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PiOverlord
02/05/23 4:17:32 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfO_0eRwh0

Sometimes, it can go a little heavy on the fanfiction side of things, but man, it brought upon all the nostalgic feelings one could have for gen one. I felt the love the person who made this had towards generation 1, and honestly, what could be purer than the love a person has for their childhood? It was pretty adorable, and felt like it respected the characters, and all the elements that made gen 1 what it was. The annoyances, the quirks, the glitches, but also the rivalry that somehow Pokemon has never gotten right ever since Gen 1, the goal of catching them all, and our many theories we have about the games. It even includes some nods to gen 2 (and a few others, but gen 2 does have a connection to gen 1 the most). I believe it even included some things that were firered/leafgreen things (such as Green getting to be a character as well during this story).

I think what makes me feel really nostalgic, though, is that the battle animations remind me of the early-day anime animation. Oh yeah, also, you will see that the sprites from gen 1 are used for reference in poses for the characters quite a bit.

Almost makes me want to pull out the ol' gameboy and fire up some classic Pokemon. I wish I could be playing through Pokemon for the first time again.

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Trashhan
02/05/23 4:19:47 AM
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Will watch later

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Makeveli_lives
02/05/23 5:29:35 AM
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I'm an hour into it already. This is great, hella references too. He defintely should've split this up into 20 minute chunks or something instead of one 3.5 hour long video.

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Nukazie
02/05/23 5:37:06 AM
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nintendo in shambles

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Alteres
02/05/23 6:07:27 AM
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Tag, someone should prep for when it gets nuked >_>

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Makeveli_lives
02/05/23 11:40:53 AM
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Bump this is too long. Up to safari zone and Koga now

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Tsukasa1891
02/05/23 11:49:19 AM
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Makeveli_lives posted...
I'm an hour into it already. This is great, hella references too. He definitely should've split this up into 20 minute chunks or something instead of one 3.5 hour long video.
It already is. That video is just the compilation of all the videos made over the years.

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TaylorHeinicke
02/05/23 11:50:16 AM
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Trashhan posted...
Will watch later


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kirbyy
02/05/23 11:51:53 AM
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Jeez that is so impressive. The amount of work to animate all that is crazy and there's a lot of shots in every scene too. Just wondering when Ninty will come and slap a C and D and remove the vid but gonna give it a watch tonight

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LinkFanatic
02/05/23 11:54:04 AM
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Hey, looks like Bruno still sucks. Poor Bruno.

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Lokison
02/05/23 11:54:28 AM
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Tag. I'll watch this at some point today or tomorrow I'm sure

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LeCh0nk
02/05/23 12:01:01 PM
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He's working on Johto now. He puts them out in little 5-10 minute episodes that are really good; this is a huge compilation.

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ViewtifulJoe
02/05/23 12:56:52 PM
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This is awesome.
I'm up to the SS Anne part so far.
Edit: Oh my god the Raticate part

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Trickfinger
02/05/23 12:57:33 PM
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A.I. is getting insane

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NeonTentacles
02/05/23 1:04:02 PM
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lol @ Sabrina's boobs in the intro. Starting it now. Definitely has this Flash movie vibe from back in the day

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LeCh0nk
02/05/23 1:08:03 PM
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NeonTentacles posted...
lol @ Sabrina's boobs in the intro. Starting it now. Definitely has this Flash movie vibe from back in the day
Wait till you see Daisy.

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NeonTentacles
02/05/23 1:10:05 PM
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LeCh0nk posted...
Wait till you see Daisy.
Damn >_> She's pretty stacked lol

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NeonTentacles
02/05/23 2:07:52 PM
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lmao @ that Raticate part. Didn't expect that >_>

Man, they're really putting a lot of shots of Daisy's heaving boobs during that part where Red and Blue go back to Pallet Town for a bit lol

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PiOverlord
02/05/23 2:14:54 PM
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NeonTentacles posted...
lmao @ that Raticate part. Didn't expect that >_>

Man, they're really putting a lot of shots of Daisy's heaving boobs during that part where Red and Blue go back to Pallet Town for a bit lol
I knew you'd like it as soon as you said you started it.

