7 Pokemon Facts You Never Knew 

Unlike Paper Mario which Miyamoto ruined with Sticker Star and now we have the office supplies games.

@@Zelink108 I understand trying to change the direction of a new franchise that was still in development, but Paper Mario was established already. He really didn't have the qualifications to dictate how it changed, even if he owned the original IP. It was a bad call that he clearly lacked the correct frame of mind to make -- someone who hates RPGs should never be in charge of the future of an RPG series.

@@maidor This is a common argument that misunderstands Pokémon as a whole, usually from people who stopped playing it. I can't even blame you for it, and I'll explain why, but hear this out for a second. Your conclusion is misplaced, but the idea of it is entirely understandable. First, it needs to stay as an RPG of some kind at this point. Its sheer scale as a monster collecting game with enormous customization in a large open (sometimes) world necessitates the format of an RPG. As a matter of fact RPGs are commonly chosen for such complex systems for that very reason, it's much easier to manage them. The complexity is what keeps players around for the postgame and subsequent games, even when there isn't a _real_ postgame anymore. To uproot the main franchise and make it no longer an RPG is to shoot your foot because you knee hurts; it solves nothing and gets rid of a perfectly functioning limb. The real issue is the directors' decision to remove features every game to keep the past ones "unique." Evolutions are made constantly, especially in the core RPG mechanics themselves (playing Gen 1 competitively and Gen 8 competitively are wholely different activities -- browse any competitive history video or a gen 1 glitch compilation, and you'll find that out fast). The problem is, every time they've added in one new feature since Gen 5, they've taken away three more. Despite constant evolution, they purposely decide to discard proven ideas for the sake of keeping each generation "unique." So, despite changing things up constantly, people are tossing themselves off of the Pokémon hype train because as soon as anything cool is announced, it's assumed that it's not going to stick around anyways -- meanwhile, their favourite features from previous generations get axed. Nothing feels new, because nothing is permanent, so the only permanent thing (the root RPG mechanics from Gen 1) is the only thing acknowledged. The directors have achieved their goal of making every generation unique, but as a result, there is very little motivation for existing fans to move on to the next game. This is especially true after they made the decision to no longer make every Pokémon from previous generations usable in new games. After all, why abandon everything you liked in your current game to spend money on a new game with more or (often) less the same amount of content? And if you do get the game, why experiment with the side content if it's never going to be around again? Tl;dr: the issue isn't the RPG core, or a lack of evolution, but rather the fact that Gamefreak is purposely discarding its own evolutions for an incredibly misguided creative decision.

@@maidor On the contrary (Serperior), they've made plenty of changes to Pokémon RPG formula over the years and done a pretty good job of keeping things fresh. However, they *can't* change the core mechanics in a main series game, or it just wouldn't be Pokémon anymore, and most long-time fans (including myself) would hate it and not even consider buying it. Thus, it will always be turn-based battles with 4 move slots and 6 party members, etc. as it always should be, and we will always love it for sticking to its core like that. If it's never broke, never fix it! The spinoffs like "Legends: Arceus" are where they get to experiment, and while many of them are also very good games, they will never be as good as the main series games. Also, "Pokken Tournament" is a *great* fighting game, not mediocre at all!

@@mythosinfinite6736 To be fair, most of the mechanical additions and updates do stay around in future generations. It's just one or two gimmicks like Triple/Rotation Battles, Sky Battles, Mega Evolution, and Z-Moves that are left unique to a single generation. Otherwise, mechanical updates like Hidden Abilities, reusable TMs, Fairy types, trainer customization, regional forms, Poké Rides, gaining EXP from catching Pokémon, etc. have stuck around in various forms. Besides, trying the next gimmick and experimenting with it within its generation is plenty of motivation even without it carrying on to the next one. For example, I love using Mega Evolutions in my Gen 6 games despite them being restricted to those games. Why would their absence in Gen 7 & 8 keep me from enjoying them in my games that do have them? Neither did it affect my motivation to later buy a Gen 7 game so I could then try out Z-Moves.

Appreciate your work!

