The "Perfect" version of Pokemon Crystal was TOUGH! 

I've watched so many of your videos, man! It's an honor to have the romhack featured on your channel! :)

One really neat thing about this rom hack is that if you do the gym leaders in a different order, they'll have different teams based on your number of badges.

Smith actually made no changes to the AI. The reason it feels smarter is due to it having options to switch into or use to set up. It really shows what the original AI was built to do.

Jrose: Don't read pokemon dialogue Lance: "I am about to pull pro pokemon move"

Electrode: *explodes itself* Jrose: Truly incredible

I love Jrose saying he doesn't read dialogue, him missing the trainers saying they have a legendary bird, then being surprised when they have it.

Can you imagine how different Lance's legacy as champion would be if he had a ZAPDOS on his team in the original game? Honestly, making Clair water themed and Lance flying themed is a genius move that not only works well with their designs, but the designs of Dragonair and Dragonite.

It’s cool how it may be implied that Gen1 legendaries have already been caught by strong trainers before the protagonist starts their journey

“Oh wow, it uses fly. IT FLYS NOW?!?” 😂 That part made me crack up.

I think the intention behind forcing you to rematch the Elite Four is to get your levels a little closer to Red’s

The best part is that there are no ai changes - just better tools available with synergies built into the teams.

Lance: “I have a Zapdos” JRose: “yeah yeah get to the battle” Lance: *sends out Zapdos* JRose: *Pikachu surprised meme*

I'm going to go over some of the changes that he doesn't go over about the story and nice features I noticed in my playthrough. You can get the fossils and the GS ball from the ruins of alph. You can buy evolution stones in the town where Chuck is and there is a berry salesman in Goldenrod. Rocket Story: it has been improved slightly if you read the dialogue but overall the changes aren't amazing. Silver: Silver in victory road explains that he has been training with the monks in the dragon den and he said while there he learned to trust and love his Pokemon which causes his Pupitar to evolve early.

I don't think anyone really expected the Team Rocket and Kanto stuff to be changed, it's not that bad honestly in terms of Team Rocket and the Kanto part is iconic.

3:52 Cut being a Bug move in this game makes more sense than being Normal. It cuts down trees just like how Bug-Type moves take down Grass-Types. Also, it fits, as Bug moves have a lot of slashing moves: Fury Cutter, False Swipe, X-Scissor, etc. (Edit: Not False Swipe, that's a Normal move.)

I absolutely love how because JRoss skips dialogue he gets surprised by Lance's team even though Lance spoils the most surprising member of his team in his dialogue lol

A crossover I had hoped for but never DREAMED I would see!

SmithPlays is awesome! Loved the hell out of his zombies streams and videos when I was in college and ive seen some of his pokemon videos too

I'm glad you had such a fun time trying out PCL!! We'll be coming out with the Kanto update in the near future and I can't wait to see your reaction to the changes made there as we wrap up the region 😊(also I hear those videos on Smith's channel are very awesome and the editor is really cool)

It's funny that you say you don't read the text and then were shocked by Lance having Zapdos considering he says that he has it in his before battle dialogue :P (Actually, a lot of the mechanical changes are brought up in dialogue, so that I was able to mostly suss them out while playing blind, for example the gym guys who in a normal pokemon game just remind you of basic type advantages, instead they tell you hints to the leader changes. Like saying that Bugsy recently discovered Cut is a bug-type move)

We absolutely need more jrose11 ROM hack reviews! I'd love to see a review of Pokemon Brown, Prism, and/or Crystal Clear! They're all absolute classics.

Pretty sure Dark was special in G2/G3 only to make the amount of physical/special type more even. Since, as you pointed out, EVERY old Dark-type move was reclassified as physical, and even nowadays special Dark-type moves are few and far between. Why Ghost was physical, given the typical associations with ghosts, I have no idea. Then again, so was Poison... Anyway from what Smith has explained, the theme for Clair was aquatic dragon-like Pokemon, while Lance was aerial dragon-like Pokemon.

