Non-Pokémon Games by Pokémon Devs | Game Freak Doesn't Need Pikachu
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Believe it or not, the Pokemon developers, Game Freak, are actually responsible for a lot of titles that AREN'T Pokemon! Everyone may prefer their monster-catching adventures, but let's take a look at some of the adventures where you DON'T see a single Pikachu. These are Non-Pokemon games by the Pokemon devs!
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Actually, in Pokemon X and Y, there's a NPC in Lumiose City who references Harmo Knight. He says "I've been playing this game where this little dude smacks around enemies to the beat of the music."
Makes perfect sense since they both released in 2013.
Oh, some people thought it was about Mother 3, as it has a music based combo system
I thought it was a reference to Rhythm Thief
What did you think of the halo reference in sun and moon?
@@NeverSaySandwich1 That's weird. Unlike the references to the famous Reggie meme line (My Body Is Ready) And IGN's infamous To much water line.
What is even cooler about Pulseman is that Pikachu's signature move, Volt Tackle, comes from the same attack Pulseman has. Really love that Game Freak gives nods to their non-Pokémon games in Pokémon.
Really wished pulse man was rereleased,missed it on the wii :(
Not to mention the main antagonists of pulseman is known as the Galaxy Gang
Isn't Barry's theme partially a remix of Pulseman's first stage theme too?
I’m pretty sure Rotom was inspired by pulseman
And then it came full circle in Smash, where Volt Tackle acts just like the Pulseman move
I remember everyone being excited for Little Town Hero and immediately dropping it the day after it came out
I was gonna buy it, then I saw the reviews and I was like aw :(
Everyone got hyped on the composed by Toby fox, made by gamefreak tagline. Which is really not indicative of good products anymore.
Fun fact: Little Town Hero got a steam release. No one I've talked to knows that, because they never advertised it. I just stumbled upon it one day on accident
I never saw a single person being excited for that game, I though everyone already knew it was trash from the trailers
@@grnpyro5110 It's also on Xbox. Shocked the hell out of me when I saw it.
Whoever wrote the dialogue for Pocket Card Jockey deserved a raise
_Finnish? You mean the people live in a cold country?_
@@poweroffriendship2.0 no
@@randoncourter4923 so the ones that dr8nk tea then?
@@default9314 that's British
You must be talking about your hair then.
Pulseman is great, there's a lot of stuff in it that would later become stuff in Pokemon. There's a boss that's an Onix, an enemy that's a Remoraid, Pulseman's signature move being Volt Tackle, one of the stage themes is Barry's battle theme, and even more.
Damn, explains the Rotom of Pulseman's whole vibe.
Pulseman's attack is called Volteccer actually, which is more based in name to Tekkaman's signature Vol Tekka, a powerful beam attack. I'm half sure the japanese spelling of all three Volt Tackle, Volteccer and Vol Tekka is the exact same.
Also, Porygon wasn't the first time a half-virtual half-real creature made by gamefreak tried to give everyone seizures. You don't need to look far beyond AntDude's footage to realize that Pulseman is a declaration of war against epilectic people.
Seriously, it's an okay game but absolutely DO. NOT. PLAY IT if flashing lights cause you discomfort. They don't shy away from doing the forbidden red-blue or red-green combo strobe lights that absolutely will send you right to the hospital.
Porygon did nothing wrong. Rotom did.
Speaking of Rotom, it was introduced in Diamond and Pearl as coming out of a broken TV displaying static. Now go and take a look at Pulseman's title screen, complete with him coming out of the static and doing that hand gesture. Gamefreak absolutely love throwing references to that game, but they know damn well to not touch it with a 10-meter pole after what happened with that one Porygon anime episode.
@@nicocchi I have it on Wii VC and maybe they dimmed the lights on that version? I do still remember it being a lot on the eyes
@@thedailybrowser5951 It actually looks more like Ledian. A lot of people speculate that that was it's design inspiration.
@@braydenleaderofthetirkins1143 Looks like Ledian, acts like Rotom.
As someone who beat Little Town Hero out of obligation, you're not missing much if you just ignore it.
I'll listen to the Toby Fox Soundtrack online...
I remember watching a review of the game years ago where they said the final boss theme is a fantastic piece of music, but the final boss itself is so tedious and drags on for so long that they had to mute the game to save their sanity.
That is not a good position to be in.
@@darkiusmc979 Can confirm, that final boss takes an insane amount of time.
