Underrated Pokemon Games! Reacting to "The Best Pokemon Game You Never Played" by Jaiden Animations

[@YoBGS]

Thank you all so much for the love I’m blown away we hit 15k and just keep rolling! I’m taking better notes now of people you recommend so feel free to let suggestions fly! In the meantime I’m working on more original stuff and I can’t wait to see if y’all are into it, thanks again this wouldn’t be nearly as awesome without you!

[@iwantcake7703]

Loving it!

[@xxflickerdsxx5461]

you prob wont do this but i want u to react to doors story from hyuns dojo if u want o react to it u can start from doors 3 - 5 if you want to quickly finish it but its fot five episodes i want u to react to this because in the last so many animators that we thought were dead just suddenly joined this giant collab

[@moamelali8083]

you are the best KZbin ever I love your content

[@agentsubzero6343]

Plz reaction to alen Becker AvM shorts

[@gamingtoaster2714]

We need more Achievment Hunter references. Especially about Gavin

[@lordoflasagne2430]

Okay so, a few things to clear this up (hope you'll read this; also strap in, this got rather long): First of all, the pokemon ranger games play pretty much in a different universe from the normal pokemon games (there's a few crossovers, but meh). This means basically: no gyms, no league structure. No pokeballs. No pokemon-on-pokemon fights. Pokemon are usually all wild, only hanging out with humans in a friendship- or petlike realtionship. This leads us to the following: the rangers. They are like a peacekeeper unit for the regions. They use their stilus ("friendship circles") to channel/send their emotions to other pokemon to calm them or befriend them. That's why there is a system where you can only use each captured mon once (either to clear an obstacle in the overworld or to assist you in battle with their friendship) and then they are released back into the wild. Also, not everyone can become a ranger, you need a special amount of kindness and emphaty to connect with the different mons. It's kinda like the jedi, just not with force but THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP. The only exception to this rule are the evil teams (team dim sun in this case). They usually have some special devices to just hypnotize or override the pokemon's brains, making them slaves to their bidding. Rangers can then undo this with their FRIENDSHIP to free them from their enslavement and release them back into the wild. So that's how that works. No stealing pokemon, only freeing them or taking them with you for a short time for their help (btw you also can't remove pokemon from their original habitat). Also "battling against dim sun members" really means that they send their pokemon slaves to attack you, the player character, directly. You then have to "catch" them (the mons) with your stylus to calm them down and stop the from literally harming you. Yeah, the ranger games are a little darker from time to time. Just wanted to give a bit of inside into the lore as a huge fan of all of those games. Ps. Yes, all of my ds' bottom screens have a severe case of circle markings.

[@YoBGS]

I said this somewhere else but I’m just flabbergasted this game had such deep gameplay. Like it seems like a silly game. I mean, FRIENDSHIP LOOPS! But then I read your comment and it actually makes sense and makes Jaiden’s argument even stronger. Thanks for taking the time to write this and explain it all to me!

[@Diamond1234]

Yep, and you befriend pokemon to basically ask em for a favor to help you once and they go back to where they came from except for your partner pokemon, haha.

[@sparkypikachu7776]

So, basically it's my little pony but with humans and loops of friendship?

[@Guardian-of-Light137]

@@YoBGS There's even more to that in the other games. Personally I like guardian signs. But they're all good. And all ahve similar silly humor and surprisingly dark stories.

[@genderenigma8276]

The amount of detail in Jaiden's animations, pun somewhat intended, is absolutely astonishing.

[@YoBGS]

It’s amazing, you could watch 10 times and still miss references

[@elgato7493]

@@YoBGS like Clarence and DHMIS

[@bindingofash1824]

I've been rereading the comment for like 10 minutes,what fucking pun

[@shanedawndusk3290]

@@bindingofash1824 It’s a pun on her name

[@astrealove1]

"If you can read this you're a nerd." If I recall correctly that's what the binary at 12:22 translate to. (someone can feel free to correct me in case I'm wrong).

[@YoBGS]

That is awesome

[@DrSmart20]

@@YoBGS it's actually "only nerds can read this" but yeah pretty much

[@neolithiumproduction]

Nerd. =P

[@not-easilymarketed7655]

I just saw that and wondered if it meant anything

[@brendannowak1820]

“Always get consent before you deploy your loops of friendship”

[@YoBGS]

Just considerate...

[@the_furf_of_july4652]

Regarding the “gem leaders”, the thing is, neither the rangers nor team dim sun actually *have* the gems yet. It’s more of a race trying to get to the gems first.

