The Secrets of the Sevii Islands 

Get an exclusive Surfshark deal! Enter promo code LYRA for an extra 3 months free at surfshark.deals/lyra You might be surprised by my peculiar pronunciation of the word braille. Being French, I decided to go for a more French pronunciation, as this writing system was named after its creator, the French teacher Louis Braille. It may be incorrect, but it is on purpose... for once!

The spawn rates on those last Unown are so bad that I found a shiny Unown “A” before I finally got a “?” to appear. 😂 My experience at least haha.

I always liked the Sevii Islands. They kind of made me wonder if they were supposed to be like the games' attempt at making a version of the Orange Islands from the anime in game form.

18:57 if I remember correctly, the pattern is supposed to be a joke. It's the circuit board for the cartridge of Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow. ....and it's full of bugs.

I remember getting to the Sevii Islands for the first time and being absolutely blown away. They *are* small, but as a kid who didn't expect anything new from these remakes, this was like discovering Kanto in GSC all over again. This is one of those few moments I'm kinda glad I didn't have much internet access back then. My favorite spot on the islands was the hotsprings one One Island, because they had some of my favorite trainers to rebattle right outside and because I didn't know the concept of hotsprings back then and found them fascinating - even moreso than in RSE, because these were located in a cave.

Honestly I think that the Sevii islands were my favorite part where I first played fire red, I couldn't speak english very well so I didn't pay much attention to the plot (I think I gave a drink to the guard by pure accident), but the little plot line of the lost girl was impossible to miss, it was the first side quest I've ever experienced in a game and I loved it so much. And finding Moltress there was also so cool.

Forgot to mention the following: - Sevii is based on the Izu Islands (as seen in the IRL Kanto map at the start of the video, directly south of Mt. Silver) - During the second visit, the League can't be challenged as Lorelei is absent. - After completing the second visit the League gets upgraded. (Johto 'mons, Gen 2~3 Evolutions, Lv61+ 'mons for the E4 and Lv69+ for the Rival; with a Lv75 Starter, this puts them much closer to the Red Fight in Gens 2/4) I love these islands and HGSS/Let's Go lost points with me for not bringing them back.

the onix monument is really cool and clever and i’m glad you took some time to gush about it but i could never help but think it looks like he just buried his onix head first with the body sticking straight up out of the ground

Fun fact about moltres in these games: in victory road if you go to where Moltres would be at in Gen 1, You will find some of it's feathers on the Ground instead, pretty much stating that Moltres WAS there, but it flew off before we went to One Island for the first Time!

I noticed in Legends Arceus that there's a reference to the Sevii Islands. The restaurant that eventually pops up in the game (the one with the radish woman, not the potato mochi one) is named Sevii Kitchen on the map. I haven't been able to find transcripts of what all the villagers say, so I dunno if any of them are *from* the Sevii Islands, but it was nice just to get that nod.

3:00 Glad to hear Bill gives the 10 year old girl the choice of opting out of going to his unnamed friend’s island…

That mispronunciation of the world "Braille" .

The Sevii Islands are a really nice thematic contrast with Kanto - these very small, rural island communities with a much larger presence of nature and less artificial structures. The town areas feel modest and don't impede on the surroundings, and some of the NPCs will talk about the slower pace of life there. I think this theme even blends into the islands' gameplay - there are no incredible rewards for anything you do there, but there is a lot of fun to be had in discovering the small events and simply enjoying the summer-adventure atmosphere.

As a kid, the Sevii islands seemed so… mysterious, I guess. Like there was something more out there that I would find if I just searched hard enough.

If you read the signs when you first enter the islands, you’ll see they have actual names. One Island is Knot Island Two Island is Boon Island Three Island is Kin Island Four Island is Floe Island Five Island is Chrono Island Six Island is Fortune Island Seven Island is Quest Island

As a kid, I always found Tectonix's memorial to be very sweet, as an adult, I realized that's the ass end of an Onix sticking out of the ground because it's far too long to be fully buried by a person. Still a sweet memorial though.

18:58 it's not bad design with patern bushes. It's an easter egg - this is a circuit board of original cartridge for Games Boy Pokemon Red & Blue!

Island 5 and 7 had some unique trainers where if you rebattle them frequently you get benefits such as money and lots of exp to level up possibly to level 100.