@@darkiusmc979 I thibk that was by clemps. Great video by him
I honestly forgot the game came out tbh
12:35 see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil into a game mechanism? Sounds intriguing.
Real Glad to see finally someone share the love for Pocket Card Jockey. Man I was so addicted back in the day.
It's so weird how GF has had involvement in games that aren't even on Nintendo systems. I guess they can make games for other systems as long as the word Pokémon isn't on the box.
gamefreak owns pokémon too, they can go multi-platform WHENEVER THEY WANT, yet choose to stay with the house of Mario.
Edit: Whoops. Guess I didn't search up on Wikipedia. Sorry for the mistake. Still though, GameFreak could go multi-platform, just not with Pokémon though.
@@sonicrulez6916 I seriously doubt that
@Zach Edwards Sorry, I didn't realize that until you replied. Thanks!
They're actually a third party studio, but since Nintendo owns the Pokemon brand they're forced to make Pokemon Nintendo exclusive.
But when consoles are taken out of the picture, all bets are off. I mean, just look at how many Pokémon games you can play on your phone.
Wonder how Toby Fox feels about having the opportunity to work on music for Game Freak (Which, reminder, is really huge), only for Little Town Hero's reception to be either nonexistent or negative, it's really unfortunate what happened with the game
At the very least, it isn't NEARLY as bad as what happened with Yiik
Why did that game get a special edition?
To be fair nothing is as bad as YIIK
At least he did one song in Pokemon Sword and Shield which is damn catchy. 😊
At least YIIK feels like... something the devs wanted to make and put out there, compared to LTH kinda lacking that love?
@@TommyDeonauthsArchives va1ha11a is forever cursed with YIIK's presence
Drill Dozer is *SO* underrated. Really sucks that not many people know about it and it's super rare.
“I’m like a hello fresh shill at this point”
- Antdude
Tembo the Badass Elephant looks like if they made a game starring Rambi from DKC
I’d be down for Tembo The Badass Elephant to be ported to Switch. Especially since they could advertise it as “from the creators of Pokemon”
Also Smart Ball 2 is mostly complete and floating around.
Jerry Boy was cute IMO. The second one was neat. Shame it was never released.
Smart ball 2 is also REALLY good
I remember getting Drill Dozer because I just finished Wario Land 4 for the first time and loving it and I wanted another experience similar to that. Drill Dozer ended up being very Wario-like and because it's been over 12 years since the last 2D Wario game, I appreciate that!
Holy shit it's been 12 years?!? God I'm old
It's actually pretty common for companies to work on smaller projects alongside the bigger ones to prevent burnout, you're the first person I've seen mention it. LTH didn't have that big of a budget and was made by a small team of less than a handful of people so I don't get why it was pushed so hard.
Didn't the say they put more ressources into LTH than into Pokemon?
@@ZeChainwarden not sure where you heard that, but absolutely not. LTH had about 40 people working on it, many of which were contractors. Sw/Sh had 200 Gamefreak employees working on it, over a thousand if you wanna include Creatures Inc. helping out, debuggers, game testers, etc. I think people took one vague statement about Gamefreak working on "other projects" and automatically assumed LTH was the blame
What a coincidence, not too long ago, I actually started to play Drill Dozer.
Something neat I discovered is that some games like Superstar Saga and Pokémon Pinball are rumble compatible via Gameboy Player... pretty neat stuff!
I remember especially Tempo and Little Town Hero because those were games made by Game Freak that made everyone go wtf because its not Pokémon.
On a side note, most of these in between Pokémon games actually exist because they want to stay creative with more games than just Pokémon.
Ooooh, I get it! I think the monkey game is supposed to be a play on the saying, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, often accompanied by three monkies covering their eyes, ears, and mouth respectively. If I'm correct, that seems to be what's going on in the gameplay.
8:10 of course you and most people haven't heard of it, the damn thing not only never left Japan, but to this very day, the anime is one of the few who does not have an Fansub, a darn shame, the show is so cute and adorable.
Well thanks for talking about it! If it's that obscure I'm glad someone can bring attention to it. I'll check it out.
@@shupasopni The show is absolutely charming and fun, fortunately you can at least find most episodes in Japanese no problem even on TH-cam.
Love the art style for Tembo! It really reminds me of Chowder.
Yeah... really weird seeing a Japanese developer use an artstyle seen in shows like Regular Show!
@@TommyDeonauthsArchives It's made by a gaijin. The game has the same art director as Sword Shield, James Turner
It kind of reminds me of Gravity Falls in terms of art style.
