Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Retrospective
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Taking a dive into the Hoenn region, which introduced me to the colorful world of Pokémon!
0:00 Introduction
2:31 Harmonious Hoenn
15:35 Et tu, water?
34:29 Personalizing Pokémon
44:17 Emeralds, oh how they glisten!
49:54 Braving the Battle Frontier
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IF YOU ARE HERE TO COMMENT ABOUT BRAWLY, STOP NOW. STOP. I HAVE BEEN INFORMED, DO NOT MAKE THIS INTO THE NEXT MEME COMMENT PLEASE!
Ok but can I say that Winona can be skipped until you reach the Elite Four, even if doing so is dumb because you can't use Fly that way?
Oh god I haven't gotten that far in the video, WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!?!!? Lol.
Brawly's power is maximum
Don't forget Winona~
*comments about brawly, then reads KingK's pinned comment*
oh
The aesthetic of gen 3 will always be the colours of my childhood. Such beautiful pixel art
Hoen is Verneuil Sur Seine to me. I wonder if anyone inserts their own home place name in this comment.
Theres a reason why that style was copy and pasted all over fan games of the next 18 years OMEGALUL
@@isaacleillhikar4566 Exactly, it makes me think of Galveston, Texas and my idea of Marseille after reading The Count Of Monte Cristo .
Especially the insane graphic changes from Gen 2 to Gen 3.
@@aturchomicz821 To be fair that is mostly because Gen 4 and beyond use 3D overworlds what are lot harder to use/make, what is why most people use Gen 3 style instead.
KingK complaining about Gen 3’s lacking Fire type selection
Gen 4 *starts sweating*
Yup, either pick Chimchar or enjoy your Ponyta.
@@propheticrain-maker1486 at least Platinum gave us easier access to Magmortar.
Plus you have Heat Rotom, Flareon, and Houndoom. Then there's the few in HG/SS you can trade over.
I get im scrapping at the bottom of the barrel and grasping at straws but those pokemon are SOMEONES favorite at least lol
Sinnoh at least kinda made sense being a colder region and all, and the fact post-game enables you to have any Fire-type as long as you have the Pokeradar, Gen 3 games or HGSS makes up for it IMO.
@@CBreezie yup. Platinum is the same as Emerald in that, it's the definitive Gen 4 experience. Lucky for me, I always chose fire type starters back in the day. Up until gen 5, when Oshawott was too cute to pass up!
KingK complaining about Gen 3’s HMs
Gen 4 *starts sweating even harder*
King K: There's a lack of fire types in Ruby and Sapphire
Diamond and Pearl: It gets much worse
Platinum: Here’s Flareon and Magmar. We cool?
Me: Ugh
@@bradcarver8127 Hey you also get houndooom
Platinum's Fire Types:
Chimchar line: Solid mixed attacker, like Blaziken
Ponyta line: Don't. You get it at level 7-ish and it evolves at level 40.
Magmar line: I hope you have a friend to trade with because otherwise you're stuck with a middle evolution.
Flareon: Best physical fire move is Fire Fang, obtained at level 43. Is still slow and not very bulky.
Houndour line: You don't get Dark Pulse (TM) until Victory Road.
Overall, if you want a fire type, choose the starter. Magmar and Houndoom are good but Infernape is exponentially better.
@@insertobligatoryreferenceh489 TBF emulation can easily allow you to buy pass most trade evolutions (although that's not a great excuse) and houndoom has a decent attack stat and you can easily teach it sucker punch with in like 10 minutes of catching it thanks to access to move tutors. Gen 4's dark type rep is still bad but I would say platinum is argueably better then emeralds's
It's a cold northern region.
My favorite memory of Gen 3 is when I realized the map is just a big square-shaped Yin-Yang symbol, separated diagonally, with Mt. Chimney and Sootopolis (both volcanic craters btw) as the Yin & Yang center dots respectively
I am completely stunned by this. I would have never put this together
WHAT
Holy
DUDE !
This comment needs exponentially more likes.
Forgot to mention how Regice, Regirock, and Registeel are pretty palpable allusions to the ice age, the stone age, and the steel age.
...damn
Been playing pokemon since the early 2000s and never thought of this. So cool!
So what’s the deal with Regigigas, Regieleki, and Regidrago?
@@t.funkthecoolmunk5472 Dragon age (magic age), Electric age (technology, etc.), and Regigas is probably just all of them together.
Regigigas is straight up just big robot
I love the absol bit of the video, I remember I flipped my shit when I realized you encounter it RIGHT BEFORE all the shit goes down. It’s the disaster warning monster, and you find it before the cataclysmic events begin. Such a great subtle inclusion there.
They do it again in platinum, you find absol in the top part of mt. Cornet just before spear pillar
And I simultaneously thought of the Jirachi Wish Maker movie, and of course Select Your Partner "I've always had a thing for absols..."
I like how for Groudon, the ruby pokedex entry makes it seem violent and the sapphire one makes it seem like a saviour. And vice versa for Kyogre.
