The BEST and WORST Parts of EVERY Pokemon Game!

[@Xylus.]

Dude said, "just get an Alakazam" like I wasn't a broke kid with no friends.

[@malrofo]

Kadabra was a monster too. In 2nd gen with the elemental pubches, it stomps the entire game

[@spudkin564]

Alakazams stats are only marginally better than Kadabras. You can easily sweep the game with a Kadabra.

[@JazziG59]

@@malrofoYeah I’ve beaten Crystal a couple times with just Kadabra and Graveler.

[@LITTLE1994]

Exactly, unless you have a Gameshark/Action Replay.

[@akhsdenlew1861]

tbh, i tried to play the games later, knowing that psychic was king, and it sucked.. made the game very boring. thankfully noone was aware of this when we were 7 years old playing the game in a playground. But after knowing how good psychic truly was in those games, you just never go back there... it's a ridiculus balance that never existed in pokemon i believe.

[@tjr.5751]

Hot take but I am cool with 3 years of no pokemon because game freak needs more time to make a pokemon game instead of every year

[@Knightlight1]

Based

[@vvindia1999]

But they should focus on just 1 game, they are releasing too many games BDSP was a fail as remake. Current leaks suggest a legends game and Gen 10 are on the cards.

[@James-u9r5g]

Luke warm take at best. I think we all agree with you friend. We just want a groundbreaking pokemon game.

[@JeanneFeisont]

Uhhh.. You do realize Pokemon games take anywhere from 3-5 years to develop, right? They aren’t just pumping a game out on a year long dev cycle.

[@tjr.5751]

@@JeanneFeisont but the higher ups are continuing to rush the development process and it shows

[@keylimecookies]

0:48 bro really tried sneaking bellsprout in there

[@zondrul]

Came to comment that 🤣🤣🤣

[@spudkin564]

My first thought! "B-Bellsprout? Okay I guess"

[@RockyLaRosa]

Hey look its Peashooter

[@JulienStephens-yu3lq]

Ah yes when I think of gen one the Frist Pokémon I think of is B E L L S P R O U T

[@davil.5608]

unironically more creative than Charizard lmao

[@floodinmon14]

I can't believe 2 of the BEST features of Pokemon Black & White weren't even mentioned: 1) the music changes both whenever u get into Red HP and when the Gym Leader is down to his/her last Pokemon. And 2) the REPEL feature where when your steps ran out it asked if you want to Spray another Repel.

[@oliverleonard7730]

If the only negative of Black and White is not having any Pokémon before Gen V before the Elite Four then that proves how good they are.

[@Bullminator]

Well, trainers in second area after story also have weird lvls. 1.st game was rushed and its noticable.

[@raphaelschostok9467]

the only negative of black and white is that many of the pokemon are terrible to me. the 3 apes, sok throw, even the starters are totally mid at best. kelfki, vanillux, just bad, bad bad. tons of good ones too though

[@papersage69]

@@raphaelschostok9467Kelfki is gen 6

[@ChrisMS0815]

It was nice to go through a gen and all Pokemon be brand new. Could have been worse and had an awful Regional Dex like Daimond and Pearl.

[@raphaelschostok9467]

@@ChrisMS0815 well that kind of stopped me from buying the games. i was already out of my "pokemon is not cool anymore" phase and might have given it a shot if i didn't see so many weird pokemon and 0 i recognized, so i restarted my pokemon fever with X/Y

[@darianrosario6210]

Hot take but I like the six gen exp share, it makes gridding for a balance team much easier and simpler. Yeah it does make the game easier but sometimes Pokemon is a game where you just chill and play for fun

[@StrawHatMidas]

I agree! For me just like how it’s nice to have it be easier I wish they allowed it to be harder too. I just want a difficult selection that is balanced lol :D

[@zoelindwall637]

⁠@@StrawHatMidas i think I remember Pokémon super mystery dungeon being harder mode of x and y it took me longer to finish it than Pokémon x and y

[@blues4509]

I don't have a problem with people enjoying how it is now. I have a problem with how I don't have a choice to disable it gen 8 onwards. Similarly to how they removed the ability to play on set mode in gen 9. They seem intent on forcing players to have the easiest experience possible against their will and making it an extremely tedious process to give yourself any challenge. Almost like they're punishing you for not just taking the easy mode and resisting the way they want you to play. Next they might make gimmicks auto activate and force you to watch your Pokémon steamroll everything with them lol.

[@lostindementia2705]

THANK YOU YES

[@Jeff-te2cc]

If the games are usually too short for that. Part of making the old pokémon games feel longer was having to grind. But since the newer games are ballpark give or take roughly the same length, having EXP share makes the game too easy and on top of that beating through the campaign in a day or two

[@Tibasu]

One thing to point out is that "Too much water" doesn't just apply to the areas you go to. It also applies to the type of pokemon you find. The abundance of water types compared to others hinders team building quite a bit.

[@EricWalkerUk]

It's also that the sea route encounters are just Tentacool and Wingull lines. Very tedious

[@ItisJG]

its supposed to be equal parts land and sea to highlight the cause of the villain teams

[@superdadxpress5048]

One thing comes to mind that they could have done to make omega ruby.Alpha sapphire, a bit better, would have been for the water areas to have mr briney and peeko be more available for fast travel .​@@ItisJG

[@Lasherluke]

modern games shining away from dark aspects, aren't we forgetting arvin's story in scarlet and voilet. Loses his parents and then has to go through the trauma of watching his best friend slowly fade away until we make him better.

[@Fedorov223]

If that’s dark to you then that only proves modern games are shining away from dark aspects lmao

[@Lasherluke]

@@Fedorov223 Clearly you've never lost a pet before.

[@jakdekayen]

​@@Fedorov223 it is dark His parent was KILLED, BY A POKEMON. A FIRST for the game series if I remember right, and if not first definitely the first time it was directly mentioned in the game and confirmed by the game He wasn't just abandoned A pokemon killed them in a territorial rage

[@saltshaker1118]

​To be honest they both are and aren't, Arven's story is sad and has a dark side to it but the villains of pokemon have been kind of a joke since gen 7, really since gen 6, before you shout about the AI professors, yeah, they're cool, for the 5 mins or so they're there. Look back to early gens and while the villains could be goofy they felt like a threat, team star ain't even bad guys, and it's just an anti bullying message without any bullies to get justice against. Again, Arven's story is sad and dark but there's been not only darker parts but more of them too, I'm not saying it needs to be a horror game or anything but a shift in tone may be in order, as well as leaving the clunky social messages to Disney

[@247_______]

Idk why people hate Pokémon ORAS, it was such a good remake It brought back mega evolution from X and Y And they massively redeemed Sceptile for Treecko fans by giving him a bad ass mega form that turns him INTO A FRICKING DRAGON! and made it a lot more stronger as a Pokémon than the original Hoenn games that made him useless compared to Blaziken and Swampert It had the Eon flute which helps the user not waste HM Fly on a Pokémon’s move-set It had a bunch of legendarys from Johto, Sinnoh and Unova coming out of Hoopa Rings for crying out loud And Delta Emerald episode is one of the best post game story’s in a Pokémon remake ever.