[@YoBGS]

Ahhhh that makes way way more sense

[@rgpmtori]

"Touch the Bidoof" - best line ever

[@YoBGS]

Reminds me of Ren & Stimpy, an adult sounding joke in a kids game

[@rowenaconzaga4597]

"Your disgustingly good!"- Second best line ever

[@aniljohn8717]

@@rowenaconzaga4597 no second best is "I want to peg you with a snowball. Hard."

[@BigShot57]

He didn’t see it though!!😡😡

[@boogiebong]

I would love to tickle the bidoof

[@lvalv]

"Touch the bidoof" *Remember this is from POKEMON GAMES*

[@YoBGS]

It strikes me as like something on Spongebob. The jokes meant for adults but in a kids game/show

[@hollerwild2045]

I’ve played, it’s true

[@yourtrachcannot4985]

99th

[@somekidontheinternet1543]

remember always touch the bidoof

[@adrianvulpes9509]

T.L.D.R. = This game isn't dirty, you are. "Touch the Bidoof." means "Using the pointy end of your Nintendo DS stylus, tap the area of your Nintendo DS touch screen where the pixels display an animated Bidoof sprite so that we may continue the tutorial on using Pokemon as solution McGuffins to solve the puzzle McGuffins that act as obstacles to the main story progression (for example, this tutorial on Target Clears)." and not "Touch the Bidoof with any part of the body or with anything else through anything, including anything worn and/or used by you or by the Bidoof, in circumstances where a reasonable person or Pokemon would consider the touching to be {(ß´≈¨å¬) - Alt}" because this game isn't dirty, your mind is just in the gutter.

[@arcticbanana66]

I feel like the Pokemon Ranger games are a major reason why they started selling those touch screen protectors.

[@AzuRemilia]

99% of her effort put into this video went into the dancing sequence at 11:45 and you cannot convince me otherwise. Like damn is it smooth

[@danielr8257]

I'm pretty sure she didn't animate that. Most storytime animators hire other people to animate large portions of their videos. But someone certainly did put a lot of work into that

[@Subpar1224]

Yeah I think she said at the end someone animated that part

[@wellifailed392]

I don't think she Animates that much anymore. She has a lot of animators that she pays

[@theshadowling1]

Honestly, what the capture stylers do is make pokemon like you, and break free of their trainers. Pokemon Rangers never capture pokemon with balls, they use a Capture Stylers to make a pokemon like them and be willing to work with them.

[@YoBGS]

It’s still wild that this game has you steal basically everyone’s pokemon

[@ImPersonNation]

@@YoBGS pokemon hypnotized to be evil, or wild pokemon that you need to help you. And it's all temporary, they go back to the wild once you use them once.

[@SuperiorPosterior]

@@YoBGS The stylers actually don't work (as well, I should say) on Pokémon caught in standard issue Pokéballs. 90% of the time, a Ranger's job is to prevent large scale damage from rampaging wild Pokémon, stop PokéPoachers from illegally stealing truckloads of Pokémon from their natural habitats (basically, prevent them from disrupting ecosystems. Even if a group of 5 kids all came through a forest and caught three Pokémon each, they'd have to encounter those 'mon, and Pokémon SPECIFICALLY challenge Trainers if they WANT TO BE CAUGHT. So scooping up a hundred Slowpoke is bad, but a Slowpoke being caught is alright). Dim Sun is poaching via hypnosis. Therefore, the friendship loops work. If a Ranger tried to friendship loop a legitimately caught Trainer's Pokémon, the loops would fail. A good way to think of it is like this: Pokéballs require a certain level of willingness from both sides (that moment when Random Encounters are supposed to be taken as implicit consent from the Pokémon, oof). Friendship Loops supercede consent because they're not asking "be mine so I can train you", they're saying "calm down and gimme a hand for a second, then we can go our separate ways."

[@pengie-gw2lu]

@@YoBGS Most of the pokemon you capture in this game are wild (and sometimes being mind-controlled), and the few that aren't wild are agitated for some reason (usually because something is causing them to be in pain) and you're capturing them to calm them down so you can address whatever's agitating them before you return them to whoever they live with.

[@AndersRose]

How the gameplay works is that you "catch" them with the loops temporarily and they assist you but if I remember correctly you can only have a very tiny limit of pokemon at a time (like 3-4 maybe). You dismiss them when you're done, also (again from memory of just the first game) all the bad guys' pokemon are not theirs just controlled by them.

