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"why" - previous viewer. I post here, and stream on Twitch.
Pokémon Red Any% Glitchless Speedrun in 1:55:30
Thanks for watching! Finally managed to get a decent PB thanks to good play, full moon manip and a healthy dose of luck.
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I stream these runs on twitch, so if you want to watch live, come hang out!
Follow me on Twitch here: www.twitch.tv/tortoisecity
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Ranking Every Cycling Road in Pokémon
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Thanks for watching! These are the cycling roads, the Pokémon cycling enthusiasts favorite area! Which one is your favorite? (don't say GSC) Follow me on Twitch here: www.twitch.tv/tortoisecity You can find all of my music here: soafnb40.bandcamp.com/ And here: open.spotify.com/artist/44J25KlrSfFtMjLetnTmIc?si=W-lQI6WzSVmIkYTqK0TPCg All my links are here: linktr.ee/soafnb40 Buy me a coffee here...
Southeast Kanto in Pokémon Red and Blue was a Mistake
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Thanks for watching! What is the point of Pokemon's Southeast Kanto other than to waste my time? Follow me on Twitch here: www.twitch.tv/tortoisecity You can find all of my music here: soafnb40.bandcamp.com/ And here: open.spotify.com/artist/44J25KlrSfFtMjLetnTmIc?si=W-lQI6WzSVmIkYTqK0TPCg All my links are here: linktr.ee/soafnb40 Buy me a coffee here: ko-fi.com/tortoisecity
Pokémon Red Glitchless Classic Speedrun in 2:05:57
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Thanks for watching! Decent PB over the run from a few days ago, I'll grind this for a 2:04, and then move back to glitchless I think. Follow me on Twitch here: www.twitch.tv/tortoisecity You can find all of my music here: soafnb40.bandcamp.com/ And here: open.spotify.com/artist/44J25KlrSfFtMjLetnTmIc?si=W-lQI6WzSVmIkYTqK0TPCg All my links are here: linktr.ee/soafnb40 Buy me a coffee here: ko-f...
Blue is not as strong as he claims. How could he improve?
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Thanks for watching! I was always wondering about how strong the rival really is in Red and Blue, and I decided to find out! Much of this will be extremely subjective, based on strategy and judgement, but I think the rationale should hold up for most people. Follow me on Twitch here: www.twitch.tv/tortoisecity You can find all of my music here: soafnb40.bandcamp.com/ And here: open.spotify.com/...
Pokémon Red Speedrun in 2:01:05
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Really solid PB on my last run, pleased to get a decent moon manip in there, but lots to improve on. Really just need to practice surge/fly splits and yoloballing so that I can rely on it more than I currently do, also maybe learn a bird manip. Anyway woo PB! Watch me speedrun live at www.twitch.tv/tortoisecity You can find all of my music here: soafnb40.bandcamp.com/ And here: open.spotify.com...
The Rapidly Expanding World of Pokémon Romhacks
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Thanks for watching! Pokémon romhacks have exploded over the last few years and in all directions - I take a look at what is driving the growth and how things might change over time. There are no limits on people seem to be able to achieve with rom files from a 20 year old handheld game console. You can find all of my music here: soafnb40.bandcamp.com/ And here: open.spotify.com/artist/44J25Klr...
Why Everyone Should Speedrun Pokémon Red
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Pokémon Red is an absolute blast to speedrun, and I am here today to try and convince as many people as possible to give it a go. Let me know in the comments whether you've tried a speedrun of Red (or any other pokemon run) and how it went for you - did you enjoy it? You can find all of my music here: soafnb40.bandcamp.com/ And here: open.spotify.com/artist/44J25KlrSfFtMjLetnTmIc?si=W-lQI6WzSVm...
Pokémon's STRONGEST First Gym Leader is TERRIFYING
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Thanks for watching! Did you ever have any trouble with Roark? His Cranidos is a nightmare, but it's hardly insurmountable. You can find all of my music here: soafnb40.bandcamp.com/ And here: open.spotify.com/artist/44J25KlrSfFtMjLetnTmIc?si=W-lQI6WzSVmIkYTqK0TPCg All my links are here: linktr.ee/soafnb40 Buy me a coffee here: ko-fi.com/tortoisecity
How Pokémon Speedrunners go FAST
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Thanks for watching! Did anyone actually use these in casual play as kids? I know I didn't but Pokémon speedruns use them extensively, and basically route their whole run around them. You can find all of my music here: soafnb40.bandcamp.com/ And here: open.spotify.com/artist/44J25KlrSfFtMjLetnTmIc?si=W-lQI6WzSVmIkYTqK0TPCg All my links are here: linktr.ee/soafnb40 Buy me a coffee here: ko-fi.co...