[@JamieVideoGamer]

i hate ORAS for not being faithful and respectful to the originals. That is not a good remake in my eyes

[@2810Mad]

Oras and bdsp suffer from the same problem. I enjoyed playing both but these remakes are half assed. They don't feel complete. Why remake Ruby/sapphire and diamond/pearl instead of emerald/platinum? Why leave out all the quality of life changes, improvements, and added content? This is why people hate these games.

[@--julian_]

​@@JamieVideoGamercan't tell if this is a joke or legit lol

[@JamieVideoGamer]

@@2810Mad Because remakes are aimed more for newer players. And newer players wouldn't know much about third versions or care for them especially as it is not easy to get those games these days. It makes sense to remake the first games of each generation because they are the first. The only third version that got remade was Yellow but that was a special case that involved bringing Go fans to main series games

[@JamieVideoGamer]

@@--julian_ it is called having an opinion. You don't have to agree with it. We all have our own preferences to remakes, third versions, sequels and main series games in general. We won't always share the same likes or dislikes.

[@Shinntoku]

32:46 I have to disagree with this take *so* severely. The story in base Sun and Moon is *much* better than USUM, the remade story completely destroys Lusamine, Lillie and Gladion's engaging relationship and their meaning in the story.

[@AlfaRomeoqaz]

If you played Pokemon since Red and Blue you would be happy until gen 4 and maybe 5 but after that it’s all downhill after than. The games just don’t feel like a challenge anymore

[@shewolfcub3]

The 3d games are objectively mostly godawful and terribly made with no effort or care; they poured theri heart and soul into gen 5 and it didnt sell well so now they build off of the downgrades that gen 6 introduced (which, gen 6 is actually incredible overall with amazing gameplay and a seriously beautiful region in Kalos, and Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire are PEAK remakes up there with HG/SS and FR/LG). Sadly many newgenners take the slop without complaints.

[@silverback710]

Personally I got to gen 3 then thought who ever designed the pokemon got lazy there was maybe 5-10 out of the full pokedex that acctually looked OK the rest were terrible and the starters wow they were horrendous yeah some may be good battle wise but the designs who wants to walk around with a orange baby chicken or a baby blue penguin ffs And no disrespect to the person making the video but the guy sounds exactly like my brother in law realistically yes played red and blue and silver and gold but wasn't bang into it wen they came out and missed the essence of what pokemon was back then.. and that's the issue I have 31 year old and can't even look at anything pokemon related these days they decided to turn a sword and sheild into a pokemon and then a brush how sloppy can you litterally get and it looks more kiddie and less realistic now than it ever felt

[@purplebull013]

I stopped at 3

[@silverback710]

​@@purplebull013don't blame you 1 bit

[@jadedheartsz]

I stopped playing after Diamond and Pearl because of how painfully slow they felt.

[@adambryant4149]

How do you mention the best parts of gen 5 and not mention the beautiful animated sprites? I mean they didn't all hit, but overall it's the best Pokemon has ever looked.

[@rowleyryan9025]

Hard agree, the music was peak too

[@nickellis1812]

On a similar note, gen 5 are the only games I don't mind playing with move animations on as they didnt feel slugish

[@vvindia1999]

Gen 5 games are so good, I still play today also whenever I am free.

[@eimardgomes1128]

You've got to be kidding me. You're probably thinking only about the front sprites. Look at the back sprites, specially during battle where they are pixelated. And come back here saying they are beautiful. If you still think that you're out of your mind! Sorry. 😂

[@PastPerspectives11]

@@eimardgomes1128 you’re right. But who cares about back sprites

[@MelchVagquest]

Okay, now you're trying to gaslight me by saying that you didn't notice that Black & White's map was a giant circle

[@Sharpbrink]

So was X and Y

[@strawberrijam3676]

i mean.. its called unova.. (union) for a reason

[@SammyLiffDaddy]

I liked the fact that you could only get Unova Pokémon during the main story. It just makes sense that if you’re in Unova you should only be able to catch Unova Pokémon

[@annaadams9706]

yeah i don’t hate this idea. i know people want old favorites but playing through with new pokémon help you find new favs

[@ultimate_pleb]

0:57 that's an unconfirmed THEORY perpetuated by the same people who think mew was under a truck. gen 1 is not dark bro, or at least isn't not any darker than later games like blue rescue team and explorers of sky and silver and black and white and probably some other spin-off we all forgot about

[@dreamgood130]

Gen 1 had a pokemon mourning its mother 😭 they would never try that now

[@ultimate_pleb]

@@dreamgood130 isn't the professor of gen 9 canonically dead and the version of them you fight an AI recreation and then what's his name morns their death Didn't let's go how this same plot point the whole dead cubone thing and since let's go is canonically a sequel to red/blue/yellow it means they intentionly re-did this plot point in modern day (idk does 2019 count as modern day) And no they're not remakes they're sequels if they were remakes we wouldn't be able to fight red and blue because we would be playing as red lol

[@IndexMetal]

@@dreamgood130What are you on? Annihilape is literally a dead Primeape. Grevard is literally a dead dog. Are using dead pokemon not dark enough for you?

[@IndexMetal]

@@ultimate_plebyup this is true.

[@ultimate_pleb]

@@IndexMetal yamask is a dead human lol

[@Marlerc11]

Make gym leaders match your level. They have different teams based upon how many badges you already own. Would make replaying more valuable and also wouldn't hurt certain starters in the early game. Also make a difficulty selection that actually works

[@mysticmaya9426]

At least prior to Sword and Shield, we could turn off the xp share. Now they don't even let us do that. And Scarlet/Violet even got rid of set mode in options which I will never understand

[@anthonyp3640]

You should have given some recognition to not only how nostalgic the route tracks and themes in general sounded in generation 2 but how game freak over in Japan probably composed their best ever melodies on a pokemon game all on the Gameboy back in the 90s, for me that would be their best feature ever.

[@StrawHatMidas]

That is a really good point but for me the best soundtrack is diamond and pearls, it is just so atmospheric all the way through. But the Gameboy tracks especially in Crystal were incredible :D

[@mistersp3753]

I'm mostly just disappointed they didn't call it Shining Diamond. It's not like Araki would have any right to complain about the name.

