Also, God is a Pokémon.

It doesn't even need a charger!

"Hey, sorry for sending you into prehistory. Have an iPhone 14."

In another world with my smart phone

The arse phone!

Exactly what I was thinking, this is the 5th time Pokémon has done this lol

@@CallieBlader no, time travel is still considered isekai, it’s actually a way more common trope than some people realize.

This isn't the first beach I'v woken up half drowned on and it won't be the last

@@CallieBlader Big difference between voluntary time travel and God saying "Fuck you in particular" then yeeting you into the past, memory wiping you and getting you to do some nebulous task completely unprepared But at least you get a sweet phone I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@CallieBlader No, seriously look it up, time travel is indeed considered isekai. A different time is basically a different world after all, even if it’s technically the same.

I love how the player pogs whenever they see something new.

I mean, she did get bodied by one.

Well now she has an agressive disposition.

I always find it hilarious which pokemon are on sight when you see them and they're the most unlikely ones. Shinx being one. Paras being another one. Hell Krickitune follows you around and just looks at you the whole time

@@darknesswave100 Machoke just likes flexing.

They just stare at the ball confused at its sorcery

I mean the one lady is scared of a Starly. So we're essentially dealing with a bunch of freaking wimps

"Mastering" is different from "using". Clearly you throw the thing but he's saying nobody is pitching these things like they're pro baseball players.

Its all in the wrist! Hop wasn't training for nothing.

@@darknesswave100 I mean at least it's not a pack of Spearows a

All his braincells are directed at studying pokemon, none left for fashion He's also considered an oddball in the settlement because of his interest in pokemon, so I like that his outfit reflects that

@@zeppie_ Also, as far as I can tell he is the only character we know of that is from the as-of-yet non-existent India region. Maybe some people from Galar are from there too, Rose being a good candidate. We know this because 1) In Raichu's dex entry in FireRed says it has the voltage to take out an Indian elephant, 2) in this game, Laventon writes that Raichu has the voltage to take out a Copperajah from his homeland, and 3) in Copperajah's dex entry in Sword, it says Copperajah came from a different region than Galar.

He calls himself a Pokemon professor when he isn't even named after a tree or bush. What a poser, an absolute charlatan.

People keep harping on his hat, but as a Canadian, silly but warm hats with massive pompoms are just normal attire.

@@pwojo9776 Well, Laventon is pretty close to Lavender. His Claydol beanie is lavender colored.

Game could've used more animations and better graphics, but it is for sure a step into the right direction. First pokemon game I played and finished in a long time.

i really hope game freak does more like this game, for real

Tbf, you can find the Magnemite line normally in places, so it makes some sense. Porygon is pure computer data somehow materialized into a physical form, so those reactions especially make sense. (Also, I love Porygon-Z's dex entry so much, idk why I find it as funny as I do. Lol)

@@Cuprite1024 This worries me

Yeah eevee is really easy to find. I was pissed that I couldn't use an umbreon (my all time favorite pokemon) in BDSP till the damn postgame so I immediately got an eevee and evolved it before I crossed the first bridge 😅

@@darknesswave100 My team by the end was Samurott named Ronin, a Leafeon named Matcha (all my eeveelutions are named after food; there's Matcha, Rem, Sakura, Choco, Soba, Mochi, Azuki, and Aisu), an alpha Honchkrow named Hibari (a reference to Way of the House Husband), an alpha Goodra named Rimuru (yes, like the slime isekai), an alpha Mamoswine named Mamosuke (this one was more of a pun), and an alpha girl Zoroark named Samara (yes, like the girl from the Ring, I got from a later part of the main quest; spoilers, you'll get opportunities to battle and catch three alphas, two of which are very rare and one of these two doesn't even spawn let alone as an alpha while the other is just stupidly rare to spawn as an alpha and as a girl, they can't be shiny but their natures and genders are random). Most of my named Pokemon are anime or manga references, but they're all like Japanese because I am a fucking weeb and thought naming them with Japanese thematic names would be appropriate. I got a shiny alpha Oshawott from a trade giveaway, I named her Tomoe (like the irl woman samurai and like from Moonlit Fantasy). I also have a Ursaluna named Sugimoto and a Decidueye named Asirpa. I got an alpha Parasect I named Umami and gave it to the mushroom kid for a quest and it's the funniest shit walking into his house to see this fucking unit. And then there's fucking Terry the Tangela.