Cheers Pia :) Yeah you told me all about this and sent me maps almost two years ago now. Since then something else came along that made even *more* confident about the map’s placement, although tbh now I can’t remember what it was exactly. Maybe something in a later Gen 2 leak. I actually wrote this video like 3 months ago, and I’ve written about 5 more videos since then, so some of the details that aren’t mentioned in-video are kinda fuzzy in my memory at this point. Anyway, thanks again for the info Pia. Cheers mate :)

You could say that now it’s more a general reflection of experience at disciplining.

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@@psychokinrazalon in the manga the badges actually have some sort of mystical power that gives the trainer power towards handling Pokémon and a few other random things

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That’s a great point

But not in real life.

Dont even know this character but first impression was Akuma with his prayer beads

Game Graphic Glitch Gremlin was the Nerd's own way of saying "Polygons Schmolygons". Nice to see that people even back then are against the ideas of fads and how self-destructive they can be, given THAT involving ugly monkeys.

Not until the (stupid) anime staffs decided to kill the poor creature because of their "false charge" and refusal of taking responsibilities.

His names technically Polygon since L and R are always switched around.

@@SolidFoxHoundSF Indistinguishable from each other, actually. Not actually switched around.

Same 🤚😓

@@psychokinrazalon oh learry?

@@SolidFoxHoundSF Yep. Bery much.

agreed. like,i LOVE the original concept stuff of pokemon but so much of it has already been talked about 1000 times over that you don't want to just hear the same stuff over and over and over again.

Yeah, it's crazy finding new info after all this.

AFAIK the book is all translated, they're just spreading it out into as many videos that they can to turn their investment into a profit.

@@temporal_paradox - Well this video used info from two magazines and two books. The two magazines are fully translated (well, the Pokémon stuff anyway), and one book has already had all its Pokémon stuff translated (about 130 pages, but a very very small percentage was usable unfortunately). The other book is 600 pages, and we’ve only had about 10% of it translated so far. Btw I’m the guy who writes most of the Pokémon videos on this channel. Anyway, mostly I try to combine info from various translations into one narrative (like the last Pokémon video about Mew’s origin story). And there were a few other videos I wrote between them that have one topic covered, but this video got uploaded first. This video’s basically the leftovers from these translations that didn’t fit into those other, more narrow topics. But we’re always having at least one book or magazine translated at any given time. And videos get written about what’s found in those translations as they come up. So it’s not like we had a few translations done, now we're finished and we’re milking them. We’re gonna keep translating stuff so long as the results of those translations keep turning up good info, and people keep watching them. Cheers mate.

@@DJIVision Ah, thanks for the extensive breakdown. I should clarify I didn't mean that in a negative way, I just naturally assume the translations weren't intended as charity but as an investment for content. I didn't realize that so much was still untranslated though, that's interesting.

Like sure creatively it would’ve been interesting to see this game function as a platformer or adventure game or maybe even some wild new genre or a mix we’ve never thought of. But considering that Pokémon is the most popular and profitable franchise in the history of the planet, kind of hard to say it was a bad call. Haha

realistically, there are not many genres that can reach their full potential with the limited controls of the game boy, so I think RPG was the only good choice. A Pokemon platformer or action game would have never been as big because the original game probably would not have been as good.

@@Razsac I wouldn't mind seeing a 3D platform Pokémon game though so far the closest thing we have to that is Poké-Park.

@@PeterGriffin11 probably not for the original Gameboy though lol

If they had gone with a platformer and/or action game, it would've needed a lot of backtracking to go with the ideas of individual habitats and catching 'em all, so it probably would've turned into a Metroidvania.

