Pokémon Trading Card Game 2 - A Pokémon Paraspective
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Well well, a new Paraspective video. Eh, kinda. I realized I actually DID have some stuff I wanted to discuss with Pokémon Trading Card Game 2, so this is kind of a side video on the subject. Let's examine it.
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Title sequence, background, and Pallet Town remix by Joshua C. Griffin
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I really wish the Pokemon TCG video game series continued. I feel like the DS would have been the perfect system to display the cards in your hand and would allow wi-fi battles.
Pretty sure by that time ptcg online was already live tho
Same. I'd love more single player TCG video games. Seems like all of them are competitive online only nowadays.
@@adryanus9 Yeah, but screw playing either with the PTCG's absolutely garbage precon decks in the precon format _or_ people's super optimal metadecks that cost $100+. I just wanna be able to play a singleplayer game, with the possibility of multiplayer as an option should I want it, where I can battle and collect cards and build decks without being limited by daily quests and timers and other awful game design practices that things like PTCGO and Magic Online have.
@@Shenaldrac Not to be *that guy*, because I agree, a f2p/f2w ptcg game on DS would have been awesome.
But a $100 "super optimal metadeck" sounds like a wet dream for someone who plays MtG, where a good meta deck can run 10-20x that easily. Same with YGO, and I think meta Pokemon decks are only in that 100-200 range, which is phenomenal.
@@Seltaeb_ even cheaper, and in the new ptgc Live u cant even put money in yet, but they gave u 9 precons that are actually the base for competitive decks
I think that Voltorb on the cover is supposed to be a team GR leader's mask. Especially since right under it is the GR from the logo. Great video btw!
Ah I didn’t think of this. I actually didn’t even really think about what the GR mask was
@@Paraspectre Gotta admit, i screamed at the screen "How is that a voltorb, you showed the bad guys mask a few mins ago, the game is named after the guys who wear this mask, the main antagonists of the game, how could you think thats a voltorb?!" xD Great vid tho, a shame we never got more TCG solo games, the online client nowadays is still dogwater.
With the release of the GBA literally a week before TCG2 released, TCG2 was kind of perfectly positioned to be part of a special 2-in-1 edition. They would do those pretty consistently throughout the Game Boy Advance's lifespan.
Personally, I think they missed a serious trick in not continuing the pokemon tcg video games. There was SO MUCH opportunity for cross promotion, and card fight sims would have kept the TCG more on the casual Pokemon player's mind, for those people who liked the game but just didn't have the disposable income.
I know I would’ve continued buying them 😎
I would be so happy if TCG Online would come to Switch actually or a new TCG Storygame.
Something that I would like to highlight about the Game is the Rival:
In this game the Rival seems to have a "Character Development": Compared to the First Game, he is much nicer and treats you much better in comparison and he even goes directly to help on the island right at the beginning of the game On his own account, he also infiltrates Team GR and tries to enter the GR Castle and although he lost, he directly encourages you because he knows that you are the best of the two.
Obviously this is nothing special xd, but I think it's a nice touch that he went from a guy who constantly puts you down in the First Game to one that you could practically consider a Friend in the Second.
TCG2 is a phenomenal game. Sucks that it never had a proper release to North America.
The Artemis251 version is the ROM patch everyone plays.. I swear there was someone who was making a true Japanese to English translation but it never came to be..?
Hmm I only know of the Artemis one. I wondered about how accurate some of the wording was haha
I played an early version of a patch that was only partly translated, they were working on doing the whole thing. Basically everything essential to finishing the game had been converted to English (so dialogue explaining story progress, deck challenges, and stuff like that). I played most of that game, I want to say between 2012 and 2014. I then forgot about it until a few years later, and when I remembered later, couldn't find anything about the project I remembered, but I ended up finding an English ROM on a pretty popular site. At the time I assumed it was the finished version of the one I'd played a couple years earlier, but I guess maybe it wasn't? Idk.