[@Cedalus]

Shining diamond isn't even the actual name of the stand, it was localized with that name to avoid copyright issues. Original name was Crazy Diamond

[@giganticmoon]

its CRAZY DIAMOND

[@Mr.IndoorPants]

Pokémon let’s go is so underrated. Hm replacement, follow/ride Pokémon, overworld Pokémon, shiny mechanics, and the postgame battle with red are all great. The visual quality however, puts it in the top tier of switch Pokémon games imo, it’s not just the overworld, but battles actually take place where they are started and each gym is unique. Most people’s biggest gripe, that waving a joycon around was “forced” on them, is unfair because catching mechanics in handheld (the only way to play a Pokémon game imo) are so easy. You rarely have to aim with the thumb stick or tilt the screen. It’s usually press A to catch. That being said the game is certainly not without its faults: the rival, the fact that the sevi islands were gone, and the absence of EVs and held items was all disappointing. In addition the ability to access your box anywhere and the constant exp share took the difficulty out of the game, but those mechanics have been in most of the recent releases. The downsides are rough, but they aren’t bad enough to keep it out of the top spot for Pokémon games on switch imo. Legends Arceus was great at first, but it grows tiresome grinding for materials to craft Jet balls and then missing half your throws because they bounce off rocks and ground that aren’t even in the way is frustrating, especially when you need to catch every Pokémon 20 times to fill up the dex which is the major goal of the game (there are no gyms). Not to mention that the world feels completely empty outside of the Pokémon scattered across it. I won’t get into SWSH or SCVI because I don’t feel like my disappointment needs to be explained. Really, my ideal future generation of Pokémon game would look much like let’s go but have options for difficulty, exp share, controllers, etc. and would have wild Pokémon battles, limited box access, more post game content, EVs, and held items. I’d rather have a polished experience than another empty joyless open world.

[@shewolfcub3]

Lets go has one of the worst rivals its just castrated Blue, the Sevii Islands are gone which removes how it sets up the sequel games, They replaced Red with making a new, useless, pointless character that takes all of his canonical and great achievements that make him the iconic trainer we all know and love, and they FINALLY made Green into a character only to make her a mere NPC and relegate her into the end of the game. The catching mechanics is garbage and way too easy when it took a bit more intricacy in the much better 2D games (Gens 2-5). Having easy mechanics sucks and makes it annoying. Terrible experience, horrible replacement characters, missed potential, and though it looks decent, FireRed/leafGreen and even the jumbled together Gen 1 (which is literally only a 7.3/10 for me) are WAY better.

[@Mr.IndoorPants]

@ Sounds like you agree on most of my negative points. To be fair, every modern rival has been awful and catching Pokémon is easy in every game, in 2D it just takes more steps before you throw the ball. Besides, catching in Let’s go it’s certainly not easier than in PLA. But in the end, I agree that there is a lot of missed potential and that it’s certainly not a replacement to FR/LG but I think it has its place as a more relaxed, visually pleasing, and faster paced experience. I still revisit both games. Imo being the best Pokémon game on switch isn’t setting very high bar

[@ForrestFox626]

I like riding with a Kangaskhan!

[@ForrestFox626]

​@@shewolfcub3Calm down dude

[@jakdekayen]

Tbh idk why people complain about the crafting in arceus You literally don't have to craft a SINGLE thing if you actually pay attention to the fact when you release pokemon you get the grit etc and after a massive collection you can sell some of that (because you get more ANYWAY when you release more mons you catch) and make a TON of money that you can just buy the jet balls with 😂😂😂😂 I tried showing people in my friend group that trick but no one ever freaking listens You literally don't HAVE to craft 24/7 in that game and idk why people INSIST you MUST and that crafting is the ONLY way, when it's not and never has been

[@EricWalkerUk]

Here's some of my hot takes of low points for some of the generations: I found Gen 5 annoyed me nearly as much as Gen 7 for being stopped every 5 seconds to be exposited at. I think that was the point where they should've ditched the silent protagonist trope. Gen 4s honey trees are satanic and the bane of my existence. Gen 1s cave obsession is an underrated issue with those games Gen 6 choices for who received mega evolutions was disappointing Gen 9s towns are pathetic and forgettable

[@vvindia1999]

Audino getting mega from Gen 5 and Diance from Gen 6 is absolute Joke🤣🤣🤣.

[@EricWalkerUk]

@vishuindia1113 that plus the Pokémon that really were doing fine, without Megas, getting them anyway. Great feature, badly implemented. People hate on dynamax, but at least every Pokémon could do it

[@vvindia1999]

@EricWalkerUk that i like about dynamax and Z moves, it can be used on any pokemon without any discrimination like mega given to only chosen ones

[@EricWalkerUk]

@@vvindia1999 exactly, same here

[@richardsylvester4518]

The worst thing about every pokemon game is that Game Freak are very anti consumer. No game had the franchise ability to "catch em all". That's the worst part about this franchise hands down.

[@tapukyle9981]

Besides legends arceus. You can actually catch every pokemon that is in the game.

[@JD-zv3fg]

@@tapukyle9981 legends wouldnt let you catch every one which stinks

[@akhsdenlew1861]

the worst thing is the fact that you can't pick up your starters, unless you start with them. I loved yellow for the fact that i could have both a charizard and a blastoise.

[@A_Bottle-Of_Orange_Crush]

The limited bag space in gen 1 is a killer

[@RobertJW]

That's the absolutely worst thing about Gen 1.

[@LITTLE1994]

Yes it was...

[@akhsdenlew1861]

lol... my brain removed this from my consciousness in order to stay sane and u brought it back. HOLY SHIT that was definetly the worst thing in gen1. I'd rather have the game glitch and pop misingnos out of it's ass than this bag space limit.

[@jayt8645]

Crystal soundtrack gets me so nostalgic. My old man rented the game for me from Blockbuster and I remember spending hours (and batteries) checking trees, creating pokeballs and losing sleep to play at night 😄

[@Jtempo]

I like the slow HP bar in Platinum and below, for some reason I was always fascinated by the bar going slow depending on how high their HP stat is, maybe I’m weird lol

[@Jlaps941]

Dude same, it makes battles feel more tense to me

[@Jtempo]

@@Jlaps941 Blissey was always the best 🤣

[@Jlaps941]

@@Jtempo using close combat on the one in Victory Road? 😮‍💨

[@Bullminator]

Platium is unplayeable. Best to play on 3x speed on emulator XD

[@Jtempo]

@@Jlaps941 no better feeling honestly 😍😂

[@IndexMetal]

Literally cannot fathom somebody actually thinking Mega-Lopunny is badly designed. I’ll respect it for being a very BOLD take but cmon lol.

[@StrawHatMidas]

Bad, no. BOLD, absolutely lol :D

[@maxonite]

6:52 uncalled for 💀💀

[@WeBeJayMin]

Yeah lol

[@brandonvogel6352]

Based

[@SquickWorks]

I was just walking my dog with this playing in the background and I heard this as I was passing a schoolyard... 😳 had to turn my volume down lmaooo

[@Hylian_Glitchmobber]

8:14 they removed the Day & Night cycle because of how taxing it was on the internal batteries. Go find a cartridge of Gold/Silver/Crystal. They will 100% of the time have an expired battery (unless someone manually changed it), therfore making some parts of the game entirely unplayable. It also often times made it impossible to save the game at all

[@SmoothTurtle840]

They definitely could’ve figured out a better way to do it though. Cutting it out entirely just felt like a step back no matter what. Maybe they could’ve added an internal clock to the GBA itself. I bet it would’ve been supported quite well by games at the time.

[@TheOnlyMo90]

I'm not sure where I read it, but I heard that there war a second reason: Because you could only catch some Pokemon on special times you had to play at these times. Especially getting morning-pokemon was hard, especially if you could not play during break in scool. And you had to stay up late to catch night pokemon. So a lot of parents complaiened, that this feature messed with the scuedue they set for their kids, so they cut it.

