This was the first Pokemon game I played. I remember my grandma was actually interested in Pokemon and her favorite was chikorita. She would repeat the name because she thought it had a cute ring to it I even went out of my way to trade some of my cards for a chikorita so I could give it to her as a gift. Today I purchased crystal through the 3ds store. I'm going to soft reset until I get a shiny chikorita and I'm going to name it Deborah in loving memory of my grandmother. I will never evolve it :) I miss you grandma.

@camillecoolcool

5 жыл бұрын

That sounds ... so ... so ... beautiful , you are a such a loving , caring person

@fressejetzt840

5 жыл бұрын

Pathetic trying to get attention with your dead grandma

@angelurena

5 жыл бұрын

Nice try, but your story sounds very contrived and purposefully scripted to feel as touching as possible.

@fressejetzt840

5 жыл бұрын

@@angelurena you god damn right

@username-ge7xe

5 жыл бұрын

Angel Ureña stfu gay boy

My favorite addition to Gen 2 is the EXP bar... I know, really simply, but damn it made leveling up so much easier and enjoyable for me.

@KnufWons

6 жыл бұрын

ZeroSilence91 I want to give you two likes so you level up faster

@AntoRetroGamer

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah! It was a lot easier then going into your menu repeatedly.

@jjc4924

5 жыл бұрын

Gotta agree.

@Leto85

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't even realise Gen 1 didn't had that until I read your comment. I'm so much used to all that luxury I guess.

@saiyanc137

4 жыл бұрын

*simple

Gold version was my first Pokémon game that I ever played, and it will always have a very special place in my heart

@autastic4577

3 жыл бұрын

Just got gold with a new save battery from a local game store i just found near me got yellow stadium 1 and a tranfer pak for my 64 also

@justinlalko7834

3 жыл бұрын

Mine was silver, and I played that game all the time and did so much with little knowledge

@JohnGlasscock

3 жыл бұрын

@@autastic4577 those are some nice buys 😁

@JohnGlasscock

3 жыл бұрын

@@justinlalko7834 my best friend had Silver we used to play all the time

@32rush79

3 жыл бұрын

@Cristian the great toast get out

Suicune's a pure water-type, dude..

@Hamantha

6 жыл бұрын

Joker i thought was pure ice

@Hamantha

6 жыл бұрын

Derek Walter Nooooo, 😨😱

@TheVioWithin

6 жыл бұрын

For a short while.. all of the ice moves made me think it was a water ice type.. that was quickly changed..

@Carbonit11

6 жыл бұрын

Well thanks for letting me know, always thought there was something odd...should have looked that one up back then. :D

@stk_n_chill

6 жыл бұрын

Looking Cool Joker

On the cons, I think possibly the reason why they left the Kanto part the way they did was because of the limitation of small memory. It's kind of a miracle they fit two regions on that tiny GBC cartridge.

@lunathelooneyone69

2 жыл бұрын

they did a amazing job of putting Kanto in with the second gen games it made it even better to play

@kassandrapeddle6050

2 жыл бұрын

@@lunathelooneyone69 I remember not knowing anything about Kanta in Crystal and was so shocked and surprised when I discovered it one night by randomly surfing. 20 years later and it's still my fave gaming memory ever.

I really prefer the aesthetics of the gen 2 pixel-y sprites over the modern sprites.

Since Silver's Golbat eventually evolved into a Crobat, I guess his arc has completed; he had become a better trainer. And I actually really liked that montage at the end. :)

The bug catching contest was how I caught my first shiny pokemon

@RandomTens

8 жыл бұрын

Seriously? Which Pokemon did you catch if you don't mind me asking?

@dannyzep92

8 жыл бұрын

+RandomTens It's the only shiny I've ever caught in game. I don't own that cartridge anymore but it was a scyther, I vividly remember catching it and only got second place in the contest too!

@nostalgiafactor733

8 жыл бұрын

Wow I got my first shiny there too, it was a caterpie.

@TheQuashingoftheTub

4 жыл бұрын

@@nostalgiafactor733 My first all odds shiny was a Caterpie in the contest XD Although, it was in SS.

@MobbinMic

4 жыл бұрын

Me too! I miss that blue beedrill I caught on my original Crystal...

GS/C were such amazing sequels, it makes me sad how dull Pokemon games are now. Their first sequels introduced breeding, shinies, day/night and the concept of post-game content

@Mqstodon

4 жыл бұрын

How are the new games dull? They added so many things that make the games more enjoyable and are, mechanically, visually and story wise so much better

@Mqstodon

4 жыл бұрын

How are the new games dull? They added so many things that make the games more enjoyable and are, mechanically, visually and story wise so much better

@ChichiNaka

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mqstodon I'm 99% sure this was made before SWSH came out but it doesnt change the point at all given how much of a dribble onto their first console exclusive pokemon game SWSH were. What things have they added to make the games more enjoyable, mechanically, visually and/or storywise to you?

@tzizr2593

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChichiNaka SwSh was really a disappointment, I was willing to buy a switch if it was a good enough but the fanbase can agree it’s a scrapped up mediocre game

@ChichiNaka

3 жыл бұрын

@@tzizr2593 All I wanted was 10% of the feeling Zelda fans got with BOTW on a console, the first big mainline Pokemon games on a console and they're barren empty nothing

you forgot to talk more about Silver, since you know, he has a CROBAT

@chaosn4197

6 жыл бұрын

why is that special?

