“You’ll want to begin the game on a Tuesday at 9:30pm” Oh yeah this is EXACTLY the content I want.

No idea who you are but the algorithm said to watch this so here I am

Fun fact, if Shuckie's friendship is high his owner lets you keep him.

I believe a Kanto follow-up video should be in order for a complete experience of gen 2

Let's sum up the problems with Gold and Silver with Houndoor. Half the gyms past Whitney are weak to Fire and Dark, so where do they put the fire and dark Pokemon? All the way in Kanto.

I have to _heavily_ disagree with your take on the rivals. Blue was just a dick who didn't learn anything and kept acting like he was better than the player, even when he kept losing. He only changed his tone at the very end of the game. Silver keeps questioning himself and his methods and has a clear arc going from seeing his Pokémon as mere tools for battle to friends and cherished partners (Crobat, anyone?)

The lack of going for a Heracross as soon as you could, deeply saddens me.

You missed up part of the story with Shucky the shuckle. If you max friendship Shucky the kid will notice it and will tell you to keep it

I've gotta see a kanto section now that I've finished the video. Unlike most videos on gen 2, your format makes a lot of sense to cover it.

6:38 Funniest shit for me. I was so tired yesterday that, when you said "We can conserve Heehee's Tackle PP." I understood, "We can conserve Heehee's Tactical Peepee."

Most people: "HM Slave" ji_monty: "HM Wh-... HM Lady of Negotiable Affection"

>Playing the game as intended >Okay so first we need to align the moon with venus on a Tuesday... Entertaining stuff, my fellow

You missed the hidden ability Shuckle has in Gen 2 that converts Berries into Berry Juice. It's considered a precursor to what Gen 3 introduced.

A bit harsh on Rocky. You are still getting a traded Onix with double XP in a region where XP is difficult to gain. You can def use it for Falkner because mud slap is physical and Onix has sky high physical def. You can slap dig and iron tail on it and evolve as a Steelix as soon as you get Thief.

Seeing these games has unlocked so many long dormant memories. Been watching through all of your "Intended" videos, multiple times sometimes.

I have to say this "games as intended" is the freshest take on a playthrough I've ever seen. Kind of a mix of a guided playthrough with the deeper idea of min-maxing without actually a min-maxing.

This series is so fun! I'm really loving it. Aso I'm impressed at how quickly you've been putting these out. Just don't overwork yourself and get burned out! I'd love a segment talking about how you do team/route planning for these, you always come up with ideas and strats that I haven't considered after playing these games for over 20 years. Would also love to see a post-game segment. Kanto is so much of a mess it makes Johto look tight by comparison so I'm looking forward to your takes on it. I hope you continue with gen 3 eventually!

31:06 Why is that a bad thing? I don’t necessarily disagree that he’s worse than Blue but to say that he’s worse just because he’s an asshole? Like, he’s your rival, you’re supposed to want to beat him up.

In terms of useful egg moves I think Leech Seed on Meganium and High Jump Kick on Hitmontop are pretty good since Meganium lacks many useful support moves that you'd expect a bulky grass type to have and Hitmontop just straight up doesn't have a fighting move until level 49.

Gen 2 is still my favorite after all these years. It added so much to the series. Night and day cycles, timed events, gendered Pokemon, breeding, held items, splitting Special into two stats (special attack and special defense), adding two new types, full color sprites, and even the whole of Kanto as an end-game bonus, allowing us to see how the region has changed over the years in-universe. This is by far the most ambitious game in the Pokemon series. Shame these days, they know people will buy their games no matter what, so they just release them half finished.

came for the weird, unwarranted 30 seconds to mars references, stayed for the pokemon

Thanks for not being cringe. :)

New ji_mothy, only 5 minutes old! Get it fresh!