I recently played this for the first time! Maybe it's because I'm not doing so hot right now, but I actually really appreciated the story - yeah, it's ridiculous on the surface, but I kinda like how when you go to GR island, all of your opponents are just regular passionate cardbattlers - not some amalgamation of evil for the sake of evil grunts. Even Villicci himself seems to only want to play and have people play. Sure, it's kinda forceful, because all villains with decent motivations are villains because they take it too far, but he also says something to the effect of "it would be a shame to have these powerful cards collecting dust". Which, not gonna lie, isn't a bad motivation in a world fueled by the cardgame. The fact that in the postgame, Team GR members and Legendary Card islanders intermingle and play and talk with eachother is also pretty wholesome - and fitting, since even the hooded members turned out to just be regular players. It's nice. Every portrait now reacting to their draws and situations is also pretty humanizing imo. You also instantly know if they drew that last energy they need to bonk you, which is fun.
Gameplay-wise, this game's structure really fixed many of my issues. In the TCG, it so often only comes down to getting an advantageous type and then steamrolling (though there ARE some stoppers like flying electric cards). In TCG2, the irregular situation of the invasion, as well as most members having multicolor decks, made for a decent challenge. Not having easy access to farmable boosters early on also adds to the difficulty curve. When the game really opened up in the second half (when GR island becomes accessible) that genuinely felt freeing as way more cardbattlers were challengeable now.
I really really like this game. I purposely didn't watch TCG2 challenges yet and as a result, I was surprised by the game multiple times. It was very fun and I'm glad we got a fan translation. I just wish we got more Pokemon TCG videogames, because the Pokemon TCG in particular feels like such a good fit for AI opponents. The abundance of coin flips and volatile stun lock status effects would make for a salt mine against people imo, so I barely played it outside these GBC games.
this game is awesome i only played it for the first time last year, but being able to save like 30 decks means i can just follow any deckbuilding whim (dark machamp/dragonite deck, nidos, rhydon, big eggsplosion, only fat colorless) and not have to worry about it being worthy of staying as one of my four decks. lets me enjoy the card game in a way i could never afford as a kid (and don't care to afford now)
All the fun of the card game without spending money 😎
I grew up during the pokemon boom. I still remember getting Red in its release year and still have all my old cards in a binder (including a charizard) and I didn't know how to play the card game until I decided to play the gbc game like 2 years ago. I finally understood why energy cards were so numerous.
The game is a lot of fun. It was my gateway into Magic The Gathering, which I now no longer play. It all went full circle
There is a Pokémon TCG DS game that came with three decks, but that was more so just a guide on how to play the game during the BW era.
Ty for the video. I had always hoped the made a 2nd tcg game, I never knew it a JPN release only. If I could have played this back in the day....man 😅
I was also never aware of the sequel. I only played the first one. 15 years later I discovered the sequel and that it was fan translated. I'm definitely gonna play it. I don't care if I'm a grown ass man now. I'm busy replaying the first game first for the nostalgia and to refresh my memory, then I'll play the sequel. I'm looking forward to it. It looks even better than the first game.
That game is really hard, but also very funny.
My MVP card was Gyarados
If you embrace the absurdity of it, it is pretty funny
Can we all agree that the Shroomboy opening is as iconic as Nidorino/Gengar, or the couch gag from The Simpsons, or seeing the line-up of Z Fighters at the end of the DBZ anime opening? lol
Thanks for another great video! 👌🙂
Haha I also love it. Full credit goes to Joshua Griffin on it though. I just alter it sometimes ☺️
I had never heard of this game until I saw the challenge runs on your channel.
Wow, I’m glad I helped introduce it to somebody ☺️
A goodnight when paraspech uploads 😊
It may be like twice a month, but it happens!
Switch Online could finally get it localized but I would love an SP edition where they give us a complete save with a complete library to run classic matches.
First time to the channel! Excited to hear someone talk about this game, but more importantly...I realized that Paraspectre is, indeed, looking just over my shoulder and not straight ahead. I thought they may have been just me. :)
Welcome to the channel! I have lots of vintage TCG content ☺️
I was in elementary school when the base set was released and the overwhelming majority didn't know how to play, just collected.
Casually getting on TH-cam for something to watch, and the first video on my feed is a paraspective. Okay, the hype is fucking real.
Played a translated rom on emulator and loved that game. My main play was an energy removal deck.
I wish Nintendo would put this on switch like they recently did the first one.
Pokémon TCG2! Also known as objectively better than the original except for challenge runs.
