I honestly relate so much lol. Like when I'm doing a puzzle I'm super good at figuring out a complex solution or having a good idea but miss really subtle dumb stuff lol
"I hate losing to Jan" is such an incredible capstone on this video bc I suspect the entire pokemon community feels that way, but ESPECIALLY alpha lmao
Honestly I'd love to see more of these from creators like Smant with people like Vintendo, Shady, and others like Dylan who do so much content around Pokémon.
For those that don't know Astroid Videos was the first person to do a pokemon escape room challenge on his channel. I'm glad SmallAnt gave it a shot too because are so much fun to watch!
Only fitting that he’d be a guest on! I love that he was included because he was one of the last poketubers I found and I believe is less known than the other three involved in this video? I could be wrong though. I don’t know his subscriber counts
it says so much about alpharad and jan's respective strategies when it comes to approaching pokemon that alpharad immediately figured out the overworld puzzle but jan was able to overcome that with pure moveset knowledge
Idk how long exactly it took you to create this, but PLEASE PLEASE do more! This is such unique and innovative content, genuinely wish it was longer. All 3 of the participants were craaaazy smart to even figure the entire thing out. Impressive all around!
@@dirkstam0511oh I'm sure you could make some super interesting escape room challenges/puzzles for games like minish cap with all its items and mechanics if there is an engine for it
I'm not normally a fan of escape room style content, but this was great. Good puzzles, great pay off to said puzzles, and still managed to make sense in the realm of being based on Pokemon. 10/10.
Gotta say, it's so unbelievably in character that Alphard would stumble past the first step like, 25 minutes ahead of everyone else, only to miss the held item for like an hour
Having an escape room where the clues can be especially obtuse because options are limited by the "rules" of the video game they're playing is a really interesting well fo content. Id love to see more stuff like this. Its probably super time consuming conpared to challenge run content to set up though.
this was so fun to watch! it's amazing how much in-game knowledge you need to have to actually be able to solve those. and I really liked how the hints didn't straightforwardly tell them what to do and just hinting, like they were supposed to! love it and can't wait for the next one :)
There’s various puzzles in different games quality depending on the creativity of the creator and the limitations and mechanics of the games. Minecraft escape rooms can be really cool, but most designers either don’t think about certain mechanics or implement an honor system to restrict a player making the puzzles less satisfying. Super Mario Odyssey has had a few escape puzzles. Fir has made two which SmallAnt has been in both. I believe some other SMO creators have made some as well. You will find these for nearly any game that has any level of modding and level creation. The amount might drastically differ just due to how popular the idea is for certain game communities. Like technically you could do this in Fire Emblem, but I don’t know how popular escape rooms are in the Fire Emblem community.
Oh this is a fascinating concept! Kudos for putting this together. Interesting to see how alpharad intuits things, but if that doesn't work he's stumped, while Jan breaks shit down but by bit
this is such an amazing concept, really wish there could be an episode 2 with other contestants or maybe the same but on a even trickier/longer map now that they know a few tricks!
I am proud of myself for solving literally every puzzle before seeing the solution in the video (even having my first thought be "I would check the twins with covet" after seeing the Muk didn't work, without even needing to know their dialogue) , except I KNOW I would have never seen that protect TM on Wobuffet and just not progressed or grinded on Sableye lmao
I appreciate how Jacob applied some big brain moment in starting and also Smant who made this escape room challenge. It was funny to see Astroid the one who is expert at making these kind of ecape room came last.
This is fantastic! If you're ever doing more of these and want to put it out to more creators, I would LOVE to volunteer every brain wrinkle I have! (I do pokemon stuff on my other channels haha)
I love these; ngl I would watch an entire series of these, though I can bet this is incredibly challenging to put together given the lexicon of knowledge nuzlocke and poketubers already have.
This was such a cool concept, and it was great seeing how each person went about solving each part of the puzzle! Great storytelling as always and I'm excited to potentially see more stuff like this :)
Pretty wild to hear “Covet” be mispronounced like that. Then again, one should never judge another for mispronouncing a word because it means they learned it from reading!
this video was perfection. i put it on as background noise while i studied but couldn't look away 😂 the pacing was fantastic, the information he gave us was just enough to understand everything that was going on while still being able to solve it ourselves, only 15 minutes so no bs, great video.