I mean take into account she was playing at launch blind and thus had no clue where anything was.

You didn’t just consume pikachus?

Facts

8/10 would read again but the font should've been Georgia pro instead of times new Calica

I may sound pedantic here....but this is time travel, different genre from Isekai

In another world with my smartphone

@@garreonlefay6703 traveling into the fantasy world aspect is the most popular but time traveling into a different world is also a form of isekai

@@MinimumOverdrive1 I mean, ok again I may sound pedantic, the protagonist of the Pokemon world is going to the past of his world....does that really count as Isekai or is it just Time Travel? Sounds like Time Travel to me. I mean, the protagonist has no issues with pokemon, because they come from a time when pokemon and humans more or less coexist in harmony. EvenAkari/Rei lampshade that fact and find it incredible that the protagonist has no hesitation or fear of pokemon

She's hurting me.

i literally thought volo was just cynthia when they first revealed him he's looks just like her but with with their hair tied up

@@skynonameisnotafurry it’s pretty much just the hair over the eye that resembles her. But that’s such and iconic piece of the character, that’s really all that matters.

@@skynonameisnotafurry I thought he was Cynthia also when facing his team (SPOILER! exact same as Cynthia's) but then again as her ancestor, it makes sense.

That’s how Giratina was made 😂

Pokemon Rangers: shadows of almia, or whatever it's called. It had some of the best writing in any Nintendo game.

My favorite pokemon game is misery dungeon

@@rtiq270 oops, I ain't changing that now it's more fitting to the series.

Pokémon Misery Dungeon: Explorers of Anxiety. Beautiful memories of that game.

Yep, with how many times I die and lose my items, misery dungeon sound about right.

is it truly Isekai if it's the past of your own world? Mystery Dungeon makes sense, but Legends of Arceus?

@@garreonlefay6703 Yes

@@garreonlefay6703 It's not the past of the player characters world, they ostensibly come from the "real world". That's why Arceus explains that pokemon exist to you, and why your character doesn't know anything about them

@@Quetzalcoatl-Dragon_97 Yeah! After all Inuyasha is considered to be an Isekai, where Kagome gets sent to Feudal Japan in her universe.

@@garreonlefay6703 Yes.

It's not. From the translations I've read of their employee blog, there is no urgency or crunch at Game Freak. They take vacations even right before launch, plus there's a lot of in-fighting and favoritism. The reason their games are like this is a combination of bad management, low budgets, and high turnover of talented staff (they get exploited and then leave, hence why GF is constantly hiring).

@@Hugsloth im gonna be honest chief, the end statements somehow contradicts with the beginning statements for some reason.

@@AeroViro It seems that at GF when someone hands in the work, they are given the full credit even if that person had another staffer come to help them solve problems. This led to inexperienced staff handing in work they got more talented staff to help with, and the more talented staff feeling exploited. But despite this they do not have a sense of urgency to polish the games before launch.

