Pokemon Kaizo Mystery Dungeon: The Movie

[@poke-charlie]

that escape from floor 10 of mt blaze segment was the most intense bit of pokemon strategizing ive seen in a long while, that was incredible

[@CumberlandKing461]

Facts the pick play on the Slugma was insane

[@OneFloofyBooper]

the comedic timing of the silver spike nailing you after you ask for silver spikes is peak

[@nextdoorneighbour]

22:20 In mystery dungeon, there is no type immunity. Super effectiveness is a little changed. If something is not super effective, it does 90% of the normal damage and if the pokemon would be immune (like a ground pokemon taking an electric attack) then it does half damage. So it's not very weird for pokemon to be afraid of being hurt by those attacks.

[@justintime2026]

It's 1.4x damage if an attack is super effective and 0.7x damage if an attack is not very effective. You're right about immune translating to .5x damage though

[@nextdoorneighbour]

@@justintime2026 I checked bulbapedia and in red/blue rescue team, the supereffective and not very effective damage is x1.5 and x0.9. From explorers of time/darkness onwards it is the supereffective and not very effective damage you say.

[@justintime2026]

@@nextdoorneighbour ah gotcha my bad then

[@ShuisChair]

I’m glad someone else explained this :))

[@ElectricLegend14]

@@justintime2026 Ty for your input though, it is worth mentioning since Time/Darkness is only the 2nd game in the series, so most games feature this formula.

[@faedragonlucy]

Beautiful. This ain't just content.....it's a work of art! Shoutout our kids 3rd & 4th Wheel, as well as Taylor Swift the Absol. Real ones remember our weird dog Elekid.

[@time-is-restored]

the editing and script here is all amazingly high quality but the couples counselling thoroughline absolutely broke me. 'im putting him through school!!!!' is inspired LMAOOO

[@skippy3463]

I love this kaizo cuz its exactly how hard this game felt as a kid.

[@TheCecchino98]

It's the same feeling I got watching this.I remember Sinister woods and Mt blaze especially feeling like the same kind of struggle. When I replayed the game as a grown up and learned how to use items, I got to sky tower and wondered why I still hadn't learned flamethrower as Charmander. The reason was that I died so many times as a kid that I reached level 31 about halfway through

[@kiwi_446]

That's why I ignored the storyline most of the time and did the missions to lvl up and then easily pass the new dungeon

[@AKitchell]

The endings to every single Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game, in which my character has to leave the Pokemon world and all the friends he made along the way, are _precisely_ why I don't play the games in this series. I'm almost 31, and these endings still make me cry. Yes, in some of them, my character does return and reunite with their friends. But that only makes me cry harder.

[@Kurobeau]

music does so much of the heavy lifting. just a phenomenal game. Great vid here too

[@finnvaneekelen4966]

SPOILERS FOR SUPER the latest game, super mystery dungeon, actually tricks you into thinking thats gonna happen when it does not, instead the partner is the one who has to go

[@Lukecario1216]

SPOILERS FOR GATES TO INFINITY and i guess technically time/darkness/sky Red/Blue and even Time/Darkness/Sky only do it briefly, and have you return out of sheer desire to stay with little time passing between leaving and returning. If you think that's bad, they turn that shit up to 11 for Gates to Infinity. It sticks for so long it makes you think that it's permanent before they tease the whole "well, there might be a way..." part.

[@Hederbomb]

​@@finnvaneekelen4966 super was such an incredible game, it's a massive shame that it flopped so bad and sent the series into the void.

[@_piranha]

​@@Hederbomb 100%, it even went past Explorers for me. Definitely the most fun in the series imo.

[@DavisG603]

That intro alone let me know this is gonna be a MASTERPIECE!

[@asra-5180]

Using wrong sfxs galore. Yeah very gud.

[@antehman2912]

@@asra-5180bro are you okay?

[@matthewbrooks5470]

8:07 Situations like that really make me appreciate that later games let you just shove your party back into the corridor

[@foxfox1422]

I love how you get into the actual strategies and gameplay for people who haven't played these games before.

