I think the theme for Jhoto is preservation and the decaying of time. (Kind of like The elves in lord of the rings). The burned tower, the desecration of the slowpoke well, the forced changes of the Lake of Rage, the kimono girls, the ilex forest, etc etc Lugia hides itself to protect and preserve those around it, for if it flaps wings, it'll cause a devastating storm. Ho-oh renews and revitalizes life to preserve it

Man, I remember hiding my Game Boy under my pillow and playing Gold at night. The day & night cycle really made it feel like an adventure for me (I had to go to bed at 8pm when I was a child)

If you weren't around back then, you can't possibly imagine the hype every time one of those gold/silver commercials played. I mean, NEW pokemon???

@kmdreacts

Ай бұрын

*nostalgia.. membaberries*

@MIBxSpartan

29 күн бұрын

@@kmdreactsjust finished replaying Crystal and can confirm it’s better than any of the Switch Pokemon games.

@jenisia3600

5 күн бұрын

They'll never understand it

@kmdreacts

5 күн бұрын

@@MIBxSpartan bro, I'd play D&P with its 10,000 HMs and slow battle mechanics over any Switch Pokemon game... And I haven't played any, nor do I intend to.

I love Gold and Slver, they're like my happy place when it comes to Pokemon games. The perfect examples of a mission pack sequel. Awesome video, liked and subscribed

1:27:27 i think espeon is also a good choice as it reminds you that even tho he’s this super powerful silent final boss trainer, he cares for his pokemon and makes them happy (happy enough to evolve into an espeon)

Gen 2 has one of the most interesting dev cycles, like ever. It's definitely aged but it did a ton of lifting for Pokémon, plus the rustic vibes always hit that nostalgia button just right.

@Chubby_Bubby

Ай бұрын

I know exactly what you mean, I didn't grow up with the orignals but whenever I play them or a fan game in that style I get a rush of nostalgia for a time long gone. Not entirely how or why, but if had to guess it's that simplistic colorful look that's so easy on the eyes. Rustic is the perfect word for it 👌

Chubby is clearly one of the most intelligent minds of our time to have made this absolutely based video with 100% correct opinions across the board Seriously though, fantastic video!! Super entertaining. I never get tired of listening to people talk about this gen of Pokemon games and I literally cannot agree more with pretty much everything you said in here. This video feels like my own personal echo chamber, lol

@Chubby_Bubby

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I will gladly be your based and ALWAYS 100% correct echo chamber! 🗣📣

I remember being a kid cutting grass to save up to buy gold and silver in Japanese cause I couldn't wait for the U.S. release.

the past / future themes do go a little deeper. lots of the region’s lore is based around real japanese mythology

@Izak43

Ай бұрын

The ruins of alph is basically a real place.

@TaroAndreas

24 күн бұрын

I was gonna add, I think Ho-Oh is based on Ameterasu and Lugia on Susanoo. Plus Ho-Oh gives new life to the dead beast trio, while Lugia is connected to the older, last gen, legendary birds.

Great video and the talk of the themes does kinda look to the future even with scarlet and violet who do more with the whole future and past thing

I’ve watched two of your retrospective videos now and I had to say they are top tier quality. 10/10 would listen to at work

Head cannon Lorelei was one of my first videogame crushes (I was seven, piss off) and was devastated to learn she's possibly changed teams.

As a hardcore gen 2 fan (Gold is my first pokemon game and honestly is the first game i can remember playing as well as having a copy of gold and crystal still, bought all 3 on 3ds and still own a copy of soul silver with the pokewalker and i still play ALL of them regularly) they are my favorite games Johto feels like home to me and while now yeah people have a hard time with just Johto on its own thats only because it had to be limited BECAUSE they wanted to add Kanto but idk why they wouldnt have added MORE to HGSS but if they did just 1 more remake of it, if they really took the time to rework the reigon and add more to it as if it was its own place (which it is) there is not a doubt in my mind you wouldnt need kanto. At least in my opinion. I know its just a lot of nostolgia from me but even now i wouldnt and dont need Kanto to enjoy the region, but i sure wouldnt turn down a really nice update to the place either lol

Less than 4 minutes in and you got me HOOKED! The silver lion being the trio leader of the beasts and Ho-oh being leader of the birds makes way too much sense. I kinda wish we had gotten that version of Silver instead.