This was super cool, I wish you had asked Pikasprey Yellow to participate, he has a whole series on his channel called softlockpicking that’s basically about making scenarios like this (but in the base games not using roms)
Great video, funny to see that if AlphaRad just read dialogue he probably would've won the whole thing, he was much faster than the others to figure out the overworled mechanics but Jan was quick (unsurprisingly) with the battle problems
This was a really, really fun watch. Such intelligent use of the game mechanics! And really satisfying to watch them figure it out (which is testament to how well edited the video is!). More of this sort in Pokemon would be great!
This is such a cool idea! Pokémon has so many niche mechanics that most players wouldn't immediately think of so there's a lot you could do with this concept, I really hope we'll see more of it!
I was wondering if Sketching Waterfall off of Seaking in order to traverse a waterfall was ever going to happen. I also thought maybe you needed to catch a Sableye who is immune to both Psychic and Razor Wind in order to beat the double battle. But the puzzles that were actually in here were way better than anything I could come up with
Yes I been watching Frank since I was 12 so happy his hard work is finally paying off and Vinny getting a million subs. I’m so proud of our community that you guys have build up over the years. For Frank and only real ones of will get it, “I’m ducklett I’m savage, get that crit with that super effective damage your a has been I’m the truth, I’m a duck boy what are you?”
This was an amazing idea for a video. If I didn’t have an idea of how long this must’ve taken to do, I’d say do a series. Definitely worth doing at least 1-2 more of these. Especially with these guys. It’s not to see smant’s extremely in depth knowledge and strats about the game being used to create the puzzles. I like the twist on it
Man I loved this, very nice idea, so creative. This is the proof that being a pokemon content creator is not just about doing never ending lockes, you just have to be creative!
This reminded me so much of the challenge battles in XD Gale of Darkness hahahaha! Where the game would give you a set team with a turn limit to complete the battle, and you had to find the right combination to solve the puzzle! You should do more of these!! It was so much fun to watch!
Man i love frank, thanks for giving him the respect he deserves. Hes singlehandedly pushing forward the ideas that can be created within pokemom, and his editinf style is unmatched. Easily my favorite youtuber of all time next to chuggaaconroy.
hey Smant, you probably won't see this but i just wanted to say thanks for the content you make. i've been having a tough time recently waiting for some crucial medical investigation results while doing uni work. the only time i'm able to feel positive is when my mind is distracted and frankly you're the best at that - i can watch your VODs while doing something else (or just watch them haha. you are very funny and tbh your VODs are the only ones i can watch all the way through for hours straight) and your videos help me get to sleep at night especially when people are being loud in the corridor or when some jerk has set the fire alarm off in a different block for the 11th time. so yeah, just wanted to say thanks.
Wow, this idea of "Pokemon escape rooms" with puzzles with really clever Pokemon-themed puzzles, this is really cool. I would love to see more like this!
Can’t believe you had to nerf Alpharad with forced reading
Seriously. Nothing more painful than watching him fail to read ANYTHING.
I feel like this is Karma for him making that fake escape room.
@@jstar3382god the misinformation he spread due to not reading dialogue in three houses was a damn nightmare
@@Blaze-nm1uh wait what misinformation? I never watched his 3H video
As a alpharad gold enjoyer definitely never reads dialogue not even once
Alpharad’s brain is an enigma. He’ll pick up the subtle stuff, then miss that Wobbuffet had an item.