In all seriousness, I love the game. It’s one of the best Pokémon spin-offs and is a great way to unwind after something annoying. I sincerely hope either the GB emulators on the Switch will allow us to get an official localization of this.
Same here, wanna add me on switch?
Wow, imagine it getting a legit release on the Switch. Game changer
Honestly, im interpretating Team Rocket giving you money after defeating them as simply Red stealing some cash from the bad guys.
It’s always a good day when there is a paraspective
It’s much more enjoyable to talk about a game that I’ve played before ☺️ kinda why I took a break from the actual order
It's a shame that the Pokemon TCG never got a constant stream of video games like, say, Yu-Gi-Oh did. Those sorts of games are great time capsules to go back and experience what things were like at a specific point in time. And their frequent releases (until they eventually died off) means that there's a good stretch of Yu-Gi-Oh's history covered.
I think it would be really cool to put together a challenge with a Dark only deck, being allowed to swap around as needed because there are a lot, _but_ being required to use all of them at least once.
A dark only challenge is an idea I’ve considered…
I was one of those people that dude would have gotten mad at lol. I was around when Pokemon was EVERYWHERE in the late 90s/early 2000s and I'd go to the mall and buy packs every weekend, even buying some singles of cards I was missing if it was a harder card to get. (my grandmother was fine with this as she equated collecting these cards like her collecting coins or postcards lol) I played rarely and just liked collecting them to have a collection and to trade my extras.
Really makes you wanna take down the GR king even more ☺️
The reason I never got this game and just kept playing with the first game was that it was so behind in the card sets. You laid out that release schedule perfectly
Only using 4 out of the 9 that existed does seem so behind
Great video love TCG 2 content
It’s a fun time
Loved this game as a wee lad
Another Paraspective! You love to see it
Yoooooo!!! I subbed for this. You a real one! Gen 1 Pokémon era baby
Heck yeah. Thank you for that
I was lucky enough to get a cib copy of this game, they're quite rare an expensive now. I have the full Japanese cib collection of pokemon gen 1-4 as well as the TCG, stadium and gamecube games, as well as the celebi/jirachi bonus discs.
Huh, yeah what you gathered makes sense why this game never came to the US.
Nice! I am excited for this one 😊
One of the few releases I haven't played. Maybe I should.
Absolutely play it. I like some elements more than the first game
a way to make this story less goofy and a little more substantial would be making Villicis (wtvr) motivation for stealing cards the fact that hes a collector whos against playing the cards, but is willing to do it in order to defeat the player and achieve his goal
Kinda like Gen V but 20 years earlier
Thats literally just the games reason, but in reverse. And it makes it so much better lol. Even the ending makes more sense, in his game against you he had actually fun using his collection to play, then shares his super rare promo card with you so it gets to see some action
Yeah, have a distinctive memory have beint aware of this game but either not being savvy enough to get a fan translation, or them not being as readily available. Super fun game, highly recommended.
I certainly didn’t know this game existed back then
The boss reminds me of Seto Kaiba 😂
Hear me out. The pokemon TCG series lore is a bit odd. I think we're now at a point where it can be explained. So Ash is no longer in Pokemon right? What if Pokemon the TCG game is a video game in the anime universe. Here's my logic.
-Alot of the trainer cards involve people and moments in Ash's journey
-The game world makes no sense, that is to be expected; but even by usual standards of disbelief suspension, this one is a challenge. Relative to the anime however it is not too big a jump. I might go so far as to say that Pokemon TCG parodies the pokemon world in a not dissimilar way that GTA or Fallout parodies our own
-Ash is not a pokemon master, and probably never will be. Often these cards reflect things that are not game, anime or manga canon to the pokemon; but they're definitely the kind of things Ash might canonically believe. Like Gyrados being weak to water.
-There are no shortage of Pikachu variants.
Pokemon TCG was written and developed by Ash Ketchum after he concluded his adventures.
0:29 The what conspiracy?
