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@WildWeavile I think the ruins are just prophesizing N's birth. As far as we know, he doesn't have any grand lineage. And I think I remember them speaking in future-tense
@@Gatchu137 Zinzolin outright states that that the king had the power to talk with Pokémon, a power which he speculates to have been passed down to his descendants. So it's pretty much confirmed the king was N's ancestor.
@@skotiaH2Oit’s a very small route and has tunnels on both side and on top. the right one going to Spikemuth and the left one going to Hammerlocke with the top one going to route 8. it’s weird because it’s just such a small route that almost serves no purpose because it’s almost like an area filler. if you think about it, instead of route 7 being there, it could’ve been just one continuous tunnel from route 9 outside Spikemuth, to Hammerlocke so maybe Route 7 could’ve been somewhere else if you know what i mean sorry for the long explanation 😅
The wild area used to apparently be a body of water and I think it's more likely that was the place where it landed and the energy from the meteorite probably is what boiled that body of water away and resulted in the dreepy and corsola population turning into ghosts. The reason we know that it used to be connected to the ocean is that dreepy is directly stated to have lived in ancient oceans and the only place it's found in base game is in the wild area which is conveniently shaped like a giant valley that could hold water. The max lair is just connected to the same underground raid caverns. the cosmog present in freezington is the reason why ultra wormholes started opening in the sky above the tundra and that's where all the legendary Pokémon down there are coming from.
@@Nosretepterapagos did not land from anywhere. It's not from space. It was just a regular Pokémon that lived on earth and happened to produce a unique energy. When seismic activity caused all of them to fall underground, they eventually died out down there and all of their energy started leaking into the ground and perpetuating itself as ambient terastal energy There are plenty of Pokémon who have their own unique abilities or energy. Really there isn't even anything "legendary" about terapagos because much like ogerpon it is just a single individual from an entire species that is or was plentiful in the world at one point. it just happens to have more energy because it's been soaking it up down there for a long time.
The crystals in Kitakami were brought by Kieran's mask maker ancestor, who also used them to make Ogerpon's masks. This was explained in the story. As to why there's so many, well... we've seen them grow and expand in Area Zero, so it's safe to assume that something similar happened there as well.
yeah it seems like terastal energy is able to propagate itself as long as you have enough of it in one spot. The crystals probably fell into the pool at some point and attached to the bottom and started growing.
In the Adventures manga it's stated that Embedded Tower was indeed built by Draconids. Ruby and Norman return to their home region to investigate it during the ORAS chapter. I can see the Challenger's Cave being Cobalion's prior home before moving to Mistralton. Perhaps the construction of Route Nine Mall and Tubeline Bridge made them relocate. As for the Chamber of Emptiness, there's a likelihood it was where we would find Hoopa. In the TCG we see Tornadus in Dyna Tree Hill, who assumes the form of a Bird as Therian. I expected for the Crystal Tree to had been the source of the Herba Mystica in Paldea. Being protected by a Garganacl (one of Arven's Pokemon) was such an easy lore nugget.
The manga also speculates that Gurkinn could be a distant Draconid descendant. Look, I like lore connections as much as the next guy, but why should the secrets of Mega Evolution be exclusive to this one group of people? The Adventures universe can be really cynical sometimes...
11:40 The Ultra Ruin wasn't destroyed by Guzzlords, they're just the cleanup crew humanity left behind to hopefully restore the planets habitability. It's implied that what actually caused the apocalypse in that dimension was a nuclear power plant going critical and devastating the area.
So the Guzzlords are basically Wall-E? Also, the anime *did* have them be the cause of an alternate universe's destruction, so maybe JPR mixed up his lore.
A bit of a correction here 12:00, The villains didn't win in their timelines because of Rainbow Rocket, it's the opposite, Rainbow Rocket recruited them because they won in their timelines
And I may be misremembering, but it was also implied that the only reason those specific villains won was because there weren’t any protagonist characters to oppose them.
From the dialogue it seems like most of them were actually about to die before they got snatched up. And I'm pretty sure they imply that it wasn't a concerted effort by Giovanni to actually go looking for them, the wormholes just grabbed them and then he recruited them
you did galar dirty for like no reason lmao. watchtower ruins? the strange rock formation that evolves yamask? the max lair?? the chamber of emptiness is clearly just there to have a kinda spooky atmosphere (hence the spooky plate)
I was thinking there was gonna be some secret civilization or ruins of a civilization made of crystal in the deeper area of area zero. Like that crystal tree has to mean something it was used for promotion and it led up to nothing💀
That tree must've suffered the same fate as Terapagos, being swallowed into the depths of the earth due to earthquakes and tectonic movements and then crystallized alive. I guess that's all it was hinting at, in the end.
If I HAD to guess, it's to imply AZ was there, as any tree that can't be explained any other way seems to indicate it was planted by AZ. A GOOD exception is the tree that the Crown Shrine was built around, as the stone statue 'plaques' state it was a sapling then & the implication is that the Crown Shrine had its roof 'ripped off' by Eternatus' gravitational pull like the buildings around the Crown Tundra & Galar's Route 8 back during the ancient times of 3,000 years before Hammerlcoke Castle was built so Zacian & Zamazenta had to wait for Eternatus to get large enough for them to get a clean shot in. Registeel's Sheild Dex Entry already implies many Regigigigas couldn't be sealed away until around 10,000 years ago( *And now Scarlet's Dex Entry for Gogoat would further strongly imply that it wasn't until 5,000 years ago humans would have the means to challenge Regigigas as Skiddo are thought to be one of the first Pokemon to live in harmony with humans. Unclear if Cyclizar during a 'Mini Ice Age'/Glacial Period should count* ) , so the ropes being still bound until at least then applies by consequence, Groudon & Kyogre's Primal Forms are the key to the how & the Lental Seafloor Ruins being built on a spot that's now at least 1,000 meters/3,280.84 Feet underwater around 2,000 years later SHOULD be enough to suggest how crazy Kyogre's impact on the world was & why people outright believe it created the sea beyond mere expansion & we KNOW it was awake on at least two occasions in the last 2,000 years. I believe AZ planted the Laverre Tree at least 500 years before the one Wallace remarked was given by AZ( *Or rather 'The tall man from Kalos' * ) at the dawn of Sootopolis' earliest birth. I suspect he also planted Kleavor's Tree at the birth of Sinnoh/Hisui & later Electrode's 1,000 years before Legends Arceus, explaining the size difference between the two which Melli even notes on when he says Kleavor's Tree is "stupidly oversized". My theory is that Arceus created the Voltorb species with its 10th bolt, so AZ could never locate it until the 10 bolts struck again, whereupon one of its descendants was now an Electrode. AZ planting the Trees indicates his movements throughout the ages, 'eye balling' the 'Crystal Tree' at 13:52 make it SEEM smaller than Kleavor's Tree, so assuming rightfully or wrongfully that Terastal Energy DOESN'T effect plant growth like Dynamax & Illumina Energy are implied to, I Would say that the Tree is probably around 1,500 years old. The tree was likely planted by AZ after Laverre's Tree after AZ came to Kalos alongside people from Sinnoh purely by walking through the Sinjoh route to Johto. Johto & Kalos were likely physically linked much like Kalos & Paldea are now even after the ropes came undone, the separation of Johto & Kalos was likely a volcanic eruption from the hotspot that would've otherwise later created Sootopolis like in RSE & Xerneas, which died around 800 years ago was likely caught in the crossfire( *Jury's still out on Yveltal in Pokemon Y* ), fueling Kalos aggression through excess Illumina Energy, causing the surrounding civilizations of Paldea to unite against a common enemy, hence why Xerneas & Yveltal's deaths are the only known events to have happened around the 'ball park' of 805 years ago. Incidentally, I'd say that volcanic eruption also 'woke up' Groudon/Kyogre sleeping in Embedded Tower, which escaped 'ORAS Style' leading to the tower's collapse, around 200 after Kyogre & Groudon lost their Primal Forms to otherwise explain Embedded Tower's collapse in a world that by implication doesn't 'line up' with Emerald( *Where Groudon was in Mt. Chimney* ). If AZ planted the Tree around 1,500 years ago it would be after around 500 years of the Paldean Empire ruling the Region, AZ wasn't a part of the Emperor's men & managed to come back because the dude lived through being engulfed in the blast from the Ultimate Weapon & only has a metal 'knee cap' to show for it. Since Terapagos seems to be both the Treasure of Area Zero & the source of Herba Mystica, all AZ would have to do is bring them back to further inspire the first Emperor's successors to devote to getting the Mythical Treasure, and if an old man like AZ could come back & live to tell the tale, why wouldn't much younger military men think they couldn't do the same, thus initially boosting their morale? The thing that really sells me on this idea is the question of Gimmighoul's existence being tied to around 1,500 years ago & getting a trailer of its own dedicated to it, where did this passion linked to its existence come from? According to Arven, eating all of the Herba Mystica made his Mabosstiff start 'bursting with energy' after it was brought back from the brink of being cold to the touch & at least effectively blind, the Herba Mystica being even so indirectly linked to Gimmighoul's existence would make sense conceptually & linking it to AZ being in Ancient Sinnoh would fit with how much ScVi references Legends Arceus. As for the exact reason for why AZ left Sinnoh for Paldea, Legends Arceus implies by the Origin Ore being one of the shards that 'make up' Arceus' plates that they are the lava shells of 'Z Crystals', the one we get being specifically a Firium Z( *Explaining the Red Crystals, beyond the assumption they're directly linked to the Red Chain* ) presumably wedged between a Normalium( *Which the Blank Plate is likely made of* ) & Steelium( *Just wrap a bunch of 'Z Crystal in Light Clay, which are bot found in the Sinnoh Underground & was an item introduced in DP, 'color code' them to tell them apart, carve the messages like ancient people did with clay, put them in a kiln, and BAM: You've got your STONE tablets. The Legends Plate further implies you'd line them up into sets of three by three & then stack them so all types are contained inside. 'Z Crystals' fit into the palm of '11 year' child from Kanto & the Plates are only so much taller than an 15 'year old's' hand.* ). To link this to the theory each Ultra Space is a future version of each world where a villainous team won, the idea specifically that Megalo Tower is a repurposed Prism Tower & the people of 'Ultra Megalopolis' are descendants of Team Flare, their ancestors created Necrozma, much like the Aether Foundation created 'Type Null', to absorb the piece of Arceus asleep atop Spear Pillar. This would explain why Arceus is effected by the 'Z Plates'( *I'm just going to 'straight up' call them that* ), so just like Lunala & Solgaleo, Necrozma kept coming back to Sinnoh to try to reclaim what was its. I speculate this also happened after Legends Arceus, hence why it was sealed atop Spear Pillar, while the piece at Sinjoh Ruins is the Arceus from Guardian Signs, hence the Islands are called Oblivia, heck it's even the FRENCH word meaning roughly: *To Be Forgotten.*
2:07 I've heard somewhere that the pattern could resemble a circuit board. Considering how many _bugs_ live in this area, it makes for quite a funny visual pun. :) Then again, I'm not sure if said pun makes sense in Japanese, so...