@dodgy1752

6 жыл бұрын

ChaosN because it shows that silver eventually came to care for Pokemon as in order to evolve a Golbat into a crobat it needs a high happiness level.

@GrimSimm

6 жыл бұрын

Interesting.

@r.r815

5 жыл бұрын

@@dodgy1752 I played there Crystal and he had a Golbat still, infact his entire team was either unevolved or weak single stage Pokemon besides his starter which I found funny since he claimed to have a strong team. Anyways unless there's another fight after he stops you before the elite four then something ain't adding up

@mikeyburris5596

5 жыл бұрын

@@r.r815 you fight him in Mount Moon and he has Crobat

I love he’s calling Miltank easy to kill while fighting her with a female starter?? It was the fact that she’d seduce all your Pokémon and then beat the shit out of you that made her so problematic. And female starters are rare lol

@rachelmilligan95

3 жыл бұрын

The damn milk drink and roll out whilst you’re immobilised. This comment brought back a horrifying past 😂😂

@Tvboy777

3 жыл бұрын

and looks like he got some lucky burn hax.

@tmitsurugi7777

3 жыл бұрын

And 5 levels higher than her Miltank at that.

@DogCheese420

3 жыл бұрын

Just beat her Miltank first try with only three embers and I have a male Quilava. It really just depends on what starter you choose.

@sam_edits23

3 жыл бұрын

I beat her on my second try

the worst part of these games are the leveling spread, gym leaders level 60 pokemon and trainers level 34

@FoodLiquorCool

6 жыл бұрын

KwstasMode only once you get to kanto. Everything’s under 50 in Johto

@stk_n_chill

6 жыл бұрын

That was the best part

@Teddy_Bear312

5 жыл бұрын

That is probably why they were the gym leaders...

@AntoRetroGamer

5 жыл бұрын

WHAT!?! LMAO! What Pokémon game were you playing? NO Gym Leader in Gen II has Pokémon @ Level 60.

@jjc4924

5 жыл бұрын

I don't find it that bad honestly. It really doesn't bother me.

0:55 The Games (summary of the entire story) 15:11 His review of the game 18:10 Music 18:58 The Pokemon 27:23 Conclusion

One of my favorite parts of this generation is the rival. He's just blue but he hates your guts. I also like his character development as he learns to respect his pokemon, even being able to evolve golbat into crobat Solid rival 10/10

@gay4pay882

2 жыл бұрын

He’s red

@gabegarcia3102

2 жыл бұрын

@@gay4pay882 you’re 2 years to late to respond to that

@aleksb2238

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like Blue was a more powerful trainer though, he was more tactical on covering his weaknesses compared to Silver

In my pokemon soul silver, i chose cyndaquil, but what i didn't know, my cyndaquil was special it had a red back i thought that the starters shone like shinies i had no idea until my friend got heart gold and also picked cyndaquil, i notest that his didn't shine and was blue i still have that cyndaquil in my copy of sun and if i had a pokemon in real life, it would definitely be that cyndaquil

@matteomigliore1477

5 жыл бұрын

How did you move it to Ruby/sapphire/emerald?

@ibdean1873

5 жыл бұрын

Shiny cyndaquil has a brown back. Normal has a black back. If you’re gonna make shit up then make it believable. Nobody cares that you can lie in a comment section

@musicmeister2797

5 жыл бұрын

@@ibdean1873 Colour is subjective, I consider normal cyndaquil blue personally and shiny red

@oliraethe1498

5 жыл бұрын

@@ibdean1873 normal has blue back and in ss/hg shiny cindaquil was more red than brown imo, though in newer gens its definitly brown

@Autumn-ko4pr

5 жыл бұрын

@@ibdean1873 normal cyndaquil has a blue back and shiny has a reddish brown orange

I remember being an 8 year old and when I heard about Silver & Gold I saved up my allowance for 5 months (I got $5 a week) and I bought both versions of the game opening day.

@nobleskywalker4639

6 жыл бұрын

Hey at least you had an allowance hahahahaha

@roodlyfbuts8006

5 жыл бұрын

How much did they cost?

@_nom_

5 жыл бұрын

Both..

@fervcorsica3358

5 жыл бұрын

"Both" .. uhm, lol wut?

@knightwind5967

5 жыл бұрын

Dude that's awesome. 🤘👽

2nd gen was indeed my fav gen of all time! likely will remain so.

@AntoRetroGamer

5 жыл бұрын

Mine too. The series peaked at Gen II in my opinion.

@petercross1879

4 жыл бұрын

Worst gen

@petercross1879

4 жыл бұрын

@@AntoRetroGamer do you actually think the GBC was a better system than the 3DS? you're not just wrong, you are stupid.

@AntoRetroGamer

4 жыл бұрын

I never said that..."stupid".

@JustIn-dq3mc

4 жыл бұрын

@@petercross1879 Why the fuck do you have to be mean? People can decide for themselves which systems they like the most, because it's based of their personal experience and memories

You call this a pokemon review? It isn't seven hours long!

@linkinlovprk

4 жыл бұрын

I got that reference

@theals9605

4 жыл бұрын

I was gonna make this reference and then I saw this😂

@keyrawns

4 жыл бұрын

I tip my hat to you. One legend to another.

@M3rtyville

3 жыл бұрын

that was some shit really.