The Sevii Islands in FRLG is one of the MOST UNDERRATED parts of ANY game! They nailed the Gen 2 music and nostalgic aesthetics and made it interesting. I can really see it being a NEW region with revamped areas and new places! The biker gang could be the villainous team! I have seen people skip this part of the game SO MANY TIMES and I think the Sevii Islands are unique!

Sevii islands are so nostalgic, they are easily my favorite part about FR/LG. I always wished they made an entire Pokemon game themed around lots of small islands, sun/moon introduced massive main islands for its map but I just found FR/LG Sevii islands so much more fun to explore.

I remember as a kid playing through the first 3 islands, then 8 years later, I wanted to catch Mewtwo, so I looked up a guide on youtube and learned about island 4-7. Made me really appreciate FR&LG. Def my favorite Kanto games

One thing I feel worth mentioning concerning Four Island's Icefall Path is that it feels like a spiritual reference to multiple Johto caves. The entrance is very similar to the entrance to Dragon's Den. The name is very similar to Ice Path, which also has sliding ice puzzles and the NeverMeltIce. This area being the only place to need Waterfall could be referring to either Mt. Mortar or the Tohjo Falls. And the ability to encounter wild Lapras is very similar to the Friday fixed encounter with a Lapras in the depths of Union Cave.

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I always loved the Sevii Islands. I wish there were a few Gen3 Pokémon available on the post-game islands, for those who never had anyone to trade with. As it stands you can only get Wynaut from breeding Wobbufet.

I loved the Sevii Islands. I used to do my grinding on One Island: Use the Vs Seeker on the three fighting type trainers south of the hot spring, send out the trainee Pokémon first, switch to Gengar (as the opponents only know Normal and Fighting moves), obliterate them, rinse and repeat until all trainers are defeated, run to hot spring, heal, return to this spot, and do it all again. It's also where Seadra became my favorite Pokémon. She got me through the area when I was unprepared for it (as I had a mono water team used to take down Blaine, and I was struggling to deal with the trainers at first).

I wanna see the Sevii Islands come back. They always felt so mystical and special, especially with areas like Navel Rock and Birth Island. And the remixed Johto music fit so well.

The Sevii Islands are actually my favorite part of FRLG. Love how much you can explore there and all the little small side quests.

one of my favourite areas in game as a kid, the mystery behind them seemed so cool

I do love when Lyra makes a new video on the dex quest EDIT: one possible correction, but Shuckle is available in Emerald in the postgame Safari Zone areas through Rock Smash, doesn't it hold Berry Juice there?

When I was a kid I didn't know for the longest time these islands didn't exist. And then I was like "man maybe I should flesh out my dex more and see if oak says anything". I passed 60 at some point and my mind was BLOWN. After having played through my fire red cart a handful of times it felt like I unlocked an entire new game to play and explore. Gen 3 remakes will probably forever be my favorite in the whole series

This is the kind of remake I expected for Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl. Imagine a way to obtain old mythicals without the savedata giveaway or limited time items. A mini quest for each celebi, mew, jirachi, deoxys, darkrai, manaphy, and shaymin. Similar to the current PLA integration to obtain Arceus, I would have likes to also see a postgame quest that opened a stable spacetime rift, similar to the ruby/sapphire integration with FR/LG, but which actually EXPANDED the national pokedex to include regional forms and all the PLA mons. God, Fire Red’s Sevii islands were a sick addition, and I’m irritated that idea wasn’t carried onwards to BDSP.

15:25 A fantastic example of how difficult it is to bury an Onix.

Fun fact: The pattern bush design is a mega joke. The grass pattern has the layout of a game boy’s circuitry, hence why the only type of Pokémon in Pattern Bush are bugs. It’s just GameFreak cracking a joke at how buggy gen 1 was

Don’t forget if you talk to Gideon again after bringing the Sapphire back to Celio he questions you if you’re Giovanni’s child then says you can’t be because Giovanni’s son has red hair, a nod to Silver, our rival in Gen 2, being Giovanni’s son (which i don’t think was even confirmed yet at the time of Gen 3)

I never knew you needed 60 pokemon in the gen 1 remakes for the national dex. As someone whose first and favorite pokemon game are the gen 2 remakes HGSS, I'm so used to the national dex being handed to the player once they get access to the post game that I'm always shocked when there's a requirement. Like how in gen 4 DP and their remakes you need to see all pokemon in the sinnoh dex to get the national dex.

Sevii Islands was the best post-game content for any pokemon game. I loved the Battle Frontier from games such as Platinum, and the Tournaments in BW2. But the amount of content, that was new and full of exploration, available in the Sevii Islands was incredible. I loved it as a kid, and I'll always believe it's the best.