Brilliant, honestly
Route 120's bombastic theme perfectly captures the spirit of happy, carefree adventure. When the rain clears, and you see yourself in the reflection of the puddles, watching the clouds in the background peacefully roll by, while the music cheers you on.
Well, that's just one of the things that make generation 3 the most scenic, memorable games in the franchise.
“It seems like fire as a typing is treated so much worse than the other two”
I can already hear the furious rant in the Diamond and Pearl video
Which is weird cause the grass starter is absolutely the worst starter in this game by a far bar. The water starter has the most advantages, the fire starter ends up with the best stats and options, meanwhile pick grass your best attack when you are a sweeper is a high critical grass version of slash than in the very next generation now pulls from your crap physical stat and if you don’t have emerald you have no way to counter any weaknesses
I’m curious if he’s gonna be honest in that video because most ppl seem to love diamond and pearl but from what I’ve seen the only ppl that defend them either have a nostalgia bias or are literally kids that haven’t played them. Platinum is obviously amazing and one of the best in the series
@@masteroflag sceptile is the best in emerald
@@oscarsullivan5983 the end of the video spoiled it already. He’s gonna say they are even better.
He already ranted in Gen 2 about 3rd versions so just like this ones praise of emerald he will praise platinum despite either existing being just as much being an argument for gamefreak robbing small children
@@oscarsullivan5983 nah, even in Emerald Swampert is still the best (and Sceptile is still arguably the worst due to its limited movepool).
Hey Dude. I’m a schizophrenic. At night, before I fall asleep, even on medication, the voices in my head like to chime in. I’ve learned to deal with it for the most part but more times than I could count, I listen to your retrospectives to soothe me on my way to sleep. It gives me comfort in a way I hope you never know.
Thank you a million times over.
PS
Twilight Princess is still the best Zelda.
death grips
I have sleep issues as well not as hard as you yho but it helps me a lot as well the only reason i got youtube premium so i can put the phone with the screen off while listenning before sleep
This is the most wholesome comment I’ve seen this whole year. I’m glad that you’ve found something to help you
@@AsarielTnG honestly, King K’s videos have had me considering getting premium, is it worth it?
@@SSJFutureGohan62093 it is cause u can download without adds listen with the screen off on ohone or just download the vid besides TH-cam musc is included is thats good too
Sometimes I still have dreams about Pokemon that are literally IN Generation 3's Hoenn style.
Exploring dark caves, endless caverns, and of course all the water routes.
Hoenn is still my absolute favorite region. No other generation has come close to giving me the feelings of wonder and adventure that this one did.
If Wally was your “rival” I think it’d be a real feels bad having to beat a sick kid over and over to progress lol
It would be an interesting twist to the narrative though. Almost putting you in and antagonist role
"But is it the beating that matters, or the act of battling to bond with your Pokemon?"
Guess that would be how they could get away with that :P
Or it would actually be better if they included Wally dialogs saying how he's learning so much after beating him and how it's helping him to train his Pokemon
During one of my playthroughs, at the part where wally's trying to convince his uncle he's capable of battling, my combusken landed a crit and one shot killed his ralts and I felt so bad
Something they improved a lot on in the remakes
19:45 'you need to beat all gym leaders in order'
*shows Brawly*
You can skip Winona in the original Gen 3 games, too.
The only downside is not using Fly until you defeat her, and it would make much more tedious to travel to each team's basement from lilycove.
Yeah it’s gen 4 or 5 that first forced you to battle them in a specific order
@@TheDjbz Diamond and Pearl let you fight Maylene and Crasher Wake in any order. Platinum changed that by being the first game where you have to fight everyone in a set order.
Nobody: That guy in the battle pike: IM GONNA BE A FATHER
I AM GOING TO ENJOY A EGG
I WAS HOPING SOMEONE ELSE WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT! THAT SHIT WAS HILARIOUS!
@@sweetwheatsy - good to see some fellow chuggaaconroy fans around here
I AM TOO HAPPY TO BE ANGRY
EVERY BATTLE HAS A SMELL
"Granted, Linoone was just there for moral support but thankfully he's very good at being cute." Way too relatable for me and my Sentrets/Furrets whenever games let me catch them.
Linoone is along for the ride so he can steal the show at the elite 4. (He learns bellydrum around lv50, it maxs attack for removing half of your max HP, and he's fast enough to outspeed and can easily sweep with return or shadowball. And in Emerald it can even take out the champion.)
Alternatively just use pickup and slowly acrue rare candies to reduce late game grinding.
@@jasonreed7522 wtf norman's linoone swept me with belly drum in emerald and it was like level 30
@@TheGalaxyWings assume it was bred onto it (possible for the player so it isn't illegal), granted there are pokemon with illegal moves in Emerald like the lanturn in victory road with earthquake.
51:01 The hatred put behind Salamence's nickname is palpable.
Y'all remember the song that plays when u take the boat in the game? banger
OMG it's pad! 😍
Crossing the sea is epic
my mans playing pokémon and rockin the future funk community ;)
That should have been the surfing music
You mean this song? th-cam.com/video/COQR9A8D4XQ/w-d-xo.html
I'm a bit surprised at how many people started the series with Gen 3. Ruby and Sapphire hits a lot different as someone who was into Pokemon since the beginning in Gen 1. There really was this feeling of being "Advanced". Ruby and Sapphire had a whole new sprite style for the overworld graphics. This was where Ken Sugimori started his new and current art style. You had all those little effects ingame, like overworld weather and reflections.