As to Pokémon being an RPG, I'm glad that it started that way. It was an easily accessible JRPG for children, but it had a lot of depth for those willing to put in the effort to explore and test things. That made it perfect for its early spread in popularity, and gave it staying power. Now, these days, Pokémon has spinoffs in many genres, ranging from tile-matching puzzle games, Picross, and pinball, to the fighting game Pokken, to a whole series of roguelike dungeon crawlers in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. I'm glad we get to experiment with all these different ways to experience the world, all thanks to that first RPG. For a few new genres I think it would be cool to see Pokémon take on someday: - Open-world, "Western" Pokémon RPG. By that I don't mean a Old Western setting, with cowboys and such - though admittedly that could also be cool. I just mean the sort of RPG that is allegedly more popular in the West, the kind where the story is less linear, and player decisions can vastly change the game's story. It would be an interesting change. - A Pokémon game in the style of Monster Hunter. Either you could be a trainer controlling a Pokémon in real time, or your character itself could be a region starter Pokémon. Every combat encounter would feel difficult and significant. You could be sent out on missions to fight big, powerful Pokémon, eventually needing to fight rampaging Legendary and Mythical Pokémon. - A Pokémon RTS game. I know those aren't as popular anymore, but I'm still curious what that would look like. (I would also suggest a MOBA Pokémon game, but that's basically what the Pokémon Rumble spinoffs are.) - Some kind of Pokémon flight simulator/aerial racing game. Whether it would be based on trainers riding flying Pokémon, or just playing as the Pokémon themselves, I think it would feel really cool. - Does a Pokémon tower defense game already exist? Well, if it doesn't, I also think that would be interesting. - This may be the biggest pipe dream of all, but it would be so cool if we could ever have some kind of 3D puzzle-platformer in the Pokémon universe, sort of in the style of Legend of Zelda. Rather than getting lots of different weapons and tools to traverse dungeons, you could catch certain predetermined Pokémon at certain locations, and use their skills for the puzzle-solving. ...Yeah. I'm glad that I live at a time where it seems like the Pokémon franchise isn't going anywhere, so maybe someday I'll get to see some of these come to exist.

...it's not a pun. It's the word itself. Japanese R and L people.

L and R don't "switch", they are one and the same in Japanese.

Even more, most Pokemon are named explicitly in Japanese for what they are...the Legendary Birds being iconic examples: Fire, Thunder, and Freezer. They literally named a Pokemon based on the mythological thunder-bird "Thunder". So a Polygon-themed Pokemon named "Polygon" is straight-up Gen 1 Japanese naming conventions.

Jynx is most likely based on the Yamanba/Yamauba, a mountain crone with dark skin, blond hair, a prominent mouth and a red dress. She also has control over winter weather.

@@leetri and gangoru make-up

@@bewearstar9462 jynx is not gangoru lol

@@leetri jynx doesn't have dark skin, she's like tangela and cloyster, pokemon that hide their faces. In the stadium games and gb puzzle league shows that she's just the blonde hair trying to be human

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It's the only logical conclusion- the alternative is that Pokémon inherently and inexplicably understand and respect badges.

@@thisplatformsucks Yeah I always thought that was the real explanation, that Pokemon respect the trainer the more badges they have

but it would be mean.

@@JT5555 but super effective!

the badges are like the scouts

I mean the more I learn about him the more I think he needs out of the industry or should only be allowed to work on his own new games and more allowed to influence anything else

@@kidthegeek You do realize that without Miyamoto Pokemon wouldnt even exist? People can have differing views and opinions, that's okay. It worked out in the end.

@@Omar_E11 yet his decisions on just about anything are completely out of touch. Just about anything I find out I don't like that has changed in a series is due to him. 10 years ago I worshipped the ground he walked on.

@@kidthegeek People to like to rise Miyamoto to this godlike standard, but not every call has to be a genius one. The truth is people are just unhappy with modern-day Paper Mario and they like to make Miyamoto the punching bag for that, even though he was only involved with Sticker Star and barely anything else. The truth is, Nintendo would be no where without his mind.

Yeah, it's safe to say Pokemon was my childhood gateway into RPGs/JRPGs. Before that I mostly played platformers and action games

Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind

Tbh not sure on that most people aren't a fan on what FF has become these days vs older games

@@theblackgamer8103 Well, even back then, they did still experiment a bit, such as with the Active Time Battle. But at least as far as I've seen, really the only main Final Fantasy game to actually be mostly hated; outside of sequels like 10-2; is 13. Granted, I don't follow the fandom that much, so I'm not completely sure.

I've been playing Pokemon ever since it came out during my late-teens. I never once considered Porygon to be ironic as much as stylistic. Like, if I had been asked why I thought Porygon was in the game, I would have said _"Well, there are other electronic Pokemon, like Magnemite and Electrode, so Porygon is just another Electronic Pokemon, just in style, not type."_ And since CG computer graphics was primitive back then, that was the best design they could give Porygon in-world.