Awesome review Stan! I'm really loving these pokereviews and you did great! I agree with almost everything you said! And that montage was just... It was actually amazing and hit me in the feels! Thanks for letting me be apart of the randy Union! Cya in 2016!

@RandomTens

8 жыл бұрын

Can't wait to see what 2016 has in store for Roy and the legionnaires!!! Thanks for allowing me to be a part of your journey as well!

@Royboy140

8 жыл бұрын

haha thanks a ton!!! :D

@LardoBoofs

Жыл бұрын

thats why hes the goat

I can actually stand to look at these games graphics . Don't get me wrong i know the impact red and blue had and the graphics by 1990's standards are pretty good for a game boy . But god ! do gold , silver and crystal look good even now .

@flarexero2161

5 жыл бұрын

And now we can play all 3 on the virtual console.

@AntoRetroGamer

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah... It was on the Game Boy Color after all. We grew up with handhelds with great limitations to graphics and audio. Having Gen II in colour was a much needed move. Sometimes, less is more when it comes to graphics.

@jjc4924

5 жыл бұрын

It's one of the best looking games on the Game Boy Color.

@Skallva

5 жыл бұрын

Gen I definitely looks very messy nowadays, but Gen II has this clean retro vibe that still stands the test of time. The switch to GameBoy Colour definitely made a difference.

@rayzas4885

4 жыл бұрын

Gen 1 looks bad even in yellow. You can tell that they still had the original gameboy limits in place whenever the game has only two different colors displayed on the over world.

Suicune is Water type... Even though its the color of ice and is called the Aurora pokémon...?

@FixTheWi-Fi

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Spangler Yep...

@KnufWons

6 жыл бұрын

Lugia isn’t a water type, even though it has so many connections to water. It’s Flying Psychic instead.

@BZERKK

6 жыл бұрын

It's because the other legendary beast are electric and fire type it balanced it out being just water type... Although they couldbe made the legendary beast ice type Suicune .. Dark type Raikou... and steel type Entei for the new typings they added and given Suicune its right typing

@calamorta

6 жыл бұрын

Thank god. Suicune as an ice type would have been a waste

Correction: Masuda AND Go Ichinose (and Morikazu Aoki, less importantly) worked on the music... ...and it is far better than Gen 1's soundtrack IMO. Plus it includes remakes of almost every song from the Gen 1, so yeah.

@turtleanton6539

2 жыл бұрын

Yes 🥰

Gen 2 will always be my favorite because of the fact you can explore two regions

Gen 1 & Gen 2 were so lit when they came out back then and they still are..those generations drove us 90 babies crazy lol all the other gens can just go

@theluigifan1

3 жыл бұрын

Speak for yourself, Gen 3 is where it’s at.

@hamachibeans4471

3 жыл бұрын

Gen 4 and 5 are where it’s at

To be perfectly honest, my least foavorite thing about this game is the level curve and level grinding. Because of the critically low levels in wild AND trainer Pokemon, grinding is a massive chore in gen 2, and it's hard to get on par with the 8 gym leader and the elite four. I'm currently replaying Blue version on the 3DS(Pokemon20 yay!) and I just beat Sabrina and most of my team has been on par with the bosses of the game with minimal level grinding. Mind you, level grinding is always a problem in Pokemon (except for Gen 6, but that's a whole different can of worms.) but it's especially tedous in Gold, Silver, Crystal, and the remakes.

@pelucheCR7

7 жыл бұрын

It's actually not hard in the remakes at all. As soon as you get 7 badges which is really the part where the level curve becomes noticiable, you can rematch trainers continuously sort of like using the Vs Seeker. Even then though if you battle all of the trainers you would have enough levels.

@bookroach6742

7 жыл бұрын

I agree. Basically the only way to play the game without grinding massively is to sweep to entire game with one or two Pokemon.

@590488

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Quinlan in gen 5, if your Pokemon is a lower level then the opponent you gain more exp. so it was super easy to grind, it's just there is a level spike that throws you off

@dreamoftheendless7159

6 жыл бұрын

In my second playthough of soulsilver i had to spend HOURS training in victory road for the elite four and my first playthrough I only used a pidgeot beacuse i loved a giant birb following me so she was a extremely high level 70 while the rest of my mons were in the 40s I had so much trouble with lance😂

@NightKawata

6 жыл бұрын

that's some serious dedication! I did a similar thing with getting a volcarona (interesting how late gen5 mons evolve)

I hate how the anime has convinced everyone that the protagonists were always 10. I don't think any of them actually were, the youngest being RBY and SM at 11.

@tsumiakuma9952

3 жыл бұрын

They have always been 10.

@thecarptain

3 жыл бұрын

@@tsumiakuma9952 1. it has been a full year since I posted this, 2. I'm literally right, go to the bulbapedia pages for the different player characters. Red was 11 in RBY, Brendan and May were 12 in ORAS, Hilbert and Hilda were 14 in BW, and Elio and Selene were 11 in SM and USUM. All the ones I didn't mention do not seem to have canon ages. So, not a single game protagonist with a canon age was under 11. How exactly have they always been 10?

@tsumiakuma9952

3 жыл бұрын

@@thecarptain ten is the default everyone goes to. Stop takijg it so literally theyre all around ten, that 2-3 years dont make a difference when your characters are fighting gods so

@tsumiakuma9952

3 жыл бұрын

@@thecarptain i also just watched the video, well half of it anyway

@thecarptain

3 жыл бұрын

@@tsumiakuma9952 What was the point of your response if not to try to correct the statement I made? The fact that it's not really a large age gap isn't the point, I stated a pet peeve of mine that was admittedly pedantic, but it was based on facts, if your take was that it doesn't matter, you should have said that, but instead you said something demonstrably false.

