death count is right

[@_Mike_-nr8fb]

Alpharad desthgrips reference is not what I expected

[@phinnbagnall4311]

Get got

[@deionlarocque9148]

Great vid! I'll never forget Tyranitartube being the first insurgence playthrough I saw. Love seeing the game get more attention! Miss seeing longform Pokemon fangame series though.

[@LilySylveon]

Ttar’s playthrough started 8 years ago. That’s insane. I’ve actually been looking for something to watch, might just have to go and relive some memories 👀

[@dhruvcv9771]

Holy shit you just unlocked core inner memories from my childhood. BUDGET THE ROTOM AAHHHHH

[@Literally_who8965]

​@@dhruvcv9771R.I.P TO THE GOAT BUDGET

[@shauryasuri3653]

Peak Pokemon yt

[@starvoltnexus3139]

This game gives us the answer Ash Ketchum does not age because he is one of the timeless

[@RupertPeterson]

I played this game when I was a kid and loved it (this was during the first update). When alpharad started streaming this, I replayed the entire game and watched all the vods. Thanks for allowing me to relive my childhood and finish what I couldn’t when I was younger.

[@Tuturial464]

Who cares

[@gr3ldd]

me

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

You can tell this game was made before the pandemic solely because they called their new Pokémon forms Delta variants. Boy does that have a different meaning nowadays…

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

Oh sweet Arceus, it got worse. I was NOT expecting this plot to go anti-vax…!

[@ThanondorfTV]

Ligma Ballriant

[@avanelletheclockfriend2515]

To be fair, deltas in the Pokémon context actually originated in the trading card game ages ago. They’re Pokémon from a place called the Holon region that have different types, I.E. electric type Horsea. Nothing else changes though, same design and all that.

[@austinish]

Heck, probably would have been different if it came out after Sun and Moon. Pokemon with different designs and types being an unethical science experiment is even funnier after three generations of this being a normal part of the series.

[@Blaze-nm1uh]

@@tsifirakiehl4250thankfully the creator themselves is not actually antivaxx, from what I understand at least, it’s just very funny

[@ahtalmachanation3831]

Spoiler The death count is even lower since in the challenge championship thing there is a chance you can fight East who’s death was faked by rayquaza

[@Norrabal]

Honestly, After facing world threatening odds, Facing off against the elite four and the champion as our final boss, Is oddly really wholesome for something I expected to be mostly mean spirited. Not to mention we end on a banger that instead being over the top, is actually sort of down to earth, but exudes finalliity 1:20:39 Good on ya insurgence, you ended pretty cool in my book

[@MrLukendo]

I love that there's this entire comparison to the witch trials, and then you have to fight a medium called A. Williams. It's the little things that amuse me the most.

[@ouitor]

Alpharad I needed to burn an hour and a half and you came up with this I love you so much

[@jaredpeyton9881]

1:00:00 **Darkrai and Cressellia in a hostage situation.** Darkrai: DOMAIN EXPANSION: NEW MOON NIGHTMARE

[@chloeligma3883]

tbh if a the dev puts in a scripted event that gives u a pokemon with minimize while also buffing the mechanics for the evasion stat theyre kinda asking for u to use it to cheese all of the fights

[@esteban8471]

They had no business making Persephone look like that for the thumbnail, but I'm not complaining. Glad to see an Insurgence video.

[@Ramzi65ok]

MEGA Delta charizard staring down a ghost type "oh surely we're faster" not once was charizard ever faster

[@Phoenix_SMT]

If Pokemon ever taught us anything, it was that the best way to get someone to agree to do something for you is to repeatedly ask, not letting them do anything else until they comply.

[@farahkhan2654]

Delta Muk sweeping the entire game will never not be the funniest shit ever.

[@PonchertheFirst]

Ahh yes, my favorite pokemon game, Pokemon Cult!