Honestly, gen 2 is a miracle. It almost was too much for the GBC. We need to ALSO respect the original gen 2.

According to Smith, in his canon Red gave away all the legendary birds to great trainers that's why Lance has Zapdos and because helps the overall coverage of dragon typing. Still rock type beats all his pokemon, or rock moves for that matter. Nice review Jrose!

RU-vidrs supporting other RU-vidrs like this is what the platform should be all about. Great video and great game!

SmithPlays is indeed making a Kanto expansion. It may take a few months, but it will include new story bits, and probably a battle with Giovanni (who showed up a couple times during the game, but you did not mention him).

Wow! Neat to see a crossover like this! Excited to see your thoughts on the romhack!

just got to the Zapados. I love this because you're using speed up so you miss his text. But Lance says something about his Zapados lol. Great video as always! Now back to finishing it!

Best crossover episode ever! I followed this rom hack in its development for like a year, I absolutely LOVE the final product, and I'm glad to see you like it too! I'm in the middle of my own playthrough, currently halfway through the Kanto portion with a team of Golem, Flareon, Misdreavus, Scizor, Suicune, and Zapdos.

The gym leader AI is unchanged it just has tools to work with now

Awesome review, though your opinion about shortening or replacing the Team Rocket sections is kinda silly considering the whole appeal of this romhack is improving what exists

While I may not have had a hand in making this game directly, as a playtester who watched this game develop and release, I am so happy you enjoyed Crystal Legacy! Im overjoyed seeing one of my favorite youtubers play the game that has become a big part of my life. Your criticisms on the tedious story stuff is valid, but that is unfortunately just how Crystal's story was. I can confirm, though that we will be revamping and expanding Kanto in the future! I hope you consider doing challenge runs for this game, though it's totally understandable if you don't ❤❤❤

A cool thing about the gym leaders is you can do price chuck and jasmine and different orders and the teams change Pokémon and levels depending on order

This was a surprise. I'm in the middle of a playthrough right now and this suddenly popped into my feed.

Really glad to see you playing this one. I did a run through this before the first patch came out and it still had a few things I think could be fixed. But at the end of the day I had a fantastic time with it and I’ll be looking forward to the late game changes they have planned. And a fun fact about the AI is that they didn’t actually change anything, they just gave the AI the tools it needed to really show the player what it can do.

Smith has to be sad you just skipped all things about Rocket plot, where he included Giovanni's thread

jrose playing the smith plays romhack is the timeline i needed

Smith should do this to all Pokemon games. Might as well fix the issues Nintendo refuses to fix. These games are now even more timeless than ever before.

It's so weird seeing you use more than one pokemon.

For me, gen 2 pokemon games were peak. Fixed so many of the issues with gen 1 and was just such a massive game for a freakin GBC. Currently playing through "Perfect Crystal" and loving it.

Hell yeah, a new JRose vid is always a fantastic time

I kept expecting a reset whenever a Pokémon died like the normal runs 😂

You know your romhack is popular when Jrose covers it, especially this quickly.

I've been playing is so much and having an absolute blast. It was fun seeing your reactions to all the changes!

One thing I think you might have missed is the level scaling of the gyms at any point where you can choose where to go is based on the number of badges you have, their teams change.

Well of course Cut should be bug type: it’s supposed to cut down small trees. Oh hey, look at that Grass/Psychic small tree over there, lookin mighty cuttable

I love that these two officially have a crossover. This is everything to me.

The interesting thing about the AI "seeming better" is the AI hasn't actually been touched. At all. What Smith found was that when the AI is actually given the tools to make good plays, it will make those great plays. In Gens 1 and 2 the biggest handicap the AI has is the fact their movepools are - 90% of the time - terrible.

It’s so great to see more Gen. 2 Pokemon within Johto instead of postgame Kanto

Crunch steelix was pretty good. But it's exactly what I would do with a steelix on my team. I think that's what the mod is going for, make the gym leaders feel more like they know what they are doing.