Great Review! It's been an awesome year, and I'm looking forward to what you have coming up for next year!

@RandomTens

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your unwavering support and love Retro! Also thanks for being an Electabuzz in my playthrough! I couldn't have beaten Lance/Silver without you! :)

Missing the pokemon is the result of the pokemon having a very low catch rate at that health. The number of shakes in gen 1 corresponded to the chance that you would catch the pokemon. "You missed the pokemon" just means that there is the lowest possible tiered chance that you will roll a number that corresponds with a "capture". The only thing that giving a status condition does is increase your catch chance overall: it doesn't cause you to miss less except in the effect that it may cause your capture roll to lie in the greater probability. Edit: to be clear, I DID enjoy the video though 😅

@bartoszpiorkowski8763

5 жыл бұрын

This. Missing Pokeball was mechanicaly nothing wrong or special, it still "exist", just game instead of saying you that you missed the ball give you a no-shake failed capture. It's nothing realy big or annoying if one know about it, but i guess for most people it was more annoying and confusing and i agree with changing that.

The reason a lot of people found Whitney's Miltank tough was simply because it was a type match up not a lot of kids knew at the time, mostly because they've never had to deal with it, and also because it was a lot of kids 1st or 2nd RPGs in their life. I remember getting rekt several times by it just because it was the first time one of the games through a large level spike ahead of me, meaning I couldn't just effortlessly force my way through with Ember and whatnot.

If you picked Chikorita you picked hard mode. If you picked set mode and Chikorita, you chose nightmare mode.

This is really helping me do research, thank you for taking so much time to make this vid!

even though I'm far and away a gen1er, I'm blown away by how much I love the character designs in gen 2. they're very memorable overall... wow

I respect this review but feel so distant by the fact that all the pokemon in the cons were memorable to me lol

At the end of the day it makes sense, to me at least, that legendaries would be roaming rather then just sitting in a cave somewhere

@Jakobzen19

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just like Ho-oh flies free in the animation series!

I love how much work you put into this!!! I literally sat through the entire 33 minutes enjoying every second of it, I was interested the whole way through! Great work, I might want to emulate this :))

One more thing I want to praise about this game, is the pokemon sprites, specifically in crystal. They are the sweetest of all icings on a cake! The look official. They are clean, pleasing yet they all have personality. Absolutely beautiful, the detail to lighting on each of them is simple yet very effective. They are the best sprites in the series.

@Jac735

2 жыл бұрын

I like silver sprites a little better but I get what you mean

Crystal will /always/ be my favourite.

It's funny to me that he says "graphically it may not hold up" because the art style of this gen is actually my favorite out of all of them. Maybe it's cause I played this game when it was new though, I don't know.

@bond007spectre7

2 жыл бұрын

The art style Is cool . It’s a gameboy game so It’s not going to look like switch graphics

Missing a throw was reskinned to a ball doing zero shakes in the next games. I guess that's an example of a visual change going incredibly far.

@ShaftCommander

Жыл бұрын

That makes absolutely no sense, and is in no way true.

@lkmdude8094

Жыл бұрын

@@ShaftCommander how is that not true? In gen 1 you could 'miss' a throw, but it was functionally the same as a ball doing 0 shakes. The catching calculation still happened as normal when a ball missed in gen 1. It was a purely visual change that gen 2 did that made quite a large difference in how people think of the game.

I love the quality of your vids! Make More vids to be honest! This is an underrated pokeyoutuber! Please keep it up!!!

Gen 2 has & always will be my favorite generation. HG/SS are my all time favorite Pokemon games, even though technically aren't gen 2. Silver was my first main series Pokemon game(pokemon snap & stadium were my actual firsts). Totodile & his evolutions are my all time favorite starters, as well as most of my favorite pokemon coming from gen 2, such as sneasel, kingdra, & noctowl to name a few. I love going back to Kanto later in the game & seeing all the familiar places & people. Lugia, Celebi, Suicune, & even Ho Oh are also some of my favorite legendaries. My only problem with HG/SS are that you can't go to the Sevii Islands, but I can look past that. PS: Don't fuck with Sunflora.

I played untill gen 3 but god was it fun. I remember playing with my old neighbourhood friend he had gold and i had silver. We completed almost the whole game sitting next to each other

Okay this is crazy. I literally started playing Crystal again a few days ago and just beat Morty. I've been watching a ton of Pokemon vids lately so guessing that's literally the only reason I found this. Very well done review. I still feel its my duty 4 years later though to tell you that Suicune is a water type though. Yeah I know... I know. Seriously though, I remember playing silver/crystal heaps as a kid. Its beyond insane how nostalgic I feel for this gen. There's been some cool things added over the years, but I probably would have been perfectly okay if these were the last entries in the series. The newer remakes are cool, but the 1 thing that bugs me about the remakes is probably the smallest possible thing you can think of: the music. I know you can change it to the old 8 bit style in Kanto, but I have a stupidly hard time dealing with it otherwise. While Kanto is quite limiting in some aspects, its actually beyond impressive what they did to have it all fit on the 1 game and how much work they had to do that went into that. I keep having to remind myself that there are 16! Fucking gyms in Gen 2. Also I just love how 90s the originals feel. Like getting an email was the coolest thing ever and being able to call people. That's the other thing I loved about Crystal particularly. Each character that would call you had their own personality. I kinda wish they would have dynamically leveled with you in the game a bit to give the rematches some more personality. Over all though, there are just too many reasons to suggest why gen 2 is so amazing. Time to become the best like no one ever was.

