That Volo battle immediately followed up with TWO Giratina battles was so much more than I expected difficulty-wise and I loved the surprise!

I want so badly for this to be a new direction they take these games, even if this is considered a spinoff in part or something, I NEED MORE OF THIS.

For the wisps, another tip along with collecting them at night, collect them as sneasler. The “collect” animation is like 3x faster

For the Heatran fight I kept spamming mudballs, accidentally threw a pokeball and caught it at full health. I love this game.

I like how when you caught the Shaymin Arceus is just looking down at it like "Get in the ball GOD COMMANDS YOU!"

to help your confusion on manaphy, its basically correlated to the book that they added in the canalave library in bdsp that mentions the requirements for the manaphy event to be unlocked in this game, 2 of the 3 pokemon having had their first or one of first appearances in the original manaphy movie.

If you’re struggling with beating the last boss, Cresselia is your secret weapon, tank with her and use lunar blessing to heal and avoid attacks while you heal your pokemon

If you are struggling with the final boss, remember Grit items, those will boost your stats as there are no EV's or IV's, My Goodra with a level 10 in HP, 9 in Defense and 10 in SpDef was able to tank hits really well alongside Shelter. It wasn't a walk in the park, but it made the battle much more manageable. Also, no Pokémon gets free turns in this game, it's just that you were much slower

I'm actually super impressed with how Game Freak tried to improve and streamline every aspect of the games. Moving around the overworld to catch Pokémon, engaging in boss fights with legends and myths, collecting resources to craft more powerful items; it all looks really engaging. Thanks to this video, I might find myself with a copy of this game in the near future.

Actually, regarding the sparkles, they aren’t exclusive to Postgame, I encountered a Shiny Luxray just wandering around at the start of the game and it had the Sparkles.

I'm not gonna lie, when Volo hit me with the "Approaching Cynthia" motif at the start of his battle, I knew it was gonna be rough. I was *not* prepared for going two rounds with Giratina after the fact, even if I did make it through with my horribly underleveled team (two at like level 53, two at level 57, two at level 65) Even adding Palkia and Dialga to raise my average level still saw me struggle a few times. If I can offer one piece of advice for people going into this game, it'd definitely be "don't overlevel", because this fight is quite possibly the hardest one they've ever made, and even when I was struggling I loved every second of it because it was an actual challenge.

Ursaring can evolve into Ursaluna on any map as long as there is a full moon, it doesnt need to be in Crimson Mirelands and also , the shiny pokemon sound it's not a post game thing , it's there all the time.

I feel your pain on the Giratina/Volvo fight. I wound up getting so agitated that I decided to end up catching the Alpha Garchomp, raising a Togekiss, getting the stamp to allow me to use Pokémon of any level. Training for another hour, and THEN took it on. And lost again. I won on the rematch.

I love how you're cruising through the game but I've spent like 15-20 hours in the first area and have 4 stars before the second area

Took me 57 hours to complete the Dex, plus unown and get Arceus. Honestly, worth it 100%

I wanted to wait until I was finished with the game to watch this video because I wanted zero spoilers. Completing this game has been so fun and enjoyable, and it's legit one of my favorite in the series. Thanks as always for the awesome video, and even if it went over 24 hours, I think you still beat it in a great time!

You say that the game doesn't tell you that alpha pokemon can be caught, but nearly all pokemon have an "alpha pomemon caught" line in their pokedex entry. Well done though, very interesting video once again!

As far as I'm aware, there's currently only one slightly impactful glitch but all it does is make you a little faster on foot than wyrdeer

I thought Cyndaquil was the best choice, until 1 hour in I caught a Monferno and obtained a shiny Ponyta. I currently have 0 grass types 😭

For y'all in the comments, just letting you know: To get Darkrai's mission, you have to have a save file of Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl on your Switch. For Shaymin, you have to have a save file of Sword/Shield. And when it comes to Basculin evolving into Basculegion, you have to take about 300 recoil damage WITHOUT FAINTING. That might be why it took a while for John to evolve his Basculin.

might as well call you a speedrunner at this point

When I did that giratina battle it made me so mad, sort of made me happy that I wasn't the only one to struggle with it lol

I'd love to see John doing a catch em all challenge in the gamecube games.

Some seem to forget the Arceus boss fight in Rangers Guardian Signs; that was a whole nother bullet hell.