MOTHY PLEASE I HAVE TO SLEEP

The struggle of finding a waterstone is real ._. just started another silver playthrough and really wanted a poliwrath but here I am, at the final gym of johto, waterstoneless :( great video! love your energy

The trades seem so out of place in this game for sure! There are some pretty simple fixes in my opinion: Instead of an Onyx trade early, have it later and version exclusive: have one version trade a Scyther and one an Onyx, and require the opposite holding a Metal Coat. The one you receive also has a Metal Coat, and immediately evolves on receipt. Instead of Machop, Tyrogue would be a nifty trade option that fills the same role and shows off baby Pokemon. The Dragonair trade could be a great bit of environmental storytelling: have the girl say that she wants a Dragonair but isn’t strong enough to be allowed in the cave and will trade a rare Pokemon for one; instead of Rhydon, have her give a Larvitar, letting you have the psuedo for the Elite Four. The Voltorb trade is trash, try again.

"wake up gamer, we have pokemon to play" somehow both terrifying and cool at the same time

Ehh, I liked your first gen videos but this one feels like it is lacking in depth. For example I personally consider Kanto as the last 1/3 of the game and not post game. It basically gives you a “tutorial” run of Johto with gyms, quests, and elite 4, and then hands you a new (but possibly familiar) map with the same objectives but the hand holding is over. It’s entirely up to the player to decide how to tackle it and play the second area. The game is entirely designed around this being the end game, including putting new and old favorites hidden in this region. The thing about gold and Silver, that your video fails to capture, is that these games put heavy value on retreading your paths and exploring past the routes. So many areas in the game have little side pockets for you to surf or explore. You touch on this with the soft sand and Lapras but you also gloss over them because you’ve over thought your playthrough (imo). They aren’t perfect games, but for sure the experience was never intended to be so meticulously thought out. Your own gripe about IVs is particularly poignant because it mirrors the devs gripes with players who over value the mechanic meant to give each Pokemon and player a unique experience. Keep in mind most people who played gold and silver did so without any knowledge of EVs and IVs. Your videos on the first game were much less focused on “beating” the game as expertly as possible and showcased a lot of the in between Pokemon. Johto has its flaws with Pokemon variance and availability but certain ones, like Togepi and Shuckle are some that many players would keep just because of the event value. I hope you revisit Kanto in another video and show off more of these elements.

Miltank, taurus, and snubull … A cow, a bull, and a bull dog … Nope, no thematic grouping as far as I can tell

Found your channel first with the Yellow video, this is cool! can't wait to see the later vids in this series!

I really enjoyed how you planned out your playthrough so well and explained the reasons, mechanics and alternate choices and paths.

Your question about why Miltank, Tauros, and Snubbull are all condensed near Olivine reminds me of a theory I had as a kid. It's never confirmed, but given that Miltank is from this area, I always figured Whitney was related to the farmhands near Olivine. And there's also a bunch of Normal-types in the area, which further lends to that theory.

Ngl, I never once considered Kanto "post game" when it's like 1/3 of the game content

A guess as to why Miltank and Tauros are both at route 37/38 could be that it's a bull and a cow. And snubbul for a poor attempt at a herd-dog.

31:15 Excuse me? Silver is one of the best rivals the series had (after Blue ofc)! You're not meant to like him as a person but that even makes him an even better rival because you naturally want to put him in his place. He also shows a lot of growth over the course of the game and even managed to evolve his Zubat into Crobat which is a FRIENDSHIP evolution (which he kept since Dark Cave, even though he claims to only be interested in strong Pokémon (which Zubat/Golbat aren't really)). This is one of the worst takes I've heard in this video, honestly! I'll die on this hill defending Silver because he IS a great character and an amazing rival and genuinely one of my all-time favourite characters in the entire series!

Hey what happens if you're standing on the tile on the daily NPCs tied to days of the week, when you load up the game?

Love that I found you, came for the challenge runs stayed for the excellent puns.

I'm wondering if Gamefreak put so many of the new Gen 2 Pokemon in difficult places so as to encourage trading.

Great video, and congrats on 25k!