The islands are based on the Izu archipelago, south of real-life Kanto, which is popularly known in Japan as "the Seven Islands of Izu". The Izu islands are governed as a part of the Tokyo Prefecture, which lies in (real life) Kanto; that might explain why the Sevii islands are connected to (fictional) Kanto.

Man when I was a kid and realized there were four more Islands I was in love. There's just something so cool and mysterious about the islands. My favorite postgame, I think.

I did like this addition to fire red and leaf green. I wish it would come back.

THIS! This is when Pokémon was just at its peak, the gem 1 remakes, ruby, sapphire, emerald, the console games. There was so much to do and explore

I still want a game that includes the Sevii Islands as the protagonist's home And to make things even more unlikely, let us go to Kanto and Johto

Overall the Sevii Islands feels like both an explanation of the events that led to things in G/S/C and HG/SS, and a bit of a teaser for the gen2 remakes that would come later. I mean it explains and sets up: 1. Where Lorelei got her Lapras ace and why she isn't in the Elite Four in the gen2 games and their remakes, after the events of the Sevii Islands arc she likely decided to stay there and protect them herself. 2. The Team Rocket plot in Joto and where they came from 3. Sets up Silver as being Giovani's son, something that would be outright confirmed in the Celebi event in HG/SS There are hardly any gen2 Pokemon obtainable there and no gen3 Pokemon (understandable), so it feels like a missed opportunity in some ways. Instead of the unused things in Altering Cave, they could have instead placed those Pokemon throughout the Sevii Islands. Plus the ONLY way to obtain either Ho-oh or Lugia without that event is through Collosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness, while Lugia isn't difficult to obtain as it's literally in the way, Ho-oh on the other hand...Good luck with that one.

LeafGreen was a staple of my childhood, exploring the Sevii Islands was so much fun. I almost cried just now when you were at the memorial and placing the lemonade. Great vid dude

I don't think the National Dex requirement is too rough, I mean, at that point in the game most players should have 60 Pokemon registered, assuming they're trying to catch 'em all

Fun fact: In English it’s pronounced BrAYEl, like Fonz is saying the vowel.

Great video as always! I enjoy the sidebar element that keeps a running summary of what's discussed in each section. I've always been intrigued with the Sevii Islands, I think I'm just a sucker for the trope of having little unique islands to visit. I love that in Wind Waker too.

The biggest flaw with Sevii Islands to me is how disconnected the islands feel from each other, it probably wouldn't have hurt to introduce a few routes between them as a method of travel instead of using the ferry to travel to each one of them. Also, Navel Rock & Birth Island should have been the rewards for completing the side quest & obtaining the National Dex instead of Mewtwo, would have added to world building. Which is why I absolutely adored the way Prism & Infinite Fusion handled the way you entered the region for the first time. *(SMALL SPOILERS DOWN BELOW)* In Prism, the route to Mt. Ember is accessible from the route before that game's Victory Road equivalent, Seneca Caverns, you might spot a sea route to the east and decide to go there because why not, only to find yourself in Mt. Ember, probably about to have the biggest nostalgic moment of your life. I sure did, they couldn't put the full Sevii Islands into the the game before it was DMCA'd, but they made sure to give you access to the legendary birds. (which are my favorite legendaries in the series design-wise.) Meanwhile, in Infinite Fusion, the ferry gets stolen by the Kanto Mafia, so what's the solution? YOU RACE YOUR WAY THROUGH THE CURRENTS TO CHASE AFTER THEM MF'S. And let's say things go down in Mt. Ember.

The fact that they purposefully blocked held item trade and friendship evolutions behind the national dex makes me angry. They even tease you with the evolution before cancelling it.

this video is so catered to me by the algorithm as i have been obsessed w the weirdness of the Sevii islands since i was a kid. i played this game several times before realizing that islands 4-7 even existed … someone at school told me about them and i was like omg and played the game AGAIN to experience it, this was my first pokemon game so i had no familiarity with the johto pokemon, and i became obsessssssed with tyranitar. these islands are weird as fuck lmao i love them sm and this video makes me feel very nostalgic ❤

iirc the meadow is the only place in the whole game where we can find a female rocket grunt (you can see her at 14:51, top-right)

I always have a lot of fondness for the Sevii Islands. They were so elusive to me as a child since I never managed to beat the league and so only got to check the first three islands, but replaying Leaf Green a few years ago allowed me to explore them to their (almost) fullest and even now, they still feel incredibly unique. 🙏

The REALLY cryptic thing was Dotted Hole how it NEVER tells you to use CUT, unless of course you can masterfully read braille

your section on memorial island was really great and i don't think that's something i've ever noticed in the sevii islands before. great video as always lyra :)

Thanks for reminding me how awesome and mindblowing it felt exploring these islands as a kid!