[@ForumArcade]

You know what might be fun? A Pokémon Mystery Dungeon roguelite.

[@Metafusion_77]

Heff you knocked it out of the park with this! The editing is top tier and the little introductions to dungeons are a nice addition. Congrats on getting this out!

[@smashlekrakmeme7401]

The reason why no enemy spawned at the Magma Cavern last floor (1:52:37) is because the floor was already clogged with enemies. In Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team and Sky at least, there can only be a fixed number of enemy entities on the floor. in Sky, this is 15 enemies max (+ 1 slot dedicated to Kecleon). Maybe the number isn't the same in RT but this is exactly what happened : you entered the floor with the full 15 enemies or whatever the maximum is. Because what Monster Houses do is fill up the missing number of enemies to go up to 15, but if there are ALREADY 15 enemies then nothing can spawn. So... yeah. Empty monster house. Funniest thing in this is, almost no dungeon in both RT or Sky was evil to the point of having this much enemy density on floor start (yes this is a property that can be changed per dungeon, per floor even). So basically the only way to discover this is to play difficulty hacks and have to mess with a high count of enemies

[@jirachido3997]

I really liked this video. The commentary was actually pretty good and i did not get bored even once despite it being a 2 hour long video. Also it's more PMD1 content which is incredibly nice since the entire mystery dungeon fandom only ever focuses on PMD2 which infuriates me because i think this game is better

[@byungshin8773]

1:25:21 I love how you managed to incorporate "fetid" (something you mentioned earlier) and maintained consistency by having a relevant intro clip of the dungeon. crazy coincidence or just heavy, heavvvvy research

[@RenEzawa]

Phenomenal video. Congratulations on finishing it, mister Heff! This had so much love (and frustration) and effort put into it, and it shows. The game-video story integration of the ending being bittersweet was fantastic. I can't believe I didn't see it coming. You were, after all, just in it to beat the game, save the world, and disappear. God, I need to play a PMD game again.

[@Forged4War206]

I'm gonna be brutally honest, I feel like Sky Tower Summit completely invalidates the entire rom hack. Being able to use your items and strategize is a major reason the rom hack can still be fun despite how unfair and brutal it is at times. Basically every dungeon in the game could theoretically be completed in very few tries once you know what you're doing and you play very patiently/optimally with the proper item loadout. Sky Tower Summit takes all that skill expression away from you and basically just expects you to send attempt after attempt until you get lucky. What a lame way to end off what would otherwise be a relatively fun and highly skill based rom hack (at least for PMD standards lol). It's just a shame that you basically only wanted to complete the dungeon just because you enjoyed everything up until that point and it would otherwise feel like a waste.

[@KernelKonig]

I’m gonna be brutally honest, keep your negative opinions to yourself…the rest of us are trying to enjoy ourselves 😂

[@Lucyller]

@@KernelKonig no, no. He's right. Keep your stupid opinion to yourself because he's educated enough to share his views. It's not even a negative opinion of the VIDEO but of the rom. You douche.

[@aurias42]

​@@KernelKonig not sure what the problem is, sounds like a perfectly valid opinion to me.

[@torra9979]

I was thinking this as well. It’s really poorly made game design.

[@Cr3zant]

@@torra9979 I get you what you and Forged are saying, but it's a kaizo hack. What did you expect? The entire point of kaizo is shit game design that relies entirely on luck and trial and error.

[@KagesakiAinz]

2:09:21 Gummies also give stats, he pumped every gummy into mudkip so it's like he is much higher level. You can give the gummies to pokemons in their home when you recruited them, and text will tell you they got more stats after eating it

[@DAmieba]

This was one of the most fun playthrough I've seen in a while. I figured a game like mystery dungeon wouldn't be that fun to watch you grind attempts on, but I ended up being around for most of the streams and was looking forward to this video for months. You did great Jeff, props for sticking through that god awful last stretch

[@zupermon7755]

YO Huge shout out to all the effort you went through to make this heff! It sure was alot of fun watching the streams of this and now its fully edited and streamlined. Love your content and all the care you put into your channel

[@thegamemanic1911]

Your perseverance is astounding. I don’t think o could’ve lasted long after seeing Tiny Woods. Trap spam and monster houses would have me ripping my hair out. Congrats on making it 🫡

[@jgf9105]

Usually kaizo pokemon hacks are like intricate extreme puzzles this just feels like unbelievably tedious and also just artificially made difficult through infinity traps leading you to monster houses

[@Pug-ui4ew]

I watched your mario galaxy kaizo a few days ago and absolutely loved it. Pokemon mystery dungeon is one of my favorite gaming series, so I'm super excited to watch this vid!