The only time I used an eggmove in a playtrhough was in a crystal run where I gave my Exeggcute mega drain through a Sunkern. That was pretty useful from time to time

really enjoying these videos mothy! gen II was my jam. loved the day/night cycle and the quality of life improvements.

Loved both the red/blue retrospective/as intented and the yellow as well! Super keen to get into this one!

Just found your Videos and im enjoying every second of them. Thank you mate

Laying the groundwork for the knife spoon and fork joke and dropping it after like 2 hours of videos was so good

Loved these games so much as a kid. Spent a good year before release religiously reading a magazine preview of the games over and over. So much soul.

this was a solid video I really enjoyed it! Thanks for doing a in-depth look at one of my favorite games!

Scyther was one of my favorite pokemon in Silver, he learns a move called False Swipe that can't damage an opponent past 1hp, so it's excellent for capturing wild pokemon.

“Ghosts usually curse to see themselves out” lmaooo

Every time you upload my day gets better.

Militank and Tauros are clustered because cow and bull theming. I imagine Snubull is there because farmdog reasons.

As someone else mentioned, you randomly popped up in my algorithm and now I’m binge watching all of your videos 😂. Great stuff!!

Oh man I am so glad you did this video. These are also my favorite games, similarly did large in part to nostalgia. I also love the goofy, unique teams that you throw together that always end up somehow being very effective. I can't say I hold all the same feelings on all the aspects discussed in the video, but I'm not sure how much of that is due to nostalgia. Would absolutely love other videos for post game and for Crystal. More content in these games always makes me happy!

Found u from the yellow video, watched red/blue and u got me glued. You know we want that Kanto! Especially in Gen 2 the post game is super important if you're talking about intended play.

Great video, I'd love to see a Kanto post-game vid as well as one on Crystal

Really good video, loving the pokemon content. Would love to see a follow up of kanto with the post game of gold/silver, and finishing with the battle atop mt.silver

Man, I’m so tired of people dunking on these games. gold and silver were always more about the adventure than they were about having balanced Pokémon or making everything about the newly introduced Pokédex entries. The games were incredible and the vibes were unreal.

58:46 can’t believe it took me until watching this video to realize Tohjo is an anagram for Johto I feel like a genuine idiot for never getting that until now

Very happy I subscribed to this channel. Love the videos

i dunno mothy i think we're gunna have to fight about this one, if you could meet me in the parking lot that'd be great but if not i understand ❤ hope you have a great day!

I gotta be that guy: Actually Pokemon Yellow introduced friendship. But ofc not for every pokemon

4:44 the way I screamed at the Olivia reference

Loving the pokemon videos, will there be a continuation of the mass effect playthrough too?

52:12 You’re not locked out of Steelix. You can thief Metal Coats off of wild Magnemites.

Got shown this by the algo before bed so i put it on and wow you have a really relaxing vibe whilst also being super entertaining. New sub, cant wait to go through more of your vids!

Skarmory was such a disappointment because of its sprite. When you're facing it it looks like a dauntless flying fortress, a furious steel-coated bird of prey. Then you catch it and send it out and it looks like you've deployed a twisted-up chweing-gum wrapper with a scowl on its face. Incidentally, it was entertaining listening to you work out how to counter Claire's Kingdra, only to go from the Claire battle straight to getting another good normal-type attack for your normal-type Pokémon, already having two pink bows. Swap those segments around and your problem solves itself.

Definitely would love a Kanto half video.

I'm so torn. I want more to this video so I want Kanto. But I want more content from your channel so I want that to be a separate video. I guess if I am patient I will be happy eventually

Very interesting approach to a playthrough review; I'd personally very much like to hear more about your thought process for teambuilding, yes!

I was today years old when I learned about egg moves, though I got the game when it came out. Thank you!

These videos are great!! On the jrpg train, Have you considered looking into the challenge of “first run max s links” from the post 3 persona games? Its a doable and intended challenge to complete every social link on a initial non ng+ playthrough but to do it you have to really manage your calendar time similar to your stardew one year run and make use of a lot of mechanics while balancing the dungeons social stat raising and etc. I think this would be very fun to watch in this style but obviously those are long games and are very plot heavy more so than ones you’ve covered before. There are existing guides for this you can look at for the structure but it’s very hard to find entertaining videos of.