ViewtifulJoe posted...
This is awesome.
I'm up to the SS Anne part so far.
Edit: Oh my god the Raticate part
Yeah, as I said, went all-in on the theories.

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LeCh0nk
02/05/23 2:16:13 PM
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Watch for references to the adventures manga too. Quite a few of them there.

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PiOverlord
02/05/23 2:20:11 PM
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kirbyy posted...
Jeez that is so impressive. The amount of work to animate all that is crazy and there's a lot of shots in every scene too. Just wondering when Ninty will come and slap a C and D and remove the vid but gonna give it a watch tonight
I'd like to think of Pokemon Golder could stay up all these years, this should be fine. I hope at least!

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PiOverlord
02/05/23 2:21:37 PM
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LeCh0nk posted...
Watch for references to the adventures manga too. Quite a few of them there.
I never read the manga, so honestly, I have little clue what the references would be. Assumed Giovanni's story was partially taken from the manga, but I honestly have no idea.

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NeonTentacles
02/05/23 6:06:22 PM
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I'm about halfway through it so far and I literally cannot believe they incorporated the Mew Glitch into it. It's a pretty fun movie so far. I was giggling when Charizard's evolution was happening

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LiqiudusSnake
02/05/23 6:37:30 PM
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TaylorHeinicke posted...
Will watch later


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ViewtifulJoe
02/05/23 6:53:17 PM
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I just finished it.
That was really great. I don't know if saying that's as close as we'll get to playing it for the first time again is the right way of putting it but the way it embraced all the rumors, lore from future games and whatever else was lying around made it engaging and wonderment-filled as hell.

Same deal with the manga for me. Never read it so it was hard to tell what originated from the manga, what was from the theory and what was just there to get them up to a full Pokedex at times.

I was wondering how he was going to make Bruno's fight interesting. Hypno overcoming his Mew inferiority complex and clutching it out was nice.

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PiOverlord
02/05/23 8:11:38 PM
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NeonTentacles posted...
I'm about halfway through it so far and I literally cannot believe they incorporated the Mew Glitch into it. It's a pretty fun movie so far. I was giggling when Charizard's evolution was happening
Yeah, gen 1 had a lot of fun quirks, that he put into the movie pretty nicely. It's what made this feel complete.

ViewtifulJoe posted...
I just finished it.
That was really great. I don't know if saying that's as close as we'll get to playing it for the first time again is the right way of putting it but the way it embraced all the rumors, lore from future games and whatever else was lying around made it engaging and wonderment-filled as hell.

Same deal with the manga for me. Never read it so it was hard to tell what originated from the manga, what was from the theory and what was just there to get them up to a full Pokedex at times.

I was wondering how he was going to make Bruno's fight interesting. Hypno overcoming his Mew inferiority complex and clutching it out was nice.
I liked how he made the Pokemon feel like creatures with actual feelings. Not only that, but he did a good job at making Red feel like he cares about his Pokemon and vice versa.

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The-19th-Sparta
02/05/23 8:39:26 PM
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I'm only 20 minutes into this thing and I love it so much. His art style is amazing.

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NeonTentacles
02/05/23 9:46:07 PM
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Finally finished it. That was a lot of fun and it was great trying to see all the references to sprites, memes, fan rumors, and even old concept art. I hope he does Gold someday. Maybe in like 7 years.

Also Red should've banged Leaf instead of Misty. Just saiyan >_>

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Makeveli_lives
02/05/23 9:47:12 PM
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NeonTentacles posted...
Finally finished it. That was a lot of fun and it was great trying to see all the references to sprites, memes, fan rumors, and even old concept art. I hope he does Gold someday. Maybe in like 7 years.

Also Red should've banged Leaf instead of Misty. Just saiyan >_>
Hes doing gold now. Has 20 minutes worth of content up for it.

