Top Ten Pokemon Controversies - rabbidluigi 

It's not subtle tho. At least not outside the context of YT. That says something about the average subtlety of YT videos I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Still funny, don't get me wrong.

@@jon9828 that is the joke

Every trending gaming channel. The only people that dont aim there content at kids are the people that have enough self respect too think about what there fans are watching. Remember when pewdiepie said most of his fans were kids then a few days later he posed a review on what alcohol is best to buy? Kids content mostly means lazy content that cant be criticized.

xD

I thought it was a jab at COPPA.

That's because Uri Gellar is a little bitch and liar with self esteem issues

Ironically, said celeb is very protective of his image. Would have been given the same fate if he wasn't a fan

@@danielkells6021 Gene Simmons? He is a really chill dude. Have you never heard about Detroit Metal City? It's basically an anime/manga that parodies Hard Rock and Metal bands and also makes fun of KISS. Yet, Gene Simmons was even promoting it and made songs for that series. He even played a role in the japanese live action movie.

@@danielkells6021 Gean Simmons is a fan of Pokemon?

@@tefnutofhoney2832 he's greedy for sure, but not that much of an asshole as to go after things that don't really affect him, and in this case, even give him more advertisement 🤷‍♂️

Sinmenon the wrost thing is about the porygon episode is after that they contained a scene in Pokémon 4 ever Where bisship Gets shocked my pikachu how is that a scene of possible consequences. How is that scene not banned from tv

BJGvideos yes I vicious getting shocked by pikachu has a white screen and yellow lighting is very similar to the proygon episode

the only thing I hate is that they basically banned porygon and it's evolutions for ever appearing in the anime again, WHEN IT WAS PIKACHU'S FAULT.

Lauren Sprungl Reminds me of YGO, when they ban a card that was part of a degenerate combo, rather than the card that allowed it to happen in the first place, and will do it again if they're not careful/someone finds a substitute for the card they banned.

@@SakuraAvalon Usually, in these circumstances, the oldest card necessary for a combo is banned. That's why Norden took out a bunch of little guys, why the Dragon Rulers were banned piecemeal after chunking most Dragon support, etc. The only exceptions thus far to this rule have been Instant Fusion, which has taken out a half dozen cards to protect itself, and Blaze Fenix, who murdered half the game at one point due to it finding so many different FTKs.

Some parents are idiots

@Grima the Fell Dragon I was 13-14 and wondering why those babies died... Where where the parents? Did an older sibling get the toys and leave them lying around? It could have been any small toy or thing.... Heck at that young the 4 month old coulnt even crawl or hold its head up. How did that happen to the 4 month old? Like? 4 moth olds can barely grab stuff??? A 13 month old can crawl or walk.. And grab things.. But..

@Grima the Fell Dragon I can sort of see them stuffing their face in one half of the ball and ... But you'd have to hold it there or suck in air continuously? It's natural to breath out? And breathing out would push the plastic off woulnt it? It's a real stretch that these are killer toys.. You have to really work to die that way and now I'm suspecting foul play. Especially considering how small a 4 month olds face and nose are.. And how big the pokeballs where.

Why blame the toy company weren’t even responsible

what about the parents who took their kids to see deadpool and than complain it wasnt for kids...., some people should not reproduce

The Jynx "Controversy" is still stupid.

I just wish Jynx had never been made tbh.

You got 4 out of 5 right.

I think gen 5 still deserves criticism for it. They were obsessing about that they *could* make an entire new dex, with no regard to if they *should*. This resulted in a lot of clones of prior gen's mons, which just felt like crappy off brands most of the time. (Seriously, who would look at roggenrola and say "this beats geodude any day"). Does gen 5 deserve to be cruxified for the sin of trying to be different? No. But it deserves criticism.

the creationist one was undeserved atleast with the gen 5 I can understand

Well, to be fair, that episode happened in Porygon's world....if Pikachu hadn't been there when he shot those missiles, they probably wouldn't have exploded in such a technicoloured way. Maybe it was more a case of banning Porygon and its evolutions from the show to prevent anyone from travelling back to their domains. I mean, that's literally the only reason I can think of that makes any sense....^^;

Kill Dozer it still doesn't make sense. Pikachu was the reason for the seizures, and would still have that potential if no one had figured out the link between his attack and said seizures.