[@btttmeehan]

Being able to have emulators such as delta for iPhone has really given me happiness replaying RBY and GSC again.

[@danny75461]

Silver was a mean rival. Pokemon Gold and Silver were in full color, but they could be played on the Gameboy and Gameboy Pocket.

[@liljadies]

the very best thing about pokemon crystal was it was the first pokemon game you could play as a girl. 6 year old me at school got told i wasn’t meant to play pokemon because the main character was a boy. pokemon crystal made me feel welcomed to pokemon as a girl and that will forever be the best thing any pokemon game has done for me

[@ashleeramey]

I miss being able to use the wonder trade and gts for the 3ds pokemon games 😢😢😢😢

[@XI-Daybreak]

Literally one of the worst things ever done was discontinuing the servers for 3DS, I say this as not only a DS fan but also a switch hatter

[@splitter7376]

​@@XI-Daybreak It costs them money to upkeep them and at this point there is no financial benefit whatsoever to keep them up. They are operating a business they are not there to personally do you favours. The discontinuation was inevitable, as is the eventual discontinuation of the current gens online features when they are replaced with newer systems and titles.

[@XI-Daybreak]

@@splitter7376 wow you mean to tell me the company worth billions who had to pay out of pocket to upkeep older servers isn’t there to do me any favours 😱 I’m truly shocked at this riveting and completely unexpected information. No shit Sherlock, I meant it was unfortunate they discontinued the smaller handheld series in favour of the Switch and switch light. Obviously once that happened it was only a matter of time until they went offline

[@XI-Daybreak]

@@splitter7376 wow, so you’re telling me that a billion dollar company didn’t want to pay out of pocket to keep older servers running, just for me? 😱 My world down to its very core has been shaken by this totally unforeseen and riveting information. No ş**t Sherlock, my comment was pointing out my disappointment with Nintendo discontinuing the smaller handheld series and games in favour of the subpar games they release for their equally as unimpressive Switch consoles

[@XI-Daybreak]

@@splitter7376 wow, so you’re telling me that a billion dollar company didn’t want to pay out of pocket to keep older servers running, just for me? 😱 My world down to its very core has been shaken by this totally unforeseen and riveting information. No duh sherlock, my comment was pointing out my disappointment with Nintendo discontinuing the smaller handheld series and games in favour of the subpar games they release for their equally as unimpressive Switch consoles

[@Sangu-gh3]

I still think, white and black do have the most potential of all games. They have a reasonable plot with a darker theme, the best villian team since rocket to this day, and even the region locked pokedex is appealing to me while I also like the more open dex in black and white 2. The pokemon game I enjoyed the most probably was Sun and Moon, because this was the time when I really got into online battles. Heart Gold and soul silver could be mentioned for the most content, considering these are the only games that have more than 1 region. Best feature would go to gen 6 games, bc come on, mega evolutions are very cool. Fire red and leaf green for the nostalgia. gen 4 for style and pokemon league. All other games have massive flaws in terms of graphics and performance in my opinion. Legends of Arceus needs to be credited for the unique concept. *Forgot about gen 3, well, had a lot of fun with it too.

[@ryanhagerman828]

Helen Keller always catching strays out here😭

[@DawnLong-s3k]

The DP Pokedex was atrocious. Only one Dragon-type (not counting legends), two Fire-types, two Ice-types, three Electric-types, and about 25% of the Gen 4 Pokémon are locked into the post game 😠

[@cyberdrache8416]

