Silver is geovani’s son in the games as well , if you manage to bring a celebi to the ilex shrine, you’ll prompt the game to activate an event, in which you learn that he is actually his son
4:40 Aside from Larvitar, you can also get Murkrow early in the Safari zone, Slugma from the prismo egg in Violet visit, and Misdreavus and Wild Steelix at Cliff Cave. Unfortunately Houndoom is still post game, it does appear in the Safari zone but only after you’ve beaten the elite 4 and set up the proper blocks.
Loved Hgss and Bw/bw2. So many nostalgia moments with these games, thanks to their gimick features with the pokewalker for hgss and the dream world for bw
I sadly missed out on everything Pre-Gen 6. Asides from playing Pokemon Red for like 10 minutes on my cousins Gameboy many years ago. I’d like to play them at some point.
@@PokemonRangerJackson Yup! Playing them on your phone should be decently close to the original experience - similar screen size (so no stretched out pixels), small buttons instead of a keyboard and a portable device!
I think the greatness of the original games was that nothing like them had really existed before. You only really appreciate something when you’ve lived through a world without it. Like when WiFi was a thing for the first time and you didn’t have to be plugged into a wall. It was mind blowing that the internet was just coming through the air. Now we don’t think twice about it.
9:14 A little bit of trivia about that, is that they shifted towards the Minigames because of pressure in Japan due to people being unhappy with how closely the Game Corner resembled actual gambling facilities, which is why after gen 3 remakes of games that had Game Corners (like this one) now display that they are closed or being renovated. BDSP had a similar situation with its Game Corner being turned into a shop and some of the NPCs within actually talk about it.
In the Celebi event and the Pokemon Generations anime, it does state that Silver is Giovanni's son. Both show the two on the bridge near the Pokemon League that divides both regions having dialogue with each other, you should check it out 😊
Stong and Agile style makes a lot of sense if you paid attention to the turn table on your right side when you're in battle, allowing you to see if you get an additional turn or not based on the move's Agile Style of how much of an impact it will create with Strong Style. If you played other RPGs, this is easier to pay attention too, and allowed a dynamic system to the turn based mechanics. As for HGSS, it was the best of what they offered for Gen 4, especially after the greatness that was Platinum. It gave us Johto in a modern lens of that time, all the Pokemon of that time, and just a much better experience of Johto period. Truly the peak of Gen 4 before Gen 5 arrived.
Love these games! Earlier this month, for my birthday i got a tattoo of the HeartGold symbol on my bicep. Now, I'm working on a 100% completion run of Heartgold including the black trainer card and 493 living dex.
To this day, HGSS is still the best Pokémon game period. This was when the Game Freak devs cared and put effort into making a good Pokémon game, GSC was the best until the remake of HGSS. What they added in HGSS was never in GSC due to storage limitations, added the legendary birds and Mewtwo in the game, added in additional bonus content that was in Pokémon Platinum, Pokémon that can follow you, etc. I would go bonkers if in the future if Game Freak decides to do another HGSS remake, but this time with Nintendo Switch graphics kinda like what they did with Pokémon Lets Go which was a huge disappointment due to them adding Pokémon Go mechanics.
Im a gen 5 stan with Black being my favorite. The exp system is nice, the characters and story are the best across the series, and my favorite Golurk originated here. I have a lot of nostalgia for the original Silver from my childhood but didn't play HG till I was an adult. I find Johto in either version to be insufferable. The level curve is just so bad that it makes me want to just stop playing by the time I'm getting to Claire. Johto and Paldea are examples of why a 1 to 100 leveling system with simplistic battle doesn't mesh with open game design. People argue for level and move scaling but outside a 5 level span or so that wpupd probably just break.
Imagine if in b2w2, Pokémon could follow. My fav games all time, but there are some flaws exploration wise (going to SE unova isn’t on par with going east to kanto, Icarus city kinda sucks, and it would be cool if you could get 11 badges overall (say the striaton city trio, Lenora (though she has an identical badge to cheren) and the ice dude I forgot his name from iccarus. Even then, say you can only face him after beating all/a set number of polestar studio thingys 😊
Super cool video, and I was shocked to see you're such a small creator. Keep it up! 🙂 I wanted to drop a comment to help with engagement but also to give some constructive advice. I think it might help a bit if you do a tiny bit more research like with knowing the Silver/Giovanni event was in the games too, or to drop little known facts into the video. That being said, the style you used made it feel much more authentic though, which was great! I'm excited to see what you post next!