@@nicholasfarrell5981 Well, in the grand scheme of things, Porygon was the one who received the punishment becuase Pikachu being removed from the show or other Pokemon material was probably a big no-no at the time.

After watching this video all I have to say is... I hate you Pikachu.

@@manuelalbertoromero9528 I guess. It still shouldn't have gotten Porygon a lifetime ban, though.

I never saw that before now. What the fuck!? That is horrific!

Would that demon not also inspire Froslass?

@ No, Frosslass was more based on the yuki-onna, which had a similar premise except that the yuki-onna (literally "snow woman") was more of a ghost.

@@unknownbyself okay, thanks for correcting me

Honestly I don't see why it would be about african people anyway. There aren't a lot of them in Japan.

Well, Incredibles 2 had an epilepsy warning at the beginning of the original cut, and edited it to not have an epilepsy trigger later. Since nobody knew Epilepsy could be triggered from bright flashing lights when Porygon came on, it didn’t have that.

@@goroakechi6126 The movie itself didn't have an epilepsy warning. Theaters had to hang signs to warn people. Not every theater put them up on release, so there were reports of people going to see the movie and getting hospitalized cause they didn't know. Later on the movie was re-edited to have the scenes changed (most of the changes were making the characters not flash alongside the backgrounds), but it doesn't change the fact that Pixar didn't realize the scenes could be a problem until way, WAY too late.

@@HiddenGemsReviews Wait really? I saw the movie and I swear there was a warning at the beginning. Huh.

@@goroakechi6126 Yup. Our theater had signs outside on its doors warning of flashing lights, and not during the movie. Other news reports at the time show the same thing. Disney's official Twitter and Facebook channels had nothing about them either until the day after the movie's release There weren't any official warnings until digital and physical releases, and by then they edited the scene down so it was safe.

Sea Biscuit I don’t think people *want* new battle animations, what they *wanted* was all Pokémon in the game. When GF said no to that and explained that they put more focus on the animations, people would only forgive GF if the animations were top notch for everything. Anything less and it’s not worth removing half of the Pokémon. I agree with you that Sword and Shield is a good game for what it is, but that doesn’t mean I’m not still pissed at GF over their apparent tone deafness toward their fans. All they needed to do is say “we were rushed for time but we’ll add them in later updates” or “we heard your complaints and will fix it for next game.” Instead they stuck to their guns and said that they don’t care what we think, they’ll continue to cut Pokémon for every future installment.

GameFreak is too set in their ways. They've made mostly handle games for decades, so I doubt they can process how to do home console games.

Not to mention GameFreak's actions didn't help matters too when they contradicted everything that was said. Also splitting up the small workforce when you're already working on big title to work on smaller one wasn't the best course of action either Look at how Little Town Hero came out: in the eyes of the gaming community it was a flop.

Yeah, I love this strawman that people are mad because their favorite didn't make it in. Hell, I'm used to the idea of my favorites not being readily available and needing to be imported. The issue was Game Freak LIED to its player base and said we'd be getting new animations to make up for and then DIDN'T do it. But, Sword and Shield are the best selling games in the franchise, so I guess the masses like being lied to. I'll be over here playing Gen 1-6 if anybody needs me.

@Sea Biscuit I wouldn't even see adding individual animations for every pokemon... It's not incredibly hard work - mainly tedious - and if you have the financial status Nintendo has you could easily outsource this and get everything done in reasonable time... The main problem simply is that gamefreak/Nintendo simply see it as a waste of money and time because pokemon fans are like fifa fans - eating everything that's served to them. So why make an effort and put more money into production? Another personal thing I don't like about the newer games is how easy they are with no hardmode option... GF could easily implement an isolated nuzlocke mode/randomizer mode without a lot of effort to keep hardcorefans happy

Agreed on both of those.

For the latter, that's just natural selection doing its work, eh

There's nothing we can do about it. Give up.

Agreed tho it also falls to Burger King if they did not put choking or suffocation hazard on the product though it is common sense at least then they can say they warned them.

