if the lavender tower escape rope isnt a mistake, it might be a really bleak joke

KZfaq. Jimothy did a good job.

You’ve managed to make “sucking the fun out of a game by overoptimizing” fun to watch. Keep up the good work!

I did *not* know that Oak gives you balls if you don't catch Pokemon, and I'm amazed that there is still tidbits about these games that I still haven't heard of.

Algorithm, please acknowledge Mothy for his good job done. Gracious.

"Hence, Bulbasaur is CLEARLY the best starter Pokemon." My brother in Christ, you have just made an enemy out of every Pokemon speed-runner in existence. Fantastic video as always! I'd love to see more Pokemon content! ^_^

I like the idea of the devs reacting to everyone keeping their starter to the end like: "Why would anyone do that? It's just supposed to get you started"

I consume an obscene amount of pokemon content. From challenge runs, to wifi battles, nuzlockes, to shiny hunting. I'm 3 minutes in and I know this is going to be fire. Excite

9:04 reminder for hard fights: leech seed exists

Full of twists and very informative. The hour I spent on this just flew by.

Always interested in these runs, like examining ludo-narrative and how the game mechanically sets you up in a "suggested path". As someone who has a lot of interests in information systems but also has ADD (so I have trouble noticing the systems, or following the "suggested path") its super cool to see your analysis and conclusion for these videos, keep it up!

As someone who was already in his late teens when pokemon first came out I ignored it until in my mid-30s. And now in my early 40s I have played almost every game. The presentation and story and one thing, but the game behind it was always very good.

I was waiting for all the music jokes mothy usually makes and then I noticed the segment title puns. Celadon Dione? Fuchsia Ronan?? Cinnabar Toast Crunch??? Love it

I really did not expect one of my favourite childhood games to come up on your channel. I am so happy about this!

10:24 my headcanon is that the water gun is in fact spraying out wormwood liqueur

I had no idea Professor Oak gave you 5 pokeballs if you go back to him with just your Starter after defeating Blue the second time.

The fact the algorithm still hasn't picked your channel up for mass suggestion is absolutely wild to me. Dear Jimothy, you da man. Keep it up. :)

I'm so happy to see you continue this type of analysis to other video games! While it's still hard to apply it to blind playthrough, it does make me appreciate the various developers decisions in their video games. Keep up the great work!

"...What Porygon's purpose is in life." To be a scapeGogoat.

Another awesome video, Mothy! I will watch any one of these “As the Developer Intended” videos whether I’ve played the game or not; they’re just so entertaining and well put-together. Keep up the great work!!!

I like the way you laid out this video, great job as always Mothy!

That was a great watch, I enjoyed this.

This concept transferred so well from the Fromsoft stuff! I binged all your videos on those and was glad to find out you're continuing the format. Honestly, I could see those kinds of analyses helping with game design one day... Fingers crossed you make it big, yippee!!!

This was brilliant. The parasect strategy in particular astounded me.

Your videos are excellent! I always feel compelled to play my games this way and you do such a good job with humorous explanation.

Loved the video Jimothy! Been following your "as intended" since the Dark Souls videos. This one took me back 23 years I'm not even kidding. I remember doing my Pokemon playthroughs on my Gameboy color and trying to think of ways to overcome the walls that my starter of choice would face!

I don’t always like videos unless it’s really well put together and this really ticks all the boxes… engaging humor and creative story telling on an old game… your passion is clear and you delivered. Earned my sub, can’t wait to binge your old content!

Well done and thank you for making this vid

Amazing work , congratulations!

This was awesome! Love your vids!

Your pacing and breakdown of approach is entertaining and engaging! Great video

I've tried something along this line of thinking with most pokemon semi-casually. i enjoy actually playing through these grind-heavy rpgs efficiently like this, almost solving it like a puzzle game! some of the challenge-heavy romhacks of pokemon games near necessitates this playstyle. it's lead to some pokemon to become my absolute goats, like jumpluff! thank you for covering this so thoroughly. your videos are so fun to watch, with references to stuff like letterkenny as a delightful surprise.