I'm also gonna give an extra engagement comment for the Chikorita love! To this day, best starter. People shet on Meganium, and yeah the fairy type added would've made sense. But as a defensive part of the whole in a team. Genuinely good. Leech Seed, Body Slam (for Paralyze) Light Screen, Reflect. Just let his tiny lettuces suck up their life whilst they can't move, bop them now and then, keep your Defs up. Switch out after screens. It's just not a 'team leader' in the way Cyndaquil and Totodile play. And subbed.

I remember when HGSS came out it took my 5th grade class by storm. Everyone had their ds’s at school trading and battling pokemon. It felt like the people in my generation got to have our own little pokemania because of these games. Even if it didn’t last as long as long as the original pokemania. Those few months and summer vacation that year felt really special. I guess you could say there was a third pokemania with Go in 2016 though.

I see a gen 2 retrospective, I click like. I also see that you’ve made a Pokémon stadium video too! Happy to have found you!

@CupofJoe_93

Ай бұрын

Ah. The realization that Johto’s foundation relies heavily on Kanto hit me like a ton of bricks…. It’s my favorite region and I wish they did more stand alone stuff with it. But I understand why GF wanted to tie it together with Kanto. It’s a sequel first and foremost. Maybe we’ll get legends Johto in 2027.

@Chubby_Bubby

Ай бұрын

I'm sure we'll get some sort of new Johto game in the future. But if it's any sort of remake, then it will need to have kanto glued to its hip. Unova is in a similar spot, with how story driven it is I think that they'll have to always remake both games instead of one over the other. Even if it's legends kyruem or BW3, it will directly tie to both of those preesstablished games. Which is a big reason they skipped to XY for ZA in my opinion.(Though it still to tbs if XY get any sort of remaster or if this new game will have little to no plot significance to XY)

11:40 A Pokemon's shininess is determined by its DVs (the precursor to IVs). The easiest way to edit a Pokemon so it'll be shiny using arbitrary code execution is to make all 4 DVs 10. The max each DV can be is 15, so a shiny with all 10s would be better than average. IIRC, the Speed, Def, and Special DVs (yes there's still only one Special DV and the HP DV is determined by the other 4) have to be exactly 10, and the Atk DV has to be 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, or 15. So you could have max Atk on your shiny (and max HP).

I think the fact that they made you hate him that much just go to show how good of a protagonist he is lol

I usually listen to like pokemon facts or retrospectives and theories or whatever when I go to bed. I'm ND, so I literally can't fall asleep otherwise, and tonight, your video ended on my autoplay, I woke up in the middle of the night because of bad weather and instead of going back to sleep I decided to look at your stuff, and honestly I'm super impressed, I'm really enjoying your content so far and I hope to see more in the future. Best of luck,you got this

@Chubby_Bubby

Ай бұрын

Thank you! And I've totally been in your shoes, idk how many time I've rewatched clone wars and baki just so I can rest 😅

The commercial at the beginning literally made me tears 😢 nostalgia hit like a freight train jit 😢 I got Pokémon blue version and a game boy for Christmas of 1998 and then got yellow virgin Christmas of 1999 and I’ve loved the pocket monsters every since jit b!

What if in the anime when Ash enters the Pokémon Center for the first time to heal Pikachu and he sees the display of the Legendary Birds with “Arcanine…” instead it was supposed to be the scrapped Silver Beast Pokémon (as another Gen 2 tease next to Ho-oh’s cameo) 🤔

This video is fantastic, instantly worth the sub. My only gripe is the pronunciation on Eucine, which is pronounced "yoo-seen"

@Chubby_Bubby

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Also, yeah, I kept thinking about it's an anagram suicune and I couldn't help but pronounce it similar 😅

So there is a lot to like here, but I wanna say I adore the end with you going over each team as characters. Genuinely adore it so so much

My theory about the Nidoran is that they are the baseform of the creature and some individuals grow into larger forms to protect the smaller members of the group, sacrificing their capacity to reproduce in order to become defenders. So in a way the Nidoran are the real queens of the colony and Nidoqueen are more like a warrior class.

Another banger retrospective I am hype for the next gen ✊🏽😆

I love this game so much. Thanks for this great review

Great video man! Love Johto more than life itself and love your sense of humor lol. You've got yourself a new subscriber👍 keep it up!

@fletcherrobinson3452

Ай бұрын

Also, looking at your channel, I see you've done some Metroid vids! Was just curious if there was a Metroid Fusion vid in the works?👀

@Chubby_Bubby

Ай бұрын

​@fletcherrobinson3452 there is a video on it but it's kinda old. I wanted to do a new version, but I was going to do the prime series first then go back...least that was the plan til my wii u bricked. So for now that plan is on hold, least til I figure out another way to record prime footage.