I really enjoyed your review. I think that you got the point, unlike other people. Great work man! :D ps: I also really enjoyed your FR/LG, my first pokémon games and, maybe, my favourite!

Literally laughed out loud at your Snorlax named 'puberty'. Made me relate on a personal level. ;)

@Dottman56

4 жыл бұрын

Literally

"Suicune" "Ice-Type Beast"

@Danielschroeder

6 жыл бұрын

Amie Mallich "unown" "psuedo legendary"

@AntoRetroGamer

5 жыл бұрын

LOL! Unown has some of the lowest stats in Pokémon history. That was a weird comment for sure. I have never heard anyone call Unown that before!

@kigirudrewko4767

5 жыл бұрын

@@Danielschroeder I mean, pseudo legendary as we know is fan-made term meaning powerful and strong 600 BST Pokemon from 3-stage evolution line that is usualy pain in ass to train. But it's still just a fan-made term that some old shits like me were not using in our times lol. Unown is pretty much literaly a pseudo-legendary Pokemon - It's a Pokemon with actual legend, lore and a bit of mystery attached to it but it's not 1 per game as most legendaries, in fact it's pretty easy to obtain, is not nearly as strong as actual legendaries and it's story is not so big or important as Ho-Oh's or Suicune's. RandomTens calling it pseudo legendary did not made a mistake, it's just that he ignored the fact that this term for most players means something different.

long time I didn't follow your videos because of my studies>

I still remember when I was deeply bored, and something told me, to look for the pokemon games. Pretty much that's how I found out about Crystal. I randomly picked up Totodile, and my adventure with Pokemon games has just begun. Since that day, Crystal reached the position of my favourite Pokemon game ever, and Totodile's evolution line (especially Feraligatr) and water types in general, my main choice.

you didn't have problems with with Miltank because your Quilava was female and she couldn't attract you

@andreivaldez6713

6 жыл бұрын

HiImBrandonK Just switch. Switching removes Attract's ailment, lol. Dumb kids complain when they don't know how to play games and lose :)

@bluefoxgamersd2783

6 жыл бұрын

Andrei Valdez #humbleinsult

@uteriel282

6 жыл бұрын

miltanks high defense+attract+roll out which is super effective against flying and fire types are the reasons why it was so hard to beat. the fact that the first 2 gyms were easy as fuck compaired to the third made it even worse. you expect an easy fight only to get stomped by that miltank. since i always grind in rpg´s i never had a problem against any gym leader but the battle was still harder than expected.

@rob0duck430

6 жыл бұрын

Andrei Valdez Switching out puts you at a disadvantage if militant decides to hit you with rollout or a stab move.

@Autumn-ko4pr

6 жыл бұрын

If anything Bugsy's broken level seventeen Scyther gave me more trouble than Whitney's Miltank.

iT'S MY FIRST TIME HEARING THIS, Karen was Agatha's daughter!!! MIND BLOWN!!

@Lightspeeds

8 жыл бұрын

+jonrae 0003 Granddaughter.

@pigglypoof

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lightspeeds there hasn't been any mention of this in Pokemon, he made it up, but it is a cool thought

I started during Gen 1, playing Pokemon yellow on the gameboy pocket. I then bought Silver when it came out and it took me awhile to get used to the extra 100 pokemon, Dragonite being my all time favorite pokemon and the one I took up as my main pokemon. Now look...we have over 8 generations of pokemon....wow.. Though Pokemon Black is beginning to grow on me. Soul Silver will always be my favorite of all the pokemon games.

the trippy thing is that Red isn't even your past self--he's you *from* the past, in present form (older like you, going from Gen 1 to 2). it's more like you vs. your first self, both in the same place and time.

@Jac735

2 жыл бұрын

Facts

Fuck with Remoraid and you're fuckin with Octilley. Ain't nobody fuck with Octillery.

wow i completely forgot of stantlers existence

This was great. Gen 2 was always my favorite, and I've never really looked into why it was. This just made me realize things I'd never thought of before. I've been a fan of Pokemon for 16 years, and this video was great. Keep up the good work! You're doing excellent.

@RandomTens

8 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks so much for the positive feedback! Gen 2 is one of my favorite generations so this one was a blast to make and I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)

Oh hey, the Ore Monogatari opening theme! Good show, forgot about it till I heard that familiar melody at the end. Solid video, montage was a little cheesy, but very nice. Good work!

ALL HAIL BUGSY

physical and special moves were determined by the type of the attack

@galararticuno9419

4 жыл бұрын

Which is why the game was still terribly unbalanced contrary to what he said. It's still great, but like Gen 1 very few Pokémon out of the 251 are competitively viable and Pokémon with great stats have terrible moves, no stab etc.

@theluigifan1

3 жыл бұрын

@@galararticuno9419 Yeah, which is makes the competitive scene for older Pokémon games practically obsolete. That’s why whenever you see talks about it whether it’s through KZread, Smogon or Twitter, it’s through the newer generations.

this video was amazing thanks! Happy new year!