Holy shib ive followed the creation of this romhack for so long and its such an amazing labour of love and is one of the best "2.0" roms ive ever seen. Smithplays is a legend and its awesome seeing you play it

Jrose: "I'm not resetting. This is a casual playthrough." Footage: *Gets one shot by the Cloyster and resets.* Joking aside, this has been fun to watch people experience this blind for the first time. After watching the development videos, seeing it being out into fruition is great.

Teddiursa "BEARLY" appears, I see what you did there

Crystal is one of my favorite games of all time, and I started a new run two months ago with the intention of catching 250 while using mains I’ve never used before. Discovered this channel a few days ago and this seems right up my alley. Great content

Honestly the gym leaders have an extra 1-2 Pokémon with a bit more diverse move sets does a lot for the difficulty but also keeps the battels so much more interesting.

Jrose my dude you're allowed to level your pokemon up, it's okay

Honey wake the kids up, Jrose dropped a new vid

It was great seeing your first reactions to all the changes, but there were a few things you didn't comment on or seemed confused about that were worth noting, to me. - The lore behind the legendaries is that Red is literally the player character from RBY; he caught all the legendaries and then, preferring not to use the birds, gave them to other trainers. Blaine getting Moltres is extremely fitting, considering the reason he started using fire pokemon at all was because Moltres appeared to him when he was lost in the mountains and it led him to safety. After defeating a trainer that has a legendary, that legendary is released so that you can catch it. - Johto and Kanto share a Pokemon League *building*, but not the League itself, technically; the teams that the E4 prepare for you would differ depending on if you're challenging them with the Johto badges or the Kanto badges, as they are separate Leagues. - The Rival has a whole new character arc built around his Larvitar, and tbh, it annoyed me a little that you didn't even discuss the Rival at all in this video aside from cheesing multiple Lefties from his Crobat at the end. - Giovanni is added into the Team Rocket storylines and you didn't mention him at all??? I know you skip text but a whole-ass new character should warrant a mention, yeah? - Pryce, Jasmine, and Chuck, as many others have pointed out, scale in difficulty based on the order you challenge them in. Pryce and Chuck have teams for being the 5th, 6th, or 7th badge you earn, and Jasmine has teams for either the 6th or 7th with a little mention when she leaves the Lighthouse that she's pretty tough and you might want to go battle the one or both of the others first. - Smith Plays has stated that this version of the hack will remain up as a sort of 'purist' version that stays as close as it can to the base Crystal experience; however, he's planning to create further version(s) that deviate a bit more from the base game, including re-adding locations that were cut from Kanto in Gen 2 such as Viridian Forest and doing a bunch of little pacing adjustments. From your impressions of it in this video, you'll probably greatly enjoy the newer versions he's planning when they release! - Skipping all the text in a complete overhaul hack is a little frustrating, but I get why you did. That said, there were several things that confused or surprised you because you skipped all the dialogue, including alterations that explained some of the things that caught you off guard.

Switching? In a Jrose video?? what a time to be alive Love seeing your take on romhacks like this one!

I also love that across the board most pokemon got a buff, I'm playing with Pokemon that I never would have in the original games. And it's not like they're super overpowered, they're just basically now usable instead of being garbage tier. It makes me explore the game all over again like if I was a kid.

Something to say is that Smith specifically stated that he is creating an update for Kanto - it’s not a “maybe”.