@fletcherrobinson3452

Ай бұрын

@@Chubby_Bubby I gotcha! I'll try to look back and find it. Fusion is one of my favorite games of all time so I'd love to hear your commentary on it! The prime trilogy would be dope too! Any Metroid content is good in my book lmao. You could at the very least do the Prime 1 retrospective with footage of the switch remaster. Just a thought🤷🏻‍♂️

Bruh, Johto and Hoenn are my Favourite Regions. HG/SS & BW2 are my Favorite Pokemon games. Johto Barely gets Any love in terms of remaster/remake/Switch game. Let's Go would've sold a Whole lot more if they included the Johto region after Kanto. And, made it One game version with the decision to choose Either Pikachu or Eevee as the starter.

Oh my God I love Daisy

“Gold and Silver were going to be the last Pokemon games” has been proven false already but run with it ig

Great video!! New sub. I can tell you out a lot of work into this video. You killed it dude

The shiny thing is actually pretty simple: If a Pokemon is shiny in Gen 2 is determined by their "innate strengths" value, which is known as IVs/DVs by fans. (I'm using the official term) Meaning only a specific combination of innate strengths can be shiny. The maximum amount of innate strengths can never be shiny. On that note, i never got why everyone uses the fan terms over the official ones, because they literally contradict themselves. Fans use the term base stats for what is officially called species values, while base stats is the official term for what fans call effort values. That can create some confusion because base stats is actually used ingame as its inteded.

Karen: TRUE trainers use their favorites. Lance: I LIKE DRAGONITE. Karen: Okay, But-- Lance: IMMA USE THREE DRAGONITES. CUZ ALL MY DRAGONAIRS EVOLVED INTO DRAGONITES. Karen: Why not take inspiration from your Yellow--- Lance: CHAMPION LANCE NEEDS HIS DRAGONITES. Karen: ...Okay.

@Chubby_Bubby

Ай бұрын

Poor Lance needed his DRAGONITES so much he had to chest them in to get them early.... you hate to see corruption in the modern league these days 😔

5:23 she's the newest gym leader, she's the 25th or so strongest trainer in the Indigo super-region, so her team should be the weakest of the 16 Gyms, and 4 Elite 4, plus Red, Giovanni, Lorelei, and Agatha

The thing I like about the pokemon in battle sprites that they only use 4 colors! 2 of them being black and white.

This is a really in depth review

24:44 Bro. I just died. 😂😂💀

Love the Kaiju names

lol what’s with everyone and Milo’s brand tea and ICY Tea XD

@Chubby_Bubby

Ай бұрын

I know nothing about Icy Tea, but Milo's has been a saving grace these last few years! A true light in the ever expanding darkness!!! And the lemonade tea mix 🤤 10/10

As for shinies being stronger than most pokenon is because the rng value for calculating a shiny will always give them IV's on the higher end but never perfect

Pokémon X!

Great video! Random thought, sometimes your voice sounds like Seto Kaiba and that's awesome lol.

@Chubby_Bubby

Ай бұрын

Ooo now that's a compliment! It reminds of a time I played duel links and I was getting molly whooped by a really good player but his internet cut out mid match. So I said in my perfect kariba impression "Your a 1st rate duelist with a 4th rate internet connection!" lol I thought that was hilarious but my mokuba brother was unamused.....

I took a 10 year long break from Pokemon. I turn on my Black Version and find out I actually have the shiny pichu!!!!! Only to discover after some troubleshooting that it couldn't be transferred past Gen V....so wack.

@Chubby_Bubby

Ай бұрын

In the words of the gen 9 rival "Pokemon, am I right?" 😃

I had a Pocket Pikachu Colour as a kid, I used to carry it with me everywhere. I also used to carry DigiVices. Yeah I was one of the cool kids xD

@Chubby_Bubby

Ай бұрын

I lowkey wish those Tomagachi styled games were still huge when I was in school. I mean we sorta had them but it was just Talking Tom and Pocket God, less nurturing a beloved creature and more causing untold suffering to them instead....It was pretty fun tho :)

@StonerWeeb

Ай бұрын

@@Chubby_Bubby tbf no one else had the weeby ones like I did, everyone else had the actual tamagotchis. Though my school banned them, meaning your pet would likely die while at school. At least the Pikachu and Digimon couldn't die. Those came out as I was entering college so they never really appealed to me but I can see the appeal to a younger generation. Most kids in my school brought in their GB/C/A/SP to school so we'd usually battle and trade at lunch. We also had the usual fads like everyone having Beyblades, or Yugioh cards or Pokemon cards, then their were Pokemon and YGO stax and Crazy Bones. Getting me all nostalgic! But the one constant was always the Pokemon games.