I have a similar experience with Silver in the sense of it being one of my first Pokemon games that was legit mine not to mention it being gifted to me. However, I got it as a birthday present rather than a Christmas present.

They are bring these games except for crystal to the virtual console on 3DS systems we can enjoy Gold and Silver without worrying about the clock battery.

@roodlyfbuts8006

5 жыл бұрын

We already can with emulator

I never know why i tend to confuse skarmory's original generation. Its 2nd gen but i always think its originally from hoenn. Maybe its ORAS but idk tbh

@silverhetch3383

8 жыл бұрын

its because you played gold, like me and we didnt have skarmory xD and in gen 3 it was hyped XD

@SHiNETCNE

8 жыл бұрын

+Silver Hetch trueee

@NicKTsanicK7

8 жыл бұрын

It's design looks Hoenn-ish. Also I confuse Munchlax's gen as 3rd

@TheAbsol7448

6 жыл бұрын

I feel old. For me, I confuse it because of Emerald.

@theluigifan1

3 жыл бұрын

It’s validating to see so many people also confuse Skarmory as a Gen 3 Pokémon. I started with LeafGreen then jumped to Emerald & Sapphire so I encountered Skarmory there first through Hoenn Route 113. It makes sense why even some people who’ve played through Gen 2 first may make this mistake, though. Skarmory appears very late into the main story of Silver and Crystal and it has a 5% encounter in both (Being 0% at night in Crystal), making it very easy to miss entirely. If you have Gold, like me recently, you were SOL.

Great video! Would you ever consider making a review of a spin-off game (Pokemon TCG and Pokemon Pinball are my personal favourites)? I'd love to see that!

Unmentioned gripe: The movesets ruled out a lot of pokemon from the get go. And the missing Kanto legendaries could have been released after beating Red (him giving up)

Omg Whitney must have been an easy leader cause your starter is female

@andreivaldez6713

6 жыл бұрын

BetterNew Learn to play the game. It's always dumb kids who don't understand why they're not handed easy victories who whine and cry. Attract's ailment is cured by switching or - get ready for this - catch more Pokemon and maybe have one be female. Idiots.

@ingenjannik

6 жыл бұрын

+Andrei Valdez You're wrong. Whitney is an objectively difficult gym leader with little in the way of counterplay (not unbeatable tho) if you didn't catch the right pokemon or are brazenly overleveled. Miltank's stat total is absurd for this stage of the game. It's a wall with reliable recovery, stalling in the form of attract and raw power using it's stab and rollout. The bulk, stalling and recovery allow it plenty of chances for rollout to scale. If that wasn't bad enough, they decided to slap a lum berry on that thing in later gens. Attract is hardly the reason why this Miltank is so dangerous and if you sacrifice a turn to cure attract, you're already in a bad position, should Whitney decide to rollout.

@caloreen1992

6 жыл бұрын

Beat Whitney as an incompetent 10 year old many play throughs with no problems.

@TheNutshaq

6 жыл бұрын

ingenjannik the game gives you numerous chances to beat her. You can catch rock types very early on, such as geodude or onix. There is also a trainer in the goldenrod shopping mall that trades a hypno for machop. Whitney is only as difficult as you make her

@ingenjannik

6 жыл бұрын

+ Ethan Hayden Out of everything you can catch before Whitney these are literally the only 3 pokemon that do well against Whitney. "Whitney is an objectively difficult gym leader with little in the way of counterplay (not unbeatable tho) *if you didn't catch the right pokemon* or are brazenly overleveled." Thank you for proving my point.

I really dont think that remakes should make the game any less fun! 9.5 and the vary least

This was the generation I more or less grew up with as a kid born in 2002. I say more or less, because I’ve never been that much into Pokémon but some people in my family were and I remember seeing them play this and I got a Pokédex toy for Christmas once and it had figures of those 3 ultimate Pokémon. I’m starting to get more into Pokémon right now as a 17 year old and I’m starting from the beginning, I can’t wait to make my way up to the generation 4 cartoon and games, where it all really started for me

Silver was the first Pokemon game I played and completed, I still think it's great and so is the remake. But I have to say that this video was fantastic! Incredibly done, you must put out more like this. You already had fantastic content but this really set the standard much higher

@RandomTens

8 жыл бұрын

Haha wow those are some huge compliments! Thanks for being a part of our incredible 2015 Brett! And thank you so much for those kind words. It'll be a bit longer until my gen 3 review, but now I just hope I can do an even better job and set the bar even higher!

Apricots?

25:28 what film was he referencing?

@Frankie-xu6sr

7 жыл бұрын

Isn't that Entei's movie?

@vincentwalker9341

7 жыл бұрын

not sure, idk the movies at all

@burleynelson4263

7 жыл бұрын

You mean Spell of the Unown?

@andreivaldez6713

6 жыл бұрын

It's Grease 2.

Thank you Stan, you had me crying. I got Pokemon Crystal for Christmas in 2001 along with a Gameboy Color. It was my first ever Pokemon game, and my first ever handheld game. You may think you gushed too long about the game, but I loved every second of it. Thank you for this homage to one of my favorite games. Also, Totodile was my first starter as I'm partial to water types. But I think Cyndaquil is the most memorable Pokemon I played with besides my Feraligatr I took on the Elite Four with single-handedly.