Pattern Bush is the pattern on the FR/LG cartridge chip

I’ve played through this game so many times, and I’ve never reached post game without 60 Pokémon in the dex.

I always waited to do the sevii island side quests till after i beat the elite 4 so i never felt too jarred by the difference in pacing. The islands are some of favorite spots to shiny hunt, i just love the remixed music

I've always liked the Sevii Islands. They're a fun and somewhat unique area that I wish got referenced more in other games.

The pattern Bush is designed to resemble the circuit board of the cartridge of the Gen 1 games which are famous for being buggy hence the bug Pokemon found there

something worth noting on the frlg altering cave: the encounter pool that was supposed to be there are all findable in emerald's safari zone extension, except smeargle. smeargle can be found in artisan cave on the battle frontier in emerald, at a 100% rate. artisan cave is found by activating a sudowoodo event with your wailmer pail. shuckle is found in the safari zone as a rock smash encounter, so yes you can get berry juice in gen 3, and all the others listed plus a few others are found in the grass or by surfing for the wooper/quagsire, or fishing for remoraid/octillery.

Ah yes, the elusive islands that I so desperately wanted to access past three.

12:30 never understood why that grass was wasted with Dunsparce but now it makes sense. I just don't understand why they made a Pokemon like that so rare. i used to hate these Islands. Other than the Ember Spa and the two guys carrying high level Pokemon to grind levels, I really didn't care much. This video makes the islands a bit more charming. Nice to see how much extra content it had

Easily my favorite area of the 3rd generation of pokemon. It was like a holiday detour filled with secrets and surprises.

I like how Lorelei has a tendency to annihilate Team Rocket. That was one of the things that surprised me about Let's Go Pikachu, because they added a scene just before Rock Tunnel where she cruises in on her Lapras and threatens to flash freeze them.

The Sevii isles are legitimately my favorite locations in ALL of pokemon. I almost always make my OCs hail from them when writing or playing tabletops, as its an easy way to make a "fish out of water" for any particular region

I was always _so_ curious what was behind those boxes in that home on Seven Island. Just to find out twenty years later it was a Japanese exclusive thing. XD Love these games!

I learnt so many things from this video (even though I've been playing for over 22 years now). I don't believe you've mentioned any of the johto/hoenn starters (unless I've missed it) and the roaming beasts (you can get 1 of each depending on the starter that you've chosen). I love your videos, I always learn a lot about some hidden features.

I'm fairly certain that at least Birth Island appears in Emerald, as I remember using a Gameshark to fly to it. Gen 3 is my LEAST favorite of the gens specifically because it felt like you _had_ to cheat in order to access to Deoxys, Jirichi, Mew, and other such events. Maybe I did this on Leaf Green, but I also remember hacking past the plants to see what the old man in Sootopolis was hiding. Also, there are actually two more islands that are in game simply called 8 island and 9 island. You can't get to them through normal gameplay, but they have map data and seem to function properly enough to be somewhat explored, which suggests they were abandoned early on and potentially replaced with Birth Island and Navel Rock.

I had a blast when I first played on the Sevii Islands in Fire Red! Solving all of the puzzles and the storylines were all so fun and interesting. Not having easy access to the internet back then and me being a careless child losing all of the instruction books that the game came with, I had no idea what all the braille dots meant. I remember just playing around in the area around dotted hole and for one reason or another I decided to try and use all of the HM moves to open the door. To my surprise cut got it to open and I was super excited and satisfied with myself for solving it. Once inside, after reading the signs long enough, I realized they were spelling out directions. That's when I started to try and decipher all of the braille I came across to see if I could solve them lol. Honestly such a well made video that provided me with absolute nostalgia! Interestingly enough, I did not know that the berry spots and the items on treasure beach respawned. As a kid I found them and never tried going back to find more because I had no reason to think they respawned. Learned something new even after 20 years.

One, two, three...even Earthbound had better numerical sounding names than that LOL

The Semi Islands are some of my favorite post-game content in all of Pokemon games, together with Kanto from the Johto games. Something about exploring a whole new map after beating the first one is super appealing to me!