I really should try this game!
If we're talking questionable Pokemon decisions, can we talk about how Little Town Hero released about a month before Pokemon Sword & Shield dropped _(the former was in October 2019, the latter in November)_ which obviously means Game Freak made the very poor decision to make TWO WHOLE GAMES at the same time? Kinda biting off more than they can chew weren't they?
Yeah... big time!
Tembo the Badass Elephant wasn't perfect but the game was just SOOOOO fun, glad to see it get some love!
This makes me want a Kingdom Hearts style game with different Game Freak properties in a manner that properly utilizes the Ultra Space concept from the Alola games.
I was just talking to my friend yesterday about how HarmoKnight should get an enhanced port to the Switch, with more songs, including more Pokémon remixes. The demo that let you play the stage Your Bicycle from... GSC? That sold me on the game alone!
17:25 I saw this coming, and I STILL LOL'd when you said it.
I actually bought Giga Wrecker on Switch but haven't played it yet. I do want to check out Tembo the Badass Elephant because it's called Tembo the Badass Elephant.
Edit: One thing I feel the need to point out is that Gamefreak is a really small company. A few years ago the had roughly a little over 250 employees, now it's down to less than 170. Keep in mind these are employees, not developers. That includes the receptionist, the janitor, the gopher who buys coffee and snacks. Pokemon is the biggest multimedia franchise on the planet, but the core is still the games despite it only being a fraction of it net income. It must be difficult having that kind of pressure on a very small studio. While Gamefreak may not be the best in the technical aspects of development they still do a great job in the creative side as they still design most pokemon. They really need another team working on the franchise to help ease the burden.
TL;DR Making games is hard. Especially for a such a small team at the heart of a multimedia juggernaut.
If they were under so much pressure, why did they let so many employees go?
Izzit = Is it?
Dazzit = Does it?
Goddamn it Game Freak, goddamn it.
I got "Dat's it" from the 2nd one
Pulseman, Jill Dozer, Harmoknight and F$&KING TEMBO are such masterpieces and I want them all to get more recognition.
Imagine if these games were given a Pokémon spin on it, like minigames that give nods to previous Gamefreak Titles, such as Pokemondale Palace, ExcadrillDozer, Tembo Donphan, and more.
Put that in your next Game Corner, Gamefreak!
That's a great idea!
I literally didn’t know little town hero was out. I thought it was still in development hell.
Harmoknight was one of my favorite 3ds games as a kid, wish more people played it
The Airplane! style dialouge of pocket card jockey was pure bliss.
In Little Town Hero the final boss is nearly complete RNG and you can softlock in the final boss fight if you save the game and it's the only save.
YIKES! And I thought the one in the Snowpoint Gym in the Gen 4 remakes was bad.
The weird faces on the Gameboy Camera is the most creepiest thing Nintendo has ever made. Nowadays, those creepy pictures pre-dated those distorted face memes you see on Internet which it's way ahead of its time.
3:35 Oh my god. I used to watch DVD's with this weird cat thing in them as a little kid and I remember getting the DVD's from my Japanese grandma. I also still own the 2 DVD's.
You had a Japanese Granny?
You had me at 'Giratina Pizza'.
Antdude is on an absolute roll with videos lately! He deserves a million Giratina pizzas!
Your first gg
Harmo-Knight is a game that holds so much nostalgia for me. Back when the 3DS was in its prime, I don't remember how, but I got the demo for it on my console. One day I got bored and decided to play it, and Oh My God. I loved it so much. Eventually one of my family friends got me a digital copy, and it was a blast and a half.
God same here, hearing it here makes me think we should revive this game's community
There is a timeliness out there where Tembo is in an assist trophy in Samsh Ultimate.
The only reason Game Freak appears in the copyright text of Game Boy Camera is because of the inclusion of Pokémon stamps. The actual software part was developed by Jupiter.
as a fellow Pocket Card Jockey fan, it makes me happy seeing it get mentioned in ANY capacity :) Absolutely love Drill Dozer, HarmoKnight and Tembo as well
...also after that bit on Giga Wrecker I am definitely taking it off my Gamefly queue. Sounds too frustrating for my taste
Shantae can turn into a bad*ss elephant, but nobody ever talks about THAT.