Programming bugs have that name as a reference to actual bugs that would get inside the machines and interfere with a computer's proper functioning, so i believe the joke is multilingual
The crystal in the crystal lake likely came from the man accidentally dropping some into the lake. The story refer to the crystal as "brought from somehwere far away" hinting that it didn't exist in Kitakami prior to the man's arrival
@@evan_mirDM And that right there is why one of them being dropped in the pool is unnecessary. The implication is the man was part of Heath's team, therefore the crystals were brought around 200 years ago, and for just as long the masks they were partially made from have rested inside Kitakami Hall. This explains Tera Raid Dens as a whole being all over Kitakami in modern day. The implication at Research Station No 4 is that those crystals hold a large amount of Tera Energy, explaining why the experiment on Terapagos left them behind. Even though they supposedly have NOTHING on the black crystals, according to Jacq. Given the subtle world-building, minus maybe an exact coloration, I'm starting to wonder if Game Freak is implying Necrozma is made from said crystals, especially since according to Looker its body refracts light.
It is said in game that water from Tera caverns underground seeps up into the pool as a spring. This implies the Tera under depths caverns extends far past what we are able to explore. Because, you know, the earthquake cut off sections of the caverns.
I think a prototype/beta Magearna would make the most sense as Tettou/a scrapped Gen6 Mythical that was moved to Gen7. Not only Magearna seems to fit Kalos' aesthetic better than Alola's, but it is also linked to Volcanion, a Gen6 Mythical, in one of the movies.
Its never explaned but Glimet/Glimmora most likely evolved to consume Tera Crystals to keep the growth of them at bay since Terapegos uses them to terraform the enviroment. As for the tree it was preserved by the crystals overtime since the Siesmic Shift had occured, or its a fully grown Herba Mystica.
Back in the day I always wondered why they went out of their way to mention the Chamber of Emptiness on the map. Weird of them to hype up an area that only contains an Arceus Plate and a rather unmemorable Mega Evolution.
I think the Tera tree is to show how old the area ur in is. Up top in the first few levels of Area Zero, we see trees with Tera crystals growing around the trees. This tree has been fully terrastalized, showing that it’s been here much longer, OR that Tera power is a lot stronger in here, making the crystals grow faster😅❤
When goddess of sun, Yugi muto locked himself inside the cave, the firebird pokemon, mega ultra chicken was sad, very very sad. That's why no kanto birds ever showed up in duelist kingdom's safari zone
I think that glimmet is a seed that covers itself in Tera shards to amplify its strength. Some glimmet ended up in Kitakami, and some of the crystals on them fell into the pool.
I’m pretty sure the Tera Crystal Tree in Area Zero was just there to show “Hey, you know the trees up top in Area Zero that have the bottoms of them turned to crystal? That’s how far the Tera energy goes.”
I’ve seen people say that Zeraora could’ve been originally designed to be the squirrel on the world tree, so it would’ve had something to do with Zygarde, and the shinies of the XYZ trio and Zeraora look very similar so there could’ve been some connection.
That's interesting. It's also an Electric type to contrast Zygarde's Ground type. I always thought it was just the winner of a "create your own Pokémon" contest
@@edgargaebolg9307 It DOES look extremely generic, doesn't it? There's always been something about it that puzzles me, and i guess that's exactly it. It looks like it came straight out of a Pokémon clone game.
Well, if that recent Giga leak is anything to go by, there’s a strong possibility of this being true, SPOILERS BELOW given both Zygarde and Zeraora are getting megas in Legends ZA
4:04 it was really weird how you downplayed this lol, HGSS was a turning point for the games and there simply needed to be a way to introduce legendaries from other regions. They didnt start chucking the extra pokemon into pocket dimensions until ORAS. The lore implication here is that we got to witness Arceus use its "1000 hands" to create an egg for us. I dunno what more could have really been done there.
Area Zero's Underdepths Tree should've been a place where you fought Iron Leaves (Violet)/Walking Wake (Scarlet), I mean, it's a crystalized tree surrounded by a lake!!! All of the Mandatory Stellar Tera Pokémon battles in the Underdepths should've been battles against the new Paradox Pokémon! Way better than finding 2 of them in random places across Area Zero and one being event-locked... They could've even created new mythical paradoxes inspired by Ho-oh and Keldeo!!!
1. The crystal tree is so show where the herba mystica comes from. 2. The crystal pool is said to be spring water from area zero under depths caverns under Kitakami and that’s why the crystals are there.
I'm pretty sure the Crystal Pool happened because Ogerpon's trainer had some Tera cystals, they ended up in the pond, and they grew from there. Don't recall if that's confirmed somewhere in game or if that's just a fan theory.
I think the lost Gen 6 legendary was more likely to be Stakataka. Just a vibe, it just seems like the odd one out among the Ultra Beasts (who I know aren’t legendaries, doesn’t mean it wasn’t planned to be)
Awesome video As someone who has played Leaf Green numerous times I was so disappointed when Dotted Cave or Tanoby Ruins didn't have the Regis like I assumed they would when I found them
It does actually But only the first time each video and only with a slight few seconds headstart (also if u were already subbed I don't believe it does if you unsub during the video) It's only a multicoloured outline for a few seconds but yems
@@Flamne honestly it's only there cuz TH-cam realised that it would draw people's attention to the button when the word was said Like "oh yeah- that button is there, and the TH-camr did just ask me to like/subscribe, maybe I should do that" It's a mental thing If the TH-camr just says subscribe some people who are more zoned out will just hear the words and tune them out unless there's something else also drawing their attention back to the fact that it's a video on TH-cam and stuff, honestly, It's basically for ppl with ADHD who don't watch on full screen lol It's small enough to be an easy change for TH-cam and not be insignificant enough to be not worth it
14:31 In reality, we know that Ogerpon trainer around 200 years before the DLC brought the Crystal from a Distand Land (Paldea) and put them in the lake
Pretty sure this is not true. I think it’s said in game that the crystals are a result of spring water from Tera caverns underground like the area zero under depths seeping up through the ground.