@SombreroPharoah

Ай бұрын

Man, the Digimon Vpets esp were on the best things ever. Still have a few of them even. One actually I keep alive even now. I had an orange digivice on my belt always too. Though when you're walking near roads you could never hear it beep, so missed so many battles and did no doubt way worse with it than otherwise. The pocket Pikachu was awesome, but I remember it not doing as huge amount as the Digimon ones overall. Our school 'tried' banning tamagotchi, but I ran a babysitting service for my class, so a load in my pockets over the day. Only got confiscated twice, not bad odds, not bad. The 90s were so dang good. *Insert old person*: Kids don't know what they're missing these days.

@StonerWeeb

Ай бұрын

@@SombreroPharoah oh my god the amount of battles I must've missed too. I wish I still had mine, I had a blue clear D1, both Red & Blue D2s + the D-Terminal, a Red D3, and a Red D4. I remember battling myself a lot at home with the D2s. I'd add a new Digivice to my belt every new series. I miss the 90s and early 00s, kids really are missing out. Yeah the pocket Pikachu had like a blackjack mini game, a higher or lower game, "feeding" him even though he never actually got hungry, a step meter, and a couple other screens. Pikachu would also encounter things at different step counts, and would sleep at night as it kept time too. That's all I can really remember about it but yeah had far less features than the Digivices. I had the OG Pokédex as well. Also that's pretty cool, being the care taker of so many tamagotchi's. The hero they needed! Only getting busted twice ain't bad at all! Closest role I had like that was being the kid who could repair Beyblades because I carried tools and super glue, so whenever anyone's blade broke or launcher got jammed, they'd come to me.

@sup_my_bwana

27 күн бұрын

Now you’re a cool Radey-Boy

Pokerus has 2 states. Active and inactive. Inactive pokerus cannot spread but still buffs your evs gained. And active pokerus will spread, but will turn inactive 50% of the time after a day has passed if the pokemon is not in your pc. . Not this info is based on my experience after contracting it in gen 5. So gen 2 might work exactly as he says.

Fire video

Im going to be PISSED if we gey Meganium in ZA.... if they only give it a mega 😡 deserves Grass/fairy Kaloseon(?) Form

Ive heard he didnt actually compress to get it in. That he just did the normal compressions. And doesn't know how the rumor started.

To each their own but I sometimes feel like the only person who doesn’t have an issue with the level scaling. I’m never exactly on par with the leaders or elite, but I’m high enough to beat the game fine. Especially in runs where I do go back and explore/backtrack all optional areas as I go.

Great series chubby

Poke rust! Chinpokemansruuuust! Pocket monstahs ruuuusk!

In terms of the "intended method" for which these games are supposed to be played? I actually don't think there is one. Or rather, the intention was that any player could approach these games how THEY want to. A large part of the major reason for Pokemon's success is that it was one of the first RPG's to give players a HUGE degree of freedom of choice. 150 (ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY) potential options for your Pokemon Partners. In the 90s? That was insane. Absolutely fucking insane. Gold/Silver/Crystal have a bunch of side features because their philosophy was that any player could approach the games in THEIR way. Want a life sim? Ok! Want to grind? Sure! Want to be a completionist and catch them all? Ok! Want to go through the whole game with only your starter and NEVER evolve it? You can do that too! That, is the philosophy. In my opinion, anyway.

You should do a top 10 favorite video with explanation to why

Pokemon X! 😁

YESSIR 🎉

I need you to do a video on Snorlax. Lol

if you're not sure about Johto's narrative themes, may I recommend "Johto: Chasing the Myth" by Aleczandxr? that vid got me EMO.

Anyone else run into Pokérus more often than shinies? I have gotten it more times than a shiny.

@Xx_Obsidian_Tears_xX

Ай бұрын

ive run into a legit shiny once, and i never ran into pokerus that wasnt hacked in

Bro deserves WAY more subs. Give it to him, algorithm.

39:35 no

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Less cringe jokes and screaming for next vid, got old real fast

Says "there are types of viruses like the bacteria..." then brags about being smart...

I was first

Chubby i sended you a comment yesterday on your other video of pokemon retrospective do not ignore me ok alright i really hate it when people ignore me for no reason so respond to it ok alright thx omg

im so glad i found a good small pokemon/gaming channel, we have so many popping up right now but youre unique and very funny! 🫶🏻🫶🏻