[@carlosx8603]

You start out with a limit of 4 that expands to 7 by the end of the game.

[@SinWeissfell]

@@carlosx8603 Which sounds like a very simple solution to the main series games problems tbh. Do that for the player and for the gym leaders lol

[@CactusJackter]

The games are 10-20 hours of story (depending on which one) and double that if you include sidequests rather than just playing through the story as quickly as possible.

[@YamanekoshiroYoukai]

If you hadn't already check this KZbinr out, I highly recommend Overly Sarcastic Productions; your comment on the magic mcguffins (the crystals) just made me remember when she covered such a topic!

[@MistressNebula]

"the only Pokémon games i've never played are the Mystery Dungeon ones" YOU, SIR, ARE A MONSTER Still like your vids tho

[@raphaelunger3057]

Yeah Pokemon mystery dungeon is the best Pokemon spin-off of all time and the best game in the series is explorers of time/darkness/sky

[@thinkingfubuki]

"Always get consent before deploying your loops of friendship" is now one of my favorite weird sentences ever. Right up there with "This headline goes beyond click-bait to internet cheat code."

[@DryBOOns88]

“The always get consent before deploying your loops of friendship” -YoBGS 2020

[@AmaneKoruba]

Someone I would love to see a reaction to is Slimecicle. He’s friends with Jschlatt and Carson, and he’s funni. A good video with schlatt in it is “Minecraft but every 5 minutes there’s a natural disaster.” His other videos are pretty funny too!

[@zaneheaston8254]

Dude, Pokémon is and always will be, an RPG, & what’s synonymous with RPG’s, good storytelling, & thus many cutscenes

[@fictionfan0]

So, the "friendship loops," as Jaiden calls them, are less energy ropes and more... actual energy; each completed loop sends friendship energy to the Pokémon within it. Capturing an enemy Pokémon basically releases them from the enemy's control. So it's less bondage and more... convincing them to help you/not be with the bad guys.

[@TimeturnerJ]

In the world of Pokémon Ranger, no one owns Pokémon, so no, you're not stealing anyone's Pokémon. Nor are you keeping any, anyway - Pokémon Rangers are trained to be, well, rangers - which means they're responsible for keeping nature stable and healthy. They're looking after the wild Pokémon, but they're also trying to disturb them as little as possible. Rangers have a special device called the Capture Styler - however, it doesn't 'capture' Pokémon in the way you're used to from the main line games. With the styler, you spin circles around the Pokémon you wish to capture - and Aiden was right to call them "friendship loops", because they make the Pokémon friendly towards you. It will stick around for a while, maybe do one simple task for you, but after that, it will disappear back into the wild. Team Dim Sun, on the other hand, uses the Shadow Crystals to brainwash the Pokémon and make them obey their command. By capturing them with your styler though, you can break the mind control, which allows those wild Pokémon to escape back into their natural habitats. The only Pokémon that sticks with you throughout the game is your partner-Pokémon (Plusle or Minun), and that's simply because it's your friend and it wants to stay with you, not because you caught it in a Pokéball or anything like that. No one is forcing it to be here. Here's a little fun fact, btw: Back in the Gen 4 days (Diamond, Pearl and Platinum, to be specific), if you wanted to get that elusive Manaphy egg, you had to first complete a quest on Pokémon Ranger to get it (I'm pretty sure that was only on the first Ranger game though, not the sequels), and then transfer it over to your main line game! ,,,well, that's the non-action replay way to do it, anyway. ;D (And yes, my lower DS screen is _very_ circle-y. It's been years since I've played a Pokémon Ranger game, but they definitely left their imprint on my poor DS, haha😂 Even when you're trying to be careful not to press too hard, some capture missions are easier said than done, and you only make it through with gritted teeth and _very_ quick loops (especially the first game had some brutal captures), which means you can't really afford to go easy on your screen at the same time. :'D)

[@BenMaguireLONEWOLF9989]

Plusle or minun is only the first game. Shadows of Almia allows fro a lot more potential partners such that by the end of the game, I think there's a partner for every type. Guardian signs only has one, which is known as "Ukelele Pichu" Manaphy was available from all the ranger games, it was one of the incentives Nintendo gave to get them. The only caveat is that at least in Shadows of Almia, it was a limited time access mission.

[@ssr8555]

In this specific game Jaiden is playing, your partner Pokémon options are a Munchlax, Pachirisu and something else, I don’t remember. You also get more partner Pokémon throughout the game that you can switch to which is cool since they all have different abilities!