I honestly relate so much lol. Like when I'm doing a puzzle I'm super good at figuring out a complex solution or having a good idea but miss really subtle dumb stuff lol
We call that ✨adhd✨
ADHD gang :D
wrrr
so funny cuz i just came here to say i relate LMAOOOO
"I hate losing to Jan" is such an incredible capstone on this video bc I suspect the entire pokemon community feels that way, but ESPECIALLY alpha lmao
And he was on a roll at the beginning 😭
Alpha is PETTY
RTgame still has that win over Jan in the PLA tournament Wolfe did. That was such a fun stream to watch
@@Savyflores Smant just had the upper hand knowing that Alpharad doesn't read trainer dialogue lol
The alpha-Jan rivalry is so good. They are both just chasing clout but sometimes it gets a little personal
this is a Jigsaw level puzzle, i would love to see more of these escape rooms!
wtf real youtube?
same !
TH-cam slay
W youtube
When youtube comments on ur video u know ur video is good
Thanks for having me! Next time I’ll beat it in a socially acceptable amount of time 💀
As soon as I saw Frank the Tank in a Smant video? Instant watch
bro gotta get Vinny into one of these lol
Honestly I'd love to see more of these from creators like Smant with people like Vintendo, Shady, and others like Dylan who do so much content around Pokémon.
MY JAW DROPPED WHEN I SAW FRANKY
I couldn't believe it your here!
Alpharad doing the first part *SOOOO* well but then fumbling so bad at the end totally fits in with his Icarus Mindset XD
had an icarus moment :/
He is the modern day Icarus.
It’s a matter of time before he falls from grace, let’s just hope it’s not in a Minecraft way.
Icarus grindset
For those that don't know Astroid Videos was the first person to do a pokemon escape room challenge on his channel. I'm glad SmallAnt gave it a shot too because are so much fun to watch!
Only fitting that he’d be a guest on! I love that he was included because he was one of the last poketubers I found and I believe is less known than the other three involved in this video? I could be wrong though. I don’t know his subscriber counts
I’m so glad Astroid is getting out there. His content, ideas, and editing are so amazing. I’ve been watching him for a few years now.
Frank's content is always top notch and unique in Poketuber community
Was glad he was involved here too. Smant said he was doing this on stream a couple weeks ago and I wondered if he'd seen it from Astroid
Not really a concept anyone can claim for themselves lol
it says so much about alpharad and jan's respective strategies when it comes to approaching pokemon that alpharad immediately figured out the overworld puzzle but jan was able to overcome that with pure moveset knowledge
And also alpharads biggest mistakes were all to do to not paying attention to text lol.
Just what you'd expect from a nuzlocker like Jan
But it wasn’t moveset knowledge
It was just pure reading
And the unmatched power of literacy
Smant got so good at beating impossible challenges he started making his own
Props to Atsign too, by Smant's side for a long time now making excellent mods!
Did Smant do a 3 game map randomizer yet?
@@KitsuneKoinuI think he just streamed that yesterday
That’s how he succeds
Yes. This was always inevitable
Idk how long exactly it took you to create this, but PLEASE PLEASE do more! This is such unique and innovative content, genuinely wish it was longer. All 3 of the participants were craaaazy smart to even figure the entire thing out. Impressive all around!
If you like this pikasprey soft lock picking is quite entertaining
@@UkNoobGamerzz Thanks for the suggestion!
Video game escape rooms are such an interesting idea. Super excited for a possible Zelda or Mario Odyssey one in the future!
Pretty sure cj and fir have done some odyssey escape room videos.
Yeah I've seen both they're great :3
@@damamapi There's actually 3 now. Fir released a new one 2 weeks ago.
Tbf Zelda escape rooms is just very hard shrines
@@dirkstam0511oh I'm sure you could make some super interesting escape room challenges/puzzles for games like minish cap with all its items and mechanics if there is an engine for it
wow this is brilliant. wish i was a poketuber to do something like this lol
You watch this stuff?
@@Tanystropheus10You just did as well so why bother🤦♂️
@@unfathomablyunfathomableI think he means he’s shocked that shangerdanger likes Pokémon content because it’s not at all evident from his channel
@@thewritingrowlet2980 Ah. It looked like a rude comment.
@@unfathomablyunfathomableIt really doesn’t.