@@nobodyinparticular9640 not really fair to the babies tho is it. They don't know any better. If you said adults I would agree with you on it.

Don't worry. He DeX thing was pushed aside quickly.

Bless...

Yet 'Porygon' is fine 'cause it's made by japanese people, what if Jynx was drawn by a black person?

You mean SHIT TASTE?

@@ironintegral6631 You do realize Mega Salamence is broken as hell, right?

Myst Lunarbane nah bro aggron is best boi

My favorites espurr, obviously. Espurr made it in, but at what cost, since many of my other faves didnt.

@@FrahdChikun if you only like a pokemon because it's op then you probably also aren't very fun at partys

@dayzgone Add to the fact that Japan didn't even know about the cut until one week before it released... so there's that too.

No, if you can love something yet still recognize and point out its flaws, that makes you incredibly mature.

There's nothing wrong with criticising something, so long as the criticisms aren't made in bad faith, like much of them are.

There's a difference between "critiquing" and "whining like a crybaby because tiny details aren't to one's liking"... which is what entitled people tend to wind up doing.

@@iamabrawler92 Aren't criticisms to one's liking. Because I don't think objective critiques are a real thing.

@@supermarioindia Yes, criticisms also depend to one's liking. The difference lies in how the person does the critique: By stating facts and personal opinions to calmly discuss their point and why they don't like one part or another of the game... Versus throwing a hissy fit, doing the bacon dance and screaming obscenities with a handful of comprehensible words in there to barely state the point.

Huh weird it’s almost as if Christians don’t actually have a problem with this stuff

A Person. Depends on which ones you ask. Also, Pokémon has a CREATOR God in it as of Gen 4, so there’s no excuse anymore.

Kwatcher100 Gen 1 also has THREE genetic scientific evolution Pokémon. It’s a fictional universe. Let it have its fun. And the only people who are offended by this are Christian extremists.

At absolute minimum they used identical animation rigs to the ones from Sun and Moon. I mean there is an infinitesimal chance that the models need to be changed in some minor ways between the two consoles but otherwise they might as well be the same. What grinds my gears is the battlefield layout. When the Let’s Go games have more attention and detail put into the places you can have Pokemon battles then something clearly went wrong during development.

@@PineappleLiar The spa suddenly shifting you to outdoor cold where the hail hurts you

GameFreak lied in Gen 1 and Gen 2, and nobody complained about that. They said Ghost types were strong against Psychic when they were in fact useless, but nobody complained about that. They said several of the special Pokeballs had special catch rates when they didn't, but nobody complained about that. And don't tell me "those were just glitches so they don't count", because if these were in Gen 8, the fanbase would automatically count them, glitch or otherwise, because bias.

Travis Griffin the pokemon animations

And then they didn't use new models to get the game shipped. Or maybe they did make new models, and they look exactly the same as before, because _of course they fucking do._ They're fucking Pokemon. What the hell do you want? There's only so many things you can do to make a fucking Pikachu look better. Do you want real-time ray tracing? Do you want Gardevoir porn available in-game? Do you want Meowth to start packing an AK-47? Would that make you happy? Of course it wouldn't. Entitled manchildren like you need something to be outraged about to make yourselves feel important. The fact that you had to crack into the game's code to be able to tell just proves how *_completely fucking meaningless_* it is. Not to mention that's your interpretation of "new models" in the first place, which was already translated from Japanese to begin with. I guess it's fitting that the Pokemon fanbase needs to _grow the fuck up._ Why don't you go shit out 891 3D models and animations for every move they can use, 728 skill animation effects, and textures and particle effects for both and tell us how long it takes. Oh wait, no, that's just for the Pokemon alone. Go ahead and map out and model about a hundred square miles of land, the inside of four dozen buildings, and seperate battle arenas for every possible setting.

Still not too bummed out about that. I am sad that I can’t have my precious Teddiursa in Shield, but I’m not just gonna catch a Bidoof or a Geodude for the sake of a two sentence entry and then not use it. As long as I have my Roserade, I’m happy.