When first playing Ruby in my late childhood, I was amazed at seeing the player character actually THROWING the Pokeball, and also liked all the other additions, such as the foe Pokemon making a "pained" cry upon fainting, the stat boost/lowering sound effects, and being able to run.
Hoenn was disconnected from the past regions. It had route numbers that not only weren't connected to Johto's, but ones that went above 100. The anime had Ash leaving his companions and most of his past Pokemon for the first time, and the dub song even emphasized "starting all over again." It could almost be considered the first "reboot" of the series.
@Double B what do you mean?
Sapphire was the first game I played due to never having owned a Gameboy before the Advance, but I definitely grew up during the initial Pokémania thing (born in 92). It's a bit weird seeing how I partially was and wasn't a part of the first two gens, having only seen brief glimpses of the games until I played Silver much later.
@Double B Can confirm.
Yeah, playing Ruby for the first time after years of gen1 and 2 knocked my socks off as a kid. Everything was so colourful, even the new pkmn designs due to the higher graphical fidelity.
I was into the series ever since gen1, but gen3 was my peak pkmn experience.
I'd started with Gen 1 originally, and liked it a lot. Everyone I knew was into the Pokemon craze as kids, and I was no exception.
I kind of skipped out on Gen 2, just cause I wasn't feeling it. I know it's a lot of peoples' favorite, and I can see why, but... it just didn't real me in.
But Ruby and Sapphire? Gen 3 pulled me back in FORCE. I was hooked all over again. Seeing that saturated opening cutscene blew my mind. All of the pixel art was great, and the new pokemon designs worked super well with the bright colors.
I wholeheartedly agree that Gen 3 was a fantastic next step for prior fans. It had plenty of flaws still *COUGHspecialSplitCOUGH* but it was a great time.
I actually like the idea that the villains and good guys switch in the versions. It brings home the point that taking an odea to much to the extreme can be dire. The premises of both teams are valid, it's just the extreme nature of them that is ridiculous. It shows you you that with moderation, those villains could be a force for good.
Those trumpets still got me feeling some type of way, 10 years later ever since I started playing gen 3.
I thought they were called French horns
No mention of the secret bases? One of the best “player housing” in any rpg ever. I adored searching for the biggest and most interesting layouts throughout the world, figuring out how to deal with secret bases that have holes in the ground, etc. most other rpgs only give you decoration options, this game ties it into the exploration process.
Secret bases were so cozy. My favorite one was one of the bushes near Fortree on the rainy route. I always imagined huddling up with my team away from the rain on the little rugs and watching the TV. Been a long time since I felt that immersed in a game.
Secret bases were great! I always loved the rocky ones on the Surf Routes, basically wanted to make my bases hard to find gyms.
I always really liked putting mine just before Fortree. Or just outside of cities and towns in general.
I never bothered with it in the originals since I mostly played it emulated, thus zero chance of other players' bases appearing in my game, but I ADORED it in the remakes.
My thoughts exactly! Being able to customize your own secret base and scouting different locations is what made this game stick out for me, including playing against your friends as NPCs in their respective bases. My secret base was the wall you access crossing the first acro bike track on Route 119. I have fond memories collecting ash for the glass table, getting items from Lilycove’s rooftop sale, and Trick Master’s tent. Not to mention KingK forgot to mention the Trick Master!!! And the berry blender minigame!
2020 can''t get worse.
December 26th 2020 : Absol appears.
At this point, I’d be thrilled to see Absol. At least it would be something cool, and not completely devastating 😆 well, not at first anyway lol
please no, thanks my birthday :(
I HATE THAT I BURST INTO CACKLING LAUGHTER AT THIS THANK YOU
December 30th sword and shield part 2 announced 🤣
This man's BLATANT use of Comic Sans. Bravery at its finest.
I seriously think this is one of the most well made series on TH-cam just letting you know that we appreciate all hard work you put into these
This soundtrack is giving me chills
Chills... Literal chills
Turn on the heat
The horns tho? Lolol
Too much horn 🤡
The baselines and horns man...
Every time i hear the opening baseline for the trainer battle i get those same chills.
The horns throughout the elite 4 and champion are hype inducing.
And just all the rival battle theme, yeah just all of it.
"Fire typing is treated so much worse than the other two."
Do you hear that? That's the sound of Gen 4 running to escape the wrath of this man.
And 2... and 1. People constantly bring up "no fire types" for gen 4 when all of the games up to that point have no more than like 3 fire type options before postgame
@@DapperFella gen 1 had charizard rapidash, ninetales, arcanine, flareon, and magmar. Moltres not counted
Gen 2 typhlosion, Macargo, and Houndoom. Entei not counted
Gen 3 has blaziken, camerupt and Torkoal
Gen 4 only infernape and magmortar
@@pelucheCR7 Didn't gen 4 have ponyta?