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NeonTentacles
02/05/23 9:49:43 PM
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Oh I see it. Nice. I wonder how long it will take for him to complete that lol

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Tsukasa1891
02/05/23 10:27:40 PM
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Here's episode one of G/S/C.

https://youtu.be/LHQTIZYleHQ?t=68

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MetroidGamer666
02/05/23 10:29:37 PM
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Tag
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PiOverlord
02/05/23 10:33:07 PM
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The-19th-Sparta posted...
I'm only 20 minutes into this thing and I love it so much. His art style is amazing.
Agreed, it's a solid look that feels natural for gen 1.

NeonTentacles posted...
Finally finished it. That was a lot of fun and it was great trying to see all the references to sprites, memes, fan rumors, and even old concept art. I hope he does Gold someday. Maybe in like 7 years.

Also Red should've banged Leaf instead of Misty. Just saiyan >_>
I think the idea, since Green is essentially female Red in the games she's playable in, is that they are more so like siblings than potential lovers. Additionally, could be a manga thing where Red and Misty get together in the manga, but again, wouldn't know. If not, then maybe he wrote himself in a corner, if he originally didn't plan on adding Green to the series since he already established Misty and Red as a future couple very early on.

NeonTentacles posted...
Oh I see it. Nice. I wonder how long it will take for him to complete that lol
It took him 2 to maybe closer to 3 years based on his intro for the "movie" I posted above to complete Red. Gold does have the fact it has two regions, so I guess it depends if he wants to flesh out Kanto in Gold/Silver as much as he fleshes out Johto, or if he'll compress the journey since he already did Kanto in Red/Blue. There's the fact that the big bads of gen II are just leftover Rocket members, so they may not have as much to them as this one did, but who knows. Regardless, it's hard to imagine it not being longer than Red considering those facts.

Additionally, I hope he doesn't feel the need that many start to feel where they have to increase the quality of their productions as they get bigger. Literally, if he just does what he did for Red, that would be perfectly fine! When people feel the need to have to up their game, that's when it takes centuries for things to get released (DBZA) and projects start to get canceled.

I'm more so curious if he'll keep going after Gold/Silver. Gold feels like a continuation of Red's story in a way (even to the end of fighting Red), and finishes up the loose ends of that game. After that, though, each game is truly its own unique setting/story. Not to mention, gen 3 is probably the start of the first great divide considering the jump to gba, and all the changes that brought to Pokemon. That's also when each Pokemon game became about world-ending threats and the legendaries were focal to the plot of each game. The guy who made this seems like he just loves Pokemon as a whole, though, considering all the references to the newest region, and all the cameos by other Champions.

But yeah, his animation is simplistic; you mentioned like the old flash animations, and that's what gives him the benefit of being able to animate a 3-and-a-half-hour story like this in just a few years (helps that he doesn't really have to worry about voice-work too). I really enjoy the animation, though, so hopefully he continues to do it like that.

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ViewtifulJoe
02/05/23 11:30:44 PM
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The animation style being flash like had a weird effect on me. I kept expecting fake outs in the gym fights, throwaway gag scenes to move the plot forward faster.
Years of conditioning made me really confident Weezing was going to come in, explode and Koga was going to go "Hahaha! Let's see you get out of this one! My trump card has self-destructed and bought you down from three to only TWO Pokemon! How are you planning to- Oh shit hold on a minute..." but he stuck with it and let the fight be a fight. I like that everything got an honest depiction.

Looking forward to Gen 2 Cinnabar Island. I always thought finding it destroyed and finding the previous game's final boss doing some out of character rumination was a memorable moment people don't really talk about.

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PiOverlord
02/06/23 12:11:21 AM
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ViewtifulJoe posted...
The animation style being flash like had a weird effect on me. I kept expecting fake outs in the gym fights, throwaway gag scenes to move the plot forward faster.
Years of conditioning made me really confident Weezing was going to come in, explode and Koga was going to go "Hahaha! Let's see you get out of this one! My trump card has self-destructed and bought you down from three to only TWO Pokemon! How are you planning to- Oh shit hold on a minute..." but he stuck with it and let the fight be a fight. I like that everything got an honest depiction.