Tip: for basculegion it needs to take 300 damage WITHOUT fainting once, that is why it took you so long!

Arceus: thou art a worthy challenger, I bestow thee with a clone of mineself to hang out with Player: hey real quick if you created everything, then that includes humans, so then are humans also Pokémon? Arceus: would you look at the time I have to go now oh and looks like Giratina is misbehaving goodbye

One mechanic that most people missed during their playthrough which makes catching agressive Pokémon a lot easier: Throw some Spoiled Apricorns, Balls of Mud or Snowballs at them until they get exhausted (the stat drop animation will play). Tgey will now be catchable witgout a battle for a short time and you can run to its back and get a simple Back Strike catch without having to battle or run away. If you use Sticky Globs, less of them are required to achieve the effect and this metgodcan also be used on Alpha Pokémon as well.

This game, while difficult, is the most fun i’ve ever had with a pokémon game. My first was Emerald which is well over a decade ago. I loved everything about it and just had so much fun with it. I still haven’t completed the game but I am just taking my time and enjoying the process! Great video!

This is one of my favourite Pokémon games to come out in the last decade or so. I really hope they stick with this formula and give us new legends to explore!

Feels so good to see cyndaquil having flames :D

the volo fight was SO MUCH FUN. giratina is my favourite legendary so i was already stoked to see him get such good screen time, and i didnt really have any issue with the battle thanks to a lvl 90 ish alpha garchomp. it was so much fun and seeing you struggle with it is very good content haha

That Electrode threw me for a loop when I learned it was electric/grass and it used Energy Ball on my poor Golem. Was not the best surprise.

Btw through the legend Plate you can make Arceus change type mid battle to get a better type match up position which is the best yet most BS thing ever

I haven't been this happy to play a game in so long. For Shining Pearl I kept putting it down and picking it up over and over all day. I did finish it. But this game. I have been sucked in.

I’ve been watching this slowly as I play the game to help me figure out where I can find certain Pokémon and only really purposefully spoiled myself on how to get Arceus, and I’m just enjoying the game and your video honestly was very enjoyable and a bit helpful as well. Keep up the fantastic content

The spiritomb map is helping a lot, one thing is that one of them is missing in coronet highlands. The one missed is one of the four mounds between celestica trail, primeval grotto, sacred plaza, stonetooth rows, and bolderoll ravine.

The reason why you need those pokemon for the Manaphy event is because they are described in the new lore texts in BDSP!

The way they do the moves in this game is a really cool improvement

Wow I've been playing almost non stop and haven't finished up the dex (thank you, wisps and space time distortions, looking at you shieldon, cranidos) so I'm super shocked to see you already uploaded this video! I agree that it is so fun, and those boss battles were super hard. It was refreshing to see we were surprised at the same plot twists with Beni & Giratina haha

Great video as per usual. You are the only KZfaqr that I’ve come across who actually knows how to correctly pronounce Arceus.

This was my first exposure to the Legends postgame *THE ARCEUS FIGHT IS EXACTLY WHAT I FUCKING WISHED FOR & IM SO HAPPY LIKE SERIOUSLY I EXACTLY PICTURED ARCEUS GIVING YOU A SHARD OR FRACTION OF HIM TO USE IN BATTLE AS A SENSICAL CANON EXPLANATION FOR WHY A 12 YEAR OLD IS WALKING AROUND WITH GOD* also good job John :)

I didn’t much care for spoilers back when BDSP came out. This time around, I will be watching this video later. I eagerly await! Edit: I beat Volo. I’m not waiting until I catch Arceus because that will take forever.

The Manaphy quest where you need those pokemon is based off of a story in D/P/Pt/BD/SP in the Canalave Library. That's the reason why those specific pokemon are needed.

"So I chose the best and correct choice for the game, Cyndaquil. I WILL die on this hill." This is the correct attitude to have.

Picks Cyndaquil, "It's the best starter and I'll die on this hill." You're not alone Mr. Stone. Team Cyndaquil for life.

"So just like every other Pokémon game, you begin by talking to God." Professors have just levelled up in importance in the Pokémon world.

A Pokémon game has never had this much content in it before, I LOVE IT

this is the first reveiw/gameplay that actually didn't sound like its boring but "the best thing ever" THANKS.

