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its why i love the linearity the gen 4+ games the level curve feels so much smoother and fun

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goat nuzlocker in the making, great video as always and congrats on the dub ‼️

Dragon Rage at this point in the game is actually insane lol, makes for a good clip tho 🤣

WOW!!

Pokemon Nuzlockes seem so fun! I should try this out

:( that sucks

All your runs are gonna bring me outta retirement lol, great run man. Ancestral X looks like a blast

This gave me the strength to roll my next attempt. I'm on restart 7 now thanks to Aaron coming out of nowhere to throw me around.

that dog in the champion battle is really cute and awesome! woof!

Now I need to run this 🤠

Love how some fan favorites become viable in romhacks like these, you rocked it man great vid!

Dahong out here making a hard game look easy once again. Good work sir 🔥

<3

What is up with it 🤓 Wassup widdit cuh 🗣️

Gotta support the people from DC! Amazing video!

You cooked with this video man, seriously, insane job

1 attempt - is the game just that easy, or is Luke just that goated? My vote is on the second 😎

You even got chess watching ggs man

Banger video, glad to have an ally on the Greninja is the best starter in AX squad, lol.

I just watched the whole thing right now on 0.00x speed

currently watching this on 1.5X speed with subway surfers on my other monitor. Life is good

I read the transcription of the video

I just printed out every frame of the video so I could spend a minute analyzing each one

I just watched the whole thing right now on 0.25x speed

i just watched the whole thing right now on 0.5x speed

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

My spinda is end the ugly starter

Welcome to run and bun

bruh lol

HOLY

"Actually, this thing sucks."

To me, Gen 2 is the absolute pinnacle of Pokémon. Back then there was no definition of "generations" like today, and people weren't tired of Kanto and definitely not tired of first gen pokemon. I thought it was actually great how they mixed old and new pokémon in a way where it felt familiar for 1st genners, yet felt new and mysterious enough to make people curious and keep exploring. The amount of stuff they manage to cram in a 1.5MB cartridge is mind blowing, sure there were bugs in the game, like how the new pokéballs didn't work like they were supposed to (but still much better coded and less buggy than Gen 1). These were games intended for loooong play sessions, they expected you to come back at least twice a day, every day, to play. In today's world where everything is instantaneous, people have little time/short attention spans, it's almost unbearable to play a game like this. But I like it a lot, it really felt like a pokemon journey of your own, and the world felt like a world not like a game. The closest any other game came to have a world so full of stuff to do was Gen 5, another gen I like a lot! Not even the remakes (HG SS) got all the little details correctly, you see, Gen 2 was the introduction of Held Items, and Night and Day cycles. -For held items, your starter pokémon is helding a Berry from the get go, that way, if you don't know what it is or how it works, you'll find out in the first wild battles when your pokémon recovers HP while battling a pidgey or something. IF you happen to be a seasoned trainer and know about the whole mechanics of the game, you can take that berry and save it for the sick Miltank quest, for example. The remakes forgot to include the held berry, really a shame. -For night and day cycle, as I said, GSC aimed to have a world that seemed alive, so they made nocturnal and diurnal pokemon that only showed up during Night and Day, respectively. Everybody knows that. HOWEVER, if you used Headbutt on a tree, let's say, during the night - there's a chance a wild DIURNAL pokémon could appear, but sleeping! Similarly, using headbutt during the DAY could make a NOCTURNAL pokémon appear, also sleeping! This meant that diurnal pokémon didn't just disappear during the night, they just when to the trees to sleep! (same with nocturnal pokémon). This tiny little mechanic went completely missing on the remakes, it's so subtle, but at the same time so brilliant, I was baffled when I found the remakes didn't have this feature! I could, literally, spend the next 2 days talking about how fucking *amazing* Gen2 is. Battle animations, Mystery Gift, Held Items, Berries, Pokérus, Shinny Pokémon, new Pokéballs, new evolutions and pre-evolutions for old pokémon, Two new Pokémon Types, Breeding, Battle Tower, Night and Day Cycle, Days of the Week events cycle, first Gen with true online connectivity (in Japan), Bedroom decoration (which you could see in 3D in Stadium 2), Gold/Silver compatible with all 3 generations of Gameboy (just imagine if you could insert Sun and Moon in a Nintendo DS or Nintendo Switch and it just worked), Time Machine (trade pokémon with previous Gen), Cellphone allows you to have rematches and much more, Two regions/16 Gyms, connectivity with Pokémon Pikachu 2 (more advanced than a Pokéwalker), and so on....... but you get the idea. 😁