@@pelucheCR7 You mention Houndoom and Macargo, but those didn't appear until post game in the gen they're introduced from. It's pretty bad when you have to rely on a past gen to fill out your typing, but Fire not being the only one having that kind of problem.
@@byronlyons3548 yep youre right about that. However you can get slugma through an egg given in violet city easily though in hgss of course, in gold though yeah . Houndoom, it is a shame. Only youre starter and ho oh are avaliable. However since the post game is very extensive and you can get houndoom immediately after arriving in kanto you can still give it a good use through the main journey.
Finally obtaining a Milotic using a strategy guide is one of my fondest childhood memories. Seeing Milotic on opponents' teams (including Wallace), I thought it was so cool looking and coveted it heavily. After hours of searching for a Feebas tile, I finally found one and caught as many as possible to ensure I had the right nature, before spending days of trial and error making enough dry pokeblocks of the best quality. Seeing my Feebas finally evolve was a huge moment of victory and everyone on the playground wanted to know how I got one. Milotic hands down remains my favourite pokemon to this day
Currently hunting for a shiny one in Pokemon Violet before I do the Blueberry Academy DLC. Beautiful colors and design!
Always makes me feel old to hear people go this was "my generation" when I remember sitting in 6 grade with the Red/Blue magazine guide learning where to catch all the Pokemon lol
i remember filling out my pokedex in 6th grade by beating people during lunch time. losers would trade whatever pokemon the winner wanted. Including legendaries, mewtwo, and starters lol. i also remember being stupidly excited for my ancent mew card going to see the first movie
One of my oldest memories is the primary school playground, taking the AA batteries out of my lime green Gameboy and furiously rubbing then together in my hands so I could get enough charge to get through the Brock gym battle with my friend over my shoulder giving me advice on what moves to use. Simpler times
there IS a reason for pokemon contests: Milotic
Also decking out your party with sick ribbons.
My swampert won all the beauty contests for me
@@cs5250 I used solrock. The combination of Sunny Day/Overheat and Explosion at the end crushed everyone.
Probably my favorite memory of Emerald, other than being so impressed that I could see my reflection in rain puddles, was hunting the Regis. I had the strategy guide which included a Braille alphabet. Using that, I translated and wrote down every Braille message and caught each of the golems on my own.
I loved it! Some of the methods for hunting down the Regis sounded like playground rumors but they were legit. I wish I could do it all for the first time again.
I love how he calls them Monsters like they should be called
"This was my generation". Exactly how i feel. I played Gens 1 and 2 and loved them but I love everything about this generation. The pokemon are all cool. Hoenn is an amazing region and feels wild. I love how the environment is a huge thing. Team Aqua and Magma arnt just criminals but actual eco-terrorist that want to cause an extinction level event. And dont even get me started on the music. The only thing the remake did better was add the delta episode. Emerald is still to this day my 3rd fave game ever. It gave me my fave pokemon. It was the first time that with no manipulation i got a female starter. My Blaziken Wildfire is still my most precious pokemon. Absolutely love this gen.
Emerald didnt add any new pokeyman
@@HistoryandReviews smeargle is in emerald but not in ruby or sapphire now ya know
@@SkyzzzGaming already knew that. Big deal its a weak Pokeyman
@@HistoryandReviews but it was new to that game ! So stop being a know it all and its pokemon not pokeyman come on dude
@@SkyzzzGaming Pokeyman is not a good series. Emerald is where it peak
Regice: cannot be melted. "Makes you wonder why it's still weak to fire types."
Fire hurts, KingK.
What about Groudon?
It hurts you because you can melt
@@vampire_catgirl you cant say he's a melting pot
"he was no Regice, fire cannot melt a Regice" - King K. Targheryen
To quote pretty much everyone who talks about immortality: "No you can't die. Yes, you can still feel pain."
"Wattson suffers from ""a ground type would end my career"" syndrome" you got me there kingk
It's funny too though because he didn't mention a big issue with Wattson. So he's super weak to ground types but um, what ground types can you have by then? Nincada who doesn't learn a ground move until 31, mudkip which is great for people that picked it but if you didn't geodude is the onyl other ground type you can get. I usually use hariyama or breloom for this fight since I'm not a big torchic fan and i usually pick treecko. He's given me loads of trouble in the past :/
@@mattyluvspokemon08 Yeah. Both of these are true.
The only halfway decent ground type up to that point is Marshtomp though. Every time I don't pick Mudkip, Wattson is one of the hardest gym leaders
That or a overloaded Pikachu.
Wattson always pissed me off when I didn't have Marshtomp to Mud Shot his entire team. Steel before gen 6 resisting everything all over the place, especially the most common attacking types for pokemon to learn was such a pain in the ass.
As a child, the battle pike was the first place I ever learned the world “nostalgia”. I remember asking my mom what it meant, ‘old stuff’ she said, and it was an old man you encounter so I was like oh, that makes sense. Now that’s a really silly and precious memory for me
Learned that word on pike too
I have such a strong connection to this gen that hearing Littleroot Town's theme makes me wanna cry. This video was wonderful, and I can't wait for you to cover the upcoming gens, especially when it comes to the remakes.