The Mafat Conspiracy. The sequel to Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode
Mint is just Marc after transitioning, duh. You get your choice of two timelines-
Specter made the video so I watch it Pokémon cards on game cartridge
My TCG2 game ended when a guy requested i duel him with like 3 double colorless energies in my deck and i didn't have any and had no idea where to find them. Otherwise this game ruled
I have an idea for a video i would like to watch from you: you could make a video about your favourite üokemon cards. Maybe just from the old cards, maybe all cards. Maybe the cards you like most to play with or the ones you like tje artwork most. Its just an idea, but i would watch such a video from you
Use only favorites. I like it
Well jeez, if you do something with the Mafat Conspiracy, I'll watch it.
I love you dude.
Thank you for including TCG2 on the paraspective review series.
I felt like it needed its own video
It’s back!
100% believe that Pokemon TCG 2 is just a LARP Event on the Island.
The plot of this one is some Yu-Gi-Oh shit and I love it, I cope at the prospect of how the new animated series for the TCG could be like this, but the pokemon company are cowards
Soooo when are you doing a Pokemon Infinite Fusion run with just Parasect fusions or Sandslash fusions? 😉
Is TCG 2 available in DS nintendo store (like TCG1)?
I would possibly play a tcg game on switch for like 30ish bucks if I can get all the cards thru normal gameplay
Sounds neat and I probably couldn’t get into the game or learn the mechanics on my own otherwise
Where can someone play this in english? Can it be downloaded? I've always wanted to play it but don't have the technology.
I recently played through this and it was so weird to me that so few decks even seemed to use Energy Removal. Did you get this impression?
Any perfect save files out there for this game ?
How can i play this game in english? I really love the first pokemon tcg game for the gameboy and i would really like to play it, but i didnt get it, how that works
Just consult ol Dr. Google. There are ways.
@@Paraspectre okay
Waaiiiit a minute, there's a 2nd tcg? (Japan, got it lol) Good thing I've been trying to learn Japanese and I can understand sort of what nps are talking about
if the game was only released in japan, how are you able to play it in English? does it have the english translations built in? if so, ill be buying this on ebay soon :)
There’s definitely an English rom of it. Not sure if anybody made a physical copy or not
@@Paraspectre what's a rom?
I'd unironically love to see an episode on The Mafat Conspiracy tho
Haha I own it and I’ve never played it.
It's a shame the retrospectives ended hear.
It will continue in due time. I have not given up on it 😅
@@Paraspectre Oh cool.
Nice
I love the old Online TCG. I wouldn't recommend transferring any digital collections you have over to Live... yet
I played it a ton for like a month a few years ago. It’s pretty addicting
It is very much indeed. I used to play it in huge chunks and then come away from in to give me breathing space. But, I consider it among the best "free to play" games ever, for like 11 years it was completely free to enjoy, even if you didn't have those codes. I found a lot of enjoyment in earning new cards, doing the challenges, earning coins and buying a killer theme deck for those tourneys. Knowing how to play the trading market and trying all kinds of cool and experimental decks to get your wins was very rewarding. Having friends to play and trade with was icing on the cake.
The only thing that really bothered me about the game is the insane power creep of each new expansion forcing you to adapt and get more cards, but it's pretty easy to do for free ultimately.
I haven't read into what it's like now, but when it was announced, Live aimed to strip away unlimited cards, turning the game into a pay to win market, streamlining the experience, getting rid of a lot of the cosmetics from TCG, no friends, no TRADING.
I hope the original version of TCG Online never goes offline. And if it does, i'll be a very sad fan of it. Almost makes me wanna make a video about it because I dread the day I am told to convert my hard earned digital collection of cards into currency
@@JustJohn43it’s offline now. You have to transfer your account to PTCGL to use your old cards or start over
The plot of this game sounds like some Yugioh anime nonsense. Except Yugioh will take it seriously.
Haha it’s pretty wacky. Take a drink every time I say “kidnap”
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Come on nintendo remake these games on the switch or at least make the pokemon tcg available on switch
How is he playing it in English
There’s a super cool fan translated version out there
ahahah nice intro
Yeah, there are more than double the cards but most of the new cards are total a**.
the scenario is so lazy lol
I love the soundtrack 🎵
The TCG games have some bangers
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7:45 interesting thing about team rocket, their crazy antics make sense if you view the theme of the main games as "The world through a child's eye". The whole game is set up to be viewed by a 10 year old and team rocket might be how a 10-year old boy imagines the yakuza/mafia: Evil people who look crazy and do evil stuff.
Fucking love this game lets GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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