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Are Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire worthy followups to Gen 2?

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Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire are the 3rd generation mainline entries in the franchise, coming out on the Gameboy Advance 1.7 years after Crystal.
The hardware generation jumped but the games are still very similar at the core.

This is a retrospective on Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire (emerald gets a separate video--hold on patient Emerald stans). Did my best to showcase NEW content, and especially to track changes from previous generations on returning mechanics like game corner, NPC trades, and of course the core battle gameplay.

chapter roans:
1:28 littleroot
7:25 rustboro
10:38 dewford
16:08 mauville
19:59 contest
26:53 lavaridge
29:35 petalburg
38:43 fortree
44:39 mossdeep
49:03 groudon stuff
54:17 regi stuff
1:00:03 elite four
1:04:45 postgame

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@ji_mothy Creator 2 years ago Pinned

Who should I raise in emerald, without the gen-3-only stipulation?

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@HomeCookinMTG 2 years ago (edited)

I think part of the reason there are no pokemon in the Game Corner in RSE is because it's not ran by a criminal organization trying to make a profit off of stolen pokemon.

EDIT: Side note, Zigzagoon's evolution can solo the elite 4. Belly Drum is a hell of a move.

@mctrump957 1 year ago

"Phoebe's Sableye has no counter"
Manectric learns Odor Sleuth at level 25, which can expose a fighting type weakness in Dark/Ghost Sableye. Or, if you really wanted to be a nutjob, Zigzagoon learns it at level 17 AND can learn a fighting type move... Rock Smash.

@TheDapperFox 2 years ago

For anyone who doesn't know, Shedinja copies moves AFTER evolution and new moves learned. This means that if you delay evolution till 25, your invincible bug will know Swords Dance! Great for abusing that immunity to get free set up turns.

@kryzethx 2 years ago (edited)

3:04 Pfft, a real gamer would fill his party with these Pickup masters, and then only swap one out upon obtaining a new permanent party member

@VolrinSeth 2 years ago

Combusken with fire moves or even fighting moves trivialises both magnemite and magneton in the third gym.

@megatronacepticon 2 years ago

If you go back to the top of Mt. Pyre after Groudon you'll see Maxie return the orb he stole, which is the finale to his arc. The game doesn't tell you to go there, but the Maxie wrap-up is there to be found, similar to the Rival finally evolving his Golbat in Gen 2 being exclusive to fighting the Elite 4 on Monday and Wednesday.

@garrett8557 2 years ago

Idk if boxing your starter before the first gym qualifies as “playing how Nintendo intended” lol

@puparn93 2 years ago

The creator's would have intended on you keeping your starter for at least the first gym. You could have grinder torchic and got a fighting type eventually.

@Takittack 1 year ago

18:12 Mudkip slander to the upteenth degree! You boxed your Torchic, which has fire moves super-effective against the steel-type Magnemite and Magneton! Also, Treeko resists electric-type moves. Seems like it's moreso an issue on your part for deciding to ditch your starter so early, which doesn't really make too much sense either considering you're attempting to play the game the intended way but not using the pokemon they gave you at the start, intending you to use them. Still a good vid but I had some gripes with that specific part (Plus all the backlash against Mudkip for some reason?)

@AlexsGoogleAccount 2 years ago

That's an interesting point about the lack of dialogue regarding the apocalyptic event. NPCs are just standing around in 300 degree weather and chatting about their day.

Chrono Trigger is another example of a game that did a good job at altering dialogue. Once the Black Omen monster ship is flying in the air, its visible in all future time periods you can travel to, so the NPCs acknowledge that its flown in the sky their entire lives.

@jtyler9130 2 years ago

Just to confirm for Gym 3 Torchic would be a fighting type with Double Kick which could deal with Magnemites, Marshtomp will negate and Grovyle will resist, so not sure why you’re not using a starter on a “play as intended “ play through.

@SuntanAlbino 2 years ago

Absolutely LOVE your videos and these types of "As the dev intended" videos but I gotta call bologna on ditching your starter as I highly doubt Gamefreak expects anyone to box their starter. Obviously people do that but there's no way that's the original intent for the player lol. Also just want to add that the player has access to Makuhita back in Granite Cave as well as the newly acquired Rock Smash HM in Mauville to help deal with Wattson's Magneton. Your Torchic would have worked pretty well too since on evolution into Combusken it learns Double Kick but ideally still has Ember as well.

All that said, keep up the amazing work dude, your videos are awesome and I look forward to everything you put out down the road!

@Gathering14 2 years ago

Pretty glad this series is continuing

@tylerayalasuzara 1 year ago

My favorite Pokémon generation. Just recently started a new emerald run and ran into a full-odds shiny Shroomish. Love this game.

@michaelwilburn5582 2 years ago

"Because Mr. Stone said so" brilliant script writing

@moth_breath 1 year ago

the dual bike situation is really interesting to me actually because if you switch every time you're in mauvile you'll basically always have the right bike at the right time & be able to see all the bike requirements. since mauvile is such a central city that you literally have to walk through multiple times in the main course of the game, it's actually not really inconvenient at all & i think it plays on hoenn's banger map design

@mastermarkus5307 2 years ago

I'm very confused by why you even thought to box Torchic when you don't have a full party? Sure, you have to share the exp around more, but it's a free fire type.