Pokémon Puzzle Challenge - A Pokémon Paraspective
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
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The journey continues. I will be taking a look at EVERY official Pokémon video game release in exact North American order. All 66+ games. Tenth is a sequel or counterpart to Pokémon Puzzle League now for the Game Boy Color.
Introduction and "Where's That Parasect?" by Joshua C. Griffin
#pokemon #pokemonpuzzlechallenge #paraspective
Puzzle Challenge gives me so much nostalgia, I liked the music in this game more than the OG stuff, and it looked so good. If you haven’t seen this game on a gameboy screen, and you can do that, you absolutely should. I also just think it’s a very good game, if you like them.
I always had PPC as a backup game whenever I went on road trips. I could spend hours and hours on the Intense mode of ‘Challenge’ - trying to go undefeated lol
the ultimate car ride game
Wow I didn’t even attempt intense. As you can tell by my gameplay footage being on easy ☺️
Specifically searched for this game for the nostalgia and found this video thank you. Not mentioned in the video much, but the puzzle mode with the limited turns was the best part of the game as well as challenge mode after clearing the game. The true end game of puzzle challenge. I have fond memories of ignoring my family at a family reunion and wondering off by myself and playing this game at the park at 10 years old.
I’ve never actually played this one but I honestly really dig the little intro video in this one. Really comfy nostalgic vibe.
The omitted poor Cyndaquil appears twice on the back cover 😂😂. I like that intro tbh (really enjoy that artstyle). Kudos to you for playing this game. I remember seeing the box cover on Sears amd Kmart. Looking forward for the Stadium 2 vid.
Wow, you do remember seeing it in stores? Maybe I didn’t look hard enough. I was so into Pokémon at that time too.
@@Paraspectre yes i remember it seeing it on those stores and on shoppers. Always loved seeing that cover cause of the Johto starters.
I remember playing it back then. I 100% it. When i tried to play it a while back on the fastest setting it was way to much for me and i don't know how i did it back then XD
I’ve definitely noticed that with certain games too. I feel like I used to be so much better at platformers than I am now. Like, what happened?
@@Paraspectre We get old my dude. :P
Egm had editors who were obsessed with tetris attack and said we had to ban it to get work done. Needless to say, they loved the pokemon versions and still said tetris attack if by a different name is still their favorite puzzle game ever (at the time. I don't think anything else beat it out before the magazine ended).
It really does have great graphics for a gbc game. The game itself reminds me of the free e-shop pokemon games on the 3ds
Yeah the colors didn’t seem as washed out as a lot of GBC games do.
I'm so glad I can just search for this game on TH-cam on a complete whim and someone's made a whole ass essay on it for me to watch, TH-cam can be magical sometimes
I actually had this one, and it was quite addicting. My mom swore constantly about me getting new batteries, until I won a battery charger in a local lottery. XD That said, I don't remember much about the game itself, so this was nice to see. Looking forward to the Pokemon Stadium 2 Paraspective, now that was a fun time>:)
Also, I switched up the Overgrowth Challenge to a TCG style challenge playthrough that will be published Saturday (so, tomorrow) at 11:00 am and Its.... about as hard as it sounds. XD
Awesome! I hope it does well for you. And yeah, I had a lot of time spent on Stadium 2 back in the day
@@Paraspectre Thanks dude! :D
“Try to get a high”
Alright, thanks for the advice, game. I’ll brb.
I scrolled the feed trying to find the stadium 2 video but I quickly realized that this video is from 17 hours ago
Haha it will be done in due time!
I loved this game as a kid! Much better than Puzzle League in my opinion, largely thanks to the great dpad on the GBC and the even better one on the GBA SP. I much preferred the Gold/Silver chiptune remix soundtracks in Challenge over the annoying voices in League as well and the story mode (on Intense difficulty) was tougher to boot. Challenge still holds up today as a tough but fair, fast-paced puzzle game with good music, whereas League is a bit hard to go back to.
That’s something I didn’t even consider… D pad controls over the N64 controller. And yeah, the music is bangin.
Really interesting how the N64 Puzzle League seems to take up the lion’s share of the attention. I have to imagine that in territories where this game released second, folks weren’t compelled to get it if they already had Puzzle League.
I think the presentation difference between Pokemon Puzzle League and Pokemon Puzzle Challenge is why Challenge is more enticing. The graphics, music, and effort put into Challenge are so much better. League felt really cheap in comparison aside from that custom anime intro. Particularly the graphics are amazing. Those Pokemon win-loss animations are incredible.
Also, for someone whose mascot has a 4x Flying to wind you sure do talk a lot of smack about Falkner.
Haha my Parasect isn’t scared of no Falkner…
…right?
I think you and jrose make the best pokemon content. Keep up the great work buddy! I enjoy the content.