Do check out the originally planned, but later scrapped parts to the Sevii Islands that aren't about the Altering Cave, things would be quite interesting from there
I remember spending so much time trying to get something other than Zubat to appear in Altering Cave. Oh the days before everything was in the internet right away 😂 In Johto I wish they would have done something more interesting with Bellchime Trail. It’s this beautiful trail perpetually in autumn but all you do it walk to Tin Tower and find hidden mushrooms. In Sinnoh, Ravaged Path always felt weird and out of place. What is the point in this random cave that just has a few items that you can’t even get until much later in the game so most people will probably never go back? In Paldea, unless I missed some dialogue, it bothered me that there are ruins in almost every part of the open areas of each province with little to no lore about them. Are they former villages? Remains of the Paldean Empire?
My personal theory on the Crystal tree in the depths of area zero is the island looks like a torterra's back, a terastallized torterra that would be a comon ancestor to terapagos and the present day torterra
I always thought the random cliff ledge that you can get to by collecting all the unknowns in diamond, pearl, and platinum was weird. It has no purpose as far as I know, and I have never been able to find any sort of information on why that cliffside was there and accessible.
This is a total conspiracy theory, but I think the crystalline tree area in the Area Zero Underdepths was Game Freak's revenge for all the harassment they got over Sword and Shield. They looked at the criticisms floating around the internet, picked one anyone would recognize, then flipped it on its head and made a beautiful, fantastical-looking tree that would genuinely intrigue people...and then made it completely pointless. Again, this is just a conspiracy theory, but even if it's true, considering how overblown the Sword and Shield backlash was and how it affected the developers' morale, I would not blame them in the slightest for pulling a move like this.
When a single person barely took an hour to fix what GameFreak could've done in months (between E3 and release), no, they absolutely deserve the hate for those graphical disasters of trees. That's not even mentioning all of the other graphics problems that they promised and didn't deliver. Them making a single really nice tree solely for revenge just cements how much the coders at GameFreak are wasting time.
@@SockieTheSockPuppet It's one thing to criticize the developers for not making the best game they possibly could, but the backlash went WAY beyond that. Game Freak's gotten criticized for the Scarlet and Violet issues as well, but those are almost all justified and rarely go farther than they have to. The fan response to Sword and Shield's shortcomings went way too far, and Game Freak had every right to tell them off for their behavior.
Hm... I've seen quite a few videos like these in the past, and the Scorched Slab is discussed quite consistently across them, but this is the first time the Mythology reference is mentioned. That's actually a really cool detail, especially since I'm kinda a fan of various mythos..es? mythei? mythos(plural)? Funnily though, that makes this area a lot LESS weird to me, since I now understand the reference and why it just holds a random Sunny Day TM. That doesn't make it not worth discussing, though. Learning new things *is* what makes these kinds of videos enjoyable, after all. Keep up the great work!
Route 24 and 25 from Kanto always stood out to me. Route 24 has the Unknown Dungeon/Cerulean Cave, while 25 has Bills house. Was there supposed to be some postgame content that was cut?
I think the tree was meant to show us like how in the upper layer trees where getting terrastilize, so did this tree. The difference is it was completely eroded until nothing was left of it. Saying that when terrapagos unleashed it's power any plants or life that was down there was nearly devoured by the crystals. Which is why most pokemon are rock pokemon.
I like to think that whichever of Groudon or Kyogre wasn't sealed in Seafloor Cavern in Ruby and Sapphire was canonically sealed in the Embedded Tower in Johto. After all, Heart Gold and Soul Silver get the opposite legendary of whichever Hoenn game they share canon with. It makes sense for people to want them separated, so sticking one at the bottom of the ocean and shipping the other off to a separate region makes sense. There's way more intention here than your average post-game legendary dump. Regarding the Area Zero tree, I have a theory. If Terapagos actually was a plentiful species that went extinct eons ago, maybe the one we get is just a regular Pokemon that was mutated by long term exposure to the local energy. Maybe the tree really is the origin point, and we pinned it on the turtle by mistake. It's just hard to imagine something with all those crazy reality warping powers existing in large numbers. Probably wrong, but it's decent food for thought.
Them not including the distortion world (as we saw it in the older Sinnoh games (D, P, PL)) in Legends Arceus is a huge missed opportunity. Instead we got those distortion spaces, but I'm not sure if that counts as the same thing. 😅
Uhh, there was no Distortion World in Diamond or Pearl. Only in Platinum. That's why the overly faithful remakes didn't have it (outside of the tiny room in Ramanas Park).
@robertlupa8273 Regardless, it would have been cool to see the Distortion world in Legends Arceus, instead of just the distortion spaces. A huge, huge missed opportunity, for sure! But it was a good game regardless. ☺️
@@ClefairyFairySnowflake They should've made it so when Giratina enters its second phase, it opens a portal to the Distortion World and drags the player into it. Would've been cool even if it was just as a battle stage
I read a fan theory somewhere about the connection between paldea and kalos. They believed the ultimate weapon was made from Tera crystals, which kinda makes sense given its unknown material and shine. They also noted it opens up similarly to glimmora, a significant Pokémon to terrastalization. As well as they loosely connected Area Zero with Az. Yeah it seems kinda interesting, but it seems speculative, so take it with a grain of salt…
I think it's pretty obvious that Challenger's cave was supposed to be home to a legendary, probably Keldeo and you would need the three swords or justice to make it pop, but that was scrapped for whatever reason
In the last gens we got mistical trees if you think about it, in unova we got the tree as a location in white, kalos got xeniarse, alola got the battle tree, galar the giant tree of the dlc and now paldea got the tera tree
Kalos: Had the 3,000 year War, The Ultimate Weapon in Geosenge town, an entire route inside a forest that actually shifts and warps to trick those who dare venture into it caused by created illusions Unvoa: Had an ancient war, Dragon Spiral Tower, and Lostlorn Forest where illusions created by Zoroark hide the majority of the area tricking those who go in it Sinnoh/Hisui: Has a mountain chain that hold series of complex mazes and cave systems with the Sinnoh Underground and has Spear Pillar, the sight of the home of the legendary and mythical Pokémon that created all there is inthe world. Has a Legendary Pokémon in a Volcano and even the spirit of the former Noble Lord of the Isle Alpha Arcanine on Firespit Island/Stark Mountain Kalos: Has multiple legendary and mythical pokemon said to reside in or do reside in the mountains and complex cave systems like Zygarde and Volcanion, another Volcano pokemon Unova: Has Twist Mountain, a warping volcano that appears as both active and dead depending on the multiversal timeline shenanigans of different versions of the game, also has multiple caves in Forests and Mountains that are where the Legendary Swords of Justice reside hidden away. Sinnoh/Hisui: The Snowpoint Temple Ruins and different hidden cave chambers that hold the Legendary Golems. Have you need to talk to other people near an old decrepit stone shrine/gather lost wisps to encounter Spiritomb Galar: Has ancient temples in the Crown Tundra that house the Legendary Golems slong with two previously undiscovered ones and need all five to be reunited in order to enter a Max Raid Den Cave to find their leader and creator. Also has a decrepit stone shrine that requires you to talk to different people in order to encounter Spiritomb Unova: Has recently unearthed and discovered mineshafts and cave temple chambers that also house the Legendary Golems. Notably does not have any known location regarding Spiritomb *EXCEPT* for *talking repeatedly to another person* who you actually end up dating and they just happen to have a Spiritomb that they just _happen to have_ from their journey in the Unova Region, implying that they obtained this Pokémon from _somewhere_ Paldea: Has an ancient giant crater in the center of the region that no one dares venture into because mysterious and dangerous powerful Pokémon resude there and is said to have a treasure in the very deepest depths if it's center, all covered and hidden away by thick fog that never dissapates, known as Area Zero. Also has multiple hidden tombs where dangerous Legendary Pokémon that were heavily feared for powers of chaos and destryare sealed away. There is even an innermost sanctum in the very center of Area Zero filled with ancient crystals that continue to exude enormous ammounts of mystical energy and tremendous power Unova: has an ancient giant crater in the most remote area of the region that no one dares venture into as it is said disaster always follows those who reach it's center, created from the impact of a meteor holding a powerful and mysterious terrifying Pokémon that split into three different creatures. Has an entire buried castle in the desert that holds treasures containing an ancient powerful Pokémon, an ancient tower also containing a hidden treasure that's connected to an ancient powerful legendary pokemon, and an entire sunken castle in the ocean that hold hidden treasures and ancient inscriptions with a completely unique and unknown form of Pictograms containing 4 undecipherable symbols that have had their meanings lost to history except for maybe one being a word that has 8 syllables in English but changes depending on French, Spanish, and Japanese, possibly being Harmonia. An ancient Pokémon also lies within the deepest innermost sanctum of the crator filled with ancient crystals that continuously exude tremendous power, in the location know as The Giant Chasm. The Pokémon inside also being the only one said to eat both Pokémon _and humans_ Legends: Z-A isn't the only game we should expect to discover some of the most hidden secrets and unsolved mysteries to finally be discovered. Legends: Aleos _will_ happen someday. *_As the journey continues_*
All of these weird extra areas in Pokémon games are generally related to cut content and ideas for future remakes or sequels that never ended up getting enough resources to be made properly.