[@BenMaguireLONEWOLF9989]

@@ssr8555 Starly

[@absolutelyrandom4978]

If I remember correctly, all of the Pokemon in the game are wild and thus you’re not really stealing them or anything. No one necessarily owns the pokemon, it’s just that they either decide to help you (because of the loops) or decide to help the people you’re against (due to being hypnotised). The crystal and devices are honestly similar to the shadow ball in the movie ‘Celebi: The Voice of the Forest’ without capturing the pokemon and changing their level. With Minecraft KZbinrs, I highly recommend Fundy and Skeppy. Both are on the Dream SMP (though, Fundy’s more involved in the story). I recommend any of Fundy’s videos (especially ‘I made every block extremely slippery (ft Wilbur Soot)’) as long as it’s not ‘I went on a date with Dream...’ and ‘So I hunted Dream...’ because those are part of a side plot in the Dream SMP called The Dreamon Hunters. For Skeppy, I recommend the videos showing how he and Bad became friends. (In order: I applied for staff on a server and this was the interview..., BadBoyHalo Banned Me For Ping Spoofing..., I went undercover to get in a call with the owner... he was so mad, he cried when we got him to 100,000 subscribers) or the newest one (I donated $50,000 to BadBoyHalo). Their friendship is just the most wholesome thing ever and well worth a watch (even if it’s not in a reaction video). If you’d like a new game to react to, DisguisedToast makes really good Among Us videos showcasing big-brain plays. Speedruns in Among Us don’t really exist since speedrun.com rejected the game but some people like to ‘speedrun’ tasks/finding the impostor and the basis would be how many meetings they went into as opposed to the time.

[@zone3336]

I also really like how he pauses when he talks

[@wingedone6512]

I'm wondering why people seem to have more patience for 2D cutscenes than the cutscenes in sun and moon or sword and shield? In the older games you still get stopped to look at dialogue and the sprites moving around doing things. So I don't really get it? I don't get bothered by any cutscenes though.

[@krystaloftheshores]

Same. I really liked the cutscenes in Sun and Moon (and Ultra), because I liked seeing more of the story besides just scrolling through text. It makes the game feel more real. Although I kind of preferred the story in Sun and Moon than in Ultra, just because the evil Lusamine arc was a lot deeper than what i was used to in previous games. I guess some people prefer gameplay over story. Makes me kinda sad though, cuz the story makes sense of a lot of things that happen in a game. HOWEVER, for those trying to soft reset for a shiny starter or a particular gender, it’s agony to go through the starter Pokémon cutscene every time.

[@koconnell968]

Looping the pokemon doesn't "steal" them. It breaks the mind control from the gigaremos. Iirc, you wouldn't be able to use your styler on a pokemon in a pokeball, for instance (though there are no trainers with pokemon in pokeballs in the ranger games).

[@eeveeofstewjon2264]

An insinuation that pokemon are into bondage was not what I was expecting, but it did make me laugh for a bit

[@tjstarblood624]

Jaidens dancing matches any music you put it to

[@YoBGS]

Oh to have that level of rhythm!

[@andrewstephenson5825]

Jaiden doesn't mention the running gag where whenever someone gets tied up, the person doing it says they'll tie them up "a smidgeon on the tight side" Edit: Also the other rangers games are very good

[@Randerson2409]

Never went to boarding school, so can't speak there, but when I went to University we had this thing called "Raisin Weekend" which was basically a weekend long initiation session for the younger students, ending in what was inevitably a hangover filled foam fight. It was a whole thing

[@rayqcina4869]

You should check out Team Darkside. He was inspired by SmallAnt's 'Pokemon Platinum No-Damage Run', but this madman took that concept to the extreme and decided to try and beat Monster Hunter World without taking any damage. I don't know if you're into Monster Hunter at all, but this video was a delight for me to watch. I'm sure you'll like it as well.

[@Mongolenfreak]

So I played the game a long time ago, and you asked about the loops, those loops of friendship befriend Pokémon, so they follow you around and help you out, (idk think it was either one or 3 Pokémon that will follow you the rest will just be freed from evil influence and run away) The game is fun.

[@SpectreBagels]

Rangers dont capture pokemon. Unlike trainers the partners they have arent bound to them and they are only allowed 1 or 2 partner pokemon. All the other pokemon they use to help with a task are temporary. When they "capture" a pokemon they basically just calm down the pokemon and have them released. Their job is to protect pokemon around the world.