Ranking Sinnoh's Gyms by how much they use their Type
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Thanks for watching! Sinnoh's Gyms and Elite Four are often criticised for poorly adhering to their type themes, and I wanted to know more: are they really that bad (the answer: kinda yeah) I also compared it to BDSP and Platinum to see what changed. You can find all of my music here: soafnb40.bandcamp.com/ And here: open.spotify.com/artist/44J25KlrSfFtMjLetnTmIc?si=W-lQI6WzSVmIkYTqK0TPCg All m...
How badly can a Fight go in Generation One of Pokemon?
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How badly can a Fight go in Generation One of Pokemon?
How a Programming Error turned a Gym Trainer into one of Pokémon Speedrunning's Worst Fights
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How a Programming Error turned a Gym Trainer into one of Pokémon Speedrunning's Worst Fights
Pokémon Speedrunning's Most Nightmarish Fight: Rival 2
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Pokémon Speedrunning's Most Nightmarish Fight: Rival 2
Pokémon Emerald Feebas% Speedrun in 2:51:58
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Pokémon Emerald Feebas% Speedrun in 2:51:58
I Played Four Pokemon Demakes. Here's What I Learned.
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I Played Four Pokemon Demakes. Here's What I Learned.
Pokémon Emerald Hiker% Speedrun in 1:42:39
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Pokémon Emerald Hiker% Speedrun in 1:42:39
The First Generations of Pokémon Games Failed CATASTROPHICALLY In This Aspect
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The First Generations of Pokémon Games Failed CATASTROPHICALLY In This Aspect
Pokemon Crystal Ursaring Alt Main Speedrun in 5:06:04
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Pokemon Crystal Ursaring Alt Main Speedrun in 5:06:04
The Pokemon Black and White Key Item Jingle Remixed
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The Pokemon Black and White Key Item Jingle Remixed
Thrillville: Off the Rails All Levels Speedrun in 1:02:27 (With Commentary)
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Thrillville: Off the Rails All Levels Speedrun in 1:02:27 (With Commentary)
5 Ways to Improve Pokémon Scarlet and Violet that aren't fixing the performance
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5 Ways to Improve Pokémon Scarlet and Violet that aren't fixing the performance
Get Free League Points in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (Glitch for Tera Raid Battles)
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Get Free League Points in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (Glitch for Tera Raid Battles)
Stronger than a Machop Protagonist of PMD with Attract and Focus Energy + Karate Chop + Low Kick linked (He solos all the birds and Rayquaza without Revival Seeds if you try enough)
that's crazy (I know relatively little about PMD, but I know that's crazy)
@@tortoisecity More or less, it happens that the video appeared in recommended just when I beated the game with that (On Switch Online), it was very very easy comparing to my 18 years ago savefile.
Im watching this and just chuckling because that route from Lavender to Fuschia was the way I went in all my years playing gen 1 only recently did i start going down southwest lol
the comment section is a true testament to the fact that there is no default route
@@tortoisecity it truly is which is something I love to read and enjoy even more. as defined as it is, still multiple ways to get it done!
speaking of Gym Leaders can you do ruby and sapphire Tate and Liza rng hell if you want a good time?
suppose I could do that, tbh, not a bad idea
(though TnL is actually much worse in Emerald, from what I know)
@@tortoisecity i was referring to speedruning Tate and Liza in ruby and sapphire is harder but Emerald is harder casual
this is true, the document for tnl in rs speedruns is like 13 pages lmao
I always wondered why I despised going to Southeast Kanto 😂
now you have the language to explain your frustration
Hey, im wondering why in Werster's famous "May 2" Video the rival leads with a Wingull that ends his run with one growl. I know May leads Wingull and Brendan leads Slugma so then why does he choose to be a boy in that run?
could be a number of different reasons: route might have changed since that video came out, he might have been doing an alt main of some kind, he could just choose the boy for funsies, who knows
the worst problem with this area is that it makes the game non-linear, but for no reason. It's cool to have a non-linear rpg on the game boy, but if youre gonna do that, it really ought to be carefully designed. what we got is pretty clumsy
fully agree - non-linear rpg great, but not like this
Not gonna watch this, however I understand how hard a PB is. Congratulations!!
thanks! been a while between PBs so nice to get this one :)
You should rank the Safari zones next
not a bad idea, given they've survived about as long and would undoubtedly be different to these rankings
Might be my fave gen 1/2 area
fair enough!