Someone was really proud when they made that tree and then told Masuda or whoever "You better put that tree in the trailer or we're going to have problems!"
I think a good contender for a weird place in Galar would be the Dusty Bowl in the Wild Area. It's the place where you can evolve Galarian Yamask. There doesn't seem to be a definite explanation why that's the case. At least for stuff like Probopass, Leafeon, and Glaceon, their location-based evolutions are easy enough to understand. But for Runerigus, what's actually significant in that archway that it's a catalyst for its evolution?
There are a ton of unexplained areas in Area Zero like that one room with Roaring Moon or Iron Valiant which I kinda wished was explained. Ive been wondering what those weird circle markings on the floor was meant to be but the game never seemed to acknowledge it ever
we found the answer to that. If you take the symbol on the floor and you line it up with a map of the region then all of the points lineup with where the treasures of ruin are sealed away. As for why this information was hidden down in area zero? Well area zero was rumored to hide treasures. Maybe that's just one of them. I would assume that someone carved it down there as a way to make sure that the only person who would ever know about it is someone strong enough to get down to area zero in the first place. now as for things we truly don't have an explanation for? The metal plate that was pulled out of the ground. The one that is currently sitting up above the zero lab. It was discovered during the expedition and has all of the towns in the game marked on a little map of the region carved into it. No material can scratch the metal that it's made out of. We have zero clue what the deal is with it.
11:38 I actually don't think Guzzlord is responsible for the destruction of that planet. You can look around the area at various details, and then ask the guy in the hazmat suit about them. He talks about how the people living on the planet kept polluting it before leaving it behind, and that Guzzlord is a species who would eat the pollution, but have been dying out in recent years. That guy loves Guzzlord, but the people took advantage of it to clean up their pollution.
The spinoff games have weird areas as well. For example, the first PMD games, there are recruitment zones that look like man-made labs despite the Pokémon world seemingly having zero native humans.
I like the idea that ppl from Johto built a tower for Rayquaza, since towers are a reoccurring theme of legendaries and honouring pkmn in Johto. Wish more of the pkmn regions had this kind of cultural development, a lot of them feel very surface level in that regard, and it would do more to spice up the games (for me at least) that one-off-gimmicks, I think part of the reason the Johto games are so fondly remembered, despite so many issues, is that of all the regions it felt the most lived in.
14:35 I do think that Kitakami is just Gibraltar. It ties heavily into the idea of how many japanese people moved there and its full of their culture. Plus it ties into Paldea.
at this point im just relying on the anime to fill in the details that SV failed to explain on, from the current plot it seems like it will at least provide more explanations. recently they went to to Kitakami's crystal pool and they just said that "long ago crystals from another land were brought and put into the lake". not much to go on but im sure the anime will give bigger meanings to some of the unanswered stuff in the games
that tree had me thinking all kinds of things..only to be nothing. the trailer made it look so important and potentially like someone or something had to be freed from it. nope. just a tree.
I'd like to point out legends Arceus tells us that the Arceus we catch is just an avatar not the whole being. So in not so many words, the Giritina we catch is potentially an Avatar, the shadow form we can't catch is more likely closer if not the true form. Thats just my head cannon though feel free to debate below.
Actually, in Galar's wild area there is this old tower that you can interact with, doing so games the same dialogue as a deactivated Max Raid den. Never mind, apparently it is used for events.
One more in Paldea is that one cave in Aera zero with the sigil on the ground where you can find roaring moon. People speculate it’s connected to the treasures of ruin but it’s not a 1 for 1 so who knows. Apart from finding roaring moon that’s it
Just because Tom Wayland wanted to avoid the word "Arse" in Arceus doesn't mean the poketubers have to. I'm not sure why that's such a common thing still. Trivia bit for others not in the know, Arceus (アルセウス) is pronounced with a soft C. The voice director for the show intentionally changed it for the reason above.
Of the villains pre-gen7, if Team Rocket won it'd just be a mafia-run world which is just bleak and depressing with no real solution in sight, if aqua/magma/flare/galactic won the world is just over... I think an alternate reality where Team Plasma took over Unova and started conquering the pokemon world could be super interesting, maybe you'd be/meet N and form a resistance movement which eventually gets the help of some of the surviving regions and liberates Unova?
I really thought the tera tree would be a special area in the area zero underdepths where you could possibly shiny hunt walking wake or iron leaves, definitely a missed opportunity for sure.
I will always remember the alternative deminsion since I was leveling up my cosmog there and when it evolved it turned into a lunala instead of a sogolao
These are my favorite parts of pokemon games. Weird areas. I keep looking through videos to see places I didn’t remember. Just sad some have so much potential they didn’t do much with.
Saying GF "forgot" to give areas lasting value implies they had the time to do so, and given that they didn't have the time to properly finish and polish what WAS in the game, I'm not surprised at the empty feeling. (When I say "They didn't have the time", I mean it literally btw. You try releasing a game on an almost yearly schedule and see how the quality turns out even if you're alternating between an A and B dev team)
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The Abyssal ruins looked like they'd be so important with a dope story but ended up really just having collectable items to sell
It's an interesting lore area, at the very least. This is even acknowledged in B2W2.
@WildWeavile I think the ruins are just prophesizing N's birth. As far as we know, he doesn't have any grand lineage. And I think I remember them speaking in future-tense
I can’t remember how long I spent as a kid down there just trying to find anything and not just looking at the internet for 5 seconds
@@Gatchu137 Zinzolin outright states that that the king had the power to talk with Pokémon, a power which he speculates to have been passed down to his descendants. So it's pretty much confirmed the king was N's ancestor.
I spent hours upon hours there thinking a new legend or an old legend was chillin, and I was messing up somehow when kicked out
For galar some weird locations are the destroyed tower in the wild area, the rock that evolves yamask for no apparent reason, the entirety of Route 8.
What's weird about Route 7?
@@skotiaH2Oit’s a very small route and has tunnels on both side and on top. the right one going to Spikemuth and the left one going to Hammerlocke with the top one going to route 8. it’s weird because it’s just such a small route that almost serves no purpose because it’s almost like an area filler. if you think about it, instead of route 7 being there, it could’ve been just one continuous tunnel from route 9 outside Spikemuth, to Hammerlocke so maybe Route 7 could’ve been somewhere else if you know what i mean
sorry for the long explanation 😅
The destroyed tower was there for you to put items that create raid dens. This wasn't used outside of the preorder bonus
@@FayezUllah-hk7ckit was also used for events
@@skotiaH2O whops I meant route 8, the route that has ruins. Sorry😅
I honestly do think the Max Lair in the Crown Tundra is somewhat interesting since that's probably where Eternatus landed 20,000 years ago.
Weirdly enough, Legendary Pokémon always leave a giant creator when they land(Kyurem and Terapagos) But Galar has none.
The wild area used to apparently be a body of water and I think it's more likely that was the place where it landed and the energy from the meteorite probably is what boiled that body of water away and resulted in the dreepy and corsola population turning into ghosts.
The reason we know that it used to be connected to the ocean is that dreepy is directly stated to have lived in ancient oceans and the only place it's found in base game is in the wild area which is conveniently shaped like a giant valley that could hold water.
The max lair is just connected to the same underground raid caverns. the cosmog present in freezington is the reason why ultra wormholes started opening in the sky above the tundra and that's where all the legendary Pokémon down there are coming from.
@@Nosretepterapagos did not land from anywhere. It's not from space. It was just a regular Pokémon that lived on earth and happened to produce a unique energy. When seismic activity caused all of them to fall underground, they eventually died out down there and all of their energy started leaking into the ground and perpetuating itself as ambient terastal energy
There are plenty of Pokémon who have their own unique abilities or energy. Really there isn't even anything "legendary" about terapagos because much like ogerpon it is just a single individual from an entire species that is or was plentiful in the world at one point. it just happens to have more energy because it's been soaking it up down there for a long time.
The crystals in Kitakami were brought by Kieran's mask maker ancestor, who also used them to make Ogerpon's masks. This was explained in the story. As to why there's so many, well... we've seen them grow and expand in Area Zero, so it's safe to assume that something similar happened there as well.
yeah it seems like terastal energy is able to propagate itself as long as you have enough of it in one spot. The crystals probably fell into the pool at some point and attached to the bottom and started growing.
In the Adventures manga it's stated that Embedded Tower was indeed built by Draconids.
Ruby and Norman return to their home region to investigate it during the ORAS chapter.