13 reasons why BDSP are the WORST remakes of all time: 1. Faithfulness: Unlike other remakes, BDSP literally copy/pastes 90% of diamond/pearl(2006). You cannot copy almost everything from a 2006 game.. (Remember its a remake not a remaster!). Almost everything is copied: All dialogs, the storyline, the chibi art style, the national dex, old pokemon encounters and even the Poketch were copy & pasted to this game. Pokemon games have been improved in the past years and had many quality of life changes like 3D art style, overworld Pokemon encounters and reusable TMs. None of these changes were adapted to the game which is just sad. This game is too faithful and faithful sounds more like a excuse for lazyness. 2. Not-Platinum-Based: So they copy & pasted 90% from the old Sinnoh game but not based on Platinum? Diamond & Pearl had several weaknesses and Platinum fixed many of them and included many Quality of Life changes. Here are some Platinum improvements over Diamond/Pearl: It extends the storyline with additional content, new dialogs, new characters like Charon and a new map Distortion world (loved it). The rival was a bit too weak in Diamond/Pearl which was fixed in Plat. The Poketch has a reverse Button. It has the battle frontier. And finally: the Sinnoh dex which was baaad in Dia/Pearl was fixed. The bad sinnoh dex in dia/pearl has only very few Fire Pokemon (very weird). Gym leaders were forced to use weird mons in the main game like Electric gym leader using Octillery or IceType gym leader using Medicham (WTF? Despite Sinnoh having enough Ice/Electric mons) and also many sinnoh mons were restricted to the postgame. Thats means many of the favourite sinnoh mons cannot be used in your team for the main story. But Platinum fixed this issue and created a NEW sinnoh dex which fixed all these issues which made the main story like a sinnoh game. ALL of these great changes of Platinum where NOT included in BDSP. This means BDSP uses the OLD sinnoh dex, OLD dialogs, OLD storyline, NO new character like Charon, NO distortion world and NO battle frontier. That makes BDSP a worse Sinnoh remake than Platinum which was released in 2008. (Imagine a 2008 DS game of the same Region beats you in ALL aspects. WTF) 3. EXP-Share & Friendship-System: One of the most hated features is the EXP-Share system which often leads to WAY more exp than in the past games. In my opinion, the EXP-Share is not too bad. BUT diamond/pearl were not designed to be played with the new EXP-Share system. So if you include an EXP-Share system, you have to increase all levels of the pokemon (from opponent). But they didnt which makes the difficulty of this game too easy.Basically, my whole team was too oveleveled. And the friendship-system is the worst luck-based system i ever saw. A feature that increases the Critical hit-chance,removes paralysis, lets me dodge 100% accurate moves and even lets me survive moves with 1HP. WTF did you smoke gamefreak? And the worst is that, you cannot make any of these optional. Because of that many players who love to do a nuzzlock in Sinnoh, prefer the old DS games. 4. No Innovation: This game not only copy & pastes the majority of its content, it adds nothing new to the game. Lets review some good remakes: HeartGold/SoulSilver (HG/SS) were Gen 2 remakes and included some storyline from Crystal and added many new stuff like the pokeathlon, battle frontier (from sinnoh), gen 1 map/storyline, a complete national dex and the pokewalker. HG/SS were not copy & pasted, but actually remade the game and added good new stuff. Also Alpha ruby&omega saphire (ORAS) have new changes like new art-style , new designs for Team magma/aqua, new Mega-forms, new Primal forms, changes to dialogs and storyline and the complete national dex. BDSP on the other hand does not provide any kind of major change in the game which makes this game really boring. It does have a new Underground which has overworld pokemon, but that is nothing special for 2022 and the ramanas park was neat but nothing too exciting. 5. Underground/Super-Contest: The old underground allowed to create your own living room with furnitures and set traps to troll friends online. Both were removed for a statue system which is really boring. Collecting statues and the effects of the statues are really disapointing. The Super-Contest used to be a fun-mode where you had many different options and varities and had to have good reflexes to do the correct moves at the correct time. Now all you have to do is Press A at the correct time and use 1 attack. That makes this mode so boring and disapointing. I mean, was it really that hard to let the player press like 4 different buttons instead of just 'A'?? 6. Art-Style: Many of us expected a modern review of Sinnoh in a 3D human like Art-style. But they decided to go for the Chibi-Art-Style. Everyone has different tastes but in my opinion the Chibi-Art-Style ruins many serious moments of the story line of this game, especially vs team galactic. It feels like all the emotions of the characters were removed. The reason why it was used in Diamond/Pearl was because of the limited hardware. In my opinion the Chibi-Art-Style waas the wrong decision and does not suit a switch game at all. 7. Only Gen 4: BDSP has a national dex which includes the pokemon from Gen 1-4 which is basically the same as Diamond/Pearl. As a player who would have loved to see at least some Pokemon from Gen 5-8 in Sinnoh, i am very disappointed. At least some Pokemon post Gen4, or some new forms or at least add Sylveon in this game. Not even mega-forms were included in this game. The fact that 95% of the megas are from Gen1-4 and the underground being the perfect place to grind the mega-stones, makes this decision even more disapointing. The reason why diamond/pearl was limited to Gen 1-4 was because there werent any other new pokemon. The reason why BDSP limited the game to Gen 1-4 is because of lazyness.. 8. PVP: On of the worst things in this game is everything arround PVP. The worst disrespect a main series pokemon game can get, is when GameFreak calls that all the competitive tournaments including the world championship will not take place in BDSP (WTF?). Unlike Sword/Shield, you have no option to search for PVP matches which makes it way harder to find battles. But the worst thing is the grind for a PvP team: TMs are not reusable (WHY?!). For some important TMs like Earthquake, you have to grind for 80BP (WTF. Thats a lot of Grind). Also you cannot catch pokemon with hidden abilities except those from poke radar. To get the hidden ability you have to grind for the ability patch for 200BP (WTF. Grind competitive to create a competitive. Nice system). By putting important PVP items behind such ridiculously high grind walls, it makes creating a PVP team disgusting. 9. Events: The events were also copy & pasted from Diamond/Pearl. Same Shaymin event, same Darkrai event. And other events are only accesible if you bought other main series pokemon game (Why..). And finally some garbage "events" which include some useless statues. Meanwhile, the 3 year old SW/SH getting better and innovative events like new PVP cups/tournaments and some legendary shinies. In my opinion the events in BDSP are disapointing. 10. Bugs/Glitches: Holy Moly! This game had so many bugs and glitches! You dont even need hacks, when the game itself has to many glitches. Many of them where completely broken. Many Pokemon clone glitches and item dupe glitches ruined the game. You could even get infinity money, create your own shinies (WTF), make your pokemon 6IV and let any Pokemon learn any move. I used to be in a discord for trading in BDSP and because of the glitches, the trade market was only about getting shiny 6IVs etc. Not to forget to mention the soft locks which made you restart the whole game which can happen for example in the ice gym. Usually every games has a few bugs. But this one had too many and too many game breaking glitches. A very hyped game like this shouldnt be developed by a 3rd party company.. But Gamefreak had other plans.. 11. Controls: The controls of this game feel weird and uncomfortable. Characters move in a grid which looks so weird during the storyline. The pokemon who follow me often block me in a bad way. The underground has many inivisible walls which makes moving in some rooms horrible. And finally the control with the cycle are the worst. The cycle in pokemon games are a beloved feature but in this game.. It feels so uncomfortable moving with the cycle, I sometimes even prefer walking. 12. Standards: A 2021 game should adapt the standards from the latest games (Sword 2019). The BDSP-standard isnt nearly as good as Sword/Shield. Many items, many attack moves, renewable TMs, dynamax, new pokemon, old moves without heart scales, more customization,max Raids or ranked battle stadium. None of the mentioned were adapted into this game -> BIG Downgrade for 2021 pokemon standards! 13. Price: Dia/pearl/Platinum: 40$ and Copy/Paste BDSP with Bugs:60$ -> Bruh.. Conclusion: It feels like GameFreak didnt want to do a Sinnoh remake but wanted to milk some money by releasing the highly demanded Sinnoh remake. The fact that, they hired a 3rd party company who never developed a major game, only supports this theory. Not forget to mention that, BDSP had a giant day one patch which was essential to enjoy the game. The fact that they released Legends Arceus almost 1-2 months after BDSP release also supports the theory, that they didnt care at all for this remake. Because of the release of Legends Arceus, the hiring of ILCA, the amount of glitches, the boring events, the exclusion of VGC, the 0 Innovation in this game and the fact that the majority of the game is copy & paste of a 2006 game (Dia/Pearl) which is worse than a 2008 Game (Platinum), makes this game the worst remake of all time in my opinion.

[@SilverDrive92]

"Modern games are afraid of being dark unlike Gen 1" Legends Arceus: Hey

[@DoodMcAwesome]

I don’t even think gen 1 was all that dark. Sure there’s the raticate thing, but I’ve never seen any evidence to suggest it was intentional.

[@SilverDrive92]

@@DoodMcAwesome The Raticate thing is made up. Gen 1 was just a barebones RPG, even Team Rocket didn't have any real stake in the story. FRLG and Gen 2 gave them more depth, but only a little bit. If anything, stealing Pokémon is basic AF. Especially compared to literally freezing your Pokémon because you have attachment issues or an entire village blacklisting their hero out of sheer stupidity and trying to kill you as a result.

[@DoodMcAwesome]

@@SilverDrive92 yeah it feels like most (if not all?) gens after 1 are darker than it. Not that Pokémon is ever really that dark or gritty of a game series, but the storylines definitely got more darker tinged especially with the plots of the enemy teams. Something I actually thought was refreshing about Team Yell in gen 8 was that they were a much more subdued team, really just like sports hooligans instead of actual threats which contrasted with the increasingly more villainous and over the top teams in the previous games. That said, I enjoyed most of them and their plots, especially gen 4 and 5, it was just neat to have them step back in that game. Plus Team Yell is just so fun as a concept.

[@SilverDrive92]

@@DoodMcAwesome It's actually Team Star for me that I find refreshing. Team Yell didn't really do much so I don't count them as an evil team. In my opinion, Team Plasma was the peak of villainy in Pokémon. Because they disguised themselves as saviors via gaslighting when they really wanted to take over the region.

[@akhsdenlew1861]

@@DoodMcAwesome Gen 1 Anime was definetly dark though, maybe that's why Gen1 games also feels dark, cus we have the anime in our mind. Sabrina is a prime example.. like what the fuck was wrong with that girl and how fucked up was her whole arc?