Wow! Jrose is good company to be in
idk if it was the switch from gbc to keyboard or if im better than i was 20 years ago but i beat normal mode 4 times tonight whereas i couldn't beat Olivine gym as a kid
Just finished binging all the videos. Love the humor and history.
Thank you! I haven’t watched any back to back so I hope they flow well 😅
@@Paraspectre They do!
Somehow this flew under my radar.
This is one of my favorite spin off games.
This along with Tetris and Dr. Mario are among my favorite games of all time.
Puyo 2 and Bust a Move 4 are also amazing.
Would have been interesting to see some N64-GB integration like what happened with Mario Golf and a few other games. Perhaps at one point they considered having the Kanto characters appear if you linked to the N64 game. Bit of a stretch given how western-focused the N64 game was.”, though.
Yeah it came out right at that time too. The more I researched this, the more it seemed like Puzzle League was churned out without much care
I had no idea this game existed! :D
And such a highly regarded one too. Pretty interesting how it just seemed to disappear
Just wanted to pop a comment saying I really enjoy this series. The way you’re attempting to look at the games in their historical context, reading back covers imagining what it would be like to not already know what these things are - I think that’s a cool and valuable perspective to offer that I don’t see other people doing in the same way
Why thank you! Sometimes I wonder if I spend too long looking at the boxes but I do think it’s an important part. Less so nowadays with how there aren’t even manuals anymore, but it was a big thing to open a new game then and see everything
My mom bought me this, for reasons I can't remember. I loathed every second, mostly because i never grasped the puzzle mechanics.
Somehow I beat intense in 2 years back when I was 13 years old I learned that mostly 3 combos were just easier and a lot of the smaller combos is just to buy time XD
This game is so good wish they would of pokemonified it more a special attack to use by doing chains or something change the star animation to razor leaf etc, would of made it that much better.
Ah new years 2001.
I played pokemon gold to bring in the new year all night.
Ah when chikorita used to be yellow.
This game's so cute
The third game I ever owned. Miles better than Pokémon Puzzle League in my opinion.
What are your reasons? I’m pretty curious since I felt the same way but couldn’t articulate why.
@@Paraspectre I think it feels a lot more cohesive overall, both within itself and with the video games. The animated sprites add a lot of life compared to the anime key art, the sprite-work and the backgrounds are gorgeous and colorful, and the whole thing just meshes well together. I also prefer the simple 8-bit colored blocks than the plasticky blocks of the N64.
I get that exploiting the N64's capacity could be interesting, but it ends up feeling like carboard cuts and plastic cubes, with a focus on the anime that makes it feel more like a piece of merch rather than a game thay can stand on its own. Kind of like the Pokémon board games, or sticker sheets.
Also, I don't remember a lot of Puzzle League's music, but I do remember a lot of Puzzle Challenge's music.
I could say this is pink-tinted by the nostalgia glasses if I weren't still playing Puzzle Challenge as a passtime here and there. It's a snappy, vibrant puzzle game that you can play on the go (that last point being something that its N64 counterpart can't do)
@@martindouge1947 fwiw puzzle league’s music was, as far as I can remember, exclusively compressed instrumentals of songs from the 2 B A Master album/Pikachu’s Jukebox segment, so Puzzle Challenge is already going to have a leg up for the originality.
I had both of these games as a kid; I wasn’t good at either of them but I did like them quite a bit. I have more nostalgia for Puzzle League, which as a kid was cool bc of the ties to the anime, but I also remember probably liking Puzzle Challenge more at the time. Of course, the first Pokémon game I actually owned was Gold, so there might be some Johto bias in that too :p
i played this game all the time!
I busted out laughing at Amityville 2 the Possession Puzzle Challenge 😂
Ohhhh! I had this game and was obsessed with playing with this as a kid. It was so much fun, and the music was awesome.
I miss this game now
I only played the Game boy color version but all the game is is a version of Tetris Attack SNES replacing the Super Mario Bros characters with Pokemon instead.
It’s so weird that Yoshi is so directly linked to Pokémon. Yoshi could even be a Pokémon
My friends recommended me this game and didn't believe him either lol
It’s weird that I never even knew OF it back then
I played this game not too long ago. The pixel art is lovely but the later levels felt so cheap 😭 i had to set the emulator speed to 0.75x to beat them
Haha I didn’t play that far into it to see how crazy it gets. That Lance music I used in the video is like Game Boy metal though
7:30 For some reason, I was really expecting that Chikorita to faceplant.
Chikorita is much too skilled at field sprints
Can you do an Amityville paraspective? Don’t think just do it
I really should. I’ve seen them all. Even Burt Young is in Amityville II.
7th comment awwwwwww yeah
I’ll need to buy this game and try it.
Apparently it’s a must have GBC game ☺️
Love the way you break these games down, I really never played a lot of the side games.
I’m enjoying learning about the ones I’m not familiar with too. And thank you!