Would love to see you do one of these videos on the Console Games of Gen 3, Colosseum and XD. Not too many quality vids dissecting what they did good and what they did poorly.
Love those games so much
Things they did good:
Darker, edgier tone
Double battle emphasis
Unique gameplay and structure
Flaws:
Poor selection of Pokemon to use
Game is short (XD fixed this by starting you at level 10 but the last area of that game was very tedious)
Hey Kara, quality comment
Colosseum and XD were childhood games
Everything about this comment makes me so happy
When I was a kid, I hated the battle frontier. "You're telling me that my level 79 Blaziken will get nerfed to level 50?? Oh heck no!"
Nowadays, I look back and have no idea what I missed out on.
A lot of suffering because you had no idea what EVs, IVs, and natures were.
@@tails183 Jep.. a lot of dumb BS that made the franchise look competitive but was just a total waste of time because everybody ran perfect cheated IV/nature/EV in online during Diamond-Pearl and Black-White.
Yup, and it was super easy to cheat them at that, still is. It isn't hard to just pop anything catchable or breeding in gen 5 in as 100% and have the anti-cheat system clear it.
I always skipped it too, because you don't get exp from battles. Felt like a waste of time, when in fact it's supposed to be the reward for doing the grinding in the main game.
But I wish there was a version of the battle frontier where the enemy trainers aren't using EV-trained Pokemon, just good moves and strategies. I don't want to spend the hours training a new team, I just want to battle with trainers who aren't brain-dead.
Lol I always thought they would nerf my Pokémon into lower level
I'm quoting someone else, but the worst part about these games is that you can't play them again for the first time
I rewatched the Red and Blue retrospective three times. I rewatched the Gold and Silver retrospective four times waiting for this video. I've rewatched this retrospective five times waiting for the next.
I don't know what it is but your videos are super interesting and entertaining, thank you for all the hard work you do
love that chapter font🔥
Wasn't expecting seeing you here LOL
Most epic crossover in history right here, smash stand aside
Nexpo?
The hell?
damn Nexpo watches KingK. the more you know
The crossover i never knew i wanted
Emerald is and will always be an S Tier game.
Same for ruby and sapphire
It’s basically sapphire and ruby combined which means S tier + S tier = SS tier (aka pure fun)
RSE were all top tier
@Jesus Pernia HGSS are so overrated
Still my favorite to date I replay it constantly
appreciation for the hoenn layout! hoenn is probably my favorite region in terms of layout, it's definitely the one i have the clearest mental map for how to get around, it's like home :)
I grew up playing Pokémon since Gen 1 but Gen 3 was the first generation that I could remember actually coming out and it will always be my baby ❤️
Someone has a pretty deep grudge against lance...not only are you throwing shade at any opportunity, but that Salamance...xD
I always hated Lance. He is a cheater since he has both underleved evolved Pokemon and moves that they can't learn. He is a dragon type expert but he uses mostly flying types (and i blame GF for that design.) And he is move on to Champion in the next game and he does it all again.
yeah and Abbachio and Jolyne? nice jojo reference
13:12 did you know that line on Jirachi's belly is it's giant closed third eye that it uses to see the future? Yep. It's actually a pretty creepy design. Most of it's torso is an eyeball.
I was looking at that extra hard. Lol. Did it open in the movie?
@@Jerler91 yes, it's in the movie. It's also a major plot point in the manga, where Archie from team aqua uses it to wish for a new, stronger kyogre, creating a giant kaiju kyogre that kills tens of thousands and decimates a densely populated city in an apocalyptic tidal wive!
It also opens in one of its animations in ORAS.
@@Highstar25 i was about to act surprised, but i guess Pokemon has always been this dark. Lol
I knew that, but thinking about it never makes it any less weird
The sound track in this game has some of my favorites in the whole series.
Really loved these games, I had a file named DOSU with 300 plus hours on it. So much time spent at the battle frontier, doing my dailies in fighting the people I had mixed records with in their bases, checking the mall to see if my ID had matched for the day, picking all my berries, seeing if I could get to mirage island. Truly apart of the series that will remain closer to my heart than others. Sometimes you just wanna be 10 with a gameboy shoved in your back pocket. Bless everyone who played these games with a passion.
This generation was my favorite especially since my boi Mudkip made his debut
Unrivaled starter choice
Same. Mudkip will always be my favorite pokemon. My first partner too.
do u liek mudkipz?
I herd you liek Mudkipz.
I feel like Gen 3 was the perfect mix of the older games and the newer ones when it came to its design and Pokemon. They were the perfect blend of simplistic, while having the personality and feel of the next couple gens in them.
This is exactly true. I played a lot of Gold and Emerald and they always felt the most refined for how simple everything was. As i grew out playing casually and saw battles as a metagame, i wished that the gen 3 battles had a bit more depth like in gen 4 with the split
The pokedex was also a nice blend of new and old. Creating a bunch of new mons and sprinkling in a few old ones to round out the roster.