Looking forward to Gen 2 Cinnabar Island. I always thought finding it destroyed and finding the previous game's final boss doing some out of character rumination was a memorable moment people don't really talk about.
Yeah, I can understand that, haha. It was nice seeing a flash-like animation not try too hard to cram a joke every 10 seconds. Hopefully, this inspires other people that like to animate like this to do the same if necessary.

Unfortunately, I hate to say this, but out of the first 4 generations, gen 2 is going to be the most lost on me. As a kid, I did beat the game (aka, beating Lance), but somehow, I never knew you could go back to Kanto. A whole chunk of the game that I just missed out on. I wish I still had my carts. I would go back and play it on my 3DS if I wasn't so scared, lmao. I'm extremely nervous that gen 6 and 7 have made me soft and the old games will beat me down.

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Makeveli_lives
02/06/23 12:42:19 AM
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PiOverlord posted...
Yeah, I can understand that, haha. It was nice seeing a flash-like animation not try too hard to cram a joke every 10 seconds. Hopefully, this inspires other people that like to animate like this to do the same if necessary.

Unfortunately, I hate to say this, but out of the first 4 generations, gen 2 is going to be the most lost on me. As a kid, I did beat the game (aka, beating Lance), but somehow, I never knew you could go back to Kanto. A whole chunk of the game that I just missed out on. I wish I still had my carts. I would go back and play it on my 3DS if I wasn't so scared, lmao. I'm extremely nervous that gen 6 and 7 have made me soft and the old games will beat me down.
Kanto is piss easy. Only like 3 Pokmon in gym battles are over level 45 if I remember correctly.

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Frosted_Midna
02/06/23 4:21:05 AM
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bump

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NeonTentacles
02/06/23 9:43:38 AM
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balls deep

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Phantom_Nook
02/06/23 10:54:28 AM
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this is pretty great.

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PiOverlord
02/06/23 12:06:14 PM
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So, since he premiered this live, there's a way to see the live chat that was going on with the video.

Unfortunately, I don't know if we'll ever get a gen 4 version of this. The guy who made this said in response to one of the comments that he hates gen 4 and Cynthia (but he still made sure to give her a cameo). Unfortunate since this seemed like a project out of passion, so him doing gen 4 at that point would just feel like he probably forced himself to do it out of a feeling of obligation.

I mean, a theoretical gen 4 would probably be closer to the tail-end of the 2020's, maybe even early 2030's, so it's not like it was something that you could plan on being a thing anyways, lmao.

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Questionmarktarius
02/06/23 12:09:43 PM
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got to "usernamebunchanumbers" and bailed.
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Bloodmoon77
02/06/23 12:10:02 PM
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I skipped around and saw the celadon part. Hilarious I can't wait to watch all of it

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PiOverlord
02/06/23 12:12:56 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
got to "usernamebunchanumbers" and bailed.
Wait, what?

Bloodmoon77 posted...
I skipped around and saw the celadon part. Hilarious I can't wait to watch all of it
Hope you enjoy!

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Questionmarktarius
02/06/23 12:17:17 PM
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PiOverlord posted...
Wait, what?
0:17.
There's a watermark in the corner. We don't need a "I made this" intro - it's just vanity.
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PiOverlord
02/06/23 12:18:18 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Yeah, primarily relying on in-game sounds (with the occasional anime sound for good ol' Pika pika) was a great call. The scenes typically do a good job at allowing us to have a good idea what's being said anyways. Probably made his life easier too with not having to work around schedules for people to voice act. It says a lot when 3.5 hours of no actual voice-acting, and minimal dialogue on screen can still keep my full undivided attention.

And I'm glad people seem to be enjoying it. It made my day watching it, and was hoping it could make someone else's day too!

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