Yeah but did she get to war
Fun fact: pulseman was designed in response to Sonic. Sonic is blue and based on old western cartoons so pulseman is red and based on anime
I was so excited for Little Town Hero and then was FURIOUS playing it, so frustrating 😤
This is literally insane. I just watched his video about non-kirby games by HAL and thought he should make a video about non-pokemon games by Game Freak. But I thought that would never happen because he rarely makes pokemon videos. 15 minutes later, it appears in my suggestions.
Not really literally insane.
What's next? A video about Non-Fire Emblem games by Intelligent Systems?
An Advance Wars video would be really cool though
I still remember playing Smart Ball out of curiosity back in 2012-2013, and I didn't know it was called Jerry Boy in Japan
Fun fact about Pulseman, one of the theme in the game is VERY similar to the rival fight theme in Pokémon DPP :) more exactly Neo Tokyo at 00:33
Jelly Boy 2 has a nearly finished playable rom that you can play, and its actually really good!
i was definitely surprised when i saw the name Game Freak on games other than Pokemon, my "first encounter" as it were with Game Freak just before Pokemon even came out was Pulseman, a game i got to try out during the days of good old SEGA Channel... to this day i still miss that service, $10 for all the games at your fingertips was like being blessed by the almighty.
When I was younger and I saw pulse man I was excited! Can’t wait for pulse man to come out😵 never had Sega channel so I just forgot about the game!🤷🏻♂️🤣
I mostly know Little Town Hero as "that game that took resources away from Pokemon SwSh"
Same
Antdude seems so genuinely happy with his sponsor, I like to watch even though it's impossible for me to get the service
I always wanted to get HarmoKnight and Tembo when I was younger, but never got around to them because I never got any digital cards that much when I was younger. Still hope to check them out someday
well, i will say this: little town hero isn't the worst thing toby fox's name is attached to. that would be yiik.
"Let's talk about Game Freak"
*proceeds to feature two pokemon games not made by Game freak in the background*
Good vid tho, love the content lol
PulseMan is kinda hard until you realise your uppercut kick has full invincibility frames
One of the most common examples I’ve heard of is pulseman. I heard it was what gamefreak made before Pokemon
Isn’t Pulseman the design inspiration for Pawniard and Bisharp?
I remember playing Smart Ball back in the day and about the only thing I remember about it is playing as a slime and some really weird bosses.
Hello Fresh (or "Goodbye Rotten" to Vinny) is apparently okay, I know my sister has used it before and I didn't hear any complaints.
"It just kinda feels off" pretty much describes gamefreak post Iwata.
They havent evolved as a company since 2000.
I'm very glad you mentioned Pocket Card Jockey. That game is an absolute gem with some absolute bangers in its soundtrack!
I have the second game that Game Freak created, Smart Ball, for the SNES. It's a fun 2D sidescrolling platformer, has a bit of an odd gimmick it's based around. Jerry, the player character, can roll around, roll up walls, and bounce.
Pocket Card Jockey is one of the few 3DS games I unironically still play. It's just sooo good and I really can't recommend it enough.
Japan got a mobile port and I'm definitely not still salty we didn't get it...
I can't believe you didn't mention Tembo's ability to butt stomp.
I normally skip through the sponsorship segment, but since I know you're so passionate about Hello Fresh I stuck around to watch it anyway. I'd give it a try myself, but A, I'm too much of a picky eater for it to be worthwhile to me, and B, I can't really afford it at the moment anyway. It definitely sounds like something I'd be into though!
I don't know if Antdude has reviewed Pokémon: Uranium version but it seems like it would fit pretty well into his interest for fan-made content.
Didn't that get taken down by Nintendo?
@@Rabbitlord108 I'm pretty sure it did but there are ways to still get it so idk
@@Side_N0te Okay
I like how "Tembo the Badass Elephant" reminds me of "Shantae: Half-genie Hero." I might buy it if it ever gets ported to the Switch or Steam. (Update: It's actually on Steam, and for $3.74 till the end of the month.)
I gotta be honest, I completely forgot about Little Town Hero. I remember seeing it shown under the working title "Town" in a 2018 Nintendo Direct, and just never heard about it again. Surprised to hear that it came out two years ago with little to no fanfare. I probably would have picked it up had Nintendo marketed it more, to be honest.
Yeah I recognize tembo the badass elephant from a protonjon video where changing the controls makes tembo go mach5 with crazy moon jump. It was hilarious.
I'm gonna check out Pocket Card Jockey. That so gloriously stupid I can't resist
I would kill for a NON-POKÉMON collection from gamefreak on modern consoles. Pulse man, drill dozers, and way more!