Gen 5 was lousy with new ones to the point that they had to retroactively add old ones in with BW2. And gen 6 started the trend of too few new mons and an over reliance on older regions, particularly Kanto.
@@Xanegoh I agree, I'm more on the balanced new Pokemon to old Pokemon camp ratio. I say Hoenn with ~130 over the 200 in the Hoenn Dex is a good balance. However I will say in future games maybe recycling isn't bad. Don't need to introduce a new bug when we have to tons of early ones already.
haha no
Gonna agree, well put
The most perfect Pokemon game of all. Is beautiful and its difficult curve just is so smooth. Nothing more to say. One of my favorite games of all time.
Started with Red/Blue, loved it. Then rocked Gold/Silver/crystal. But when I first played Sapphire man was I blown away. I was 13 when those games came out and it really felt like those games were growing, just as I was.
I'm there with you, I remember the growth of the games was so exciting each release and seeing I could build a secret base for the first time was absolute peak gaming for my young mind
Ahhh one of my fave series on youtube
Wasn't expecting to see you here. Neato
Why u wont survive pokemon confirmed?
100% agreed
same, its good to have 50 diffrent high quality bread tube Content Creators in life
big time ditto
Not gonna lie King K's Pokemon videos are always a treat - thanks man
Swampert is actually just the solution to the entire game tbh. Such a cool Pokémon, and so powerful!
The amount of mystery In this game (large oceans, mirage island, caves, Regis) was done so well and is why this game stole my heart as a kid
The R/S ad at the beginning was a nostalgia trip I never expected but god damn do I love it
Eight months of overtime every day at the USPS. Today was the busiest yet. I’m drained. A new King K has made this a good day. Thanks man.
As someone who runs a business that is entirely dependent on the USPS, I would like to wholeheartedly thank you for all your hard work.
10:40 I find it interesting that the Pokédex entries that talk about their heroics is in the version opposite of where you catch them
I'm so happy that your favorite Pokémon is Absol, too. Such an elegant design, and uniquely asymmetrical.
Can’t wait for king k to go off about mythics in diamond and pearl. Oh boy...
Diamond and Pearl was my first Pokémon game, and I didn't know anything about mythics, so when I saw the list of Pokémon, I saw the mythics and thought, "Wow! I can't wait to figure out how to find and catch those legendaries." …One can imagine my disappointment.
The worst part about it all is it's the first thing you hear in the game. You'd never KONW that, but still thinking back on it, that opening music is so infurt now. XD
@@matthewmuir8884 I used an Action Replay to get to them lol. If Nintendo’s gonna cheat then so am I.
@@nathaneskin3572 smart man. Luckily I copped one as a kid off eBay 😂. Was very cool to get into places you really weren’t supposed to. 👍
Even though there's a way to get all of those Mythical Pokemon right now in those games, legitimately. But chances are that either he won't know about the server thing, or still complain about why they needed to be accessed via internet.
Gen 3 will always hold a special place in my heart... still replayable to this day
He saved my favorite song in emerald for last 😭 I’m crying. I get that nostalgia rush every time I listen to that track
Whenever I hear mention of the Pokemon franchise, I often feel regretful. As a younger lad, all my friends played pokemon except for me, who had an incurable obsession with the Legend of Zelda franchise. I remember the trading cards, the commercials, the anime, but if you asked me to name any pokemon I could probably only name a few.
This is a little weird for me to admit, but considering me and KingK are the same age (I'm pretty sure) and were children at around the same point in time, these Pokemon retrospective videos really offer a glimpse into a childhood and general video gaming experience I never had, I'm learning a lot from them, and I really appreciate that. That's all.
i feel you. i'm prob a bit younger (maybe), and i wasnt allowed to play pokemon until i was in 6th grade. it sucked, i think i missed a lot of opportunities in elementary school where everyone was playing pokemon and all i could do was be bitter about it. id likely be much better socially, make different friends, possibly even get into sports. when i finally started playing my first pokemon game, pokemon X, i had a blast, and then had to play backwards through the series, through all the games my friends were talking about for the past 5 years, and see how much i missed out on.
now im in college, and honestly not too impressed with sword and shield. i hope next years gen 4 remakes do them justice.
Pokemon didn't interest me that much as a child either, but I don't regret it. Those retrospective are entertaining because King K is great, but I don't care about the games more because of them. I don't understand why Pokemon became so popular.
@@timestopMachinist are you seriously blaming a VIDEO GAME for your failure to be social?
@@GribbleGob I'm just saying I didnt have much in common with kids, and it wouldve been a start.
@@timestopMachinist I feel the exact opposite as you. For years I was a genwunner. Blamed all other games for not being like pokemon red. But much later I realize how I missed out on so many good games and ignored what was good about them. So i regret not playing Gen3-Gen7 when they came out. As of now I've played gen 1-4
Pokemon Ruby will always have a special place in my heart. Coming from a family with not a lot of money, being able to buy a new game was almost impossible. I remember taking literally every penny, nickel, etc. I found at school, vending machines, on the street, to save up money to buy this game. It took a couple of months, but I was so happy to save up the money to buy it. Funny how that little gesture led me to manage my money properly later in life as well. I love Pokemon and the many life lessons I have gained from finance, to art, all because I pursued this passion.