The Johto games have always have a special place in my heart, it's how Typhlosion became my favorite pokemon. Though, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who likes them over Black & White or Black 2 & White 2.
@PokemonRangerJackson Quilava is the reason almost every Cyndaquil I get is named sonic lol. I honestly used to hate BW as a kid because I didn't like the look of the pokemon. Now, I have a huge appreciation for it. I'm looking forward to replaying it soon, since I'm going through most of the games and replaying them with unique teams since almost every time I've played a pokemon game my teams are all the same pokemon lol.
As for me, my very first Pokémon game ever when i was a kid was Pokémon Leafgreen version. But i do love the 1st - 5th generations of Pokémon. The 6th - 8th generations were ok. The 9th generation will always be regarded as the worst Pokémon games because more than 70% of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet users had problems for almost 6 months due to game breaking glitches and slow frame rates. I was 1 of those 70% affected.
@PokemonRangerJackson if both games were released in playable condition, I wouldn't have rated both games as the worst in the series. I actually enjoyed the storyline of both games, but with all the issues, I have to give them a 0/10.
I respectfully disagree, while the updates from the original Gen 2 were awesome, and a lot of the in game locals were pretty to look at and interesting to go through, I can't get past the horrible imbalance. Especially in the post game, where it merely boils down to being lower level to make fights harder than having to employ real strategy on fair grounds. The post game definitely feels like a novelty in my opinion, a one that wasn't well thought out in terms of balance. I think a lot of the Pokemon in the region also don't feel too unique. The updated designs DEFINITELY helped with that, but when I think of Pokemon, I don't personally think of anything from Johto. The Pokemon following is great and should have stayed. I definitely get that it's sentimental and charming for you, and thus your favorite. My personal favorite game has to be Ultra Sun for much the same reason. I just like it. I don't think HGSS are the best by a long shot, but that's just my opinion, and I respect yours and fully understand why someone would find it to be their favorite. Plus, HGSS did a bunch of stuff that hasn't really been done in later gens. Regardless of how I feel about the post game, that shit is still cool. Not a risk you see in the newer games. It's just epic. So yeah, respectfully disagree, but I still get it.
As much as I loved this game, I do agree the main problem was the level curve. These were the only games where you earn 16 badges rather than 8. So naturally they had to slow that, and the remake did fix it in some ways (such as Fuchsia gym leader Janine's inexplicably low levels in the original), but Kanto was still a pretty significant jump. I also didn't like that they turned the mom into a worse shopaholic, lol. She calls constantly.
They didnt fix any of the pacing or team comp issues the original had. Most of the gym leaders are still pathetically weak with mostly kanto team comps. They didnt fix any of the encounter tables or didnt fix movesets and never fixed the story (outside of the celebi quest) every cool jhoto pokemon is locked behind post game or too out of the way for a new player to know how to get. Team rocket in this game is laughably weak were the final fight your still using pre evolved pokemon Why does bugsy morty chuck falkner all use kanto pokemon? Why does morty not get misdrevus? Why does bugsy not get ariados or pinco or herracross? Why doesnt chuck get hitmontop or herracross? Oh its because they suck. Well why do they suck? All these problems tie into each other only reason people love these games are nostalgia goggles
I'm not going to lie your title shocked me I looked on my feed and I see someone saying HeartGold and SoulSilver are the best games don't get me wrong it introduced some nice fun things like you mentioned pokewalker and follow me Pokemon is absolutely amazing and cute. that's about it the game itself the gameplay it's pretty bad every single Pokemon is literally just a rip-off of the other kanto Pokemon like maybe you didn't notice it but did you notice that typlosion has the same exact stats as Charizard. Also how about the level scaling I did a hardcore nuzlocke of that game which basically means that every single time I have to make sure I was at the level cap for each gym leader and I will tell you it was incredibly difficult to grind because the wild Pokemon do not match the levels that you should be at for example the level cap for Morty the Ghost gym leader he is a third gym leader is level cap is level 25 so I went to go train in the wild the wild Pokemon were at level 15 and level 13. 