I’ve always wanted a video like this exploring some of the more obscure areas of Pokémon regions. Very good

Fire Red and Leaf Green were so good I want a remake of them specifically

Some things to note (based on memory, might be incorrect): On One Island, there's a area just east of the island, where theres a one tile on the edge of the mini island only accessible via Surf. If you use the item finder while standing on it, you get the PP MAX. On 2 island, there's a hidden item behind the Starter Move Tutors House. On 3 island, The hiker who digs the tunnel in gives you a nugget when he's finished.

Wonderful, I've never gone past the first 3 Islands, feels really great to see what the rest looks like. Would love to see a video like this about the Pokéathlon, since I don't know what lies behind it as well but I'm guessing there's not all that much content.

One thing I realized watching this video is it’s kinda funny that Alola was the region for Gen 7 and we also had the Sevii Islands. There must be some connection…

Treasure Beach is where I got my shiny Fearow while just running around. At 9, that was the most amazing catch ever, lol. Still is to this day xD

I like how they put so much content in fire red/Leaf green then emerald afterwards. Its also interesting that gen 3 games can interact with each other just so you can complete its national dex. It is also exclusively one of the most tedious and expensive to complete.

Loved the Sevii Islands as a kid and still do it's such a shame that they never returned.

19:32 This explanation sentiment right there is precisely why I'd encourage people to cheat the games to get the mons they want as long as they're not doing anything competitive. Timed events are frustratingly insulting enough, but regional locked ones are just anticonsumer.

The boxes in that one house pissed me off so bad as a kid I could never figure out if they moved

I've played these games dozens of times and had no idea about the infinite item spots in Kanto until just now. I also didn't know about the hidden leftovers underneath Snorlax until last year. What else have I been missing all this time?

I really like playing through this as a kid, but the final battle with team rocket is very easy and anticlimactic, especially since they are pretty much the last NPCs you will ever fight story-wise.

Wow so thanks to Selphy you can actually get more than 1 luxury ball per save file in a gen 3 game. That's actually really cool

18:40 damn that heracross had a horn coming in at just over 5 feet o.O

i loved the islands when i played leafgreen as a kid always thought they were full of mysteries and legendary pokemon

20:37 I thought the blocked off door was meant for E-Reader functionality

Fun fact about Pattern Bush, it's designed to resemble the motherboard of the original Gen 1 games, and full of bugs, as a reference to Gen 1 being notoriously buggy.

I really enjoy watching videos like that that go into great detail fully explaining sometimes very narrow concepts or features in games. It's something I sometimes do in my mind, just listing things off in a game I like

Lostelle is called "Pedrita" in the Spanish Pedrita is a real name for a female It comes from the name Pedro/Petra + the female suffix ita, this suffix is used to denote the subject or object's smallness or cuteness The pun here is that, it sounds like the word "Perdida" It means Lost (ends in a because is a female person or object, if we're talking about a male object or person the word end in o, Perdido)

Been watching for a while. This is somehow refreshing pokemon content for me. Subscribed 🤝🏼

The sevii islands make FR/LG so good. I love everything it brings to the post game

YES SOMEONE FINALLY TALKED ABOUT THE SEVII ISLANDS!! i love them so so much and i always thought they were so cool and mysterious

Is shuckle not available in the emerald safari zone after the elite 4 in rock smash spots? Maybe those don't hold the berry juice

Please do more of these with places like the Gen V post game routes.

What an interesting and comprehensive analysis! It's cool to see all the thought that went into designing an area that kid me always found weird but couldn't quite understand.

man the nostalgia of my schooldays flooding back over me.. we had it so good, I remember having a (poorly written) journal with all secrets I encountered back then. I was obsessed with the games

What region of the world pronounces braille like that? I'm used to (Bra - ale) or something akin to that

Purpose: Spread the Pokémon because Nintendo was against Blockbuster renting Pokémon games

I ADORED these islands as a kid and would constantly visit them whenever the mood struck me. I would use Four Island's beach to hatch eggs (I loved that music the best), hunt for ages for each version of Unkown on Seven, and grind out the beach on One and forest on Three for the items. I even had my first and only white out with the Black Belt on Kindle Road right there on One Island. I was so pissed and taken aback, that I made it a personal mission to beat him back over and over until I reclaimed the money I lost to him. I think it was around $1000 or $10000, so that was A LOT of ass-kicking xD This vid brought back so many memories, so thank you!