@@Daniel_Coffman Me neither but I only hear mixed feelings on 15 and 7 Remake combined traditional and action so it gets a pass

@@theblackgamer8103 I'm not sure about 15, but I'd heard a lot of people enjoyed 7's remake, myself.

That's what Legends seems to be going for on some level

It was more of a jab at chasing trends. As you can tell, it looks derpy compared to the series mascot, Pikachu. Pikachu is an iconic design that can only be made on the game boy, where the most you can get from 3D polygonal gaming was Ballz and Big Rigs. So in a sense Tojiri had the last laugh despite Pokemon Legends: Arceus trying to break away from that and is already showing signs of struggle.

@@Gaia_BentosZX5 "So in a sense Tojiri had the last laugh despite Pokemon Legends: Arceus trying to break away from that and is already showing signs of struggle." The Super Smash Bros. series, Pokemon Stadium, Pokemon Stadium 2 (JP), Pokemon Stadium GS (Stadium 2 in the west), Pokemon Coliseum, Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, Pokémon Battle Revolution and Gen 6 onward all say hi. (Not a comprehensive list of course, just going with the biggest titles)

Well, that and probably battling rules, like how the person that looses a battle has to give money to the winner, nobody is there to enforce that it happens but trainers do it anyways. it would be funny to have an evil organization on some future gen that uses 8 or 9 pokemons in a single battle, as if they are breaking the rules since they dont care.

If I remeber correctly, in the manga Oak mentions that the League defined 6 as enough to make a team, plus is harder to care for and raise more at once

When people catch Pokemon after they have a full party, the pokeball looks like it gets locked and can't be used and apparently, the Pokedex can be used as a sort of "portable PC" to change your current party with the Pokemon you have with you. Also, another apparent assumption is that...well, training Pokemon is extremely hard in their world. We don't notice because it's extremely simplified for the sake of gameplay but the reason why many trainers give up their own journey can be that taking care of six creatures with widely different needs and natures can be too much for a single person. So Alder carrying several pokeballs really cements him as a certified Pokemon Master because he CAN take care of that many Pokemon on his own without stuffing them on a PC.

I believe the miniseries Pokemon Origins actually confirms that. I would love to see it in the games.

Haha yeah, it would have.

Honestly a little surprised they skipped out on it.

@@XenonOdyssey22 As the editor, that was just how it was given to me. Maybe the sponsor wanted it in a specific place?

Hmmm mahbe action rpg? You still create a character and name them and choose.appearance. You play as a character going through a journey. Still seems pretty rpg to me.

Hmmm mahbe action rpg? You still create a character and name them and choose.appearance. You play as a character going through a journey. Still seems pretty rpg to me.

@@david-jonballinger6638 ARPG. Not RPG. Not exactly the same. Though LA is a mix of both.

Hmmm mahbe action rpg? You still create a character and name them and choose appearance. You play as a character going through a journey. Still seems pretty rpg to me

Hmmm mahbe action rpg? You still create a character and name them and choose appearance. You play as a character going through a journey. Still seems pretty rpg to me

He meant in by that time it was decided, not retroactively.

Critics have been aware of that for years but they get silenced by people that place Miyamoto on a pedestal. He is a great developer in the 80s but he still represents a quirk of old Japanese business that dislikes taking miniscule risks.

Not necessarily. Part of what defines an inventor or artistic creative is that they often have bad ideas. It is figuring out which ideas are good, or which ideas, even if bad on their own, become good ideas when combined with the right additional idea, that is key. Thomas Edison pointed out it took him over 1,000 attempts to come up with a working and economic carbon-filament based incandescent light bulb, which became the standard for indoors lighting for over 100 years.

His good ideas are still present, they just make less interesting trivia

Rarely is someone a perfect mastermind who never makes any wrong calls. Miyamoto is included in that, being a human, so I don't see why everyone raises him up to that standard. Just because he meddled into one Paper Mario game doesn't mean he's a boogeyman ruining every game he touches... No Miyamoto, no Nintendo.

@@GreyWolfLeaderTW Thomas Edison also “borrowed” most of his work so…