[@NeoArashi]

0:52 Ah right, because: -Drying up/Expanding the oceans, potentially killing millions of people and Pokemon (gen 3) -Cyrus literally tricking Team Galactic with the full intent to backstab every single one of them so that his new universe that he intend to create (after destroying ours, mind you) would be for him and him alone -Lysandre willing to kill the player (Y) or grant them the curse or immortality (X) after being awfully close to destroy the world with the ultimate weapon. -And the multitude of pretty dark and sometimes downright messed up Pokedex entries even up to the latest SV DLC Were totally not dark And you murdering Blue's Raticate is straight up false. When you defeay him at the Pokemon Tower, he literally tells you why he's there, to catch Cubone amd Marowak.

[@sebbaninho]

For me gen 2 is my favourite all time! Remember when I got Pkmn Silver when I was 10. So much nostalgia.

[@shewolfcub3]

good taste, anything from Gen 2-6 is worthy of being someones favorite. Thats it though.

[@hydrocannons7573]

Raticate being replaced is a sign that Blue is growing as a trainer, recognizing that some Pokémon will hold back the team in the long run and thus should be swapped out for better ones. It's organic storytelling.

[@shewolfcub3]

Blue is still beloved as a rival and character by the fanbase, same with Silver though slightly less. Both ahve amazing arcs and I prefer them to the overly-obnoxiously nice ones.

[@chilledkakashi7557]

I def feel like ur channel is about to blow up soon. Really great stuff

[@IEmulateGames]

Worst part of EVERY Pokemon game is version exclusives. Also, Bellsprout is considered to be in the same dimension as Charizard in terms of design?

[@--julian_]

trade evolutions too

[@richarddill692]

I feel like the fact that Red, Blue, and Yellow were held together with hopes, dreams, duct tape, and a whole lot of phlegm (they ran out of tape), at least deserves a mention.

[@shewolfcub3]

Me when I'd take that over gens 7-9 any day

[@richarddill692]

@shewolfcub3 I feel like 7-9 would be more bearable if they just made the cutscenes skippable.

[@tvojejidlo8143]

Hey! ​​just wanna say I binged like 4 video of yours after seeing the 2D Mario video, and you deserved my sub all the way!

[@StrawHatMidas]

Thank you! I hope I can keep making videos you want to watch :D

[@DevonLadd]

9:01 found the team magma grunt... (The underwater sections of gen 3 are my absolute favorite memories from this game, just a cool concept)

[@Mike0193Azul]

Worst part is how babified the story and gameplay has gotten. Braindead easy gameplay and lackluster stories. Theres’s wayyy too many pokemon ‘monsters’ (and a lot of them suck), they should have stopped making new ones after Diamond/Pearl/Platinum and just focused on story, gameplay, game modes (platinum had a lot of fun to be had after beating it), difficulty challenges, multiplayer, and graphics. exp share and flat out telling you what moves were effective or not just made the game pointless to keep going.

[@Theoriginalotaku96]

Pokemon scarlet and violet is pretty difficult. Or at least the DLC is.

[@DolariusXIV]

I don’t think the recent games were “babified”. We simply have become fully-fledged adults. Our perspective and outlook have shifted. I guarantee you that newer games aren’t as easy and straightforward to young players.

[@Jonkronn]

​@@DolariusXIVThey kind of are. You really really have to try hard to fail in them. The affection thing is just a fail safe for mistakes. 'you were going to lose, but we didn't want you to feel bad, so we left you at 1hp' Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed them, but there's really no lose condition unless you deliberately try to lose.

[@lucaschong1498]

22:52 Pikachu was left out of both BW and B2W2, not possible to obtain without trading from previous generation games or getting one from an event😂

[@SpiritOfWaterMontaru]

I don’t get why people keep using Sword and Shield as the example for “Removed post game content to make dlc.” The entire sequence with Sordward and Shieldbert was the post game content. You don’t even get the box art legendary Pokémon until the post game. It’s a longer sequence than the Delta Episode or the Looker Bureau even if there isn’t as much exploring as say the Sevi Islands. Scarlet and Violet were the ones with no post game content until the dlc.

[@tysonalms1938]

You just forget about area zero?

[@SpiritOfWaterMontaru]

@ that’s before credits

[@thewarrior8497]

Another goated video man! Keep up the great work :)

[@StrawHatMidas]

Appreciate it as always :D

[@vicenteguzman1708]

Such a good video man. I recently bought a switch and I was really hesitant on wether or not to buy some of the pokemon titles, but your video really helped and it’s so well made and edited that it was a joy to watch. Keep going.

[@simon_xcx]

what did you end up getting? and how is it?

[@vicenteguzman1708]

@ finally I got Pokemon brilliant diamond and pokemon sword. I’m a big fan of gen 4, so I’m really enjoying Diamond, although it shares a lot of resemblance with the original Pokemon diamond, at the point where it’s basically the same game with improved graphics and less difficulty, but still enjoying it a lot. Sword has been a really good experience overall. Fun battles and somd challeging battles, but the cities all feel a bit empty despite having amazing designs overall.

[@ChansuoTsukama2]

1:10 Fun fact: Red and Blue patched bugs present in Red and Green.

[@Awesomecubing74]

My favorite Pokémon game is Sword and Shield!

[@LITTLE1994]

I'll never forgive Blue for stealing the Eevee meant for you in Yellow. At least Let's Go Eevee made up for it. But those games have too much hate.

[@InfiniteStarz39]

According to the Pokemon leaks, Pokemon Legends Arceus was supposed to have voice acting but they weren't able to. Probably because they were pressured to release it as soon as possible.

[@dpchiko17]

This means Z-A MIGHT have voice acting

[@LingeringWont]

I heavily disagree with other modern generations being allergic to being dark. There are plenty of examples: XY: Lysandre is literally trying to commit genocide as his ultimate goal Omega Ruby: The Drought scene, which is pretty damn hopeless sounding, especially the music. SM: Lusamine has a collection of Pokémon that are frozen in ice. Also Type: Null’s lore, Pokémon like Mimikyu and Passoland, the Mega Evolution dex entries, etc. USUM: The latter three things from SM, also the Rainbow Rocket leaders that successfully achieved their goal. So Archie flooded the Earth, Maxie expanded the continents, Cyrus literally reshaped the universe, Ghetsis liberated everyone (probably killed N, also assaulted Lillie and threatened to hurt her), Lysandre literally committed genocide, and Giovanni took over the world. Legends Arceus: Hisui Zoura and Basculegion are straight up dead. SV: The ghost dog and Annihiape are straight up dead and your professors were killed by Koraidon and Miraidon, which they would get replaced by AI versions of themselves, as well as leaving their child traumatized.

[@K_Lateral]

0:56 A fan theory does not make Red and Blue darker than the game where a major plot point is finding out an important character was dead the whole time lmao. Could've easily brought up the ghost Marowak, but you went for the Raticate Blue 100% boxed because he's trying to build a strong team

[@cheeriototoro8063]

Another massive thing from X and Y was the introduction of fairy types and character customisation!