I love how Alpharad’s hair progressively got more messy as he continued to lose his mind
Einstein was'nt made in a day
This is actually such a brilliant set of puzzles, I would never have guessed Pokemon had the potential for something like this. Genuinely blown away
Go look up Pokemon VR Missions, it's a rom hack that is all puzzles like this
alpha figuring out the first parts almost instantly then selling at the end
is so in character
you could say he flew too close to the sun
Alpharad getting reallt lucky in the beginning and then completely stuck immediately after is such a mood and also extremely on brand lol
Alpharad's rivalry with Jan will never not make me laugh
“Rivalry” 😏😏😏😏😏😏
I'm not normally a fan of escape room style content, but this was great. Good puzzles, great pay off to said puzzles, and still managed to make sense in the realm of being based on Pokemon. 10/10.
Ironically, when you finally "escape" you end up in a room; having been outside for the most part
Gotta say, it's so unbelievably in character that Alphard would stumble past the first step like, 25 minutes ahead of everyone else, only to miss the held item for like an hour
Alpharad immediately figuring out nearly everything is so on par for him
Yeah and then fucking up at the end
He sold this cometition so hard he managed to profit
u commented this half way through the video lmaoo watch the whole thing first next time
@@jordan0183as soon as he had all information he immediately figured things out, he was just pretty bad at finding information
I’m actually surprised they didn’t check on the PC the HOF team at the beginning of the challenge. That was a a good hint.
Jacob: I'm very detail oriented.
Also Jacob: I never read dialogue.
Which one is it???
Smant got tired of being tortured in Fir's escape rooms and decided to become the torturer himself
Having an escape room where the clues can be especially obtuse because options are limited by the "rules" of the video game they're playing is a really interesting well fo content.
Id love to see more stuff like this. Its probably super time consuming conpared to challenge run content to set up though.
Pikaspray would come up with some nasty escape rooms
Trueeeee
"The only way to escape this escape room is watering the berry tree and selling the berry for 249 days straight "
Pikaspray honestly might have helped design this
True
Ah, a man of culture
this was so fun to watch! it's amazing how much in-game knowledge you need to have to actually be able to solve those. and I really liked how the hints didn't straightforwardly tell them what to do and just hinting, like they were supposed to! love it and can't wait for the next one :)
We need more TH-camrs that make these kinds of small puzzles.
AstroidVideos has done a couple, he was the first from my knowledge to start doing them
There’s various puzzles in different games quality depending on the creativity of the creator and the limitations and mechanics of the games. Minecraft escape rooms can be really cool, but most designers either don’t think about certain mechanics or implement an honor system to restrict a player making the puzzles less satisfying. Super Mario Odyssey has had a few escape puzzles. Fir has made two which SmallAnt has been in both. I believe some other SMO creators have made some as well. You will find these for nearly any game that has any level of modding and level creation. The amount might drastically differ just due to how popular the idea is for certain game communities. Like technically you could do this in Fire Emblem, but I don’t know how popular escape rooms are in the Fire Emblem community.
so dope seeing frank in collabs with such big youtubers nowadays, he's come a long way
The fact alpha knew exactly what to do without seeing protection is insane
"Who finds the final solution the fastest"
*sweats profusely in german*
Oh this is a fascinating concept! Kudos for putting this together. Interesting to see how alpharad intuits things, but if that doesn't work he's stumped, while Jan breaks shit down but by bit
this is such an amazing concept, really wish there could be an episode 2 with other contestants or maybe the same but on a even trickier/longer map now that they know a few tricks!
This is actually awesome. I watched it during a Chrism stream. You should make more roms like this Smallant they are a cool concept
I am proud of myself for solving literally every puzzle before seeing the solution in the video (even having my first thought be "I would check the twins with covet" after seeing the Muk didn't work, without even needing to know their dialogue) , except I KNOW I would have never seen that protect TM on Wobuffet and just not progressed or grinded on Sableye lmao
"I hate losing to Jan" Jacob's and Jan's rivalry is always to engaging to watch
I appreciate how Jacob applied some big brain moment in starting and also Smant who made this escape room challenge. It was funny to see Astroid the one who is expert at making these kind of ecape room came last.