Never going to see that character model as anything but Elton John now! Another banger, love to see the Kanto content... Mostly for how you handle Red

I love this series, Mothy. It’s fantastic. Such a relaxing watch.

Been subbed since the "as intended" series started. You're one if my favourite content creators at the moment. You obviously put a lot of creative work in and I love that. You're the only one (I am aware of) with that kind of content. Keep it up =)

I’m wondering if when you do gen 3 wether you plan to do a video on the two GameCube Pokémon games as well in this format.

great stuff, love the voice and the smooth writing ^^

I know I'm late but congrats on 26k, my guy. Keep it up.

That thirty second to mars reference made me laugh out loud Liked and subscribed

Here for the Eminem and 30 seconds to mars references obviously. Leaving the song quote on "I am finished with you" while self deprecating was 🤌

Oh hells yeah I just shared your red/blue video with my friend yesterday, and now there’s a gold/silver one too? 🎉

4:18 I've never played a Gold/Silver game that I did not name my rival "???" like he said.

Hell yeah new Mothy! Needed a pick-me-up today and I can't think of anything better

You don't have to give Kenya back to finish the quest, actually. The NPC only cares about the letter, you can transfer it to any other pokémon. And you get to keep the Shuckle if its happiness is high enough.

I’m starting my first playthrough of pokemon crystal so i’m totally looking forward to that video, plus exploring post-johto Kanto :3

I appreciate your unwavering professionalism and I'm really impressed by how deeply comprehensive your research is. I'm constantly saying 'Wow! How did I not know that?'

I would LOVE to see this style of video with Digimon World 1

grats on passing 25K!🎉

As soon as you exited the gym and Prof. Elm called you, my phone in real life rang. That's probably the closest I've ever felt to realizing we're living in the Matrix.

Alternate title: How Much of ALL Gen 2 Content can I Get in One Playthrough?

I really enjoyed the video, the points made in it were really thought out and it shows. As for the question you asked, would we be interested in the actual teammaking since a single change would make an HM unavailable, I'm pretty confident in saying this: We're watching a 1h30+ video on playing the game as efficiently as possible, the "very detailed theorycrafting in old games" genre feels super niche but maaan it's something I always enjoy, and the kind of content I crave, sometimes I'll watch a 6+ hour retrospective video multiple times to soak in everything that's being said. I always really like it when you go into detail about why this thing COULD work but because of THAT other thing you decided against it, and I genuinely think it would be a blast to see theorycrafting on a more "technical" level from you. TL;DR PLEASE DO THE SILVER VERSION AND THE POSTGAME AND THE PURE THEORYCRAFT SIDE OF THINGS

I’m happy the algorithm recommended your channel to me. Now to feel young again.

Oooh. I was waiting for this one, since it's the Gen that I started with, and would watch a Crystal video, for the record.

Bro omfg you have no idea these games ARE my childhood. I love your videos and seeing you give these gems love has seriously made my night better. Thank you! I'll watch anything you post but if you ever consider covering Kanto and the Red fight or even Crystal in this fashion I'd have a joy overdose.

I'm going to use this video to help me sleep, and then I'll rewatch it with my morning coffee ❤️

I liked the music reference, also commenting for the algo, good job as always!

Been enjoying these vids of yours. I hope to see Crystal and/or the Kanto post-game next.

Kurt Poke balls don't actually work the way it was intended, so they just waste of time.

5:18 I see what you did there x3 Reference to Vietnamese Crystal.

Im excited for the Crystal video. Crystal was where I started with the series and always almost brings a tear to my eye when I play it again.

Awesome content! Subbed and can't wait to see more pokémon and stardew from you!

This was great, amazing edit and commentary, enjoyed every bit of it, waiting for kanto!