2:17 90 base speed in gen 2 is "so slow?" Sorry but no, 90 base speed in gen 2 is literally somewhat fast. And in general, gen 2 Pokemon are not nearly as bad and unusable as you make them out to be in the context of the game itself, there is no powercreep from later gens and the general power level is much lower, so even mons like Jumpluff and Dunsparce are perfectly viable in singleplayer. 5:38 Excuse me? "Forcing you to grind"? You feel the need to grind to beat singleplayer Pokemon? I won't address the rest of the video but fundamentally, you cannot call gen 2 the worst when SwSh, BDSP and so on exists. I'm not even saying gen 2 is "good", but Pokemon gets a lot worse than this.

The criticism of the Gen 2 Pokémon not being presented front and center makes it look bad by the standards of most games that came after it starting with Gen 3 how most Pokémon gym leaders had were new and those you encountered in the wild were mostly new, it makes more sense if you look at if from the perspective of what they were going for with Gen 2 and how you’re discovering new Pokémon species that are hidden so gym leaders have a bunch of gen 2 Mons and encountering them everywhere would’ve killed that narrative. I think you’re looking at these games from a competitive online game perspective rather than an RPG adventure to immerse yourself in like the devs intended. As far as the level curve it’s consistent with Gen 1 areas level design but forgets to use logic when thinking of what level the gym leaders are, as if Faulkner having level 9 Pokémon would be a challenge for your average trainer.

4:22. cause noctowl is WAY too strong for that point in the game

I think a lot of Gen 2 would have been better if they just didnt include Kanto. It would have forced them to include everything before the e4 rather then trying to 'save' content for Kanto, and probably would have allowed them to scale the E4 up to the 60s rather then 50s (with approprite scaling for the later gyms). This way, all Johto pokemon are actually in Johto, all the evolution stones must be in Johto (no more having to beat the elite 4 with a growlithe) and your pokemon should be getting their best moves in time for what is suppose to be the climax of your game (because it doesnt matter if its a hardcore nuzlocke or a casual playthrough, having to wait till lv60 to get flamethrower when the E4 caps at 50 is just a garbage feeling). Important TMs is another gameplay aspect that suffers because they need content for Kanto. Moves like steel wing, zap cannon, psychic etc would all make many pokemon much more intetesting to use in both a casual playthrough and a nuzlocke challange, but they're unavailable until you're deep into Kanto. Kanto's very existance just destroys the pace and world building of Johto. Kanto in gen 2 exist at the expense of Johto

So, gen 1, they have to fill out 8 gyms typings from 15 types. They take time to consider which types for which gyms. You have them using rock to make for a challenging gym 1. Having a fire, water and grass gym helps ballance out the starter selection to a degree. They can use types that are well represented by the pokemon avaliable in the game etc etc. For Gen 2, because they treat it as a sequal and included Kanto, they dont want to have the same types for any of the gyms. So the 8 types that they decided were the best types for the gyms, they're all out. Cant have a second rock gym, or a second water gym. So straight off the bat we're scraping the barrel. Why would you assign gym types in such a way that the grass starter has litterally no advantages over any of them? Why would you choose to have a ghost gym when there are only 2 ghost evolution lines and 1 of them is locked to post game? The gym types in Johto werent selected to optimise the gameplay experiance, they were selected because they were the rejects from kanto

Make Haxo24 see this video! I'm sick of Johto!

Gen 2 is the best. It will never be topped.

the VGC and Nuzlocke crossover I didn't know we desperately needed

da hog 🐷

“I used a vgc strat” No bro you’re just playing the game, and using the move as intended wtf?

Togekiss didn’t quad resist in gen 4, was this a romhack?

full video here: czcams.com/video/mwCMbs1dYwg/video.html

you got more hype from beating this run than when u beat EK lmao

That was really impressive

Almost none if not none of the Apricot Pokéballs work in their intended way and can be added to "Cool concept, bad executions". All my homies hate me for not drooling over Generation two. Oh yeah and FRIENDSHIP EVOLUTION, didn't we all love that? How nostalgic!

This isn’t just having similar opinions, this is straight up word-for-word plagiarism in your complaints and how you describe some of these Pokemon and problems. Word for word czcams.com/video/75RibBHgJHQ/video.htmlsi=7qmrTs1qK8yvoK6Z