I didn't even know about the National Pokedex not being in the new games, so that's pretty new to me. But still, stranger things have happened involving Nintendo games, so...

@@Cure_Hana Even tho GF lied about the reason the national dex was being cut for

@@travisprescott9708 you can't really blame them for that every company does what they can to save face EVERY company(except for maybe EA) so i guess any company that cares about keeping their fans will do whatever they can to save face. in all honesty they most likely just didn't want to put that much effort into that part to focus on other stuff instead. i honestly don't have a problem with it. companies lie all the time to do whats best for the company. controversies can become out of hand and completely ruin a company even for the tiniest things, so to me this doesn't really mean much

Everything is offensive*

Ryon Bachanlal exactly

It seemed rather overt to me. Everything's relative though I guess. It's subtle compared to some things of that nature on RU-vid. Which says a lot imo. Whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

*Glances at my subtly sledgehammer* Hey everyone, it occurs to me, I think we've doing subtly wrong

Metroid4ever They used Porygon as a scapegoat, since they of course wouldn’t remove the mascot from the anime.

F*** Pikachu.

Porygon fired the missiles.

@@anotherperson6146 but pikachu destroyed them :v And tbh, its the animator's fault

To MegaNinten 007: No, F*** Cloud. ;P

While the issues you raise are valid, I think more fans would have ignored them if they didn't cut the national dex. Dexit as well as the excuses are both problems.

Don't forget, the National Dex was like a catalyst for people realizing many of the other tons tons upon of features that have been removed in the past. Megas, Z-Moves, Battle Frontier, Following Pokemon, PSS, DexNav, Ball Seals, Underground, Soaring, Contests, etc.

@@Sugarman96 That is very true Honestly, I think Gamefreak brought it onto themselves the moment they opened their mouth, nobody ever cared about visuals in a pokemon game until GF themselves brought it as the reason of the cut Sad thing is we could have got a great content game without the natdex, or a game with the usual formula of mediocre everything but at least with the natdex in....and we got neither, we got the worst of both

@DragoSmash Exactly! Spot! On! Reusing assets is acceptable. Most developers do that. But outright LYING to your customers is something else entirely. We need more fans like you.

The animations one actually is true. The camp has all the new animations.

isn't that what happens in almost all comments section any ways

@@ThomastheRiolpixQueen Yes

Nah usually this channels comment section is actually good.

@@bigsky1047 is this the promised land?

@@blenderowl6495 "Presses shoulder". One can only hope...

Western Echidna Sadly, Japan is also the reverse when it comes to gaming. As they don't see it as an art form, like the West does. So games that target adults(M rating), can get heavily censored in Japan. RE7 had a bunch of its gore censored in the Japanese version. Same with RE2's remake.

@@SakuraAvalon that depends on the type of mature content. They are fine with sexual mature content. But are more strict on extreme violence, like blood and gore.

Western Echidna Even that's debatable. In Smash Bros, Sakurai had multiple times where he had to keep changing the game, because the girls were too 'sexual'. That's why Palutena's dress had to be lengthened, and all the girls had shadows put under their dress, because the chance of seeing panties was just too much to be allowed in an all ages game. Funny enough, Palutena is uncensored in the Western version of Smash 4. And would have remained uncensored in Ultimate, if it wasn't too much work to make two versions of the same game, just to meet Japan's more stricter requirements.

@@SakuraAvalon in the case of Smash (which isnt rated M) it's more on Sakurai himself who didnt want the age rating to be bumped up from E. Also with Smash they have to always think of the audience outside of Japan. Example of the "too sexy" would be Mai and Bayonetta. Bayonetta got in since they were able to edit her so she still has the poses, sass, etc. and still be identifiable and be true to the character. Mai on the other hand couldnt be edited in a way that would keep the age rating and keep her identity (which in part is her sexual appearance). Also the ratings boards in Japan are different than the West

@@WesternEchidna Isn't Europe the same way?

I've seen posts around FB about one themed on Australia called Pokemon 'Yeah' & 'Nah' had to have a laugh at those titles

AU sequels where the sword and shield dudes did stuff and messed up and Hop and main character weren't around and everything is more punk and goth Oh man

I'd say, if you saw just how messed up SnS are, those names would be quite appropriate ;)

Just stupid parents being stupid and searching the blame elsewhere.