[@Mr4seasons]

I wonder if the reason that no Pokémon spawned from that monster house in magma cavern is because around the floor it happened in it’s just Onix on that floor in the main game. Maybe the room couldn’t fit all the Onix since Onix cover two tiles

[@zander2758]

Could also be due to sprite limitations, like onix's prolly take a lot of sprite slots and when trying to spawn all of them at once for the monster house the game cancelled it to not break everything, prolly some failsafe the devs put into the game perhaps.

[@DaniSiegel700]

YAAAY ANOTHER MOVIE!! These are my favorite video formats from you, ever since I found your channel from the Mario Kaizo!! I can’t wait to finish watching through this

[@_y4020]

So amazing. The way you would get attached to Mudkip throughout the run was hilarious and made this a really fun watch. Just TAKE my sub, man

[@thatoneguylegit9219]

1:24:30 I think this moment encapsulates why the ending for mystery dungeon always hit. It’s not the story that make the experience, it’s the gameplay. Narratively, having to say goodbye to your friend you save the world with is sad, but what made people cry as kids was thinking back to the bs argument at silent chasm, watching your partner dodge the oran berry you throw at them, and seeing them step on traps because they’re dumb and your movement is bad that established the connection of “this is my dumbass that helps me topple what should be insurmountable odds.” Kaizo seems like an amplified version of that experience

[@Kyukkyutan]

I'm currently watching your Radical Red Nuzlocke Highlights, and seeing this video and just how far you've come as a creator is just insane, not that I'm not enjoying the older content as well. I really hope you get the growth you deserve just for the sheer creativity and insanity of the content you attempt and the effort and care and time you put into editing it. Love what you do, keep at it!!

[@Diego-lm7vs]

This is peak cinema, more entertaining than most stuff coming out nowadays.

[@nevertrustdrew8171]

good job Heff for finally getting this out!!!

[@cecilofthesea]

another absolute banger of a video! i swear, the production value just keeps reaching new heights

[@HeshMan96]

1:25:19 I have no idea how you found a clip relevant to both "fetid" and "frozen" but this instantly brings this video from A+ to S tier

[@JamesBondBurgered]

10 minutes in and I’m already hooked. I know what I’m doing for the next two hours.

[@Dukstless]

The names of the traps on Serebii are probably really old translations from Japanese, as in older PMD games, they were called "Switches" in Japanese versions.

[@Blazewheat]

Fantastic video. I usually put these kind of videos on for background noise but the editing and narrating kept me hooked

[@solarace5369]

This has been one of the best videos I’ve ever seen. Please never stop making them, the quality of this video is just so insanely amazing! 😄

[@mithreal1291]

Love the high class movie content you've been so good at making heff, keep up the great work!

[@rjante2236]

Supposedly, Sky Tower Summit cannot be entered without a Water type in the party. So, good thing you went with one, I guess?

[@Lanzeon]

Nah that’s not true at all, I’m curious where’d you get that info from?

[@thyavenger9517]

What OP was recalling, is that in the post-game, certain dungeons can only be entered with HMs. This includes Sky Tower, after completing it for the first time. Thankfully, the remake cut that out.

[@rjante2236]

@@thyavenger9517 No, in this mod I think the creator added a restriction of needing a Water type. Not sure if it's true, though.

[@GameroftheLost]

⁠@@rjante2236Nope there’s another playthrough of this that used machop and bulbasaur. Not sure why that would be a thing anyways.

[@rjante2236]

@@GameroftheLost That's good. I remember hearing someone claim it was a thing, so thanks for clearing that up.