I can relate to this a lot. I had terrible anxiety as a kid and grew up in a relatively poor family getting help from my government. I remember my mom working really really hard and was able to get me a DS Lite and Pokemon diamond. That game taught me that I was able to go outside and travel. It helped me learn how to interact with the outside world and even socialise. Really I can say it allowed me the environment and space to grow confident.
I feel like Flannery being kinda pathetic was intentional. She's a brand new gym leader clearly trying put on a tough and scary front when she just doesn't have that in her. It's perfectly in character that her team is just as green as she is.
Her team was honestly green asf
Atleast her torkoal with overheat was decent, although having 1 good Pokemon out of 3 isn't exactly a stand out team for a gym leader. Definitely green but atleast she has 1 good pokemon to start building around.
While it may have some mild narrative interest, it screws over the gameplay. Main series Pokémon games do not have particularly developed narratives. Gameplay should be the priority.
@@rdrrr I disagree that Flannery being easy somehow impacts the gameplay. And frankly Pokemon has snuck in little genius bonuses like that before and since. For instance, your last battle with Silver, where he comes to accept that strength isn't the be all end all, his Golbat has evolved into Crobat, which is a Friendship evolution.
@@goldencyclone4984 How does making a Gym Leader a joke not impact the gameplay?
This is my fav generation. I estimate clocking in around 4,000 hours of playing all three of these games as a child.
Hoenn was my last region before college and life. Coming back through Omega Ruby was a joy.
Holy cow you definitely were an older fan. Ruby and Sapphire came out when I was in second grade lol now I’m 25...
@@Faceplay2 I'm 29 now. I never did the Sinnoh or Unova games. I just put 600+ hours into Ruby between 6th and 10th grades.
Im in a similar boat, but stopped after the sinnoh games. Years later, i played black 2 and loved it!
Sorry your return to Pokémon was that terrible remake.
@@somedogsarecops2354 better than any of the 7th gen games.
“KingK makes love to Absol for two minutes”
Eh, I'm more of a Gardevoir fan myself. She's valid and will wreck your ass if you look at me wrong. What's not to love?
I've loved Absol for over 10 years now, 2 more minutes is nothing
I cant blame him, I would do the same
As a kid I was upset Crasher Wake didn’t carry Prinplup, as Gardenia used Turtwig and Flint Infernape! So I agree with the Combusken thing
Loved the part where you said "It doesn't need to be a damn Drayano hack." 😂
This week on 'the physical/special split was a gift to all of us'
Which physical special split? The one in Gen2 (adding Spc Atk/Spc Def) or the attacks becoming physical or special?
@@vulcanraven9701 gen 4! allowing physical fire types or special fighting types to exist.
@@ExKiwi-yw8er Yes, that addition was desperately needed. I hated how there used to be Fire Pokemon with weak special atk but Higher Attack power. Or how Ghost moves like Shadow ball were physical but Crunch (Dark) was special xD
Only sad part is it nerfed Sceptile's signiature move.
IMO- best entry titles and generation in the series that influenced every generation afterward. New Gameplay elements, strategy, design, music, etc. Wonderful.
- Ruby, Sapphire
- Emerald
- FR, LG
So basically all of gen 3? Gens after gen 3 aren't as good as 3 for me. Although I prefer 1 over 3,and 2>gen 1. But that's just me. 1-5 were fun for me.
I disagree in the remakes.
I started playing Pokemon from the very beginning, but to this day I still hold gen 3 in the highest regard during my childhood. I loved gen 2 growing up too, but God ruby and sapphire were the first games that just had that first sense of "magic" to them. Like you could finally feel the world you were in, and just how wonderful these creatures were.
I think it is somewhat fitting that Jirachi is an in game event. Seeing as it slumbers for hundreds of years, it kind of helps build up that mystique about it.
Yo he loved Lance so much he named his Salamence in his Honor.
Arguably the greatest and most important Generation. Gosh I had never been as addicted to a game before as I was with Fire Red and Emerald back in the day.
Personally, I prefer Gen 1, to each their own tho
@@vulcanraven9701 Understandable. Gen 1 is second close for me.
I would say that Gen 1 is the most important, but Gen 3 is probably the most refined of all.
@@sebastianaliandkulche out of gen 1-3, three is the most refined, with good item system. Though i prefer the flexibility of gen 1; the glitches were a great upside & the pokemon were interesting. Gen2 has best postgame and Day/night, but the johto regions too short
@@vulcanraven9701 Yeah, i agree with your opinions of Gen 1 and 3. And something i want to add is that Gen 1 is bashed for unfair reasons, but Gen 1 have a lot of unique things to stand above other gens.
I would say that Mystery Dungeon have the best post game in the franchise, and sadly i never enjoyed too much Gen 2. The post game is so padded and some of the challenges like the roaming pokemon are unfair to get.
Watching this gives me a whole new appreciation for in game lore and trainer pokemon types. The breakdown of Winona's team was especially interesting.