💀 Doesn't even match the level that we should be at by now you should be in your twenties after defeating Whitney(her level cap being level 19) so why the hell are the wild Pokemon still level 13 and 15. I should remind you this doesn't happen in fire Red because when you reach Erica the grass gym leader the wild Pokemon are at level 21 to level 23. That matches the game because the gym leader is at level 29. And it's not just that it gets even worse towards the end of the game the level cap for red is level 88 the wild Pokemon are level 39. That's not even close to what the level cap should be. I don't even go to mention Claire her Pokemon being at level 41 and the wild Pokemon being at level 23 does that even make sense. Obviously level scaling is a problem and now I want to talk about the dex the dex is absolutely horrendous. And ask someone who did a hardcore nuzlocke I will tell you how horrendous the dex I'm not even talking like design wise cuz design wise you might be able to like the Pokémon but stat wise 💀. Seriously name your favorite Pokemon in Johto and it's likely that Pokemon is a terrible Pokemon in competitive. this game didn't release that many new Pokemon they honestly just took Kanto Pokemon and it makes sense considering this entire gameplay hinges on your love and nostalgia of Kanto but when you look at something from just Johto you realize that there's not many new Johto Pokemon not to mention good ones. Only reason people like HeartGold and SoulSilver because of the nice gimmicks introduced like the night and day cycle or the post game fight with red or the following Pokemon. And that's truly what you were pointing out in your videos but those gimmicks are not enough to save the entire game cuz generation 9 introduced the same thing like changing your type or gen 8 which introduced dynmax. Every single game has its gimmicks but do not use the gimmicks to say well the entire game is good now no mega evolution is not enough to save the game from its flaws. Soulsilver and it's sister are incredibly flawed games when you look past the cute gimmicks. I used to be one of those people that love the game because of its you gimmicks but after I just finished my hardcore nuzlocke of the game revisited and after playing it I was like wow this game is pretty bad gameplay wise. Heartgold and SoulSilver and gold and silver in general are probably the perfect example of Pokemon Rushing games play someone in the writer's room was like "oh my God we have to make a new game" and "they're like we can't really come up with much I have writer's block so they said you know what screw it just take everything we took from the first game and put it into this game well at least a little nice gimmick here and there and that should hold them off."
Now the game wasn't terrible at least not as bad as gen 9 I have some fun playing the game but they really are overrated and the best games is definitely a overstatement
It's just my opinion ! I don't know if there is a definitive "best" in the series. But I'm surprised you haven't heard it before, I've heard from quite a few people that it's their favorites as well.
Following Pokemon should be in EVERY game!
100%
And how so? Do you think they have the hardware in order too do this
@@perrycoffey5410 I mean, Pokémon is a $92 Billion company. I'm sure they could figure something out.
FACTS
Silver is geovani’s son in the games as well , if you manage to bring a celebi to the ilex shrine, you’ll prompt the game to activate an event, in which you learn that he is actually his son
😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯🤯
Glad someone said it haha, that was a crazy event
4:40
Aside from Larvitar, you can also get Murkrow early in the Safari zone, Slugma from the prismo egg in Violet visit, and Misdreavus and Wild Steelix at Cliff Cave.
Unfortunately Houndoom is still post game, it does appear in the Safari zone but only after you’ve beaten the elite 4 and set up the proper blocks.
Loved Hgss and Bw/bw2. So many nostalgia moments with these games, thanks to their gimick features with the pokewalker for hgss and the dream world for bw
Glad you clarified mainline because we all know trozei is the authentic pokemon experience
I wish every Pokémon game allowed ur Pokémon to follow u
I sadly missed out on everything Pre-Gen 6. Asides from playing Pokemon Red for like 10 minutes on my cousins Gameboy many years ago. I’d like to play them at some point.
@@UnchainedPandoran there are emulators and roms you can download for ease of access !
@@PokemonRangerJackson Yup! Playing them on your phone should be decently close to the original experience - similar screen size (so no stretched out pixels), small buttons instead of a keyboard and a portable device!
Yeah, you DEFINITELY missed out on the Golden Age. You just had to be there, words can’t describe how good those days were 💯
I think the greatness of the original games was that nothing like them had really existed before.