Never watched one of your vids before but this was really solid man! Thoroughly enjoyed it :)

Well this isn’t the KZfaq Jimothy I usually watch Pokémon content on but it’s a pleasant surprise

Amazing video! I love how you look at video games

KZfaq pls, mothy is a good boy and deserves headpats.

Hey, KZfaq, be nice to this guy. He's all right.

Love your work man!

Got recommended ur postgame kanto tierlist (which in itself was very funny and entertaining as a genuine look at it) and holyyy cow this was one of the most interesting playthroughs that wasn’t a straight up challenge run I’ve watched. So many team members, engaging with all the mechanics- it’s glorious. Will definitely be watching your other Pokémon vids and might try to take a peak at a few of the other games you cover too. (Although im unfamiliar with basically all of them) Sub well earned!

big fan of how this series is both really fun to watch for games you're familiar with (since you get to see it from a completionist/as intended perspective and can understand the run) and for games you have no clue about (as you get a bunch of info about the game and how it works) I've never played a pokemon game in my life, but i found this video excellent hehe

hour long ji_mothy video? easy click

A new ji_mothy video?!!?!?! About my FAVORITE THING? Yeeeessss something interesting to grind OSRS mining to

How neat! I didn't consider ice so much but it's cool to see how they might have meant for people to play through the game. I'm quickly getting addicted to these videos and only wish there were more! But that's what subscribing is for. (:

Fantastic video!!! Would love to see a sequel.

I can’t remember off the top of my head but I do think there is the extra potion on the tree in the first city on the cuttable tree beside the man who won’t let you pass before you deliver parcel to Oak. Absolutely awesome I’ve found another YTer on the grind! Keep up the great work man!

This series soothes the inner obsessive. I love them, even for games I haven't played.

Less than 4 minutes in and "His charmander is brutalising my taco" is certainly a sentence.

Love the branching out. Another banger brother

loved the vid man, thank you for all the effort you put into these 🫶

Damn this is absolutely not there next game I expected in this series, but... This is great. You did a great job and KZfaq better notice!!

Great video!!

There is ALWAYS a need for more videos of this exact content type.

“His charmander is brutalising my taco” is a sentence that doesn’t feel like it should be on KZfaq….. Also is Unovan lift bra a regional wonder bra?

Awesome vid~

Giving you the love Jimothy, my favourite KZfaqr by far and im always excited for what’s next! Pokemon was a great idea, my favourite is the Diamond/Pearl era so if I ever see that ill be a happy boy 😁❤️ keep it up mate

Please, show this video to the poke fans who need to see it! Let’s go internet magic!

Thanks for another fun video. 1hr + vids make me happy~

Liked the idea and execution of this video, Becoming a series, cool.

Would love to see a Gold & Silver/ Heart Gold and Soul Silver as intended video!

Id say it’s obvious that the escape rope is for going up and seeing the Marowak ghost then you don’t have to hoof it back down

Keep up the great content

56:35 Disco Omastar!! I love this sprite so much lol

Please play more Pokémon! Idk why I waited so long to watch this! 10/10 video, mothy ❤

okay. yeah the "sub missin" bit was clever and good and got me. im subbed now.

Loved the vid!

The Lavender Town Escape Rope might have been intended for a hypothetical first visit if you went all the way to the top without the Silph Scope instead of leaving upon being unable to fight whatever the first wild encounter was.

Praise be to the mighty algorithm. Amazing video! I love this series!

This was super cool! Although TBH I think you're intended to keep your starter around til the end. ;) Great reasoning and final team comp!

I’ve always thought about games in terms of their design and intended style of play. Amazing that mothy read my mind.

I love this video series.

I was introduced to your channel by your Pokemon videos and I gotta say, I love your style of gameplay! I also love that you included chapters in the video (with funny names to boot) so I can refer back as I try out the team for myself. I saw you have a Stardew video as well, so my mom is gonna love that one.

Definitely interested in a "Yellow as Intended" video. Great work on this one!