Crystal Legacy is an amazing ROM-hack. Now.. I am also working on my own take on Crystal, called "Crystal: Rebalanced" Like Legacy, it will allow you to complete the Pokédex in a normal playthrough, which also includes Mew and Celebi. However, the difference is that my version is scaled much more like a Generation 1 game, so trainer teams will be MUCH tougher throughout the game. It does mean that for a solo playthrough, it will not be too difficult, as the XP-gains are way higher. But many of the teams has been reworked, most notably Gym-leaders, and their level progression feels more like Red/Blue/Yellow. Kanto is a true late-game area now, and all trainers has teams of Pokémon that are level 50 and above. Kanto gym-leaders are scaled to level 70+ and they all have revamped teams of 6 Pokémon. Blue retains his Champion team from Red/Blue, but is now scaled to be 20 levels above the teams you face in those games (81 - 79 - 81 - 81 - 83 - 85), and Red is now a true final boss, with sky-high leveled Pokémon. (100 - 90 - 90 - 95 - 95 - 95) - Not to mention that his team has Perfect DV's. Unlike Legacy, the Kanto Gym-leaders retains their type specialization, with a few exceptions. Brock now has a Ninetales (Canonical decision, from the anime), and Misty has a Blastoise (Inspired by the animated Red series by Pedro Araujo). There are some subtle changes, but I won't go too much into detail about those. Johto plays much the same as the regular game, but the routing is much more linear, meaning that the ideal route is to go west from Ecruteak, and face the gyms in the numerical order (Chuck: 5, Jasmine: 6 and Pryce: 7) - Now, the levels are balanced around this, and Pryce especially has seen a major level-buff over the vanilla game. All Johto gyms has new additions on the teams. Clair is taking a page out of Lance's book, and she is aspiring to be like her brother, having an almost identical team to him. However, Dragon type Pokémon has access to a new move in the form of Dragon Pulse. A damage-dealing move, with 90 base power and 100% accuracy. About the new moves: I added three new moves to the game, since certain types needed more love. Dragon Pulse - Like previously mentioned, dragon type moves were pretty under-represented in the base game. It comes with 10 PP by default. Signal Beam - Bug type moves are not common, so a mid-tier between the weaker moves and the strong Megahorn was needed. Signal Beam has 75 base power, 100% accuracy and 15 PP. Iron Head - A steel-type version of Headbutt, with higher power. It has 80 base power, 100% accuracy, 15 PP and a 30% chance to flinch the opponent. Significant move changes: Razor Wind - This move was terrible in its original form. This move is now Flying type, has 110 base power, 90% accuracy, and a high crit chance. It does require two turns to excecute, but it is significantly stronger than it used to be. Dig - Closesly resembles the Gen.1 version. It has 95 base power now. Fly - Has 95 base power and 100% accuracy now, and is essentially an aerial version of Dig. Blizzard - Is now back to its Gen.1 version, with 90% accuracy. Vine Whip - Now on par with other starter moves like Ember and Water Gun. It has 40 base power and 25 PP. Leech Life - Doubled the power from 20 to 40. Giga Drain - Increased base power to 75 and PP to 10. Cut - Is now a bug-type move with a high crit chance. Rock Smash - Increased base power from 20 to 50. Hi-Jump Kick - Increased base power to 95. Skull Bash - Increased power to 110, being a defensive version of Razor Wind. Aeroblast / Sacred Fire - Increased accuracy to 100% and PP is increased to 10 for both. These are much better signature moves now.

Oh my god you couldn't have made my night any better. I can't wait to play this, Crystal Version was always my favorite!

Glad to see Pat’s been doing what he loves. I always watched him for his black ops2-3 zombies Easter eggs but his passion for Pokémon always was appreciated too Also side note: at least from what I remember, in Pokemon silver I’m pretty sure you can get mareep before falkner if you go south past the tree and into the grass patches there. Maybe I’m remembering wrong and it’s after but I swear it was possible

I still get that nostalgic feeling of playing gen 2 for the first time all those years ago. My favorite gen and the Pokemon games I put the most time into and the only ones where I did take the time to catch em all. Edit: now after watching the whole thing this is how the game should have been from the start. This was actually really fun to watch and honestly felt like watching the anime.

I am so glad you didn't Nuzlocke this. It is nice to see someone just play some of these rom hacks.

I loved watching him make this Rom all the way through and being part of the community, giving him ideas, and being part of the discussion. Now I get to enjoy my favorite poketubers play it. I can't wait to give it a try myself.

I have been absolutely loving this rom hack. Super glad you're shedding more light on it.