I agree. I would never leave my kid alone with toys they could choke on etc.

Alan Finck the interesting thing is if this happened in a show not targeted at kids most of the seizures probably wouldn’t have happened. Children and adolescents are more prone to have a photosensitive seizure than adults oddly enough. My seizures aren’t photosensitive but apparently it is very rare, about 3% of the population actually has photosensitive epilepsy.

Well those Looney Tunes episodes aired like 2 decades prior, maybe even more. Laws were different back then

@@FrahdChikun They were still airing at the time Pokémon came out, and I'm pretty sure that there isn't any laws preventing guns or crossdressing in G rated shows going by the stuff Disney was putting out at the time.

Those people are good for half a second of a small laugh. For literally anything else? Nah.

@@CazaliEiben Uh huh.

Considering a lot of people don't like SMT and for good reason. ANd why do you call people who don't like it "fundamentalists"?

You can't really attribute "most of that success" to bad faith arguments. A home console main series Pokemon game was going to sell like hot cakes regardless of how the game turned out. And surprise, the games reviewed well in addition to selling like hot cakes.

@@cartooncritic7045 The only real question is how successful it will be relative to past core Pokemon games, and whether future games will face diminishing returns or not.

For me, I successfully boycotted by not getting the game. Plus those negative user reviews on Metacritic really show how much damage these decisions did. I didn't review it (cause I don't own the game, and wouldn't want to rate something I didn't play), but I will still look at the game and find points to criticise about it from an outside perspective.

@@BigFearedBalloon The problem with Metacritic user reviews is that it's way too easy to give a game that is, at worst, a 7/10 a 1 just out of spite; conversely, people who are really caught up in the hype cycle might rate that 7/10 game a 9 or higher because out of pure excitement. That's is why I don't put any actual stock in user reviews of something I might be interested in, and prefer to hold out on opinions until I have experienced this stuff for myself. From my own perspective, anything negative about the game that I've seen doesn't really affect my enjoyment of Pokemon in such a way that I would ever rate it lower than a 6 or 7.

I can agree with that point, but when you get flooded with Negative Reviews, either way, that is either some trolls who hate a good game (for whatever reason), reviewbombing it due to another game being awful (Fallout 76 comes to mind, plus they blocked reviews, so they review bombed elsewhere to send the message), or review bomb the game due to not living up to expectations or being betrayed by it. If it's the last one, then you messed up big time. At minimum this does show a huge discontent that people have with Pokémon right now.

but are you a fundmentalist christian?

@@ficagames475 That depends. What does "fundamentalist" mean?

same here I remember other kids at church being shocked that i was even allowed to play pokemon lol

@@PrinsaVossum I lived with a christain family... by god they hated PKMN so much and halloween too! They hated basically anything that had like stuff they believed to be satanic weither or not it was. For Pokemon they claimed it was like dungeons and dragons and was a satanic ritual that brought the devil out in you... their words not mine lol But ya by funamentalitists... he likely means those die hard christians who believe the bible so throughly they dont like to see reason or logic. Trust me.. the bible has so much stuff in it that doesnt make any sense at all. I'll just give one example... the ten commandments... 1 is thou shall not kill... later in the bible god basically tells the one believe to stone a witch... which is killing them... so ya....

@@Hunterofthedammed Actually it says "thou shall not Murder" murder meaning death of the innocent or unlawful unreasonable killing so killing a witch or people from war who worshiped stupid statues wasn't breaking the commandment

Although I agree with your idea, there still should have been a warning.

@@adrianmccarthy6502 I agree to a point. Common sense should be expected at some point. "It's not my fault I gave a Infant toys made for 3 years and up, It is the toy company's fault for letting me do it" has to be stopped.