20:36 the joke went over my head, then I got it, made me laugh that one

How did you complete the entire Pokédex in 2 days!? Also love your vids and keep it up!

That Cyndaquil comment at the beginning of the vid, earned you a new sub. Very good man 😎

took me two weeks to finally be able to watch this spoiler free (wanted to finish my play through first) and oh man the relief I'm feeling finally getting to enjoy this

Always super impressed at how high quality these videos are! Appreciate all the effort!

You mentioned that the wisps are really easy to spot from a distance at night. That made me realize an aspect of this game I want to praise: the distance rendering. Not even botw has distance rendering this good. And all while botw is a much more powerful game. I guess LA’s distance rendering is this good because it doesn’t have to render so much up close at once, but it still amazes me whenever I see a wisp on a mountain far in the distance.

I can't tell you how glad I am that you also struggled with Giratina lol, and catching Shaymin. I wasted 40 pokeballs without realizing I HAD to battle it

I'll say this now, John, even with my level 75 - 80 team, i still had trouble with the Giratina segment...

DUDE! I haven't even beaten the game yet! How are you this fast?!

I feel your pain with the Volo/Giratina fight. Took me several tries to line it up properly, and even then I thought I messed up by not catching him (you can't then, it doesn't let you, but I hadn't noticed that... so I reset the first time I defeated him.)

I was able to get arceus in 26 hours but that was with a guide for the wisps so your blind play through times is really good

Such a good video yet again! Amazing how fast you can put out such a high quality video

Exactly the video I needed to see while I wait for the game to download! Right on time John

A new challenge. Before leaving each area, do as much as you can doing every research task and perfecting the Pokedex. It's gonna be tedious, but interesting to see what strategies you come up with.

That final Volo battle surprised me with how hard it was, although I chalk most of it up to BS like Giratina getting free hits on you at the start of the fights.

In the exact same spot that you caught your Psyduck I found a shiny one when not even looking for it. I nearly failed it because I didn't know that you can save when you see a shiny and reset to catch it if it flees.

Based statement about the starter, completely true. My Typhlosion carried me once I got it and it consistently was the star of my team no matter who I had.

I want a sun and moon remake so bad but this style

I watched the whole video thinking you had to get all Pokédex entries to 10 to battle Arceus, and you-apparently-just don't. Took me 108 hours to do that, and now I'm finding out you can do it in 1/3 that time. Wow. Grats.

My goodness, that was fast! I admire the speed of uploading this video and all the work you put into it, by playing and editing etc. respect dude, great video!

Great vid! I think your time is pretty damn fast I just beat the story with about 150 in the Dex and I'm at 33 hours... So it'll be awhile for me to complete

Okay. I’ve just picked up Arceus as like a side game, I already caught 204 Pokémon even before collecting dialga and palkia and giratina. Now I know the sides quests and what nots. Scizor I defeated by accident as I know all of the weakness to opposing Pokémon. I got to a 6 star rank and eventually caught all the alphas, and space then distortion Pokémon. I found if I was a high enough rank, I could catch anything. With all in all I’m now sitting at just under 59 hours at 58:57 because I did all the battles, evolved my Pokémon and wanted to complete 10/10 research for everything I caught. Included in giving them food, using countermoves and catching as many off guard. It’s really been super immersive like I’m actually being a Pokémon trainer and filling out the Pokédex. Thank you for the video

I’m so glad the Volo fight was a beast for you too! Now I don’t feel so bad. But the trick is Alpha Blissey to tank hits while you max revive your hard hitters. Lol

I haven't even left obsidian fieldlands yet you had catch them all lol. Nice work. Also legends arceus heard our plea to have a ghost-dark-fighting starter, even it's a secondary type. Also also hisuian typhlosion while odd, it's cool. No. The best starter.

I totally didn't just realize that the Origin Ball is a prehistoric version of the Cherish ball from Gen IV (the one that Event Mythicals are distributed in) ...I swear

I'm gonna be the person that points out you said "Iscan's Growlithe" but they're Palina's Growlithes. Ah but I love seeing these videos, your sense of humor makes them so much fun!

the real perfect pokerap is John blandly reading out the names of the long, long lists of pokemon he's caught at various points throughout the game

POC in this game would be insane. It would have to be based around the boss Pokémon rather than the rank stars. Very different, very cool.