“I’m a little shocked I didn’t do that.” is the best part for me. Hope you get more mileage out of this idea and all your effort for it!
This is fantastic! If you're ever doing more of these and want to put it out to more creators, I would LOVE to volunteer every brain wrinkle I have! (I do pokemon stuff on my other channels haha)
Love seeing Astroid getting into the bigger Pokétuber circles. He really deserves it!
I used to watch him years ago and it was so nice seeing him again, especially on Smant's channel :)
I love these; ngl I would watch an entire series of these, though I can bet this is incredibly challenging to put together given the lexicon of knowledge nuzlocke and poketubers already have.
This was such a cool concept, and it was great seeing how each person went about solving each part of the puzzle! Great storytelling as always and I'm excited to potentially see more stuff like this :)
Pokemon.
Pretty wild to hear “Covet” be mispronounced like that. Then again, one should never judge another for mispronouncing a word because it means they learned it from reading!
Frank taking the longest is surprising considering he makes videos on Pokemon escape rooms too lol
He's also Frank 😂
@@topher7823he has the speed of a sebring
@@jasonmartin7968I love the references 😂
I was also surprised to see frank on smallant's channel didn't see that coming
this video was perfection. i put it on as background noise while i studied but couldn't look away 😂 the pacing was fantastic, the information he gave us was just enough to understand everything that was going on while still being able to solve it ourselves, only 15 minutes so no bs, great video.
"I hate losing to Jan" is by now such an iconic sentence to say for Alpharad haha 😂
bruh this is amazing, and their knowledge to solve these is pretty insane
It's safe to say that I am genuinely addicted to SmallAnt content.
Just wanted to give a thanks for the great videos you produce :)
This is such a cool concept. I'm in the middle of watching Shadypenguin's escape room stream and I had no idea you made more than one of these!
Video turned out great! The escape room was tons of fun, makes me wish there were more of this kind around c:
Wow! This was brilliant! I would love to see a new part!
I love escape games, much less stressful than working with real people to do real escape rooms
This was super cool, I wish you had asked Pikasprey Yellow to participate, he has a whole series on his channel called softlockpicking that’s basically about making scenarios like this (but in the base games not using roms)
My only problem with this video is Frank's pronunciation of covet, other than that this is a perfect video.
absolutely this
That drove me nuts. At first, I thought it was a gag based on COVID, but he said it a few too many times for that to be the case.
coveit? ^.^
“Battling is not always the correct way forwards”
Astroid: *describes his battle*
Smant: “sounds like a battle to me” 😏😏😏
I love all the tricks like the shiny togepi just to really throw them off
Great video, funny to see that if AlphaRad just read dialogue he probably would've won the whole thing, he was much faster than the others to figure out the overworled mechanics but Jan was quick (unsurprisingly) with the battle problems
I LOVE ASTROID… so good to see Frank recognized for his greatness ♥️
PLEASE do more of these. I've never seen a Pokémon escape room, this was such a fun watch!
This was a really, really fun watch. Such intelligent use of the game mechanics! And really satisfying to watch them figure it out (which is testament to how well edited the video is!). More of this sort in Pokemon would be great!
In alpharad's defense, pokemon has never really been a game where you need to pay attention to the text
The fact that it opens with,
“I trapped three Pokémon TH-camrs” is freaking comedy gold
I really wanna see Ttar try this, he’s either gonna be a genius or give the best content struggling
Respect to Jacob, he has come so far from his first Nuzlocke.
Absolutely awesome video. Wish it was longer but of course, hard to get these guys to commit to spending 5+ hours filming this. Great concept
I love to see astroid in one of these collab videos! Dude is super underrated imo
This whole challenge and video were so well made!
This is such a cool idea! Pokémon has so many niche mechanics that most players wouldn't immediately think of so there's a lot you could do with this concept, I really hope we'll see more of it!
The way the one guy says covet is hilarious
great to see frank doing some big collabs with some big youtubers
This is my new favourite video of yours. Brilliantly designed and I appreciate the large amount of time you must have put into this.
