Heard Through the Olivine – Pokémon SoulSilver [24]

I would say the opposite is true, for me at least. Pre-exp share I would just power level 1 or 2 Pokémon and ignore all the others and use those 1-2 in every battle. With the exp share giving exp to my entire party that gives me the freedom to use any member of my party at any time so I get more attached to them because they aren't just filling space. Like my Pokémon Red hall of fame picture was Charizard, Nidoking, and 4 Pokémon that I only ever used to take a hit when I needed to heal Charizard or Nidoking.

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CHUGGAACONROY NO
DON'T PLAY SONIC 06 FOR YOUR NEXT LP
THE GAME IS UNFINISHED

How is 34:22 not a more replayed part?

31:47 For some reason I expected its unused sprite to look creepier.

The point of a Pokemon Trainer is training Pokemon; if my team is over-leveled AND I've not spent much time with them one-on-one from just me filling up my Pokedex, they're hardly different than the boxed mons that are also leveling up without me personally training them. All this free experience is great if you just want to keep trying out new options for team building without having to grind much with freshly caught Pokemon to catch them up to your party members, but I don't feel like I trained up or even know my team, especially my starter, that journeyed with me to become Champion because of that. It wasn't so bad in 6th gen but by 8th gen, the magic was lost for me when my starter fully evolved and I didn't recall battling with it much when in previous gens my starter used to carry my team. My first experience with Pokemon was GSC and I was used to switch training and then finally getting EXP. SHARE as a hold item. Going back to play Blue version, I never got used to having all team members get experience because of EXP. ALL but at least it was a key item you could box if you didn't want or need it. Give me the option to toggle off the new Experience share in the newer titles just like I was free to ignore Pokemon Amie and Pokemon Refresh so my team wouldn't have fake Sturdy and fake Shed Skin or just dodge attacks if I felt that made things too easy; I did like when they got boosted experience though, but only that part and evolving my Eevee into Sylveon.

I too love Legends Arceus, and I'm gonna give SwSh and SV another chance..

23:00 one of the best features of gen 9 was getting your held item back even after single player battles

Raikou once again disappointed that you didnt bring the mashed potatoes

The only thing that I really did with ball capsules was put a red and yellow confetti on on my Magmortar that made it look like it was fired out of its arm cannon. Took some fiddly positioning to make the effect

Technically speaking they did bring Ball Capsules for BD/SP, but they dropped the Letter Seals & instead the Unown Kid gives more Ball Capsules upon catching a certain amount of the Unown. Also now there’s Seals for clearing certain Milestones as well.

37:47 I wonder if its name is supposed to a play on the Japanese onomatopoeia "Biri-biri" which is the sound of getting someone or something zapped.

35:54 Coincidentally, in Gen 2 there's a Psychic Norman just north of Olivine on Route 39. He was renamed Nelson in the remakes, just like how Skiier Roxanne was renamed.

Raikou is basically a yandere at this point lol

As the resident chinchou fan, I cannot be happier

Last year there were 37!

😂 You know it doesn't really make sense that it can run away when it's paralyzed speaking from a logical standpoint that's the very thing paralysis prevents movement of any kind just saying Nintendo😂.

I love using Lanturn in HGSS! Such a good Pokemon if you are doing a playthrough.

3:45 THANK YOU! Main issue with the pushback to the exp share is that its being forced. A lot of people who enjoy it tend to either A) get to defensive about it or B) Not think about having more options available to the player to play through the game. Its literally the bet of two worlds if its an option to turn on/off.

FINALLY someone says it. I've been saying the same thing for years in the Nuzlocke community, and dang near NOBODY agrees. They'll literally Hack in rare candies, and then hack OUT effort values

Just… Isn't the point of a Nuzlocke to get attached to the kids who always got picked last at dodgeball? That's a lot harder to do when you never spend any time in the slow parts of the journey and skip to the highlight reel

Regarding Chinchou: people SERIOUSLY underestimate how dangerous a good typing can be when you have the moves for it. In GSC, Smogon's entry for it even considers it potentially better than LAPRAS because of that typing. You got options for move sets, too: Rain Dance pulls double duty here, for both extra damage on surf AND accurate thunder. You can run Thunder wave and Confuse Ray. OR, you can run Charge Beam, Stockpile, Rest, Surf. You buff your defenses to never die, you take a nap to heal up whenever you want, you power out damage with Charge Beam, and then you wash them up with Surf

You could also just run a Choice Specs set: not like you'll have much issue switching in with that typing

Idk if chugga just doesn’t check the options in newer games but you absolutely can turn the exp share on and off,you can even turn it back to normal exp share mode like in older games

Weird how no one caught that reference to Epstein island to the deserted islands before cíanwood island where they take bad kids and punish them? Or am I reaching?

Just lost my cat little girl i truly needed this lets play ngl

Love that youre using Lanturn, so underrated. I thought you were going to use Lapras when you caught it lol

Honestly, the opening bit on the forced EXP share is the most accurate thing, and I'll share a personal story.
So, I was playing through Sword (I need/want to finish it) and had most of my team done. It was Cinderace, Corvinknight, Eldegoss, Sirfetch'd and Runerigus I just needed one last one. I realize that the best member to fit this team would be Crawdaunt, which as an aside: I wanted to use not many older Pokemon but it was the best option so I went for it.

Issue was, I was going to go to the Fairy type gym in Ballonlea, AKA the fifth gym and needed to go back to grab it.
This caused my Corphish to be stupid under leveled, especially with the rest of the team which was over leveled. I did some switch training, but because of the force EXP Share everyone was getting Exp, meaning that everyone was going to get levels.
So, I decided to take out all of my team but the Corphish/Crawdaunt and try to train it in the area before, then going to the area right outside Ballonlea (Glimwood Tangle).. Ran into a Shiinotic, over estimated my Crawdaunt's power against it. Whited out.

Now, this is on me that I whited out. I'll admit that. However, this really gives an example of how this system can and will screw over people due to not wanting to over power the gyms.
Also, just gives bad habits to players. You can just use one Pokemon exclusively, not think of strategy and still have your whole team be overpowered to the rest of the game.

It's part of the reason why I want a difficulty setting, return of set battles (which I should do a run with in a game) and no EXP on capturing, because it's just a snowball affect of all these little things adding up to make this already easy series, even easier while also accidentally screwing you over if you want something from an earlier area, but don't want the whole team to be busted.
Can use rare candies, yes, but I feel like that ignores the underlying issue of "I shouldn't need an item to not be overpowered in a game"

My problem with the EXP share in newer games is I don't feel compelled to train new Pokemon on my team. They wind up just sitting in the back while passively gaining experience, and I trudge through the game with 1 or 2 strong Pokemon doing all the battles. Also annoying when taking EVs into account. I used to just be able to see a hiker and be like oh, can probably get defense EVs off him. Now the whole team gets those defense EVs