Love the video JRose! I can’t wait to see some nuzlockes or solo challenges in Crystal Legacy

I just love the fact that Whitney's Miltank STILL gives us trouble

I loved seeing the journey of this ROM hack being made and now played. It's so cool

I’ve thought cut should be a bug move for a while now so glad someone else agrees! It makes logical sense that it would be super effective against grass types plus it gives bug Pokémon a better stab move in the early games

Only issue i have with this mod is the punches. Give ice to gengar and fire to alakazam. Both getting neither was rough. Let me have my lamer if i want to be a lamer, its a single player game gimme the option to go easy mode

How poetic that it was Lt. Surge that stonewalled Jrose. Maybe go easy on mocking him in the future.

"Perfect" That sure is saying a lot considering that there are Gen 2 hacks like Polished Crystal that add all the Quality of Life you can think of while still retaining the core experience

I still say baby Pokémon should be added to the game early on so it gives more variety to team building. Mantyke, Bonsly and Mime Jr being available at extremely rare spawn rates in the first few routes would VASTLY change people’s final teams and all 3 of those lines are viable all the way up to battling Red.

Seems like a really cool hack rom. Im currently playing Crystal Clear and i consider it as a "perfect" version of Crystal, but this will be a good alternative too! Ps. I dont like to think hg/ss as a Crystal alternative, they have a completely different flavour, the two a lot more modern and the other a lot more vintage and classic.

the dark and ghost switch just makes sense when you think about the pokemon from gen 2 using the moves and just from a literal aspect as well nice simple change.

So you were surprised by the Zaptos despite Lance flat out stating he had it before the match?

GENERAL Surge! (also, the raindance/surf combo can be a play on words, where a storm swell is often called a "surge")

Ah, Jrose is gonna check this out. Now I might finally get a perspective on it I can trust

Even years later, "They fly now?" "They fly now!" is still laughably bad

I’m so thankful that you mention the Bellsprout line can be powerful and effective. In my Gen 2 play through always has the Bellsprout line!

For those watching(along with JRose) SmithPlays(the hack creator) is planning to release a BIG update thats suppose to overhaul/improve Kanto more. He didnt change it for this version because of simply wanting to stay faithful to the game and mostly to get the main portion(aka Johto) of the hack out

Night time GEN 2 Jrose upload? This is a treat

Absolutely love where this could take the channel!!

I just realised that "smithplays pokemon" was the second channel of the cod zombies youtuber "thesmithplays" lmao

I haven't heard of TheSmithPlays since he was doing COD Zombies videos back in the day, didn't know he was still active! Wouldn't have ever guessed he'd be behind something like this. Small world sometimes.

You didnt talk about the silver battle in the victory road with a tyrannitar?????

I love the changes to the Gym leaders, exactly what I always wanted out of them. Finally this game no longer pretends Gen 2 Pokémon don't freaking exist for half of them.

Jrose: vaporeon is my favorite eeveelution Internet: 😏 Me: Sorry; I know what you meant, but I'm with the Internet on this one

You don’t even need the google doc, the pokedex had a lot of work done on it so it provides much more information, like all moves a Pokemon can learn and how it evolves

Cannot wait to see challenge runs in this it looks amazing jrose!!!

lets go! Most of the mods on our discord server watched your live steam of Crystal Legacy, they loved your reaction to seeing mewtwo.

41:19 Wha....? I've grown up playing Pokémon, and I've never questioned Sudowoodo's name but holy Milktank!! That makes so much sense: Pseudo-wood, fake wood, and it's a rock type! That's why I watch, Jrose, you the real Pokémon MVP!

Happy to see this kind of content crossover

4:57 "Teddiursa *bear-ly* appears in Pokemon Crystal..." I see what you did there

This is like the in-between of Polished Crystal and OG Crystal, and I am here for it.

Oh nice! I have the game since it launched but haven't had the time to try it. Definitely interested in watching this to see the differences. Another crystal fan game is crystal clear if you ever tried that. That's been my favorite fan game and would be cool if you did a video on that if you wanted to keep adding videos like this once in awhile.

I beg to differ. "They fly now?" is not as bad as "Somehow Palpatine returned" from the third sequel movie. That scene actually made me think the filmmakers were trolling.