I am so nostalgic for the National Park Theme, even though I didn't play gen 2 until last year...I played the GB Sounds in National Park on Heart Gold all the time and I fell in love with the tune. Not sure why, but it gets me really emotional now and when I played through Crystal with my friends, I started crying when I got to National Park

@Jac735

2 жыл бұрын

Im.glad I'm not the only one when I hear some tunes I start tearing too like cinnabar Island and celadon city themes reminded me of little ice cream 🚚 from back in the day and real good mememeries

Why did you say Apricots? It's Apricorns. A fictional ingredient to make the Pokéballs. My OCD bugged me when you said that.

I knew I wasn't the only one who didn't ever find Miltank difficult

Great video to end a great year! Also, how did you know I love suicune. It's just got that fabulous hair you can't ignore.

@RandomTens

8 жыл бұрын

Well I just thought, "hey, you know who has fabulous hair and loves running across vast bodies of water? Superugly18!". Seriously though, thanks for being such a big part of this year man. From amiibo shortages, to 2December, it was a wild ride!

@ModernMind18

8 жыл бұрын

+RandomTens You know me man And thanks for making my year special too, I can't wait to see what 2016 holds!

I agree about the legendary dogs. For me, it was more fun to just start a new game on another version of Gold/Silver/Crystal, acquire the master ball and make a pokemon hold it. Then trade it over to my game. It was less of a pain than actually pursuing the legendary dogs.

@Jac735

2 жыл бұрын

Facts they were a pain 😪 they we're hard to find

Soo... when are we getting the Gen 3 review? :3

@RandomTens

8 жыл бұрын

+Thunder Squeak Oh it's coming...

@IRON1I7

8 жыл бұрын

+RandomTens still waiting...

I love how he says Whitney isn't that hard yet his starter is like lvl 25. Of course it isn't that hard if you only trained one Pokemon.

@andreivaldez6713

6 жыл бұрын

MrSupersonic2012 It's also easy if you know how to play. Learn how to play instead of crying because the game isn't giving you easy wins. Just switch to heal Attract's ailment or use a female Pokemon, lmao. Git gud.

@jonathancollins3884

6 жыл бұрын

Andrei Valdez It's almost like a lot of people played this game when they were children or something? I mean that makes absolutely no sense, everyone knows Nintendo games are strictly for adults, I mean how could any child get their hands on a game as graphically violent and with as much profanity and nudity in it as Pokemon Crystal? How about you take your knowledge of a child's video game and put it to good use, and that doesn't mean insulting strangers online to make you feel good.

@nobleskywalker4639

6 жыл бұрын

After it happening over 200 times my dad was the one that said my pokemon was falling in love and me as a 7 year old was like whaaaaatttt???!!!

@AntoRetroGamer

5 жыл бұрын

It's also a lot easier if you simply have a female who is resistant to it's attacks.

Hey, I Loved this in depth video, i can tell a lot of effort went into it. Please do a Gen 3 Review sometime :) that would be Amazing :D

@RandomTens

8 жыл бұрын

Haha thank you very much for this comment! The next generation will be reviewed likely sometime in July along with FR/LG for Pokemonth! I'd love to make them sooner, but they take a long time to make unfortunately! :P

Back when I was in elementary school everybody had HeartGold and SoulSilver every year I asked for it and it didn't get a Pokemon game until White 2 came out I eventually got soul silver around the time Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire came out

There is no way that silver is the best rival, In my honest opinion, N was the best rival of any pokemon game and probably will be the best villain for all the games to come. Black and White have the best story and sense of immersion of all the games.

@Jmoore.mp3

6 жыл бұрын

Pranesh Singh i personally think platnium has a better story but i agree with n being the best rival

@NightKawata

6 жыл бұрын

not to mention some damn good songs and having the fastest pace, literal battle speed and progression included/ESPECIALLY (yo audino was a godsend)

*says Whitneys Miltank isn't that bad* *has female starter* Hm... I wonder why ... xD No but Gen 2 is absolutely amazing. The music, the towns, the pokemon, everything is just perfect. I adore Gen2

Just a few things: 1. Suicine is not an ice type :P (8:05), though I can see how that confusion can be made, and it has already been pointed out anyways 2. I love how you (if that's really you) named your Snorlax "Puberty", lol XD 3. good for you for also referring the legendary beasts as the "legendary dogs", regardless of whether or not they're actually canine-like (though I have to admit that I saw more feline features when I grew up), because that's also the term I used in the region I grew up (Toronto), lol 4. I actually learned a bunch of things in this video or was reminded of a bunch of things I forgot, such as the fact that you were supposed to inflict status ailments in order to catch legendaries in the first generation. that's impressive since I thought I knew everything I needed to know already. 5. the ending theme of GSC was one of my favourite pieces of Pokemon music of all time! It makes me feel so many things, and I think part of it is because, as you've pointed out, Game Freak originally intended for this to be the last set of games made. But yeah, this was my favourite generation...the amount of hype around it during its release, the amount of content and tribute paid to the previous games, the amount of new game mechanics and improvements were unprecedented at the time and even up to this day. It's also for that reason why HeartGold & SoulSilver are my favourite Pokemon games of all time, as it took everything from the original, polished it, and made it even better! :)

on Christmas morning. I think on 2010 or 2011 i received Pokemon Soul Silver and a Nintendo DSI XL. and that got me into the games. I played it over and over again. i loved it so much it is always with me

the best generation, it even included gen 1 too

best gen ever IDGAF about gen 3 fanboys

I remember i got Gold along with some enamel pins of Ho Oh and Lugia when my parents renewed my subscription to Nintendo Power

i think Gen 2 is probably my favorite gen overall, i like playing as a girl so i dont really like not having that option in Gen 1, so for me the gen 2 games are the most nostalgic and familiar games for me personally in the same way that the gen 1 games are for a lot of people, everything i loved is turned up to 11 in the remakes but i think Gen 2 succeeds in creating a distinctly memorable and natural map for Johto itself, i feel like when i still play Kanto games (despite playing through Kanto in Gen 2, the gen 2 remakes, and the gen 3 remakes of gen 1) i still feel the need to look at the map because the layout of the world makes no sense there but i never feel that way with Johto itself

As good as Gen 2 is, the sequels are so much better. In some ways, they make Gen 2 look ancient.