[@brendannowak1820]

Honestly this video was so much fun to watch especially remembering watching jaiden’s original video. She seemed so excited about it and definitely made me want to go find it and play it myself.

[@brendannowak1820]

_psst hey bgs are you an undertale fan? If so I’d love it if you went and reacted to the glitchtale animations by camila cuevas, it’s very good_

[@nixian_zwaylus]

oh yeah, initiation is definitely a thing in boarding schools. though because of the name it got, it's usually against the rules (and therefore at 3 am). it can get really bad sometimes. paintbuckets and 15 kilometer runs kind of bad.

[@nixian_zwaylus]

so. the capture mechanics are actually very much canon. the pokemon rangers are kind of like the police and the national animal foundation combined. they look out for the wild and do police stuff. most of them also have an uncaptured partner pokemon. what the stylers do is subdue a pokemon without actually capturing it, what probably enables them to control captured pokemons (though i don't think they can, the evil team very well might be using wild pokemon).

[@TaniDraws]

Oh gosh that Miror B. battle music gave me such a nostalgia trip, thanks for the good feels.

[@YoWuzUp]

2:21 That's Y, Moon, and Shield. I'm a little surprised she liked shield more than y but personal preference.

[@rowenaconzaga4597]

In my opinion the pokemon from sun and moon are the best

[@rowenaconzaga4597]

And i have an irrelevant topic

[@the_furf_of_july4652]

Friendship loops make Pokémon friendly and/or bring them back to their senses. They’ll help you out a bit before returning to their natural habitat. Contrast that with pokeballs which are essentially indefinite servitude. Actually, if you want to talk game mechanics, befriending a pokemon normally causes them to help you out (follow you around a while, clear obstacles, break things if you want). But, iirc, if they’re under the control of a Gigaremo, they’re no longer aggressive, but they immediately run off. This makes breaking gigaremos pretty tricky, and makes your encounters with Dim Sun more like pokemon trainer battles compared to wild battles. But Dim Sun didn’t catch their pokemon either, they’re all hypnotized with gigaremos.

[@PRODBYAGL]

Casually approach Bidoof

[@HMed018]

15:32 I just played for a short glampse, but Stylers are intended for temporary captures (you can see this in the "Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea" movie) and there are some exceptions, which are achieved by side quests most of the time, that can give your Styler some RPG advantages (the upgrade kind, as slowing down the objective or speeding the capture progress)

[@theindigosage3760]

I heard that theme playing in the intro; which caused me to hum Mirror B's theme. That theme alone made me like the video; before we got into the juicy bit! Also; please check out Mah-Dry-Bread, he's done ridiculous Pokemon challenges; akin too Smallant1; maybe not as ridiculous, but, I recommend trying out the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series, you'll love it.

[@thenerdytiger9306]

To explain the loops: When pokemon are under team dim sun's control they are freed from the control and released into the wild. When a pokemon is a wild pokemon the loops allow you to temporarily catch the pokemon but once you use it's move to help you it will leave and return to the wild the only exception to this us your partner pokemon which is the pokemon that you use loops on at the beach near the beginning. Also a note all the pokemon that the bad guys control are mind controlled they are not their own pokemon

[@elizabethfrazee8812]

Sam O Nella is super cool! He animates things in history in a fun and entertaining way! I would recomind his Tarrare, The Hungriest Man in History Video!

[@espeon2247]

I just need to say, I love your positive energy and attitude! It feels so welcoming.

[@Epicocity]

I love the Gale of Darkness theme you went with for the intro. Brings back so many memories of my childhood

[@JazzyWaffles]

Your DS screen should be fine even after 100 runs of Ranger. The screen was BUILT for that kind of abuse, assuming you don't press down into the screen with the might of Zeus 24/7. Also, Jaiden really undersold the battle system in her video. The pokemon you (temporarily) capture in each area can affect both your styler loops and the pokemon you're trying to capture in various ways, as well as those same pokemon having field effects (i.e. Cut/Strength type stuff). You don't "catch" pokemon so much as you use your Styler to recruit them temporarily (up to a certain limit), and have to release them when you leave that area (since you're a ranger, you're basically a warden of nature and have to keep the natural balance). For the evil team's pokemon, you typically just use your Styler to make the pokemon break free from the control of the evil team, I don't recall ever being able to keep those pokemon. I do wish Jaiden had touched a lot more on gameplay because, well... it's incredibly different from a mainline game, and I think anyone who hasn't played a Ranger game before might get some very wrong ideas from the video about how the game plays.