I can see the Challenger's Cave being Cobalion's prior home before moving to Mistralton.
Perhaps the construction of Route Nine Mall and Tubeline Bridge made them relocate.
As for the Chamber of Emptiness, there's a likelihood it was where we would find Hoopa.
In the TCG we see Tornadus in Dyna Tree Hill, who assumes the form of a Bird as Therian.
I expected for the Crystal Tree to had been the source of the Herba Mystica in Paldea.
Being protected by a Garganacl (one of Arven's Pokemon) was such an easy lore nugget.
Always enjoy how the manga fleshes things out
@@JPRPokeTrainer98 The SwSh arc fixes Chairman Rose by a long margin!
The manga also speculates that Gurkinn could be a distant Draconid descendant. Look, I like lore connections as much as the next guy, but why should the secrets of Mega Evolution be exclusive to this one group of people? The Adventures universe can be really cynical sometimes...
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The Ultra Ruin wasn't destroyed by Guzzlords, they're just the cleanup crew humanity left behind to hopefully restore the planets habitability. It's implied that what actually caused the apocalypse in that dimension was a nuclear power plant going critical and devastating the area.
So the Guzzlords are basically Wall-E?
Also, the anime *did* have them be the cause of an alternate universe's destruction, so maybe JPR mixed up his lore.
@@Evdafawth the anime is well known for butchering the plot lines and concepts of the games
@@somethingbanter All the time?
A bit of a correction here 12:00, The villains didn't win in their timelines because of Rainbow Rocket, it's the opposite, Rainbow Rocket recruited them because they won in their timelines
_Maybe_ JPR meant "we know this happened because Rainbow Rocket exists"?
I took it as “we know they won because Rainbow rocket exists”
And I may be misremembering, but it was also implied that the only reason those specific villains won was because there weren’t any protagonist characters to oppose them.
@@sable-king2066 Yeah it's heavily implied that in their universes, the protagonists either didn't exist or they never met.
From the dialogue it seems like most of them were actually about to die before they got snatched up. And I'm pretty sure they imply that it wasn't a concerted effort by Giovanni to actually go looking for them, the wormholes just grabbed them and then he recruited them
you did galar dirty for like no reason lmao. watchtower ruins? the strange rock formation that evolves yamask? the max lair??
the chamber of emptiness is clearly just there to have a kinda spooky atmosphere (hence the spooky plate)
Galar and Gen 8 (besides Legends: Arceus) deserve every single ounce of hate.
The crystal tree under Area Zero is just GF spitting at those who complained about the trees during the Sword/Shield releases.
I was thinking there was gonna be some secret civilization or ruins of a civilization made of crystal in the deeper area of area zero. Like that crystal tree has to mean something it was used for promotion and it led up to nothing💀
That tree must've suffered the same fate as Terapagos, being swallowed into the depths of the earth due to earthquakes and tectonic movements and then crystallized alive. I guess that's all it was hinting at, in the end.
If I HAD to guess, it's to imply AZ was there, as any tree that can't be explained any other way seems to indicate it was planted by AZ. A GOOD exception is the tree that the Crown Shrine was built around, as the stone statue 'plaques' state it was a sapling then & the implication is that the Crown Shrine had its roof 'ripped off' by Eternatus' gravitational pull like the buildings around the Crown Tundra & Galar's Route 8 back during the ancient times of 3,000 years before Hammerlcoke Castle was built so Zacian & Zamazenta had to wait for Eternatus to get large enough for them to get a clean shot in. Registeel's Sheild Dex Entry already implies many Regigigigas couldn't be sealed away until around 10,000 years ago( *And now Scarlet's Dex Entry for Gogoat would further strongly imply that it wasn't until 5,000 years ago humans would have the means to challenge Regigigas as Skiddo are thought to be one of the first Pokemon to live in harmony with humans. Unclear if Cyclizar during a 'Mini Ice Age'/Glacial Period should count* ) , so the ropes being still bound until at least then applies by consequence, Groudon & Kyogre's Primal Forms are the key to the how & the Lental Seafloor Ruins being built on a spot that's now at least 1,000 meters/3,280.84 Feet underwater around 2,000 years later SHOULD be enough to suggest how crazy Kyogre's impact on the world was & why people outright believe it created the sea beyond mere expansion & we KNOW it was awake on at least two occasions in the last 2,000 years.
I believe AZ planted the Laverre Tree at least 500 years before the one Wallace remarked was given by AZ( *Or rather 'The tall man from Kalos' * ) at the dawn of Sootopolis' earliest birth. I suspect he also planted Kleavor's Tree at the birth of Sinnoh/Hisui & later Electrode's 1,000 years before Legends Arceus, explaining the size difference between the two which Melli even notes on when he says Kleavor's Tree is "stupidly oversized". My theory is that Arceus created the Voltorb species with its 10th bolt, so AZ could never locate it until the 10 bolts struck again, whereupon one of its descendants was now an Electrode.
AZ planting the Trees indicates his movements throughout the ages, 'eye balling' the 'Crystal Tree' at 13:52 make it SEEM smaller than Kleavor's Tree, so assuming rightfully or wrongfully that Terastal Energy DOESN'T effect plant growth like Dynamax & Illumina Energy are implied to, I Would say that the Tree is probably around 1,500 years old. The tree was likely planted by AZ after Laverre's Tree after AZ came to Kalos alongside people from Sinnoh purely by walking through the Sinjoh route to Johto. Johto & Kalos were likely physically linked much like Kalos & Paldea are now even after the ropes came undone, the separation of Johto & Kalos was likely a volcanic eruption from the hotspot that would've otherwise later created Sootopolis like in RSE & Xerneas, which died around 800 years ago was likely caught in the crossfire( *Jury's still out on Yveltal in Pokemon Y* ), fueling Kalos aggression through excess Illumina Energy, causing the surrounding civilizations of Paldea to unite against a common enemy, hence why Xerneas & Yveltal's deaths are the only known events to have happened around the 'ball park' of 805 years ago. Incidentally, I'd say that volcanic eruption also 'woke up' Groudon/Kyogre sleeping in Embedded Tower, which escaped 'ORAS Style' leading to the tower's collapse, around 200 after Kyogre & Groudon lost their Primal Forms to otherwise explain Embedded Tower's collapse in a world that by implication doesn't 'line up' with Emerald( *Where Groudon was in Mt. Chimney* ).
If AZ planted the Tree around 1,500 years ago it would be after around 500 years of the Paldean Empire ruling the Region, AZ wasn't a part of the Emperor's men & managed to come back because the dude lived through being engulfed in the blast from the Ultimate Weapon & only has a metal 'knee cap' to show for it. Since Terapagos seems to be both the Treasure of Area Zero & the source of Herba Mystica, all AZ would have to do is bring them back to further inspire the first Emperor's successors to devote to getting the Mythical Treasure, and if an old man like AZ could come back & live to tell the tale, why wouldn't much younger military men think they couldn't do the same, thus initially boosting their morale?
The thing that really sells me on this idea is the question of Gimmighoul's existence being tied to around 1,500 years ago & getting a trailer of its own dedicated to it, where did this passion linked to its existence come from? According to Arven, eating all of the Herba Mystica made his Mabosstiff start 'bursting with energy' after it was brought back from the brink of being cold to the touch & at least effectively blind, the Herba Mystica being even so indirectly linked to Gimmighoul's existence would make sense conceptually & linking it to AZ being in Ancient Sinnoh would fit with how much ScVi references Legends Arceus.
As for the exact reason for why AZ left Sinnoh for Paldea, Legends Arceus implies by the Origin Ore being one of the shards that 'make up' Arceus' plates that they are the lava shells of 'Z Crystals', the one we get being specifically a Firium Z( *Explaining the Red Crystals, beyond the assumption they're directly linked to the Red Chain* ) presumably wedged between a Normalium( *Which the Blank Plate is likely made of* ) & Steelium( *Just wrap a bunch of 'Z Crystal in Light Clay, which are bot found in the Sinnoh Underground & was an item introduced in DP, 'color code' them to tell them apart, carve the messages like ancient people did with clay, put them in a kiln, and BAM: You've got your STONE tablets. The Legends Plate further implies you'd line them up into sets of three by three & then stack them so all types are contained inside. 'Z Crystals' fit into the palm of '11 year' child from Kanto & the Plates are only so much taller than an 15 'year old's' hand.* ). To link this to the theory each Ultra Space is a future version of each world where a villainous team won, the idea specifically that Megalo Tower is a repurposed Prism Tower & the people of 'Ultra Megalopolis' are descendants of Team Flare, their ancestors created Necrozma, much like the Aether Foundation created 'Type Null', to absorb the piece of Arceus asleep atop Spear Pillar. This would explain why Arceus is effected by the 'Z Plates'( *I'm just going to 'straight up' call them that* ), so just like Lunala & Solgaleo, Necrozma kept coming back to Sinnoh to try to reclaim what was its. I speculate this also happened after Legends Arceus, hence why it was sealed atop Spear Pillar, while the piece at Sinjoh Ruins is the Arceus from Guardian Signs, hence the Islands are called Oblivia, heck it's even the FRENCH word meaning roughly: *To Be Forgotten.*
The locked power plant door and the room with the alakazite in reflection cave would've been great locations for Diance and Volcanion
2:07 I've heard somewhere that the pattern could resemble a circuit board. Considering how many _bugs_ live in this area, it makes for quite a funny visual pun. :) Then again, I'm not sure if said pun makes sense in Japanese, so...