[@yulurkinbrah]

great video editing, very informative and entertaining. keep up the great work 🤙

[@StrawHatMidas]

Much appreciated :D thank you for your kind words :D

[@KaiserJek]

Pokémon sun and moon were my first video games ever, I played through the entire game never running, I didn’t know how to, seeing you point out the no running shoes made me remember that and how it didn’t matter to us as kids, it’s funny how we change

[@SquickWorks]

Secret bases are by far my favorite part of Gen 3. The coolest thing that we all wanted as kids-- a hideout we found tucked away and turned into our ultimate clubhouse. Also you take the Sega Dreamcast's name out of your MOUTH, SIR 🧐 I'm in the minority of people who really loved Sword and Shield. I hadn't played Pokémon since Gen 3, and last year I decided to marathon through a game from every Gen. Sword and Shield was a breath of fresh air, and it brought back the sense of adventure that I felt back in my childhood with the first two Gens. The fact that the gym challenge took place in giant stadiums full of fans felt exactly like it should have felt in every other game. Plus the open world concept and Dynamaxing were fun-- it's my fav gimmick, and I hate gimmicks. But it felt like they fine-tuned all the prior gimmicks into one clean, cohesive idea that worked better and was cooler. They went from Sword/Shield to Legends Arceus, and the franchise was looking great... then they shit the bed with Scarlet/Violet. Thank god they're doing another Legends game.

[@greek1237]

Oh Pokestar studios ruled. I spend a LOT of time in that mini game.

[@jean-pierrebenzenique]

I like both Unova and Alola games equally, I like their iterations in telling stories, the concept, the world building of the region, the Pokémon and even the characters. Both sides also gave us the best fanservices ever made with Pokémon World Champion and Rainbow Rocket Episode, but if I’m being honest, those 4 aren’t exactly my favorite games either, I like them all but equally, equally in 3rd rank Sword & Shield is my most favorite one of all, sure it has lots of issues (with lack of side quests being the worst to me, not the dexit), but putting all biases aside, Galar is the most aesthetically pleasing region, its gimmick (Dynamaxing) is a pretty balanced if not the most balanced of all, you can use it both offensively and defensively, the Rotom Bike also feels so much better transportation than riding a Pokémon, sure it can’t jump like Acro Bike but it can dash through water. I like exploring SwSh games especially in the Crown Tundra DLC, say all what you want about these games, I like it the most and you can’t change my mind, bet you can’t find sponsorship in your regions huh also Legends Arceus is my second favorite and ORAS + Crystal ties for my 4th position with HGSS being my 6th

[@idaniellane]

I LOVED this video!! Very nostalgic! This year is my 20-year point of playing Pokemon games! I have such fond memories attached to almost every game in the franchise 🥹 I know that it had a myriad of problems, but scarlet and violet have been some of my favorite games and I’ve logged the most hours into it since gen 5! I don’t know what it is, but I just keep going! The shiny hunting, the raids, the open world, the DLC.. I loved it all! lol I’m excited for the future of the games!

[@yungboss4556]

This is ABSOLUTELY one of the BEST Pokemon videos on KZbin. I played every Pokemon main series game up to date and I strongly agree with everything you say about each game. You are spot on correct with the games that are at the top of the list and the worse ones. Even though, some people going to have their own opinions, this video speaks for the majority of the Pokemon fan base. You are a real Pokemon OG.

[@seankuchenbecker5436]

Except gen 3 was first dexitsituation. I shouldn't need to buy peripheral accessories, other consoles, and their games just to get my favorites. There was no way in RSE for me to get an espeon if those were only games i had access to

[@evilbee94]

You found 3 great balls 😂 34:49

[@Voice.of.Thanatos]

I was grateful to hear not only bad things about scarlet and violet; I genuinely loved them

[@kyngou]

I will admit I was in the demographic of people that only started playing Pokémon again because of the let’s go games

[@dudleystow8937]

The best thing about Alola isn’t the regional forms, it got rid of HMs which was a major complaint for so many years. Alolan forms are cool but no longer needing an HM slave is even better.

[@michaelm9211]

@0:53, the modern Pokemon games have gotten pretty dark in scarlet violet and PLA. Sada and Turo straight up die in those games and then you have to see how Arvin deals with losing his parents. Kieran has an interesting arc too with how he deals with his issues.

[@sidharthdinesh9252]

This was a great video! Hope your channel grows quick and reaches out to much more pokefans!

[@XBROX_Official]

I hate Gen VII especially for Team Skull and If you think about what I Expect as a Fan of Gen V that probably makes sense for you On the other hand, I had a hell of a ride on the indigo disc DLC with Scarlet and Violet I was literally stunned when I heard that shiny new remix of the trainer battle theme from Gen V tho I gotta say I also owe Gen V a lot tho because it guided me through my hardest time. I got it when I was together with my greatest love I ever had but soon we were separated because our parents made some decisions when we were kids I was able to pull a lot of explanation for my situation from the stories and values that were told in black and white and that helps me through this day understanding on a deeper level what is going on in my life and dealing with it

[@InfiniteStarz39]

Another interesting timing because of new leaks for Diamond and Pearl remakes. Apparently Game Freak orginally didn't plan to have a faithful remake like you were complaining about. They were planning to make a new technical foundation for the remakes that would be use for future main pokemon games. But they changed their mind at the last moment. It seems to be decided based on the leaks that there was an internal delay with Legends Arceus. The original release date was late 2021. Another interesting to note that Legends Arceus was created to attract core gamers. In other words, a different target demographic than usual pokemon core fans.

[@Jlaps941]

I feel like your last point is true about Lets Go too. They made it to draw in Pokémon Go players who didn’t play the mainline games much, if at all, with the Go catch mechanics and having all of the Kanto Pokemon which they were probably the most familiar with, on top of luring in people who played the OG games back in the late 90s

[@equinoxkid5472]

I mainly played let's go to see kanto in 3d which was cool but I literally rolled through the entire game mostly just using Eevee. It's really easy

[@annaadams9706]

i’m playing through it for the first time now and i’m basically never using eevee bc i don’t want it to be too easy

[@XxMoixX011]

Level scaling in an open world is trash, period. It breaks any feeling of progression. No reason to explore, everything is at your level, no suprise like "damn, I shouldn't go there" or trying to go to a harder zone to level up faster. Nope. Everything scales with you. Trash at its finest.

[@-Burb]

Yeah I see so many people talk about scaling for some reason without realizing how boring it would be. Being able to go absolutely anywhere and not having exploration in later parts of the game makes open world feel really small. If every pokemon you encountered leveled up with your gym badges or something (level 15 can spawn with 0 badges, level 25 can spawn with 1, level 35 with 2, etc) it would make the entire game feel boring after you’ve explored the whole map. Not saying Scarlet and Violet did it right though for sure. They need to take a look at something like Elden Ring, which is a fantastic open world game that doesn’t have any scaling. Environments are large and visually distinct, and the first time you run into a place like Caelid you get stomped by difficult enemies and realize that it’s a future area to explore, not for you at a low level. Throughout the entire game you’re exploring new areas and constantly being amazed. And for people good at the game, they can go through the whole game quickly at their faster pace while new players can work slowly, even without a “change difficulty” mode. I can see a world where Scarlet and Violet has no scaling but didn’t need it and nobody complained, but unfortunately they didn’t do the open-linear path very well.