Also, I remember playing drill dozer on my smartphone emulator on it. Trying to use the L and R buttons on a phone was hell but I still beat it and loved it!
“And J- um.... Jerry? JERRY!? JON’S GETTIN’ UPSET!” -Jon Jafari (JonTron)
I WOULD LOVE IT IF YOU MADE A VIDEO OF YOU COOKING THAT PIZZA!
You should review the weird Pokémon spin-offs because there are a lot
Drill dozer was so hype, i wish gamefreak could have time to make another one, but the Pokemon company is just running them ragged =(
Wanna come here and mention that Tembo and HarmoKnight was directed by James Turner, who was the main art director behind SwSh and designed Shadow Lugia and did the art for Pokemon Trozei.
2:39 You should have said "Now to the main course" instead. That was such low hanging fruit!
You should check out the Pokémon Ranger series! The games are fun!
The first game is meh, the second is great the third is also meh
Agreed.
Agree, Pokémon Ranger games are fun and super underrated games
Oh hell yeah, especially Shadows of Almia
I hated the first game as a kid (My older sister beat the game when we were kids though) liked the second cause of the change to mons having health bars (Still have the second one on Wii U) never played the third cause I suck at drawing.
I believe you can actually play Jelly Boy 2, the ROM is leaked online and it's apparently pretty good
Fun fact about Smartball: They actually cut out 92% of the story from the game. The intro cutscene was completely removed, and they took out little segments where you can talk to villagers/people to learn more of the story.
One of my favorite parts as a kid was when you take a rocket to the moon, fight a constellation, then fall back to earth on the north pole. In the original Jerry stops by heaven for a second and talks to some angels. (God was busy and wasn't there)
I like the game. Not the greatest thing ever produced, but it's still a fun time.
8:36 it's Monkey from Picachu on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System!
Seeing someone talk about Drill Dozer makes me extremely happy
Awesome doing a video centered on Drill Dozer and it’s unique game play. Thank you for this Antdude.
My 3ds backlog is so insane because every time I went to play a game I saw Pocket Card Jockey just calling me. Such a good game.
_when you are that one person who likes drill dozer more than nearly all of generation 3_
...I'm sorry I suck at rpgs.
Giga wrecker was such a fantastic little game. I was so surprised to hear it was made by gamefreak
The PC release was also much better than switch
It's actually on my list for later, one thing for sure I love the artsyle
Now THAT'S what I like to see! Drilldozer is still to this day one of my favorite gba games.
11:35 "If I had a nickel for every SNES game starring a jelly boy, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice."
I’m so glad someone finally talks about the cinematic masterpiece Tembo the Badass Elephant
That sponsorship transition was actually so smooth, nice!
Where can I find that cookbook
Saw it on amazon
Tembo the Badass Elephant is such a hilarious idea and i want to play it now
As soon as I saw this video I knew I had to check if you covered Pocket Card Jockey and thankfully you did.
Sorry that I only watched that part (for now); I just don't watch much of your videos as of late but I still feel like you carry the same good vibes you had from when I last watched your content, so nice.
Back to PCJ, you could've mentioned the music because the people who worked on the songs absolutely killed it (listen to Funky Monkey Style and the theme for the King's Gate race). Also, there are some other dialog bits that I find notable like Blingman's backstory and the dissapearance of Jimmy (one of the other jockeys you meet).
Dude, Harmokight and Pocket Card Jockey we're two of my favorite games on 3DS. Very underrated and dirt cheap for anyone looking for new games to try on the 3DS.
I need a HarmoKnight sequel yesterday, it's one of my favorite games of all time. And if they wanted it to actually sell they could make it have only Pokémon music, that would be so awesome
I love how the villain of HarmoKnight is a shadow demon with subwoofers on his shoulders. He looks, fittingly enough, like a scrapped Gen 5 Pokémon! Lol!
"GameFreak doesn't need Pikachu."
'Course it doesn't. They need Hydreigon.
2 videos in a week?
Good
Drill Dozer is great. I recently found out it's really expensive now. I'm glad I got it during the last days of the GBA, when the DS was the new hotness and stores were slashing prices on old tech.
8:36 So _that's_ where that weird Pikachu platformer bootleg got that monkey from.
"Many of you may be on a monster catching adventure as you're watching this."
He's right. I switched back to the TH-cam app after he said that to make this comment. I have Pokemon Crystal playing in a GBC emulator on my Android phone.