I remember that one to, might have been Didyouknowgaming
pretty sure the word bug is just bug in every language
Programming bugs have that name as a reference to actual bugs that would get inside the machines and interfere with a computer's proper functioning, so i believe the joke is multilingual
@@RRRR-jr1gp bug is bagu in japanese
@@domdude64dd Japanese actually use the word 昆虫 Konchū or 虫 Mushi for bug.
The crystal in the crystal lake likely came from the man accidentally dropping some into the lake. The story refer to the crystal as "brought from somehwere far away" hinting that it didn't exist in Kitakami prior to the man's arrival
Those crystals though were used to make Ogrepon's masks, so we have no indications on how more crystals could have ended up in the lake.
@ it didn’t say it used all of them. Tera crystal are also observed to be capable of spreading, so just some is enough
@@evan_mirDM And that right there is why one of them being dropped in the pool is unnecessary. The implication is the man was part of Heath's team, therefore the crystals were brought around 200 years ago, and for just as long the masks they were partially made from have rested inside Kitakami Hall. This explains Tera Raid Dens as a whole being all over Kitakami in modern day.
The implication at Research Station No 4 is that those crystals hold a large amount of Tera Energy, explaining why the experiment on Terapagos left them behind. Even though they supposedly have NOTHING on the black crystals, according to Jacq. Given the subtle world-building, minus maybe an exact coloration, I'm starting to wonder if Game Freak is implying Necrozma is made from said crystals, especially since according to Looker its body refracts light.
It is said in game that water from Tera caverns underground seeps up into the pool as a spring.
This implies the Tera under depths caverns extends far past what we are able to explore. Because, you know, the earthquake cut off sections of the caverns.
@@Wolfie54545 Citation?
The metric of "weird" being "have the least to do" is extremely disappointing.
I think a prototype/beta Magearna would make the most sense as Tettou/a scrapped Gen6 Mythical that was moved to Gen7.
Not only Magearna seems to fit Kalos' aesthetic better than Alola's, but it is also linked to Volcanion, a Gen6 Mythical, in one of the movies.
4:43 That only really started with ORAS once there were too many old legendaries to give them all unique quests and locations.
Its never explaned but Glimet/Glimmora most likely evolved to consume Tera Crystals to keep the growth of them at bay since Terapegos uses them to terraform the enviroment. As for the tree it was preserved by the crystals overtime since the Siesmic Shift had occured, or its a fully grown Herba Mystica.
Back in the day I always wondered why they went out of their way to mention the Chamber of Emptiness on the map. Weird of them to hype up an area that only contains an Arceus Plate and a rather unmemorable Mega Evolution.
The tree in SV was just The Paths
Eren Yeager???
I think the Tera tree is to show how old the area ur in is. Up top in the first few levels of Area Zero, we see trees with Tera crystals growing around the trees. This tree has been fully terrastalized, showing that it’s been here much longer, OR that Tera power is a lot stronger in here, making the crystals grow faster😅❤
When goddess of sun, Yugi muto locked himself inside the cave, the firebird pokemon, mega ultra chicken was sad, very very sad. That's why no kanto birds ever showed up in duelist kingdom's safari zone
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Ok ok, but what does Pot of Greed do?
I think that glimmet is a seed that covers itself in Tera shards to amplify its strength. Some glimmet ended up in Kitakami, and some of the crystals on them fell into the pool.
I’m pretty sure the Tera Crystal Tree in Area Zero was just there to show “Hey, you know the trees up top in Area Zero that have the bottoms of them turned to crystal? That’s how far the Tera energy goes.”
No I’m pretty sure the tree is to show where the herbs mystica comes from
I’ve seen people say that Zeraora could’ve been originally designed to be the squirrel on the world tree, so it would’ve had something to do with Zygarde, and the shinies of the XYZ trio and Zeraora look very similar so there could’ve been some connection.
That's interesting. It's also an Electric type to contrast Zygarde's Ground type. I always thought it was just the winner of a "create your own Pokémon" contest
@@edgargaebolg9307 It DOES look extremely generic, doesn't it? There's always been something about it that puzzles me, and i guess that's exactly it. It looks like it came straight out of a Pokémon clone game.
Well, if that recent Giga leak is anything to go by, there’s a strong possibility of this being true, SPOILERS BELOW
given both Zygarde and Zeraora are getting megas in Legends ZA
4:04 it was really weird how you downplayed this lol, HGSS was a turning point for the games and there simply needed to be a way to introduce legendaries from other regions. They didnt start chucking the extra pokemon into pocket dimensions until ORAS. The lore implication here is that we got to witness Arceus use its "1000 hands" to create an egg for us. I dunno what more could have really been done there.
Area Zero's Underdepths Tree should've been a place where you fought Iron Leaves (Violet)/Walking Wake (Scarlet), I mean, it's a crystalized tree surrounded by a lake!!! All of the Mandatory Stellar Tera Pokémon battles in the Underdepths should've been battles against the new Paradox Pokémon! Way better than finding 2 of them in random places across Area Zero and one being event-locked... They could've even created new mythical paradoxes inspired by Ho-oh and Keldeo!!!
1. The crystal tree is so show where the herba mystica comes from.
2. The crystal pool is said to be spring water from area zero under depths caverns under Kitakami and that’s why the crystals are there.
I'm pretty sure the Crystal Pool happened because Ogerpon's trainer had some Tera cystals, they ended up in the pond, and they grew from there.
Don't recall if that's confirmed somewhere in game or if that's just a fan theory.
It's at least heavily hinted that those crystals in the masks are Tera crystals, and those two lived on the mountain, so it's a solid theory.
I feel like the water would be distrusted if the crystals could be traced to the masked man
I think it’s is said in game the crystals are from spring water from caverns underground that are Tera caverns like the under depths .
I think the lost Gen 6 legendary was more likely to be Stakataka. Just a vibe, it just seems like the odd one out among the Ultra Beasts (who I know aren’t legendaries, doesn’t mean it wasn’t planned to be)
Maybe the Crystal Tree requires the Six Hero Pokemon. Dumb guess, I know.
No, that would be cool
Anime can always add there own spin since already are
Shoutout to the Mark Martin shirt! Cool to see a fellow Pokemon fan who also likes the old days of NASCAR. Johnny Benson is my favorite. 😊
Awesome video
As someone who has played Leaf Green numerous times I was so disappointed when Dotted Cave or Tanoby Ruins didn't have the Regis like I assumed they would when I found them
Love leaving work on Fridays and immediately getting to watch your uploads 💜
Glad you enjoy the videos!
I get to enjoy these videos every week after my weekly sauna, so I always feel very refreshed while watching these.
@8:24 I even unsubscribed to check this one and feel betrayed
It does actually
But only the first time each video and only with a slight few seconds headstart (also if u were already subbed I don't believe it does if you unsub during the video)
It's only a multicoloured outline for a few seconds but yems
@@dawnbun well that was not worth 3 taps
@@Flamne honestly it's only there cuz TH-cam realised that it would draw people's attention to the button when the word was said
Like "oh yeah- that button is there, and the TH-camr did just ask me to like/subscribe, maybe I should do that"
It's a mental thing
If the TH-camr just says subscribe some people who are more zoned out will just hear the words and tune them out unless there's something else also drawing their attention back to the fact that it's a video on TH-cam and stuff, honestly, It's basically for ppl with ADHD who don't watch on full screen lol
It's small enough to be an easy change for TH-cam and not be insignificant enough to be not worth it
Real strange area in Galar is the spot where Runarigus evolves
14:31 In reality, we know that Ogerpon trainer around 200 years before the DLC brought the Crystal from a Distand Land (Paldea) and put them in the lake
Pretty sure this is not true. I think it’s said in game that the crystals are a result of spring water from Tera caverns underground like the area zero under depths seeping up through the ground.