I think it was supposed to be the main road for those who didn't obtain HMs or bike, so it is like paying your less success in the side-game quests.
non-linearity is nice, though nicer if the area you have the choice of traveling through is more interesting
As far as “what purpose does it serve” I would say you’re right - there’s no apparent game mechanic or incentive for its existence. But the extra trainers and EXP are really helpful for the jump in difficulty following Erika. You get the Super Rod here and it’s another opportunity to catch the rare Snorlax. It’s as optional as the bike path is too, btw; and as noted, both have drawbacks. From a dev standpoint, it kind of is filler, but when the routes directly surrounding Saffron City are so short and generally uninteresting, you have to fill the extra space in the map somehow haha. And I think they did a good job to make it interesting from a world-building perspective. The fishing community on the piers; the birdkeepers and junior trainers using the fence maze (which is interesting, even if annoying) as a guaranteed way to improve their skill with passing trainers. It’s neat! All this to say I also don’t really like Southeast Kanto lmao but I almost always fight the trainers there for the EXP.
fair enough, I can definitely see all of these as reasons to like it, even if I would have done it differently. Thanks for the comment!
I feel like his champion battle team in Red/Blue is very good strategically. I still use it today
it has good type balance for sure, though the moveset choices are absolutely baffling
@@tortoisecity definitely
I think a large part of it is you are looking at it in the eyes of someone who has played it all, looking in hindsight. When I played FRLG as a kid, I couldn't find the tea to give the cops to get into Saffron, so I took cycling road down to fuschia. I beat Koga, but couldn't find surf, so I went the only option that was left, and that was South East Kanto. I didn't know it was going to be hollow, but I enjoyed facing more trainers, and gave me a Dark Souls Fire Link Shrine elevator moment (as someone who got the map and forgot about it). I was then able to circle back around to Celadon, find the tea, go to Saffron, instead of begrudgingly backtracking up cycling road. SE Kanto is simply an option to go if you get stumped without forcing the player to turn around. They could have been better designed routes with better pay off in them, but as a kid going in blind, it's more game to play, and a potential way forward if you are lost. Although I was pissed about the tea thing since the cops were like, "I'm so thirsty," when I had the fucking fresh water in my bag, and was just yelling, "TAKE IT! IT'S WATER! YOU WON'T BE THIRSTY!" As an adult it, makes me even more mad Gen I had it right, then they chose to change the puzzle for Gen III.
having multiple options for going forward is definitely legit, and while it could have been a more interesting route overall, it does still fulfill that legitimate purpose. I did look at it with the eyes of a blind player (having not traveled down this route in years, this was not difficult) and found it lacking in interesting content or ideas still. The tea thing in FRLG is pretty baffling though no doubt. Thanks for your comment!
@@tortoisecity could be wrong, it's been years since I played, but I believe you can only block yourself off in the fence maze if coming from the North. I haven't rewatched the video, but I remember part of your agita with the routes was blocking yourself off in the maze, having to leave to reset the trainer positions, then come back. I think it truly was intended for you to do the routes coming from Fuschia. Blocking yourself off coming from Lavender/Vermillion might have been a design oversight from designers only considering the route from 1 direction. Either that, or coming from Fuschia was the oversight, and they actually intended you to solve a maze you can block yourself off in. The routes may be lacking in general, but the slog could be heavily exacerbated by the direction you decide to tackle it from. Looking back, as a kid I see how I was funneled toward fuschia through the cycling road route. You see the one Snorlax east of Vermillion early in the game, but by the time you get the pokeflute, that Snorlax is a distant memory (you have since walked back to Cerulean, went through Rock Tunnel (potentially for awhile if you got lost without flash), travelled from Lavender to Celadon, potentially beat Erika, gone through the rocket hideout in Celadon, then went back to Lavender to beat Team Rocket at Pokemon Tower), and the one west of Celadon is a lot more recent, so I felt like "ok, celadon was my last gym badge, but west celadon was blocked off. That must be the way to go, since now I got this thing that can wake up snorlax. Let me go back there." The game is an open world after Rock Tunnel, so it's hard to say what order players will do stuff. The only set in stone limiters for story progression at that point are rocket hideout before pokemon tower (technically not if you have a pokedoll), pokemon tower before silph co. (I think, although that might just be Gen III onwards), pokemon tower before Koga, silph co. before Viridian Giovanni, Koga before Blaine (need Surf), and all badges before Victory Road. Anything else CAN be done in any order. Heck, even Lt. Surge can be put off for awhile, if you don't mind missing fly. I don't know if Nintendo intended for the game to be as open as it was. Nintendo may have intended a certain path, but didn't breadcrumb enough, or, because it was the early 90s, didn't realize they didn't block off certain ways to go through the game world (I mean, look at all the gen 1 bugs, like badge boost, missingno, and pokedoll pokemon tower). The game was rushed for sure, and maybe they made the routes early, had plans for it, but come crunch time, forgot to properly block it off, or just threw together what they could, too proud to scrap the idea.