I love how during the entire Cobalt Coastlands section John completely refuses to give any mention to Palina, even calling the Growlithe Iscan's pokemon

John man, how quickly you got this out. Truly a legend 👌

I just love how the literal god of this universe has the humor to slap a custom phone case with his motif on your new Nokia.

The dex entry don't count unless you get it to research level 10 ! Haha ;)

I wonder how one can do a professor Oak's challenge in Pokémon legends Arceus

That last main story battle caught me off guard too. Glad I hadn't used any experience, candy, rare candy or the grit stuff up to that point, definitely saved me some time.

Great video, I’m going to complete every areas sec before I move on. I’m still in the first area and a 7 star rating. I have 7-9 Pokémon left for their research level 10. I love this game

Saved to watch once I’ve completed the game 😂 I love these videos but appreciate the spoiler warning

Cyndaquil definitely the correct and only choice. Always been 1 of my favourite starters.

I agree with what you said at the end! I will argue that this is the best Pokemon game released and also my favorite instantly.Basically everything with it, every decision taken was right in my opinion and I have been obsessed with it since the day it came out. And great video as usual!

Just so you know, I always watch the ads because you deserve it based on the amount of work you must put into these videos

I got very lucky with my unown. Was just wandering and caught one sitting on a branch where the croagunk are

The final battle took me well over 20 attempts because I was stubborn on the fact that I wasn’t going to use items or train my team any more, eventually I had to resort to revive spams until garatina lost his shadow claw strike thing because I couldn’t bear the fact that I missed so many moves in a row on that thing

I just want to say that my fight against Volo and both Giratina forms was also a HUGE difficulty spike. I literally only ever used normal Revives through the whole story cause I could predict swap or just clear with some sacs. And the legs can almost all be caught without fighting if you do it right. But when I got to Volo's fight, I did NOT expect to suddenly be hit by 6 level 65 pokemon with stats comparable to mine and I was only rocking 3 68's, a 57, and a 48 along with the 71 Shaymin I happily found early on. I got busted first round. Second round, knowing the pokemon, I could swap much better and went in to Giratina with only 1 pokemon down (not having kill-swaps makes knowing typing way more important cause you have to know if your mon is about to get decked by switching them in). Got him down and then second form came in and wiped me with little to no reservation. So then I finally used items I had literally never touched in the game so far: max revives and max potions. I had to be able to bring mons that got switch-sacced by the Cynthia team/Giratina switch in. Third times the charm, pulling out all the stops and replacing useless moves on the mons for that specific fight (psychic is useless on my Gardevoir, but the fairy and other elements are useful). Definitely the hardest fight I've ever had outside of Elite 4 Champs and those I just decide to outlevel most of the time. This champ hit me out of left field and bent me over a couple times...

You can capture the non-Arceus Mythicals after capturing Dialga and Palkia, actually. You don't need to capture Arceus to get the other Mythicals (but you don't need the Mythicals to capture Arceus). Also, for the Manaphy quest, it's based on a book found in the Canalave Library in _Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl_ called, appropriately enough, The Sea's Legend, where it mentions a Buizel, a Mantyke, and a "Qwilfish with especially large spikes", referring to Overqwil. As for Shaymin, the place where you find it? _Floraro Garden_ which sounds familiar doesn't it? And a dead field of flowers that returns to life after an expression of gratitude? The Shaymin quest is the backstory for Floraroma Town!

Why cogita kinda bad tho

Catch rate is DEFINITELY lowered. I was catching all the legendary Pokémon in one regular Pokeball.

Dude I just walked in and saw your Pokemon Gold Pokedex Challenge playing on tv. Had to subscribe after that

29:40 as someone who had level 80s and 90s during this fight, it was still a bit of a struggle.

I thought you literally named yourself "you wake up on the beach"

I thought ultra sun and moon were the hardest official Pokemon games, then this game dropped and my lvl 16 cyndaquil is killed by a lvl 2 Geodude who tanked my attack

been playing pokemon since it first came out and completely agreed, this is the most fun I've had in YEARS with a new game

Just finished my complete living dex with a 78h gameplay, so congrats with 35 hours! I even had KZfaq help for a few wisp and 23 unowns!

This is what the Diamond and Pearl remakes should have looked like...