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To this day the music is probably the best ive ever witnessed in a video game. Playing this when i was 13 with not a care in the world. I miss those days so much but the music will always take me back to those happy days :)
"hoenn's fire types suck"
_diamond and pearl are typing..._
Infernape and Magmortar are way better than gen 3 fire mons.
@Takumi Fujiwara infernape is sick tho
Honestly I prefer gen4 b/c gen3 was half ocean therefore tentacool everywhere
Salamance’s nickname had me dying when I paid attention😂😂😂
I didn't care for the Battle Factory much as a kid, but as an adult I came to appreciate it giving me new insight on Pokemon to use. I ended up getting a tanky stall god Blissey one time, loved it so much, I went and crafted my own borrowing from the one I rented and took them with me to every facility. Substitute, Attract, Sweet Kiss, with either Thunderbolt or Ice Beam swapped in depending on the rest of my team. She was a beast and has made me love the Pokemon
That’s awesome. I love when a Pokémon surprises you so much that it ends up being a favourite.
Your team building sections are just perfect.
I dig the whole critique.
Like If I wanted to make a video on Pokémon, it feels like you’ve nailed the perfect formula for every single one of these.
As somebody who started with gen 1, it's definitely not just because you started with gen 3 that you're so fond of it. It holds the most special place in my heart too, despite it not being my first. Obviously there's all the objective improvements that have been discussed in detail in the video, but there's also just something really special about the feel of it too. The aesthetic, the Pokemon, the music, it's all on another level IMO. I just wish it had also gotten the physical/special split that came along in the next gen, so many Pokemon would have benefitted immensely from it (I love me some Crawdaunt, but GameFreak did him dirty combining that typing with those stats).
The name of that Salamance (52:27) really spoke to me, you know? It was almost as it was telling a hidden truth no one dared to listen
Back when I was a kid I got Jirachi in my game. My friends teenage brother was a huge pokemon fan and pre-ordered Colosseum so he could get the bonus disc. I got it and on his birthday I told everyone I knew who had the game and was invited to his party to bring it and we gave them all Jirachi. There were between 10 and 20 kids who got it. We were absolute legends in that school for awhile.
Looking at your teams for your playthroughs of both version, I just adore them! Love how you centered them around the main dilemma of the two games. Makes me want to use a team centered around a certain type or strategy ☺️
This video had a surprising amount of personality, I didn't expect to laugh out loud as often as I did. Oh boy am I already hyped for the next video in this series (please take your time though, your videos are always worth waiting for). Keep up the great work KingK!
How did you comment before the video came out lol
@@dduuddeechil if you support the channel on Patreon you get to see videos 24h early.
@@TomUsedSurf ahhhh I see, cool kids get first dibs
@@dduuddeechil rich* kids
I mean, $1/month isn't rich.
You know, Wobbuffet makes battle frontier singles way easier than you might expect. With its strategy of reflecting twice the damage its dealt it can easily take out 2 Pokemon before going down even without optimizing your EVs. Made even easier by the lack of a Physical/Special split, which allows you to easily predict what you'll be hit by. I do really miss the battle frontier's unique challenges, but also their difficult, but static AI. The most recent incarnations of a battle facility are captivated by this Dynamic AI that counter picks against your team, which really takes the fun out of a casual playthrough
This was the perfect game to play during the summer.
this is THEE best pokemon generation, it was my entire childhood.
Great vod, but Jolyne should really be a string-shot user like beautifly, especially considering the other options from stone ocean alone
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that thought you could get Deoxys via the mossdeep space center somehow
Gen3 was not my first generation but it's the one I have the best memories with. Before Gen3, my Pokemon memories, though still fond memories are constantly accompanied by Pokemon related bullying. Gen3 came when I finally graduated middle school and left all that behind. I loved playing my Sapphire version - I even still remember my very first team: Grumpig, Azumarill, Blaziken, Sharpedo and Manectric! The last slot must have been a random HM mule because I'm pretty sure I replaced it with Kyogre. The best part about all of it though, was that I solved the Regi riddles all on my own with the booklet by the sea, as I played that part in summer, on a trip to Croatia. Emerald did indeed teach me about EV training (well, it encouraged me to learn more about it online, because the system isn't explained at all ingame) and I had a lot of fun with the elemination tournament and the factory in particular. I technically bought Emerald from my very first earned money too, which is a pretty cool memory (even if it was just an odd job for a relative)
I think the idea behind team aqua & magma being good or evil is based upon perspective. And those perspectives are reflected by the poster legendary of each game. So the only reason it feels more ‘balanced’ in emerald is because now you’re seeing the story from the perspective of the ‘balancer’ instead of the extremes.
In other words - they’re all well written, but only when you see them from the bigger picture.
“Better dragon user than Lance. I will die on this hill.” I love you, KingK
I absolutely love how you include the nostalgia commercials
Long live gen 3. The peak of Pokémon music and design. It just feels like home, no matter what’s going on I can always return to Emerald ❤
"While Dive is a better move than Whirlpool..." I suppose you have not heard of Perish Trap Azumarill.
Never thought of tbat