The Endure, disobey, Fling mechanic might be the coolest trick I've seen in any of these escape rooms. Effectively transferring the priority of Endure onto another move... genius!

I know the reunion happened almost a year ago but hearing "my friend smallant" made me smile

i love how "educational" this video is. i feel like it's really easy for poketubers to assume that their audience has the same amount of game knowledge as them, which can make things hard to follow for a casual fan. i really loved all the explanations thought the video!

Okay the "pay attention to the gender" puzzle being MAIL was genius but groan worthy puns

Eric came up with a solution for the "impossible" version, sure having shellos die over a thousand times isn't a fun solution, it is however a solution

The fact that Eric practically beat the first version of the escape room was very entertaining. Smant's escape rooms are always so cool to see!

You know, I thought the hint was “take note” for a second, and thought that was clever, and then realized male = mail lmao

15:25: The key indicator here is that PointCrow takes one turn to say "I'm about to sneeze" and then sneezes.

Ok this man is an actual genius

He just beat the part of the outdated puzzle that was literally deemed impossible

28:05 as soon as you finished saying "He asked me one question" I got an ad starting with "How often do you think about your poop?"

10/10

I've seen a few people do this puzzle now, and I knew something was wrong the moment he didn't have a sign mentioning only deleting one move, but I didn't catch the fact that it was Shellos instead of Smeargle, so I wasn't sure if maybe he'd just skipped the sign. Definitely didn't expect Smant to have just sent him an old version by mistake.

At 5:28 I was 100% expecting an ad.

The main message is that I am bald at 2D platformers.

I love seeing how people are messing around with the pokemon format! Really makes the games so much more fun to mess around with and figure out what's possible. Though no matter how hard you try, you aren't escaping Ironmon

Eric pointcrow never fails to deliver a good video whilst I'm burying a family of four

I remember hearing this brought up in another video at some point, maybe from either smant or pcrow, but seeing it used for something like this is SO genius. Also, the clever use of Chuck to 1, give you a badge, and 2, use his mid-battle dialogue to tell you "you won't need Hypno after this!" is GENIUS. Doing that, plus having a hint sign before Giratina to tell you the two moves you no longer need, as well as "you'll need some luck" to confirm that yes, this will be slightly dependent oj RNG, is a great choice. Smanthony did a genuinely amazing job on this. I think I remember stopping the VoD pretty early on when that released, because I wanted to try this myself. But now I'm glad I'm seeing this instead, bc I definitely would not have solved this. I didn't know the disobedience mechanic that well to have figured out the priority trick.
I'm still only at 13:47 , but this is seriously just so well designed. This follows my philosophy of puzzle design to a T. Everything here has a purpose, down to "tools" available, hints, and even the choices and placement of terrain and grass tiles! I even just now realized that the Hypno's name is displayed in Japanese, while everyone else has their name in English, and that's literally there as a hint that the Hypno is an "outsider" (Pokémon obtained via trade that will disobey if you have insufficient badges)

8:23 bro forgot his move

This seriously needs to be a genre of Pokemon fan games. Moves have so many cool tricks like this, it wouldn't be difficult to come up with more puzzles. I hope this video inspires people to make more!

The fact that PointCrow managed to get that far in an old escape room is impressive. Well done!

15:36 Bless you.