(also i love your work and am silently pogging that you replied to me im sorry)

@@Hugsloth Where's that info about staff coming from? I don't recall anyone ever stating this sort of thing going on. They've outwardly stated that they encourage the newer staff as much as possible, even putting them to work on major parts of the games alongside the old guard. As for the older staff those extra games like Harmoknight and Little Town Hero are side projects purely to prevent burnout from Pokemon and allow for experimentation with other styles and genres of game. I'm not sure where these words of infighting and the "talented staff" feeling slighted come from aside from a dubious account by a "former GF employee" around the time SwSh came out. The truth is that the Gen 8 games were not a result of crunch but a result of poor planning. The three year gen cycle worked fine in the past but not on the jump to the Switch, and they couldn't just delay because Pokemon isn't just a video game anymore, it's a franchise. Delaying the games would mean delaying everyone else, the people who work on merch, the anime, the manga, the side games. That's a lot of companies and contracts. Yes SwSh and PLA came out less than best but lets not let speculation go too wild on the reasons why.

*unova

@@tacitgamingfanREAL Unova is specifically New York.

Pretty much. It's not supper far back in the past, maybe a hundred years at least.

He's one of the tribals. The Pearl Clan to be specific. The clans deals is that long ago they sailed to Hisui looking for the god they called Sinnoh, they each have different ideas on what Sinnoh is, but even they aren't the land's original inhabitants. That would be the Celestica people, a mysterious civilization with pseudo-Roman styled clothing and architecture. They have ruins, there's two known descendants, there's legends and old records, but that's about it, nobody knows what became of them. The clans took some inspiration of Sinnoh and the legends from the Celestica people.

Lian is from the Pearl Clan, so he's a native of Sinnoh. Which does line up because his descendant Clay was designed as a Japanese immigrant chasing the American dream, according to an interview with Ken Sugimori.

But Magnezone's entry refers to radio waves. Radio waves were discovered in the late 1880s.

Player: FUCK THIS, I"M A SHOTOCLONE! (Proceeds to Hadouken Pikachu)

@@XellosNi Player proceeds to daigo parry a thundershock

Idk when the Fuedal era is, but this is the industrial era equivalent of the pokemon world.

Even more impressive is that he has no hands.

@@deadlydingus1138 he had that godly tech support on his side

This is the industrial age. Laventon has a camera.

Arceus created Dialga, time itself. He's probably omnipresent.

As a man with an iPhone I can confirm, this thing really does feel like it lasts 5 minutes at times

Same x)

This games gameplay sadly doesn't match it's graphics

Pokemon may not have the best graphics, but it does have fun.

“For some baffling reason” damn it’s almost like the gaming industry’s circlejerk for better and better graphics doesn’t match the effectiveness of a fun and engaging gameplay loop

I'd say that's just cause gameplay's more important than graphics. Minecraft isn't the best selling game of all time for how it looks after all.(not that good graphics aren't needed at all, it'd be nice)

@@mx.e2176 I only say baffling since it’s Pokémon and the new gameplay style is actually pretty fresh and fun unlike the previous games where the fun was kinda hit or miss. Was worried it would be slowly repetitive but was surprised that a lot of effort was put into gameplay. I still wished the game didn’t blind my eyes with flashing trees and grass if I do happen to look at them funny from afar.

Who cares about graphics? As long as it's fun, I find it worth my time.

@@peterthepeopleeater5697 I know right, it reminds of a tiktok I once saw a long time ago like: "As you can see the shading on the trees are better on the PC then on the Xbox." "Okay, but how does that effect game play?" "Uh...graphics." "What grown man will be looking at shadows the whole game."

Everyone says this but the graphics ARENT awful. They're not the greatest thing ever. But they aren't awful.

@@tanzyvat5834 Dang right you are, I'm getting tired of people complaining about the graphics. Like "Oh my god! look at those ps2 trees!", Shut up I literally don't care!

@@peterthepeopleeater5697 Fun is definitely the most important aspect, but we shouldn't underestimate the importance of visuals. Humans naturally prefer things that look nice over things that don't. So even if the graphics don't make the actual gameplay any less fun, I think everyone would prefer if it was at least on par with other Nintendo titles.

Typical anime or manga title

You're...sort of reincarnated in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. Arceus just shamelessly yeets the protagonist into the era as its personal agent in this game.

thank you I put a lot of thought into it

Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time? Nice