all legit things they could have done before rushing to get it out, and it's not the games came out terribly or anything (on the contrary), so I can forgive this route being uninteresting in the grand scheme of things (but not enough to not make a video about how I think it's bland)
In the show Gary gets ten badges maybe they should have put another town or two in where you can have the option to get more badges make it some sort of achievement but they did not maybe a budget cut or something…
ran outta space, something like that
Was a great video, have a lovely week
Thank you! You too!
Never even thought about this before. GF have a tendency of beta testing future ideas that show up in future games in the generation before it so maybe that’s something to do with it. Also trainer battles are always good for exp, no matter how annoying that may be.
that could be a thing, and yes exp is always good, even if I wish the fights were a little more interesting
I just prefer pixel-art esp Yellow/Gen2 sprites and simple mechanics: no natures, no abilities, no IVs, no EVs... I think TMs/HMs just saturate the movepools and make the games boring. What if every Flying Pokemon could "Fly" and every Water Pokemon could "Surf" from the menu without ever knowing the move... What if movepools were more niche, like only Blastoise could learn Water Gun as Squirtle and Hydro Cannon as Blastoise and no other Pokemon could learn those moves... Everytime I see Gen1 Seaking I think, dang it learns Waterfall naturally before it was ever an HM how cool is that... then I'm reminded that Surf outclasses every water move and saturates every Water Pokemon...
yeah surf is just shockingly busted for so many games
XP and money farming, and the pp up is nice for anything with moves like ice beam, psychic, or flamethrower. Plus, the swift goes great on a Persian imo. For speed running or other challenges and on its own merits as a route, it's definitely not the best, but if they just redesigned it a bit it'd be perfect.
yeah some slight tweaks here and there and it would not be a bad route at all, but as is just needs something a bit more
What a MaChad 🙏
The only thing holding Hideki's Machop back is not utilizing the affection mechanic to have a passive +1 boost to critical hit rate. If that was present you REALLY don't want him to Low Sweep you after Focus Energy, because then you can't rely on being lucky enough to not get hit by a crit. He would ALWAYS crit you.
I mean, it certainly already feels that way
Hope you'll have a good day
hope you have a good day!
Brawly: I need powerful trainers to make my gym a proper test for challengers. Hideki: *sneaks steroids into his Machop* Got it, boss!
Thank god we finally got to see the Nidoking die you were edging us the whole video
twas a mirage, he lives on
Pay Day may not be a great attack, but it is notably one of the few ways to make money in gen1, especially once every Trainer gets wiped out (the E4 and Champion being the only ones that can be rematched indefinitely). Pikasprey even did a Softlock video pointing out how it's possible to completely screw yourself if your save file no longer has a source of money (especially in Red and Yellow, where you're unable to catch Meowth, the only Pokemon that learns Pay Day naturally).
i did see that very good video, and this is a very good, if niche point in favour of pay day
Gen 3's cycling road felt like the most fun to do over again because of that dude at the bottom that told you your number of collisions and total time to reach him. I went back up the road and tried to improve my time on several times until I was happy with the result. It doesn't mean anything, but sometimes, you just wanna do the challenge because you know you can do better than your earlier performances, so you aim for that. I mostly remember spending a lot of time on Gen 4's route to hatch eggs, going up and down that bridge SO MANY TIMES! In my head I started to rename it the egg hatching bridge. Overall I agree with this list. Gen 3 definitely had the best one. A few turns and a reason to go back and do it again, should you be competitively inclined. Even if that competition is only with yourself and doesn't offer a tangible reward.
yeah beyond being a more interesting ride, I think that gen 3's is the only one that really feels like a "location" in its own right, rather than just a way to get somewhere else
5:23 you can’t go back through Eterna Forest, Floramora, Mt Coronet to bypass the cycling road?
nope - the mudslide bit north of oreburgh requires the bike to get through, so you would be stuck there if you tried to go back around bikeless
@@tortoisecity I need to see this!!!