@@Wolfie54545 No, they litterally said that they were brought here from a far away land by the sign in the Crystal Lake
I thought the crystal tree in gen 9 dlc would've been something cool but sadly it was just there too look pretty -_-
Do check out the originally planned, but later scrapped parts to the Sevii Islands that aren't about the Altering Cave, things would be quite interesting from there
I remember spending so much time trying to get something other than Zubat to appear in Altering Cave. Oh the days before everything was in the internet right away 😂
In Johto I wish they would have done something more interesting with Bellchime Trail. It’s this beautiful trail perpetually in autumn but all you do it walk to Tin Tower and find hidden mushrooms.
In Sinnoh, Ravaged Path always felt weird and out of place. What is the point in this random cave that just has a few items that you can’t even get until much later in the game so most people will probably never go back?
In Paldea, unless I missed some dialogue, it bothered me that there are ruins in almost every part of the open areas of each province with little to no lore about them. Are they former villages? Remains of the Paldean Empire?
There's no info about them, but Spain has a lot of ruins from different cultures so they're probably just referencing that
My headcanon about dyna tree Hill is that it's in the place where the meteorite eturnatus was in landed
My personal theory on the Crystal tree in the depths of area zero is the island looks like a torterra's back, a terastallized torterra that would be a comon ancestor to terapagos and the present day torterra
I always thought the random cliff ledge that you can get to by collecting all the unknowns in diamond, pearl, and platinum was weird. It has no purpose as far as I know, and I have never been able to find any sort of information on why that cliffside was there and accessible.
This is a total conspiracy theory, but I think the crystalline tree area in the Area Zero Underdepths was Game Freak's revenge for all the harassment they got over Sword and Shield. They looked at the criticisms floating around the internet, picked one anyone would recognize, then flipped it on its head and made a beautiful, fantastical-looking tree that would genuinely intrigue people...and then made it completely pointless. Again, this is just a conspiracy theory, but even if it's true, considering how overblown the Sword and Shield backlash was and how it affected the developers' morale, I would not blame them in the slightest for pulling a move like this.
When a single person barely took an hour to fix what GameFreak could've done in months (between E3 and release), no, they absolutely deserve the hate for those graphical disasters of trees. That's not even mentioning all of the other graphics problems that they promised and didn't deliver. Them making a single really nice tree solely for revenge just cements how much the coders at GameFreak are wasting time.
@@SockieTheSockPuppet It's one thing to criticize the developers for not making the best game they possibly could, but the backlash went WAY beyond that. Game Freak's gotten criticized for the Scarlet and Violet issues as well, but those are almost all justified and rarely go farther than they have to. The fan response to Sword and Shield's shortcomings went way too far, and Game Freak had every right to tell them off for their behavior.
@ZachaRicO "almost all justified" - you're kidding me, right?
People are so spoiled.... 🤦♀️
@@gaminggranny1541 Tell me about it.
Hm... I've seen quite a few videos like these in the past, and the Scorched Slab is discussed quite consistently across them, but this is the first time the Mythology reference is mentioned. That's actually a really cool detail, especially since I'm kinda a fan of various mythos..es? mythei? mythos(plural)?
Funnily though, that makes this area a lot LESS weird to me, since I now understand the reference and why it just holds a random Sunny Day TM. That doesn't make it not worth discussing, though. Learning new things *is* what makes these kinds of videos enjoyable, after all.
Keep up the great work!
Route 24 and 25 from Kanto always stood out to me. Route 24 has the Unknown Dungeon/Cerulean Cave, while 25 has Bills house. Was there supposed to be some postgame content that was cut?
I doubt it. The early Kanto games didn't have a lot of memory and were pretty thin in terms of plot to begin with.
I think the tree was meant to show us like how in the upper layer trees where getting terrastilize, so did this tree. The difference is it was completely eroded until nothing was left of it. Saying that when terrapagos unleashed it's power any plants or life that was down there was nearly devoured by the crystals. Which is why most pokemon are rock pokemon.
It sure looked like it was alive.
No I think the tree is to show where the herba mystica comes from
@@Wolfie54545 how, when there's no such thing around it?
I like to think that whichever of Groudon or Kyogre wasn't sealed in Seafloor Cavern in Ruby and Sapphire was canonically sealed in the Embedded Tower in Johto. After all, Heart Gold and Soul Silver get the opposite legendary of whichever Hoenn game they share canon with. It makes sense for people to want them separated, so sticking one at the bottom of the ocean and shipping the other off to a separate region makes sense. There's way more intention here than your average post-game legendary dump.
Regarding the Area Zero tree, I have a theory. If Terapagos actually was a plentiful species that went extinct eons ago, maybe the one we get is just a regular Pokemon that was mutated by long term exposure to the local energy. Maybe the tree really is the origin point, and we pinned it on the turtle by mistake. It's just hard to imagine something with all those crazy reality warping powers existing in large numbers. Probably wrong, but it's decent food for thought.
Them not including the distortion world (as we saw it in the older Sinnoh games (D, P, PL)) in Legends Arceus is a huge missed opportunity. Instead we got those distortion spaces, but I'm not sure if that counts as the same thing. 😅
Uhh, there was no Distortion World in Diamond or Pearl. Only in Platinum. That's why the overly faithful remakes didn't have it (outside of the tiny room in Ramanas Park).
@robertlupa8273 Regardless, it would have been cool to see the Distortion world in Legends Arceus, instead of just the distortion spaces. A huge, huge missed opportunity, for sure! But it was a good game regardless. ☺️
@@ClefairyFairySnowflake They should've made it so when Giratina enters its second phase, it opens a portal to the Distortion World and drags the player into it. Would've been cool even if it was just as a battle stage
@edgargaebolg9307 It's cool to imagine the possibilities.
I read a fan theory somewhere about the connection between paldea and kalos. They believed the ultimate weapon was made from Tera crystals, which kinda makes sense given its unknown material and shine. They also noted it opens up similarly to glimmora, a significant Pokémon to terrastalization. As well as they loosely connected Area Zero with Az. Yeah it seems kinda interesting, but it seems speculative, so take it with a grain of salt…
Crystals are generally important in JRPGs to begin with.
I went back to the area zero underdepths to take pictures of my pokemon with a cool background.
That's about it though.
I think it's pretty obvious that Challenger's cave was supposed to be home to a legendary, probably Keldeo and you would need the three swords or justice to make it pop, but that was scrapped for whatever reason
3:40 That book is a Chowder reference. There's a reason I like JPR.
I never had heard about the jade orb! And i didn't know you could catch groundon on that game
I like how you used Narwa from monster hunter as a shadow for the mystery gen 6 pokemon!
Thunder Serpent Narwa jumpscare
In the last gens we got mistical trees if you think about it, in unova we got the tree as a location in white, kalos got xeniarse, alola got the battle tree, galar the giant tree of the dlc and now paldea got the tera tree
Love that Shiny Catherine reference in the thumbnail
“Ooh, flawless transition”
Me after using “additionally” in an essay
Ahhh, I see that Thunder Serpent Narwa silhouette at 10:47, I see someone’s also a monster hunter fan eh?
Monster❗️ hunter❗️ reference❗️ spotted❗️
Kalos: Had the 3,000 year War, The Ultimate Weapon in Geosenge town, an entire route inside a forest that actually shifts and warps to trick those who dare venture into it caused by created illusions
Unvoa: Had an ancient war, Dragon Spiral Tower, and Lostlorn Forest where illusions created by Zoroark hide the majority of the area tricking those who go in it
Sinnoh/Hisui: Has a mountain chain that hold series of complex mazes and cave systems with the Sinnoh Underground and has Spear Pillar, the sight of the home of the legendary and mythical Pokémon that created all there is inthe world. Has a Legendary Pokémon in a Volcano and even the spirit of the former Noble Lord of the Isle Alpha Arcanine on Firespit Island/Stark Mountain
Kalos: Has multiple legendary and mythical pokemon said to reside in or do reside in the mountains and complex cave systems like Zygarde and Volcanion, another Volcano pokemon
Unova: Has Twist Mountain, a warping volcano that appears as both active and dead depending on the multiversal timeline shenanigans of different versions of the game, also has multiple caves in Forests and Mountains that are where the Legendary Swords of Justice reside hidden away.