[@OldManMose92]

I think all future games should fallow Black & Whites footsteps force the players to use the new Pokémon then unlock the old ones after that way people can actually try new battle tactics and even find new favorite Pokémon.

[@shadowoflugia]

I loved Scarlet and Violet, but one thing that annoyed me that I’ve never heard anybody else talk about is how the camera always wants to readjust to the direction you’re facing. And I had to constantly REreadjust to the direction I originally had it pointed to lol.

[@JJ-xb2ey]

No lie, playing Violet/Scarlet for Typelockes is a really fun time, plus the story and characters are memorable af; even down to the side characters.

[@Basskater912]

Sword shield was absolutely flawless and dexit is a good thing

[@Bullminator]

*loads the gun*

[@mr_fuji_mintsmr_fuji_mints9873]

​@@Bullminator😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@shewolfcub3]

WOrst games ever made sorry. Top 10 worst games not just in Pokemon either.

[@Supercooldude-7]

Pokemon Emerald'd worst part is the evil teams, the rivals and the champion

[@Shinntoku]

0:58 did we just forget about all the child abuse in gen 7 and 9???

[@bigwashington3269]

I never really noticed the different move speeds is it really that big of a difference?

[@RaisinBranBoy]

No way this dude just said og emerald had too much water lmao

[@ezramitchell4429]

That’s what alot of people say. And I can see why but tbh I liked the water routes

[@Bullminator]

7.8 TOO MUCH WATER

[@quentinm8100]

I can't believe you did not mention the fairy type et the general balance it brings for X and Y ! It' the best new thing in a Pokémon game since the change in moves' type from Gen 4 IMO :)

[@ultimate_pleb]

21:53 if that's your reason for hating sok and thro you must also hate machamp and machoke to, as well as hitmonchan and gardevoir and gothitalla, charcadet and it's evolutions and probably some others im missing that also wear clothing if that's the case then fair enough, if not then you have no reason to hate these pokemon and you contradicted yourself

[@Fireflame420]

Great video. I bet this would have been an amazing series to watch. Great work. Keep grinding man and keep shining!! 🔥💪

[@Escoletsgo]

This is a great great vid since I just bought an emulator and don’t know where to start lol

[@joech1z]

"too much water" - landlover This ain't waterworld

[@derek2346]

Never had an hm slave, never had an issue with hms. Wish they would come back. Or at least I wish MY Pokémon were the ones I rode or used to interact with the world. No more hires/summon random pokemon

[@l33ttronyx16]

Disagree on the vast majority of your “negatives” although I’m a person that likes HMs. Your going on a journey around the world, you have to be prepared for this epic journey that’s what hms were. Gen 1 is the OG we let them off with some of the stupid stuff as no game really worked properly at the time. Gen 2 I am biased towards so I won’t speak on that. Gen 3 was great but I never cared for Maxie or Archie. Gen 4 is one of the best gens in terms of story, Pokémon, map. Gen 5 is the ugliest game in the franchise (including legends arceus) horrible Pokemon, the worst starters in the franchise. The only good things I have to say about Gen 5 is the story was really in depth and well told, and some of the music bangs Gen 6 is by FAR the worst games in the series. It gave us megas. That’s it. 3D sprites are horrible and lifeless there’s like 10 new Pokemon and 3 of them are cool. Exp all I wouldn’t mind if I could also use it like an exp share. HOWEVER oras is s tier improved almost everything apart from the 3D models again. Also flying round on the Latis was cool but so slow. Once you’ve flown round once I’d rather just fly normally. Gen 7s music is by far the worst in the series. Getting rid of the gyms felt was a bad idea imo, I’m happy with them trying new stuff but it barely felt like a Pokemon game. Gen 8 the open world is horrible. A lot of the Pokemon are cool. Worst thing about this game is the fact they got rid of megas. Gen 9 is the exact same as Gen 8 with different Pokemon and a better gimmick dynamax was trash terrestrialasation or however you spell it is great for competitive battling but trash for fun in game. Hopefully Pokemon get the kick up the ass they needs this year and release some quality content again.

[@joshpwills6665]

loved sw/sh and also love the region, I think people jumped on the bandwagon with the hate because of the national dex issue - but crown tundra was so fun and dynamax raids were such a great addition

[@gaothhermesk1289]

Thats the funny thing about Team Flare, i dont kno whymany elderly pokemon players say is the worst team, when in third gen both teams only wanted more of something without thinking of implications. Ofc what make Flare a dissapointing one are some of their methods and the fact they doesnt seem to feel well stablished, as their motivation to do what they do are pretty interesting. The idea of wanting to preserve the beauty and youth of our soroundings is a pretty solid one and even kinda phylosofical, but they never get that far with that

[@chaosthegod]

Great video! I agree with almost everything, except with the Let's Go games. I really think they're the best way to visit the Kanto Region. I understand that the pokemon go mechanics are a BIG let down, but the graphics are the best we got in a pokemon game so far. The pokemon following mechanics too. Also, I think that the simplified battle mechanics works really well for the gen1 lovers. It really feels like I'm battling on my Pokemon Red with amazing graphics. In my opinion sometimes less is more and competitive pokemon can get really tiring from time to time, this game makes it light and fun even for less commited players.

[@copper_9373]

My favorite games are leafgreen and emerald. I just wish they had the physical/special split. I also forgot about omega ruby alpha sapphire. Might have to download that today and eandomize it

[@nuttynatsu2354]

I've always wondered if the lets go games are Wii ideas that got scrapped at the time because they didn't think anyone was interested in them, then Pokémon Go was a massive hit and it was revisited for the Switch.

[@annaadams9706]

eh i could see the joycon catching being something they originally wanted to be on wii

[@PoketronPokey404]

I miss the spinoffs. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Pokepark, Ranger, and others are really good.

[@CyberDiver91]

I would have to say Heart Gold is still my utmost favorite game in the series. Arceus isn't a pretty game in the slightest, but at least it's functional and the catching mechanic is really fun. Scarlet.....was fun, but there's really no excuse for it looking and running as bad as it does. I would have picked up one of BDSP, but changed my mind the moment I heard that none of the content or improvements from Platinum would be included. I really just want Pokemon to live up to it's potential and put out consistent bangers.

[@LivinSober]

Just completed the Gen II Pokedex for the first time. Still on cloud 9. Pokemon Crystal is the best Pokemon game of all time. Still hoping for a modern re-release.

[@Error403HRD]

I LOVE Scarlet and Violet's story (i did not expect them to make me care about Arven after that introduction lol), and I'm playing through it again, but damn am I annoyed that i have to look up the right order to do things in because I don't want to get murdered by a surprise level fifty pokemon 😂

[@woaq4486]

I stopped playing after the Gen 5 sequels. I literally have no frame of reference for Gen 6 and onward. I feel so old lol