[@YoBGS]

Holy cow I didn’t realize the gameplay was so deep, it really did just seem like you loop the Pokemon and then eventually steal it. That’s a really deep game for one that seems so silly on the surface

[@JazzyWaffles]

@@YoBGS Yeah, reactions to the video so far seem to be people misunderstanding Jaiden's jokes about "haha circles" as the gameplay LITERALLY being circles and not much else, which is sad because while the gameplay IS repetitive and doesn't change too much in comparison to a mainline game, it's definitely deeper than just drawing circles most of the time. I'm guessing she meant it as a running joke and didn't realize people would take it seriously.

[@Scarletcroft]

About the magic mcguffins.. 3 and 7 are magic/lucky numbers so they are the most familiar. 4,5, 6, 8, 9 are also pretty common in games, though. .But mostly they give a clear sense of progression and indication of how far along you are in the games story (like chapters). At least 1 and 2 is too little effort and over 10 is often overdoing it. 10 might be the final boss/dungeon, though. It's fairly arbritary in the end.

[@SaphDegatzlXl]

There are no gym leaders in this context! And none of the pokemon were captured or kept the loops of friendship on, that was just a funny visual gag for the animation. The loops shared feelings of friendship and calmness basically, which is how you either broke pokemon free from Dimsun's gigaremo-induced control... or you recruited wild pokemon to (temporarily) help you out! Once they help you, they go back home. Partner pokemon are exceptions to that though. They're ones that bond closer to you than others and stick by your side. You can switch between them at home. (I played this ranger game when younger and didn't know it wasn't that popular. I still have it and still love it. Going to even re-play it soon! Good memories. I also suggest playing it yourself.)

[@SaphDegatzlXl]

Also, re: loop pressure on DS It is indeed one of those things where so long as you aren't pressing like your life depends on it, it's a-okay! I should know, I actually press pretty hard, it it was other things that would mess up my touch screen, not my many loops, lol.

[@YoBGS]

That's so wild! Like as someone who is used to conventional pokemon it's hard for me to wrap my brain around that world, sorta like Dungeon Dice Monsters and Yugioh

[@SaphDegatzlXl]

@@YoBGS It's set in the same universe still too, from what I understand. As in Pokemon Rangers AND Pokemon trainers exist. They just have different roles! I think there was even a pokemon movie or two that showed Pokemon Rangers? Like they work more on conserving wild pokemon and helping them than capturing them to fight. Since you share your feeling through the tool too, there is more direct communication on why you need their help, lol. Of course I'm not an expert and my memory IS rusty, so I suggest taking this all with a grain of salt and looking onto playing the game(s) yourself! ♡ Personally, I want to try out the other two ranger games some day. And hopefully more!

[@shimmyking4]

Miror B.'s theme i see you are also a man of culture

[@YoBGS]

Miror B is goals. Fashion, fitness, all of them.

[@JuiceboxTheShuckle]

In Ranger, you can only have 1 pokemon. Your partner. Wild pokemons are only looped to use for a moment (like the aggron that broke the boulder, or water pokemon to put out a fire, stuff like that)m but you don't keep them, the wild ones that are being controlled by the rocket thingy are freed as well, they calme down when looped, and pokemon from villains are looped in order to free them from their trainer.

[@Mattsothelioma]

The Styler from my experience in Guardian Signs basically works as a sort of pacification thing. It takes Pokémon that are being controlled or are out of control and just sorta mellows them out

[@Epsi743]

when you use friendship loops on a Pokémon they become friendly with you and tend to be willing to help out. But they can also just leave whenever they want. It’s not like capturing them in a ball and keeping them with you. None of the dim sum grunts actually capture any Pokémon either. They just control them with the machines.

[@justinsouthmayd5478]

Fitmc does content on the oldest anarchy servers in minecraft

[@michaelkowal3230]

If you capture a pokemon controlled by team dim sun, they won't be controlled anymore and will run off, but if you capture a wild pokemon, they'll travel with you and lend some of their power to either clear obstacles or help with capturing another pokemon

[@kaydenclarke9047]

7:45 yes this actually happens. My dad used to be a dean for a boarding school dormitory and the first year we lived there a bunch of kids busted into his office with hockey gear on. (Yes I live in Canada) and dragged him out of there (he put up a really good fight), down the hall to the boys bathroom, and tossed him in the shower.