[@randydator4848]

Absolutely incredible video! I love how it started as a fun? challenge and then more and more evolved into its own story being told. You definitely have my sub! :)

[@flugal_rere]

Has he never played Mystery Dungeon before, and his first time experiencing it was as an adult playing a Kaizo game? Insane.

[@WeAreJoppy]

the slugma setting the pick was the MVP of this run. friggin hilarious

[@blubbfisch98]

I really enjoyed watching this video and thank you for all the explanations along the way. I used to play some Mystery Dungeon as a kid but never fully got into it. I learned a lot watching you play and comment! :)

[@pun2023]

This deserves millions of views. Genuinely fantastic video

[@スチブン]

I've been following you for a hot second now for your Pikmin romhacks, and you've only gotten better as time has gone on! Possibly your best work to date, loved every second of it! Keep up the amazing work on your videos, they've been a joy to watch.

[@jamesnewton7959]

Hard work paid off here... this is my first time on the channel, and I gotta say, the timing of this coming out is great. PMD Red Rescue Team just dropped on NSO, so myself and I'm sure plenty of others are getting back into it. I'm definitely going to be checking out more of your stuff after this. Keep it up!

[@basementbroadcast34]

I didn't get a chance to watch the series while it was happening, but this spectacular summary gave me so much entertainment! Glad I subbed after Kaizo Galaxy!

[@codydoodles2]

5:25 the way he just starts laughing lmaoo

[@Nate17-]

Truly incredible video Heff, well done!

[@thatoneguylegit9219]

1:18:19 this is why we play mystery dungeon! That screen using the opp is a genius strategy

[@nathanaelferron3943]

Been a long time since I sat down and watched a 2+ hour video but I enjoyed every second of it. The edit was so entertaining and I loved the story telling!

[@mythrilturtle]

These are always amazing to watch! Thank you for all your work compiling and editing the livestreams! It may take several days for me to watch the whole video, but it is always worth setting other watchable stuff aside to come back to.

[@Berrypregogoat]

Great video Heff. Love your sense of humor, you are so entertaining!

[@cosmic1319]

These streams were so fun to be around for. You've outdone yourself again Heff!

[@delta_1632]

Absolutely awesome high quality video. Always loved the mystery dungeon series and just recently realized there are modded versions. Really glad this landed in my feed. You earned a sub good sir.

[@aaronkrueger7466]

Really enjoyed this video, I don’t usually watch stuff like this but you made it really entertaining and I enjoyed seeing the journey. Congrats on the win!!

[@rafhigh6992]

This movie definitely lived up to the hype

[@papasalvo]

The statement about the type match ups about 22 minutes in is EXACTLY what I was thinking when earlier in the video charmander is hit with an absorb and takes 20 damage.

[@mrSatern100]

I fell asleep halfway through whiel the video was still going, but it made me dream up this fucked up "Evil route" when you got to Sky Tower Summit that involved the enemies being evil black & red ghost copies of Team Meanies. Idr much after that but it was kinda wild to think about. Amazing video btw

[@Zero-bg2vr]

wow amazing video! Loved every second of it. I'm not one to watch long form content but this was a master piece. Love to see more pkmn mystery dungeon kaizo!

[@Luachra]

Hi Heff, love your movie videos of kaizo games/nuzlockes. Appreciate all the effort put into them.

[@CrabQueen]

that ending is honestly kind of beautiful

[@theyammi437]

the transition to Frosty Forest had me dying! Something about the character using “fetted” directly after there was a bit on that one word 😂

[@finalposs]

Holy smokes what a journey!! The edits and music choices were fantastic!

[@superantiguy4347]

Man, this just doesn't look like an enjoyable experience, the rock path was the final nail in the not fun coffin

[@leon185]

This took me a while to get through but I’m so glad I watched this in its entirety. Jolly good show. also Pikmin AND PMD? Damn this guys got it all 0_o

[@ismaelhuu3306]

I really really love these long videos.

[@Sebboebbo]

Da kaizo king is back baby he neva miss we're eating good y'all

[@shadeslayer2297]

Doing all of this without linking a single move is mad impressive. Very well made video!