Sinnoh/Hisui: The Snowpoint Temple Ruins and different hidden cave chambers that hold the Legendary Golems. Have you need to talk to other people near an old decrepit stone shrine/gather lost wisps to encounter Spiritomb
Galar: Has ancient temples in the Crown Tundra that house the Legendary Golems slong with two previously undiscovered ones and need all five to be reunited in order to enter a Max Raid Den Cave to find their leader and creator. Also has a decrepit stone shrine that requires you to talk to different people in order to encounter Spiritomb
Unova: Has recently unearthed and discovered mineshafts and cave temple chambers that also house the Legendary Golems. Notably does not have any known location regarding Spiritomb *EXCEPT* for *talking repeatedly to another person* who you actually end up dating and they just happen to have a Spiritomb that they just _happen to have_ from their journey in the Unova Region, implying that they obtained this Pokémon from _somewhere_
Paldea: Has an ancient giant crater in the center of the region that no one dares venture into because mysterious and dangerous powerful Pokémon resude there and is said to have a treasure in the very deepest depths if it's center, all covered and hidden away by thick fog that never dissapates, known as Area Zero. Also has multiple hidden tombs where dangerous Legendary Pokémon that were heavily feared for powers of chaos and destryare sealed away. There is even an innermost sanctum in the very center of Area Zero filled with ancient crystals that continue to exude enormous ammounts of mystical energy and tremendous power
Unova: has an ancient giant crater in the most remote area of the region that no one dares venture into as it is said disaster always follows those who reach it's center, created from the impact of a meteor holding a powerful and mysterious terrifying Pokémon that split into three different creatures. Has an entire buried castle in the desert that holds treasures containing an ancient powerful Pokémon, an ancient tower also containing a hidden treasure that's connected to an ancient powerful legendary pokemon, and an entire sunken castle in the ocean that hold hidden treasures and ancient inscriptions with a completely unique and unknown form of Pictograms containing 4 undecipherable symbols that have had their meanings lost to history except for maybe one being a word that has 8 syllables in English but changes depending on French, Spanish, and Japanese, possibly being Harmonia.
An ancient Pokémon also lies within the deepest innermost sanctum of the crator filled with ancient crystals that continuously exude tremendous power, in the location know as The Giant Chasm. The Pokémon inside also being the only one said to eat both Pokémon _and humans_
Legends: Z-A isn't the only game we should expect to discover some of the most hidden secrets and unsolved mysteries to finally be discovered.
Legends: Aleos _will_ happen someday. *_As the journey continues_*
All of these weird extra areas in Pokémon games are generally related to cut content and ideas for future remakes or sequels that never ended up getting enough resources to be made properly.
Someone was really proud when they made that tree and then told Masuda or whoever "You better put that tree in the trailer or we're going to have problems!"
Narwa‘s silhouette made me jump for joy! Great reference.
The damn crystal tree was such a disappointment.
Why are Pokémon "fans" always so angry about trees, of all things? Pathetic.
5:37 LETS GOOOOOOOOOO
I think a good contender for a weird place in Galar would be the Dusty Bowl in the Wild Area. It's the place where you can evolve Galarian Yamask. There doesn't seem to be a definite explanation why that's the case.
At least for stuff like Probopass, Leafeon, and Glaceon, their location-based evolutions are easy enough to understand. But for Runerigus, what's actually significant in that archway that it's a catalyst for its evolution?
The one area for Kanto is the Underground Path between Routes 5 and 6 in GSC and HGSS is with Saffron City being open, you don't need to take it
There are a ton of unexplained areas in Area Zero like that one room with Roaring Moon or Iron Valiant which I kinda wished was explained. Ive been wondering what those weird circle markings on the floor was meant to be but the game never seemed to acknowledge it ever
we found the answer to that. If you take the symbol on the floor and you line it up with a map of the region then all of the points lineup with where the treasures of ruin are sealed away.
As for why this information was hidden down in area zero? Well area zero was rumored to hide treasures. Maybe that's just one of them. I would assume that someone carved it down there as a way to make sure that the only person who would ever know about it is someone strong enough to get down to area zero in the first place.
now as for things we truly don't have an explanation for? The metal plate that was pulled out of the ground. The one that is currently sitting up above the zero lab. It was discovered during the expedition and has all of the towns in the game marked on a little map of the region carved into it. No material can scratch the metal that it's made out of. We have zero clue what the deal is with it.
11:38 I actually don't think Guzzlord is responsible for the destruction of that planet. You can look around the area at various details, and then ask the guy in the hazmat suit about them. He talks about how the people living on the planet kept polluting it before leaving it behind, and that Guzzlord is a species who would eat the pollution, but have been dying out in recent years.
That guy loves Guzzlord, but the people took advantage of it to clean up their pollution.
The spinoff games have weird areas as well.
For example, the first PMD games, there are recruitment zones that look like man-made labs despite the Pokémon world seemingly having zero native humans.
They know what humans are though so there must be some connection
Happy jpr friday and a such a smooth transition indeed
the subscribe button stayed white by me. 8:23
Thats cuz youre already subscribed ;)
@@robertlupa8273 i know. I'm not stupid.
I like the idea that ppl from Johto built a tower for Rayquaza, since towers are a reoccurring theme of legendaries and honouring pkmn in Johto. Wish more of the pkmn regions had this kind of cultural development, a lot of them feel very surface level in that regard, and it would do more to spice up the games (for me at least) that one-off-gimmicks, I think part of the reason the Johto games are so fondly remembered, despite so many issues, is that of all the regions it felt the most lived in.
I think the crystal tree is a fully grown salty herba mystica
14:35 I do think that Kitakami is just Gibraltar. It ties heavily into the idea of how many japanese people moved there and its full of their culture. Plus it ties into Paldea.
at this point im just relying on the anime to fill in the details that SV failed to explain on, from the current plot it seems like it will at least provide more explanations. recently they went to to Kitakami's crystal pool and they just said that "long ago crystals from another land were brought and put into the lake".
not much to go on but im sure the anime will give bigger meanings to some of the unanswered stuff in the games
that tree had me thinking all kinds of things..only to be nothing. the trailer made it look so important and potentially like someone or something had to be freed from it. nope. just a tree.
Doesn't even have items in it
Only 3 years after the best/worst routes video 😂
I'd like to point out legends Arceus tells us that the Arceus we catch is just an avatar not the whole being. So in not so many words, the Giritina we catch is potentially an Avatar, the shadow form we can't catch is more likely closer if not the true form. Thats just my head cannon though feel free to debate below.
My favorite mythical.... Thunder Serpent Narwa
You,d think they would have put the Claydol line in the Artisan cave, too...
Yo JPR do you design the thumbnails? They always look awesome af
Actually, in Galar's wild area there is this old tower that you can interact with, doing so games the same dialogue as a deactivated Max Raid den. Never mind, apparently it is used for events.
One more in Paldea is that one cave in Aera zero with the sigil on the ground where you can find roaring moon. People speculate it’s connected to the treasures of ruin but it’s not a 1 for 1 so who knows. Apart from finding roaring moon that’s it
Just because Tom Wayland wanted to avoid the word "Arse" in Arceus doesn't mean the poketubers have to. I'm not sure why that's such a common thing still.
Trivia bit for others not in the know, Arceus (アルセウス) is pronounced with a soft C. The voice director for the show intentionally changed it for the reason above.
Leaving work at 5pm on a Friday night hearing "good morning everyone goooooood morning"
You're the first TH-camr I've ever heard pronounce Icirrus properly
Of the villains pre-gen7, if Team Rocket won it'd just be a mafia-run world which is just bleak and depressing with no real solution in sight, if aqua/magma/flare/galactic won the world is just over... I think an alternate reality where Team Plasma took over Unova and started conquering the pokemon world could be super interesting, maybe you'd be/meet N and form a resistance movement which eventually gets the help of some of the surviving regions and liberates Unova?
I really thought the tera tree would be a special area in the area zero underdepths where you could possibly shiny hunt walking wake or iron leaves, definitely a missed opportunity for sure.
I'm surprised the "foreign building" from the Sinnoh Region wasn't featured here.
I will always remember the alternative deminsion since I was leveling up my cosmog there and when it evolved it turned into a lunala instead of a sogolao
It’s obviously Psychic Terrain. That’s the only right answer. Heck, the game literally says the battlefield gets weird when you use the move 💀
Pokemon x and y have the weirdest area i swear, being that useless elevator and building in the background thats never used.
These are my favorite parts of pokemon games. Weird areas. I keep looking through videos to see places I didn’t remember. Just sad some have so much potential they didn’t do much with.
Okay, Florian and Juliana doing the two wojaks pointing meme in the thumbnail is cute.
“Look it's the PATHS!”
12:20 Spidey Jumpscare
What about Glimwood Tangle? Looks like out of a scary fairytale.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the Jade Orb. I guess that mean primal Rayquaza is a thing, at least in theory. We'll probably NEVER see it.
Saying GF "forgot" to give areas lasting value implies they had the time to do so, and given that they didn't have the time to properly finish and polish what WAS in the game, I'm not surprised at the empty feeling.
(When I say "They didn't have the time", I mean it literally btw. You try releasing a game on an almost yearly schedule and see how the quality turns out even if you're alternating between an A and B dev team)