@@tortoisecity I meant going back the long way round to Oreburgh with the bike to skip cycling road, is that not possible? - it’s been a while since I played DPP.
oh right I see what you mean - I went back and checked and the answer is yes and no. In Diamond and Pearl, no you cannot. There is a bug catcher who stands at the west exit of Eterna and stops you and tells you to check out cycling road. In Platinum, this guy is gone, and you can make your way all the way back to Oreburgh, so no issue there. (I never played plat as a kid, so my memory is only of the guy stopping you from leaving Eterna going west)
SE Kanto is purely for training.
that is one use for it
Excellent ranking
thanks!
I loved doing wheelies with the Acro bike!
the acro bike is really sick, wish they'd put it back in the game at some point
So he kills your speedrun by using a move that lowers your speed stat? You have to admit that's pretty funny
objectively hideki is funny if you're not the person doing the speedrun
I took SE kanto the first 2 or 3 times i played because I couldn't figure out how to get the bike as a child. That's why it's there.
it does the important function of providing another path (I don't think it's a good path, but it is a path nonetheless)
I want to take this moment to complain about Let's Go's Not-Cycling road isn't a bridge or pretending to be a bridge, so the boats are all landlocked.
this is very funny to me, thank you for pointing it out
In fairness, IIRC Pokemon gen 1 was originally meant to be quite a lot bigger than it ended up being due to lack of memory space among other things. Case in point the trainer in Cinnabar who claims your Raichu evolves because originally Pikachu was a 3 evolution monster #justiceforGorochu. A good few of the pokemon who were designed for gen 1 didn't end up making it into pokemon until gen 2 due to game limitations. It's possible originally SEKanto was meant to contain more towns and/or optional gyms along the lines of Celadon's fighting dojo maybe? Certainly it probably contained more pokemon that would have been unique to that route. If you take the anime into consideration where Gary shows off his ten badges when every pokemon fan knows there's only 8 possible gyms could there have been plans originally for more gyms? It certainly always seems more.. barren than the other areas in terms of things to do. I also wonder if there wasn't originally more to do with the power plant that never made it into fruition. The powerplant always felt a bit shoved in there last minute to me, with no indication unless you're determined to explore every single nook and cranny heading back to an area that by the time you have surf you have no need to head back to, just to find a power plant with no logical explanation for it ever having been needed within the storyline. Even the final cave holding Mewtwo is given more signs that it exists and holds something big, but that powerplant? Nothing. Have to wonder how many other things got left on the cutting room floor and never picked up again even on the remakes because they weren't needed in the end.
it would be cool if someone made a romhack (maybe it already exists?) where the cut content is reinserted and reimagined a bit
@@tortoisecity Hopefully someone finds a way one day, I would play the heck outta that version. It would be really cool if Gamefreak were to recreate pokemon red and Blue (and Gold and Silver for that matter, considering how many changes had to be made for that game too), with the old ideas in place. I think the older fans at least would prefer to buy those over the mess that pokemon is currently becoming.
I'd enjoy any kind of gen 2 reimagining I think, though I'd expect it's a fair way off at this point (though full disclosure I really like scarlet and violet, even though they're objectively a mess)
slugma being only available on cycling road is why many people (myself included) thought that it was a gen3 pokemon
I have heard this, and honestly makes perfect sense, especially considering how prominent it is in fiery path and Flannery's gym
@@tortoisecity there's a video that talks about this topic, very recommended. before that one I was convinced skarmory was gen3 too lmao
there are so many classic examples, bet the video is super interesting!