You only really appreciate something when you’ve lived through a world without it.
Like when WiFi was a thing for the first time and you didn’t have to be plugged into a wall. It was mind blowing that the internet was just coming through the air. Now we don’t think twice about it.
9:14 A little bit of trivia about that, is that they shifted towards the Minigames because of pressure in Japan due to people being unhappy with how closely the Game Corner resembled actual gambling facilities, which is why after gen 3 remakes of games that had Game Corners (like this one) now display that they are closed or being renovated. BDSP had a similar situation with its Game Corner being turned into a shop and some of the NPCs within actually talk about it.
Was it because of backlash in Japan? I thought it was because of stricter rating rules in the EU
Make more content like this - people on the internet appreciate it!
@@BatmanthePoet I will try!
yellow + platinum peak pokemon
In the Celebi event and the Pokemon Generations anime, it does state that Silver is Giovanni's son. Both show the two on the bridge near the Pokemon League that divides both regions having dialogue with each other, you should check it out 😊
I will ! Thank you!
Platinum is the best.
Heart gold & Soulsilver are the best remakes. It uses the engine from Platinum.
Stong and Agile style makes a lot of sense if you paid attention to the turn table on your right side when you're in battle, allowing you to see if you get an additional turn or not based on the move's Agile Style of how much of an impact it will create with Strong Style. If you played other RPGs, this is easier to pay attention too, and allowed a dynamic system to the turn based mechanics. As for HGSS, it was the best of what they offered for Gen 4, especially after the greatness that was Platinum. It gave us Johto in a modern lens of that time, all the Pokemon of that time, and just a much better experience of Johto period. Truly the peak of Gen 4 before Gen 5 arrived.
I knew it was there, just wasn't a fan
@@PokemonRangerJackson sucks. If anything, I wish that was the formula for the games moving forward
If they do it again, I just hope they improve on it !
@@PokemonRangerJackson Definitely!
The pokewalker was amazing ❤❤❤
HG/SS is the best. It's basically the best of the 1st 2 generations + Gen 4 pokemons. Would have been epic if Hoenn region was included
Love these games! Earlier this month, for my birthday i got a tattoo of the HeartGold symbol on my bicep. Now, I'm working on a 100% completion run of Heartgold including the black trainer card and 493 living dex.
@@ItsQshie that sounds so fun ! I'm actually getting a quilava tattoo next week!
To this day, HGSS is still the best Pokémon game period. This was when the Game Freak devs cared and put effort into making a good Pokémon game, GSC was the best until the remake of HGSS. What they added in HGSS was never in GSC due to storage limitations, added the legendary birds and Mewtwo in the game, added in additional bonus content that was in Pokémon Platinum, Pokémon that can follow you, etc. I would go bonkers if in the future if Game Freak decides to do another HGSS remake, but this time with Nintendo Switch graphics kinda like what they did with Pokémon Lets Go which was a huge disappointment due to them adding Pokémon Go mechanics.
Im a gen 5 stan with Black being my favorite. The exp system is nice, the characters and story are the best across the series, and my favorite Golurk originated here.
I have a lot of nostalgia for the original Silver from my childhood but didn't play HG till I was an adult. I find Johto in either version to be insufferable. The level curve is just so bad that it makes me want to just stop playing by the time I'm getting to Claire.
Johto and Paldea are examples of why a 1 to 100 leveling system with simplistic battle doesn't mesh with open game design. People argue for level and move scaling but outside a 5 level span or so that wpupd probably just break.
We understand 😊
Imagine if in b2w2, Pokémon could follow. My fav games all time, but there are some flaws exploration wise (going to SE unova isn’t on par with going east to kanto, Icarus city kinda sucks, and it would be cool if you could get 11 badges overall (say the striaton city trio, Lenora (though she has an identical badge to cheren) and the ice dude I forgot his name from iccarus. Even then, say you can only face him after beating all/a set number of polestar studio thingys 😊
Super cool video, and I was shocked to see you're such a small creator. Keep it up! 🙂
I wanted to drop a comment to help with engagement but also to give some constructive advice. I think it might help a bit if you do a tiny bit more research like with knowing the Silver/Giovanni event was in the games too, or to drop little known facts into the video. That being said, the style you used made it feel much more authentic though, which was great!