[@jonma4570]

Great video Heff! Love the way you explain things throighout the video

[@planetsliveinsidethemoon1600]

Genuinely an absolute masterpiece of a video, you’re a stronger man than me for making it through 🙏

[@davidhernandez3945]

This was an amazing video. Congratulations on being able to make it!

[@lyonderurido1889]

Loved this video, especially hype moments like 2:17:22 , knowing it was possible and playing defy the legends 🔥

[@ismaelhuu3306]

Heff beefing with Mudkip was awesome

[@SapphireArcana]

the second he brought up the list of which pokemon was stronger i instantly said ledyba, those multi hit moves in mystery dungeon are MURDER

[@bricegertman811]

So the reason scarmory (I tried) is scared or worried about the earthquakes is cause they are in a mountain, and an earthquake would cause falling rocks

[@SaltedNeos]

If I was to guess, the monster house issue at the end of Magma Cavern had to do with only Onix being in the spawn pool. Because its sprite is so large, trying to spawn a ton of them may not have been possible.

[@MikalEdmunds]

58:09 this is genuinely the first time I’ve laughed at a gardevoir joke in like 10 years

[@Aviivix]

That Happy Feet clip was such a deep cut. This is inspiring me to dust off Skytemple and make a Kaizo Explorers romhack if it hasn't been made already, I feel like there's a lot of potential for kaizo setups that this romhack has barely scratched the surface of.

[@thyavenger9517]

There is a Kaizo Explorers game, however, the creator themselves are rather dissatisfied with it and have no plans of working on it.

[@morganbondlvl130]

Honestly all Heff content is good content, but this was really something special!

[@rositchi5889]

I've played through base game of this a lot and the remake. Only ONCE have I ever seen 2 chestnuts spawn on the final floor and only had to do that dungeon twice. Normally, it's 3 or more tries to get everything. Hypnosis does suck but in other mystery dungeon type(some non-pokemon) games, it's so much worse. If they use it again after you get put to sleep, it becomes mind control and you literally sabotage the team. They can attack other teammates or start throwing items and equipment off of themselves or out of your bag. I had to reset the whole game from the beginning when my team member threw all their equipment and all of my escape items into a hole.

[@akirahisui-vulpix]

1:23 Every Chuggaa Fan knows Skitty is the G.O.A.T

[@FatalHog]

22:35 as someone else pointed out, there is a in universe reason, however i think it funnier to assume the reason is that people arent telling you repeatedly that you know them

[@Mickelraven]

13:50 In a nutshell, basically everyone in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is pan! :D

[@CosmicLuke679]

Cannot express my excitement. Peak is coming🎉

[@DarkFEPKMN]

So excited. This is going to be peak content. Thank you, Heff. Edit: It was in fact very high quality content.

[@Soulishar]

"Good Riddance" rip caterpie roll the credits 😂

[@OccuredJakub12]

6:10 I was half-expecting Caterpie to turn out to be the first boss

[@thatponybro6940]

Nontraitor means your regular attack won't hit your allies, your actual moves can still hit though

[@MeltraNS]

What a huge accomplishment

[@rpgnerd7610]

Goddamnt the transitions were nicely done.

[@fractalgem]

"MUDKIP NOOO!" Ah yes, the infamous mudkip wandering off XD

[@typhoonlava6488]

Let's go peak is here!

[@CheeseOfMasters]

Damn this makes me wish for a part 2 before the video was even over.

[@dropinota]

1:11:05 "Calm Mind is gone" How fitting.

[@chasejc5846]

Finally, what we’ve all been waiting for

[@younglad3565]

KAIZO KAIZO KAIZO

[@GenericHooligan]

What a good movie! Had me on the edge of my seat!

[@skim3163]

holy shit mt.blaze made this entire video worth it genuinely f-cking *crazy*

[@xXSchlodeXx]

Loving the long form content, Heff! If you want more mystery dungeon, I know there's a really good PMD:EoS Randomizer out there with a lot of customizability :D I recommend checking that one out!

[@SurlyUJest]

this was wonderful ❤ thanks Heff!