He put work into this youtube

another ji_mothy classic

I love hour+ long pokemon game vids to fall asleep to. I would love more

Great video. After playing the games as an adult and then going on to play numerous romhacks of gen 1 running from low impact ones that include all mons to high impact ones that have a lot of homebrew and tinkering, I've come to understand the gameplay of gen 1 as more dragonquest than pokemon, if you feel me. Pokemon bills itself as a game about traveling, catching pokemon, and building a team, but it's so clear that the games are actually linear hero adventure stories. You're meant to catch, use, and bench your Pokemon as you progress, and adapt to a variety of unique challenges related to type interactions. Players often don't acknowledge it, but there are definitely boss pokemon and boss types explicitly put into the game to challenge you. Ghost, dragon, and psychic. Gengar, Dragonite, Alakazam. The devs knew that Alakazam was busted, which is why he is behind a trade, and given a first stage that literally does nothing. Gengar is poison because he's just too powerful as a pure ghost. And the dragon type is pretty self explanatory, they learn all the good moves, get dragon rage, and resist a lot of common stuff.

I'd love to see you do the same videos for at least through the early editions with the most meta changes. Great vid!

Really interesting concept

The PC saying "What?" around 42:42 is such a mood, considering the back-to-back blasphemous statements uttered previously lol

9:20 Disable in Gen 1 actually selects a random move to disable, so Leer getting Disabled was actually pure chance. Great video! Loved it and greatly appreciate the effort you put into this. Edit: at 43:15 or so you mention using sturdy Normal Types to wall Psychic Types, such as Snorlax or Kanghaskhan. Kanghaskhan actually has very poor Special in Gen 1, so while it certainly can take Special hits due to its pretty good HP, it certainly isn't gonna tank them. Lickitung is very similar in that regard. Chansey, Wigglytuff, Snorlax and Clefable all have very high HP stats with good enough (or in Chansey's case just actually really good) Special that allows them to tank Special moves very well.

It has never made sense to me in this game at the lavender tower how none of the wild ghost Pokémon are visible, but you can see and battle all the trainer ghost types

I'm not even a Pokemon fan, but I was captivated for a good seventy minutes, another banger Mr. Mothy.

Great stuff😁 love u

Axuly loving this

Loved the vid as always Mothy. The team is wild. Never would have expected almost any of the picks. One side note, i believe at some point in the video you claim nidoqueen, a ground type, resists fire. While it's possible I don't have gen 1 type chart quite remembered, I'm pretty sure fire is neutral against ground. That said, really loved all the info provided, especially all the trades, as I largely had no clue how to take care of most of them, especially Lola

Oh wow! I thought I was the only one who used the Gen1 Parasect strategy. That’s my argument every time I see someone crap on Parasect for its weaknesses. Like, sure, it doesn’t matter after this singular Gen. But it’s great here, damnit!

Great vid. There's a lot of these older RPGs that I think would be great for this series, due to the lack of clear and obvious hand holding. It often just means that the intended method is there, but hard to see without hindsight

This was fun! :D

great stuff! hearing Raines made me do a double take lol glad my-twin helped out! good names all around lol

Good job! I love Gen 1

Oh I had to watch this right away! Yellow might be fun as a quick reexamination but i would be more interested in either gen 2, or see how the route & theory crafting changes for the remake Leaf Green!

I think the escape rope next to the ghost pretty heavily implies a skip was not intended

Liked, commented, subscribed. Good job guy!!!

KZfaq, make Mothy the top creator please. Algorithms and such, magic sauce, let's make it happen.

I REFUSE TO BOW BEFORE THE ALGORITHM BY LEAVING A COMMENT.

I'm pretty sure the pokedoll thing isn't intended to bypass obtaining the silph scope, but I'd call it an oversight as its not really a glitch. Imagine you have zero prior knowledge of the game, you're not even necessarily supposed to know that the ghosts you encounter are pokemon. You only reveal them as Pokemon once you get the silph scope. So why would you use a pokedoll on a ghost that for all intents and purposes isn't supposed to be a pokemon?

commenting for the algorithm. I also greatly enjoyed the video, brought back some childhood memories of pokemon on my GBC

What i loved about gen 1 is how many options you had to advance the game after you beat misty

Great job

that was awesome!!