I'm excited to see what you post next!
Thank you! And I appreciate it, I tried researching it, but for whatever reason that event never came up. Regardless, I appreciate the feedback!
If you watch Pokemon evolutions they let you know too about silver
Great video!
Thank you!
Gen 2 ftw!
The Johto games have always have a special place in my heart, it's how Typhlosion became my favorite pokemon.
Though, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who likes them over Black & White or Black 2 & White 2.
@@manwhodoesthings quilava is my favorite! And idk, I think it's pretty split between them !
@PokemonRangerJackson Quilava is the reason almost every Cyndaquil I get is named sonic lol.
I honestly used to hate BW as a kid because I didn't like the look of the pokemon. Now, I have a huge appreciation for it. I'm looking forward to replaying it soon, since I'm going through most of the games and replaying them with unique teams since almost every time I've played a pokemon game my teams are all the same pokemon lol.
@@manwhodoesthings I was the same way! Only recently started appreciating BW !
Kingdra is my boy.
Forever and ever.
why does the screenshot show heartgold and soul silver when the title makes it clear you are talking about coliseum and xd?
Dang, my bad 🤣
My favourites is emerald as number 1 soul silver second and omega ruby as 3rd and leaf green as 4th
WHAT POKEMON IN COLOR ??? WHAT SORCERY IS THIS???
9:32 im glad they didnt bring it back.
Makes hg/ss more unique
Yooo we have the same first name!
@@DecoyAnimates hell yeah !
I got to say ORAS are the best games.
I HATE VOLTORB FLIP BRING BACK THE GAMBLING💰😡
I LOVE POKETHON 😬
As for me, my very first Pokémon game ever when i was a kid was Pokémon Leafgreen version. But i do love the 1st - 5th generations of Pokémon. The 6th - 8th generations were ok. The 9th generation will always be regarded as the worst Pokémon games because more than 70% of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet users had problems for almost 6 months due to game breaking glitches and slow frame rates. I was 1 of those 70% affected.
Glitches were definitely rough, but I enjoyed the game besides that !
@PokemonRangerJackson if both games were released in playable condition, I wouldn't have rated both games as the worst in the series. I actually enjoyed the storyline of both games, but with all the issues, I have to give them a 0/10.
@@bradhaley8432 harsh, but I respect it!
@PokemonRangerJackson I grade all games based on playability. I'm considered an old-school gamer.
I respectfully disagree, while the updates from the original Gen 2 were awesome, and a lot of the in game locals were pretty to look at and interesting to go through, I can't get past the horrible imbalance. Especially in the post game, where it merely boils down to being lower level to make fights harder than having to employ real strategy on fair grounds. The post game definitely feels like a novelty in my opinion, a one that wasn't well thought out in terms of balance. I think a lot of the Pokemon in the region also don't feel too unique. The updated designs DEFINITELY helped with that, but when I think of Pokemon, I don't personally think of anything from Johto. The Pokemon following is great and should have stayed. I definitely get that it's sentimental and charming for you, and thus your favorite. My personal favorite game has to be Ultra Sun for much the same reason. I just like it. I don't think HGSS are the best by a long shot, but that's just my opinion, and I respect yours and fully understand why someone would find it to be their favorite. Plus, HGSS did a bunch of stuff that hasn't really been done in later gens. Regardless of how I feel about the post game, that shit is still cool. Not a risk you see in the newer games. It's just epic. So yeah, respectfully disagree, but I still get it.
I respect your respect 🤜🤛
As much as I loved this game, I do agree the main problem was the level curve. These were the only games where you earn 16 badges rather than 8. So naturally they had to slow that, and the remake did fix it in some ways (such as Fuchsia gym leader Janine's inexplicably low levels in the original), but Kanto was still a pretty significant jump.
I also didn't like that they turned the mom into a worse shopaholic, lol. She calls constantly.
I don't like gen 2, but I respect your autistic obsession, as I too have autistic obsessions.