@PresidentScrooge

8 жыл бұрын

+Arcane Toaster Story-wise, Pokemon addition wise and the Kanto-trip Gen2 is easily superior. Gen3 did a TON of things right on the basis of mechanics and comfort-features though. Everything after Gen3 really weren't big steps anymore.

@ArcaneToaster

8 жыл бұрын

+PresidentScrooge I think the newer games are way better, even in gameplay AND advancements.

@KadeKalka

8 жыл бұрын

+Arcane Toaster Well except for the chiptune device. That made me mad since you don't get until you beat the game (I think).

@nobleskywalker4639

6 жыл бұрын

Which is the point of a remake which is the reason that pokemon lets go pikachu was made there are new generation that know about kanto but haven't experienced it due to the 3ds basically becoming obsolete and most don't know what a gameboy is and I can't fault them for that

@_nom_

5 жыл бұрын

@@ArcaneToaster Lol, you're mad. They're dumb now. Even the Pokemon are lame.

8.5 too much water

My first game was Pokemon Blue and when gold and silver came out it was so cool back then that the game had different colors and new pokemons. I would spend hours every day to play it as a kid. Those were the good times.

Man crystal was and still is my fav pkmn game 😍

The best gen is gen 2

Luckily you had a female starter when you fought Whitney otherwise you'd get locked into Miltank's attract.

@andreivaldez6713

6 жыл бұрын

syxodude91 Nope. Just switch. It removes Attract's ailment. Quit crying, stop asking for everything to be easy, and learn to play the game before complaining.

@syxodude91

6 жыл бұрын

Who's crying? who's complaining? Not asking for it to be easy. Just making a simple observation. I know all of that already but switching does nothing when it outspeeds your entire team because it will just go for attract again. There's a difference between a hard battle and an annoying battle, Calm down dude and stop making assumptions.

@BelartWright

5 жыл бұрын

@@andreivaldez6713 Switching isnt a good strategy. It'll only work if you get lucky and she somehow misses rollout. Even with sand attack, she rarely missed rollout when I fought her. Some are just luckier than others.

Hey stan great vid about gen 2 :-) and i have a bit of trivia about the gender diffrnces you dident seem to know at the time you made it... yes the female pokemon generally have lower attack but you dont mention that they generally have higher defence, my source is the gen 2 strategi guide, in the change/whats new section.. so yeah, male higher attack, lower defence and female higher defence, lower attack :-) keep up the good work, hope to see you nuzlock ultra sun or moon :-)

One of my biggest problems with Gen 2 is how half of the gym leaders, and the champion, don't actually use any Gen 2 Pokemon. Like it's crazy how despite the newer games having fewer new Pokemon overall they were pretty much always able to have each boss character use at least 1 new Pokemon, often more. I know the newer games get flack for referencing Gen 1 to much, but it feels like Gen 2 didn't even wanna be a new game.

it's 8.5 because of the graphics....christ, dude sorry it's not PS4.

@Mqstodon

4 жыл бұрын

What does that mean? The graphice just doesn't hold up as well as games like platinum, emerald and the gen 5 games

whitney not that hard huh? next time try it without over leveled pokemon

@homemhomemcriancahomemmulh3873

6 жыл бұрын

She is easy in gen 2, but an nihtmare in the remakes.

@andreivaldez6713

6 жыл бұрын

She's still easy with under-leveled Pokemon. Just do this one simple trick: learn how to play and stop crying when the game doesn't offer you easy victories.

Gen 2 is my absolute favorite Pokemon Gen. First gen I played....(even though it was the remake versions along with fire red). This Gen has most of my favorite pokemon in here, Favorite starters (Totadile and Cyndaquil), favorite legendarys (Lugia and Entei), favorite eeveelutions, and my all time favorite pokemon Houndour/Houndoom. this gen means so much to my childhood and my nostalgic feeling towards pokemon. Absolutely love the review guys. Can't wait for what 2016 brings on out

@RandomTens

8 жыл бұрын

It sounds like you and I grew up together as I actually feel the same way about all of those Pokemon you mentioned. I will say that gen 2 has been dethroned as my favorite generation though, but I'll get into that another time! ;) Thanks as always for watching and making this year the best of my life Devin! P.s. I named my Raikou after you! I just barely got to use him...

@DevinDistortion

8 жыл бұрын

It would've been kick ass to grow up together lol Ooh I can't wait to see what gen dethroned Gen 2 lol You're very welcome. You guys made my 2015 a lot more bearable tbh I need to see photos of this beauty lol

I watched other pokemon reviews in English, but to be honest, these are the best ones! they deserve more views :)