[@SerenityM16]

7:50 I think it was originally a thing at colleges with fraternities and sororities but if they do do it anymore it’s much more stupid prank junk, and that trope just kinda seeped into “school you live at in general”

[@JJ-ml7pq]

I like to think of the “friendship loops” as being line how Aquaman’s powers are traditionally shown. Energy pulse-looking things fly out from Aquaman (representation of him telepathically communicating with marine life), the creature/creatures perform an action and then they leave. Similarly, Pokémon you loop can perform actions and are then released immediately if I remember correctly. You don’t catch them so much as form temporary bonds.

[@JJ-ml7pq]

Oh, also- the bad guys aren’t catching Pokémon, either. Those “Gigaremo” doodads just mind-control local Pokémon. They want to build the massive tower thing to boost the area of effect.

[@XShadOBabeX]

Hey I got a recommendation for you if you like or are interested in Tabletop RPGs. JoCat’s Crap Guide to D&D videos. There are longer videos for things like Alignments, Races, etc., but the videos for the classes are like 2 and a half minutes each, so you could plow through all of them in one go!

[@YoBGS]

I love tabletop RPGs! I play a good bit of DND and just got into For the Dungeon awhile ago

[@miriona]

Ah, I had a feeling it would be Pokemon Ranger. And yes, I love them. Just haven’t played the first

[@ZillaYT.]

I heard you were thinking of making an SMP (survival multi player) . There are two types of SMP’s. One where it’s “friends only” or it has a specific theme (like SMPearth is a recreation of planet earth) or a public SMP, it’s pretty much an SMP anyone can play like fans.

[@wesleypatterson2989]

These are definitely great games! To answer your question about the catching, from what I remember, once you capture a Pokemon, it will follow you around until you beat whatever mission your currently doing. You can use them to do certain things, like I remember one mission where you use a Wartortle to help put out a forest fire.

[@anyathepanther7977]

It is weird how the last 3 Gens made their story's edgy, yet the game mechanics are clearly made for kids. With the attacks labled as effective, none or very effective. Like, dude, those weren't there in 1999 and the kids back than still managed! Just once I want a game with both an adult story and game mechanics on the same level as "legends of Zelda"! {Assassines Creed might be asking for to much}

[@YoBGS]

I never thought of it that way but you’re so right. It’s a kids game still but the plot has matured a bunch

[@supersasukemaniac]

yes there is a Pokémon Board game, it's I think called League Challenge and it takes place n Kanto.

[@ninjapuppy1257]

best out of context sentences "always get consent before deploying your loops of friendship." rofl

[@harmless_spider]

“Every RPG” **laughs in WoW and Diablo III**

[@reddragoon2423]

Hiw the friendleness loops work is it calms pokemon down. And in the game, you only own 1 pokemon. It the pokemon at the start which bonds with you. The other pokemon you loop and they help you out, but its againced ranger code to take those pokemon out of the the area you caught them in

[@TwilightWolf2508]

Every kid I knew with a Pokemon Ranger game had hundreds of circles permanently scratched onto their screen.

[@blauelilie2049]

In my school there was a kind of initiation called "U-Taufe" or "U-babtism" where a group of students would pick you up carry you to the school well and dump you in it

[@angel__king]

I played Pokémon Guardian Signs as one of my first Pokémon games as well as Pokémon Heart Gold. There’s something about the way Guardian signs is told reminds me the closest of the cartoons. Also you can summon Entei and Raiku and stuff and you have a Ukulele Pichu as your partner

[@ReiyukaE]

Another pokemon game I loved: Pokemon Puzzle League on N64. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN.

[@theschmi5021]

I love how I am coming here for Jaiden's illustrated game experience reactions...

[@angussmith7748]

All of these Pokemon are wild, team Dim Sun is just causing them to go crazy and the loops of friendship just pacify the Pokemon and make them friendly towards you.

[@neolithiumproduction]

YES! Someone who remembers Pokemon Pinball. Loved that and the Pokemon Card Game game for Gameboy. xD Personally, I loved X/Y. I felt it was the best story of all the pokemon games so far. (and I've been playing since Blue/Red first came out)

[@YoBGS]

I love Pinball and the Card game for game boy, but I figured the card game is super popular so I went with pinball!

[@neolithiumproduction]

@@YoBGS Yeah, No harm. Those were both great side games for the gameboy. I played them both so much. ^^

[@DamionDL]

"You'll have to find either 3 or 7 things." Sometimes 3 and then 7, looking at you Zelda.