They didnt fix any of the pacing or team comp issues the original had. Most of the gym leaders are still pathetically weak with mostly kanto team comps. They didnt fix any of the encounter tables or didnt fix movesets and never fixed the story (outside of the celebi quest) every cool jhoto pokemon is locked behind post game or too out of the way for a new player to know how to get.
Team rocket in this game is laughably weak were the final fight your still using pre evolved pokemon
Why does bugsy morty chuck falkner all use kanto pokemon? Why does morty not get misdrevus? Why does bugsy not get ariados or pinco or herracross? Why doesnt chuck get hitmontop or herracross? Oh its because they suck. Well why do they suck? All these problems tie into each other only reason people love these games are nostalgia goggles
They get updated post game, but yeah they should fixed the level scaling and updated the teams.
HGSS was the best until ORAS came
@@Chaka2413 I really gotta replay those - ORAS defenders are everywhere !
They are sadly a bit too easy but apart from that they rock
Nope. Best pokemon games are easily BW/BW2
I'm not going to lie your title shocked me I looked on my feed and I see someone saying HeartGold and SoulSilver are the best games don't get me wrong it introduced some nice fun things like you mentioned pokewalker and follow me Pokemon is absolutely amazing and cute. that's about it the game itself the gameplay it's pretty bad every single Pokemon is literally just a rip-off of the other kanto Pokemon like maybe you didn't notice it but did you notice that typlosion has the same exact stats as Charizard. Also how about the level scaling I did a hardcore nuzlocke of that game which basically means that every single time I have to make sure I was at the level cap for each gym leader and I will tell you it was incredibly difficult to grind because the wild Pokemon do not match the levels that you should be at for example the level cap for Morty the Ghost gym leader he is a third gym leader is level cap is level 25 so I went to go train in the wild the wild Pokemon were at level 15 and level 13. 💀 Doesn't even match the level that we should be at by now you should be in your twenties after defeating Whitney(her level cap being level 19) so why the hell are the wild Pokemon still level 13 and 15. I should remind you this doesn't happen in fire Red because when you reach Erica the grass gym leader the wild Pokemon are at level 21 to level 23. That matches the game because the gym leader is at level 29. And it's not just that it gets even worse towards the end of the game the level cap for red is level 88 the wild Pokemon are level 39. That's not even close to what the level cap should be. I don't even go to mention Claire her Pokemon being at level 41 and the wild Pokemon being at level 23 does that even make sense. Obviously level scaling is a problem and now I want to talk about the dex the dex is absolutely horrendous. And ask someone who did a hardcore nuzlocke I will tell you how horrendous the dex I'm not even talking like design wise cuz design wise you might be able to like the Pokémon but stat wise 💀. Seriously name your favorite Pokemon in Johto and it's likely that Pokemon is a terrible Pokemon in competitive. this game didn't release that many new Pokemon they honestly just took Kanto Pokemon and it makes sense considering this entire gameplay hinges on your love and nostalgia of Kanto but when you look at something from just Johto you realize that there's not many new Johto Pokemon not to mention good ones. Only reason people like HeartGold and SoulSilver because of the nice gimmicks introduced like the night and day cycle or the post game fight with red or the following Pokemon. And that's truly what you were pointing out in your videos but those gimmicks are not enough to save the entire game cuz generation 9 introduced the same thing like changing your type or gen 8 which introduced dynmax. Every single game has its gimmicks but do not use the gimmicks to say well the entire game is good now no mega evolution is not enough to save the game from its flaws. Soulsilver and it's sister are incredibly flawed games when you look past the cute gimmicks. I used to be one of those people that love the game because of its you gimmicks but after I just finished my hardcore nuzlocke of the game revisited and after playing it I was like wow this game is pretty bad gameplay wise. Heartgold and SoulSilver and gold and silver in general are probably the perfect example of Pokemon Rushing games play someone in the writer's room was like "oh my God we have to make a new game" and "they're like we can't really come up with much I have writer's block so they said you know what screw it just take everything we took from the first game and put it into this game well at least a little nice gimmick here and there and that should hold them off."
Now the game wasn't terrible at least not as bad as gen 9 I have some fun playing the game but they really are overrated and the best games is definitely a overstatement
It's just my opinion ! I don't know if there is a definitive "best" in the series. But I'm surprised you haven't heard it before, I've heard from quite a few people that it's their favorites as well.