I was wondering if Sketching Waterfall off of Seaking in order to traverse a waterfall was ever going to happen. I also thought maybe you needed to catch a Sableye who is immune to both Psychic and Razor Wind in order to beat the double battle. But the puzzles that were actually in here were way better than anything I could come up with
This is absolutely brilliant. The planning, the puzzling, it's a wonderful idea incredibly well executed.
Frank, my dude! Good to see him getting such big collabs.
Yeah, was not expecting it, been watching Frank since the og diamond and pearl soul link😊
Yes I been watching Frank since I was 12 so happy his hard work is finally paying off and Vinny getting a million subs. I’m so proud of our community that you guys have build up over the years. For Frank and only real ones of will get it, “I’m ducklett I’m savage, get that crit with that super effective damage your a has been I’m the truth, I’m a duck boy what are you?”
I hope this escape room was fun for you to make, because I want more.
I LOVED watching this! Maybe its your narration over others, the the type of challenges you do, but i really enjoyed this vid.
Covet pronunciation is killing me
That mewtwo in the thumbnail made me wanna say… I would.
The Alpharad and PokemonChallenges rivalry continues.
Wait this is so cool! I want more people to keep making things like this! Pokémon escape puzzles seem like an incredible idea!
God damn, Smant, Alpharad, Jan, and the loch ness monster in one video!
That was a fantastic and unique experience. Major props to whomever designed the escape room.
Frank finally getting the recognition he deserves
Yeah let's go frank !!
From the diamond and pearl soul link and "hoenn and sinnoh we're playing different games !" to here lol
This is definitely one of the coolest things I've seen recently - fantastic job on making the Poke'mon Escape Room!
This was an amazing idea for a video. If I didn’t have an idea of how long this must’ve taken to do, I’d say do a series.
Definitely worth doing at least 1-2 more of these. Especially with these guys.
It’s not to see smant’s extremely in depth knowledge and strats about the game being used to create the puzzles. I like the twist on it
Man I loved this, very nice idea, so creative. This is the proof that being a pokemon content creator is not just about doing never ending lockes, you just have to be creative!
8:53 for a sec i thought he said Skitty might get covid 😂
This reminded me so much of the challenge battles in XD Gale of Darkness hahahaha! Where the game would give you a set team with a turn limit to complete the battle, and you had to find the right combination to solve the puzzle!
You should do more of these!! It was so much fun to watch!
Man i love frank, thanks for giving him the respect he deserves. Hes singlehandedly pushing forward the ideas that can be created within pokemom, and his editinf style is unmatched. Easily my favorite youtuber of all time next to chuggaaconroy.
Yeah great to see him here
This was a super fun idea for a challenge, definitely do more of these.
I’m so proud of frank man he’s such a legend
Brilliant idea really gets you thinking about pokemon mechanics you don't normally think about. Amazing job!
I winced everytime Astroid mispronounced covet
12:55 "It all came down to who finds the Final Solution the fastest."
I’m not breathing until you post a new video
hey Smant, you probably won't see this but i just wanted to say thanks for the content you make. i've been having a tough time recently waiting for some crucial medical investigation results while doing uni work. the only time i'm able to feel positive is when my mind is distracted and frankly you're the best at that - i can watch your VODs while doing something else (or just watch them haha. you are very funny and tbh your VODs are the only ones i can watch all the way through for hours straight) and your videos help me get to sleep at night especially when people are being loud in the corridor or when some jerk has set the fire alarm off in a different block for the 11th time. so yeah, just wanted to say thanks.
Alpharad is NOT a poketuber???? Are you crazy??? Pls delete immediately
Sorry sir. Right away sir
I was here when this comment had 2 likes (jokes aside I love both of you guy's content)
I know right?????? Sooo weird???????....
He's the nuzlocke king
This is SUCH a cool video idea. I really hope there's more
I like how twitch chat completed the first puzzle in like 2 min
Wow, this idea of "Pokemon escape rooms" with puzzles with really clever Pokemon-themed puzzles, this is really cool. I would love to see more like this!