At least one source suggests the first recorded case of photosensitive epilepsy was in 1981, but evidence seems to suggest Porygon was the first time the two were linked (meaning that before then the 1981 seizure had no apparent cause beyond the sufferer playing a video game at the time, like how the NOAA Upsweep sounds like tectonic activity where the Antarctic/Pacific plate boundary changes type but that's all we know)

and that it bricks consoles and that it bricks Roku TVs

@@HighPriestPlays Oh god i didnt even know that

@@HighPriestPlays No it doesn't, stop spreading lies It only bricks your console if your console is hacked or your SD card is illegitimate

Ahh, last I heard it was happening to legitimate copy aswell. if that got proved wrong then i apologize.

HighPriest Plays stop spreading misinformation.

4kids are known for there laziness for that stuff and put time into getting rid of rouge the bat's boobs.

That would have taken too much time, Pokemon needs to be out before christmas unfortunatly :/ But hey, why be consumer friendly, when people are going to buy your product anyways?

along with gamefreak lying about creating new models and good animations

The card game still hasn't had a new Kadabra card, as far as I know.

@@weregretohio7728 yeah the vid said that. I knew he sued the but didn't know it went anywhere and especially didn't know it was going on today that's crazy.

Been with the series since the beginning. Its why I'm so mad at the last games: I've seen the series improve and get better with each installment... Until it began going downhill, focusing more on gimmicky shit rather than continuing to improve the games. But at least, that's my opinion. If you still are enjoying the newer games, am glad fer ya.

@@nobodyinparticular9640 god, shut the hell up. He wasn't even talking about sw/sh. Also, abra isn't on those games at this comment's time.

Alpha Saphire/Omega Ruby, any Kirby game and a few Call of Duty games, all of them made by IGN would surely show up on that list

Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn's review where the reviewer complained about no Miis and no motion controls. In a minimally-cartoony tactics game with no action commands.

@@LordofSadFac Also IGN's Sword Shield and Death Stranding reviews, the time they plagiarized some guys Dead Cells review. Jim Sterlings Botw review (which lets be real was ahead of its time lol), Sonic games etc.

One of those could easily be the whole Digital Homicide debacle. Other than Jim Sterling, pretty much ANYONE who left a negative review was lashed out at. Jim just happened to take the brunt of most of it.

LoreofSadFace only kirby game I remember is ign's triple deluxe review

Depends who you define as “people.” I can think of many people who would still get red in the face over Jynx and her design.

They taste too similar to McDonalds now, but at least there's Chicken Fries

@@FrahdChikun I like how creative they get with the flavors of the chicken fries once in a while. Like the pretzel ones and the Cheetos ones.

That's the story, but the imagery is based off of US based black-face which Japan adopted later on. It is entirely a racist image to have the black face and balloon style mouth.

@@1bwash ah okay, I thought it was based solely off of Japanese tales.

@@Jay-ei4cr It is but americans love to insert their own hatred towards other cultures.

And then you have bullshit like Stunfisk and including only the charred fart line from older starters.

I'd be ok with it if they improve the games significantly but nope they got to meet our annual release quota. The annual releases are killing the series. We haven't a decent post game in years and I dont see the games improving any time soon

Yeah... Made a lot of sense for GF to remove all the memorable starters and legendaries for worthless Pokemon like stunkfish or another Meowth.

@@clerkinator1304 I don't know what YOU consider decent, but I like Gen 6 and 7 (except that flying is reduced to using the charred fart).

Now someone's saying it right 👍

Pretty much. The people mad at GameFreak have legit criticisms towards them and the game, but it gets completely overshadowed by all these reviews out there like IGN's or GameSpot's which completely ignore any of the flaws and only having the evolution lines of the starters being flawed. It's only because of Poketubers and independent reviewers that these problems finally came to the forefront.

AndresLionheart He wasn’t justifying it, he was more talking about how some people who are against Sword and Shield basically cherry pick their arguments in confirmation bias, some have said all the animations suck while ignoring the ones that are actually impressive. And the th8ng about those new move animations is that those are signature moves, moves that only one Pokémon can learn, that is possible, what isn’t really possible is over 400 Pokémon having different animations for “Scratch”, it’s just a thing that’s unrealistic. I respect your opinions but you can’t deny that some have taken this too far.

Maybe because it’s meant to serve as a parody instead of a fan game? Not that that would deter them, obviously, but it’s the best answer I can come up with.