[@r3a123456]

You know he watches a lot of AH with how much often he days "gubbons" But I still say "coal" after hearing flint on reflex lol

[@thenerdytiger9306]

23:29 pretty much yes. My ds touch screen has soooooo many loop marks on it from playing all 3 ranger games

[@hermioneaza1413]

yobgs: its a tailow nintendo: ITS NOT A TAILOW ITS A STARLY

[@naolucillerandom5280]

Oh yes, I had one of those games and it did kind of worn out my screen because little me would rather do that than risk touching a bit too lightly and loosing 20 loops.

[@moonrat1955]

This was one of my favorite games as a kid. I miss this game. I might just go play through it again.

[@aname8453]

YOOO POKEMON XD GALE OF DARKNESS. i grew up with a gamecube so the music is so nostalgic.

[@YoBGS]

Miror B is the biggest mood to ever mood

[@silverscreen842]

If it's wild Pokémon, you can take up to 7 Pokémon with you, until you use them either in a capture or to destroy an obstacle. If they are controlled, they will simply go back into the wild.

[@iwantcake7703]

I'm spamming you with comments about how fun life is so the algorithm helps! Love ya!

[@CassiusStelar]

STAAAAAAAAAAAAHP

[@HuffGLaDTem]

I liked them all

[@iwantcake7703]

@@HuffGLaDTem ay lmao

[@Eazy_Peazy]

Don't worry, I've fallen down the Minecraft hole too. *I can't escape it and I don't want to.*

[@LowbrowDeluxe]

I have a theory that the Pokemon Ranger stylus does exist in the same world as capture balls and represents technology/government authority to override the control of pokemon and free pokemon. It's presented in a cute way because kids game, but it makes sense that there would be a government authority that could remove pokemon from criminals.

[@aldousrex605]

"Let's check her out" - i laughed so hard lol ( its a joke )

[@lavenderwilbur]

I have played 2 of the poekmon ranger games. Never got too far, always lost interest for no reason, but they're fun until you get stuck on a certain part for days on end-

[@lululemons9636]

Check out ranboo He's so funny and kinda friends with some dream smp members

[@YoBGS]

Ranboo you got it!

[@fey2793]

I Would love to see you react to the Hermitcraft Server and crew, especially Etho, Grian, Mumbo and Scar (my favs)

[@moommooo]

In pokemon rangers, you can't actually catch the pokemon permanently. There are apparently no gyms in the region and the rangers are kinda the police force. The player can make friends with them and is able to keep them for a temporary amount of time. They can only use a pokemon once for their special skill and after that they are released. The only exception is a partner pokemon. Which is kinda like your best friend and is permanent. Oh yea, stylers (the friendship loop thingy) are only issued exclusively to rangers. So they are not sold openly like guns.

[@moommooo]

Pokemon ranger is also a very story driven game and the game is PACKED with it

[@tjstarblood624]

The Jaiden Animations video about Fossil Finders was pretty funny too

[@cyanthermus5235]

Haven't seen this video either my guesses for underrated pokemon games would be. Any of the Mystery Dungeon series or that one really obscure one where you mix and match different pokemon heads to match like a puzzle game. I dont remember the name of it but it was really fun

[@Jstylin2]

The capture system is absolutely brutal on a ds, i lost 2 ds's because of pokemon rangers because the screens got horribly decalibrated and couldn't be fixed

[@kaydenclarke9047]

7:46 actually yes. my dad used to be the dean of a boarding high school dorm and within 2 weeks of moving in a bunch of students dressed in hockey gear busted into my dad's office and dragged him down the boys hall into the bathroom and threw him in a cold shower XD

[@thesilentgamer2267]

Hears the music of battle god mirror B "I see you're a man of culture as well"

[@WorldWeave]

Ice: “Jaiden-noob” *dabs* Jaiden: *pulls out Glock*

[@mediocreartiste]

the friendship loops are kind of to un-hypnotise the pokemon and kind of to capture then free the mons :)))

[@itsgaimtoduel695]

thanks for reacting to this. great vid

[@crimsonfox4425]

It doesn't kill your touch screen if you don't press to hard or rage quite

[@YoBGS]

I'm just kinda a big oaf-y boi, I can't help it. What I think isn't that hard ends up clobbering it

[@444traper]

You could try reacting when you want see minecraft again, the history of speedrunning on 2b2t of FitMC

[@YoBGS]

Totally, that's on my radar but some people had asked for a break so we took a day off of Minecraft

[@adrianvulpes9509]

The scratching of the touchscreen is due to the 'rate of loops made' to 'paying attention to stylus pressure' balancing each other out in favor of the former. It's not too bad, though.