@@tortoisecity I should like to mention that I dislike this sort of retroactive criticism of Gen 2 myself, cause it's applying modern day Pokemon standards to a time when they didn't exist. In-game, the lore specifically for the new Pokemon is "Newly Discovered Pokemon." They aren't explicitly Johto Pokemon, nor does anyone call them that, so this is why new mon are showing up in old areas of Kanto as well. Gym Leaders weren't expected nor designed to be megaphones for new pokemon in this era, nor was there an expectation of that from the player base either. For all intents and purposes, Gen 2 was designed truly as a sequel, almost like a Red and Blue part 2, and it does what it sets out to do very well. The remakes naturally, wouldn't really change too much of this either, by nature. They allow you the newly introduced evolutions, like Magmortar if you have the requirements, but the in-game lore is still the same.
it might be the case that the lore was designed that way, but nothing about that particular lore is inevitable, and quite feasibly they could have chosen to make it mildly different in a way that allows the player to use more of the new pokemon as they naturally progress through the game. Lore is a fine reason for something to be, but like the odd distributions of the new pokemon, they made it up, and thus had the opportunity to do better in that respect as well.
I think that the Cycling Road phasing out from Gen V onwards may also be related to how the Unova games have many bridges, and these are long and largely uninterrupted stretches - they're definitely not replacements & don't have all the same functions as a Cycling Road, but are similar enough that it would feel redundant w/ all the bridges around.
yeah I would agree with, they kind of just moved on to different things, as well as starting to base the regions on areas outside of Japan
I read somewhere that Kanto's cycling road is THE prefered method to reach Fuchsia city, and it blew my mind bc everytime I play RBY/FRLG, I go down Lavander town to reach Fuchsia city. I always thought the cylcing road was a grinding, optional area
Well the route you took instead is the 'grinding' area in the game
yeah I'm one of the people who always uses cycling road and sees it as the default, but it's totally plausible to see either as default tbh
@@xgenmusic3434I hate the cycling road in FR tbh the gravity mechanic just makes it tedious
Nice
nice
I always thought I was crazy when it came to this fight. It all makes sense now.
there's always a decent chance you just breeze past him, but also a strong chance he totally walls you
I think this is an area that would have benefitted greatly from a "rest stop" about halfway through. As it is, the road between Lavender Town and Fuschia City is BRUTAL in that your only healing options are to stock up on supplies and spend a good chunk of money, or keep running back to Lavender Town to heal. It could have used a building where you could rest for a bit, like the old woman's house in Hoen. Interestingly enough, I've been playing through Yellow for the first time while on a quest to play every game to completion, and I was literally just wanting to my coworker about this the other day. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, but the road from Lavender to Fuschia is paved with boardwalks, dirt roads, and incompetent trainers who need more variety in their teams.
absolutely agree - it is an absolute toil to get through, and would benefit from a celestic or fallarbor style town in the middle
It's for grinding and getting money. Plus it's the second chance to get Snorlax if you missed the first one.
money and exp are pretty good
lol this dude is lv 13, means its the first gym right? so if you die, just restart the speedrun
that is typically what top runners will do yes
Cerulean is actually rival 3. You fight him with a level 9 pidgy and a Level 9 starter on the route going to the pokemon league right outside of Viridian.
this is true, though since speedrunners usually skip this fight, it doesn't take place in the numbering conventions
Hey, maybe they just wanted a way for kids to earn back all the money they lost playing the casino slot machines 😅
ah the old child gambling, had to get the cash from somewhere
Bayleef quickly showing the trainers that they got the worst starter possible lol, it be like "have fun later with Crunch and Earthquake, Mr. Water pokemon"
bayleef only stands to menace us in azalea, and nowhere else
@@tortoisecity the others don't even do that at such degree, but it's clear that speedrunners go for water type because of Surf and other HMs anyway
sort of true, the speedrun switches to Raikou later on using a manip, but you're correct that the water type is picked for most runs
The music is awesome in this area. This area was meh in Gen 1 and slightly better in Gen 2, but are really fun for me in Gen 1 and Gen 2.
I personally absolutely adore the rearrangements of the kanto music that they did for gen 2, I think it's a night and day difference in quality (not that Kanto was particularly bad, but not particularly good either)
The funniest thing is I had to actual think hard about those routes, I think I normally dont bother with Lavender town to Fusha route and just do the bike path
yeah I'm normally a cycling road user myself
Nah Hideki is just that guy
hideki is simply a guy
Whenever I replay FireRed, I save SE Kanto for right before I go to Saffron, then use it to grind levels before I deal with Team Rocket and Sabrina. If it wasn’t a massive EXP deposit, I don’t know if I’d ever go there.
the exp is really valuable, but a chore to get
Amazing
no you
It feels like there's a missing coastal town.
that would be cool!