The best part about FireRed and LeafGreen is that you don't have to change PC boxes that was a pain in the original games.

The "definitive" experience is FRLG IMO. You have abilities, held items, breeding, more than 151 Pokemon, post-game quests, legendary hunts, and a relatively challenging maingame

Pokemon Firered was my first Pokemon game, and I truly love even to this day

Imagine if the legendary beasts were in the Gen 1 games. Red used a Master Ball! Your PokeBall missed! Suicune ran away...

This game is probably my favourite pokemom game so far

I don't get why all of you make such a big deal about being or not a genwunner. I mean, I'm 26 and I grew up with the first pokemon Red and Blue, but guess what: they're not my favorite games. My favorites are Gold, Silver and Crystal. But whatever, let's suppose I'm a fan of red and blue... why would I get angry if you said something like "gen one was broken in terms of battling"? IT's TRUE! I mean people, c'mon! I understand nostalgia but you have to be objective.

Uh, one thing you omitted, the fact you can't evolve your Pokemon further to their Johto evolutions if they have them UNTIL YOU HAVE GOTTEN THE NATIONAL DEX. Which is logically really stupid.

4:50 Correction: You can't catch Mewtwo without the national dex.

It kinda annoys me how he keeps saying the protagonists are 10, when literally none of them are 10. Red/Green as well as Ethan/Lyra is 11, and May/Brendan is 12. And some of the later Protags are even older then that.

Bulbasaur is the game’s easy mode, you have the advantage all the way up till the 4th gym.

Please stop doing cringey things it really alienates an older audience/ anyone above 12.

Of course bulbasaur is easy mode. it has the type advantage over the first half of the game

I started with blue version. Man that was the best in my opinion and I feel blessed that it was my first because for it’s time it was truly a masterpiece, even with the glitches. I recently did a playthrough and yeah having to change boxes and barely being able to hold supplies is annoying but it forces you to be smarter and makes the game more challenging in a way. The 90s were so amazing, a much simpler time and the vibe from red/blue version is unbeatable.

ROY! slow down buddy. annunciate your words. You talk too fast and a lot of words blend together which comes off very sloppy. Also... You're not even old enough to drink, so why patronize someone for"not being a "genwunner" when you arent even one yourself. I can love the 80's and all its neon happy go lucky times......but i was born in '93. I missed that boat. Pokemon has one of the oddest fandoms i swear.

This was my first ever Pokemon game I've played and alot of nostalgia for it. So many good memories.

First, Mt. Chimney is in Hoenn. The volcano in these games is Mt. Ember. Second, I'm currently replaying LG, and I just managed to get myself a Venusaur just before Lavender Town. This was possible because I only used three Pokémon until that point, and Rock Tunnel was swarming with Hikers. But now my full team is coming together, just one more remaining.

Fire red is my favorite in the series, although lavender town was better in the original

This was the cleanest Pokémon game I had ever played. Even when compared to the newer games, this game just nails the user friendly simplicity that works at first glance whether you played it before it not. Solid story, solid villains (unlike team aqua), solid rivals, interesting Pokémon that makes catching them fun and makes you WANT to see the rest! The newer Pokémon in later games just..don’t do it for me. Why would I wanna catch a Pokémon that resembles a set of car keys or something 🙄

so much cringe .. dont invite random people ..

Pokemon Red was my first Pokemon game, and I'm with Stan - playing through it now is painful. Just not a fun experience at all. I can't stand it. Great at the time, but they have aged absolutely terribly. Thank goodness for FR and LG, I'm in love with the remakes and still play them today (have over 200 hours in Leaf Green)

Why these collabs?!

Bulbasaur is this games easy mode

The Gen 1 region, music and original 151, combined with the visuals, gameplay, and presentation of gen 3 was basically a match made in heaven.... which is probably why FRLG are still my favourite Pokemon games to this day.

Also please never include this dude again. His voice is painful.

Dope! I just purchased leaf green for my son to start playing. I can’t wait to go through this game with him!

I actually came to this looking for Gen 4. I can't wait to hear what you say, since alot of people consider Pokémon Platinum to be the 'Ultimate' Pokémon game in terms of gameplay.

The revamp gen-one models in this game we're so on point! Gorgeous and nostalgic!

1:32 ok cool... FINE... FUCK! WHY IS THIS COLLAB SO CRINGE

This game was so nostalgic for me, after having started with Red a few years prior. It's great that they made a remake. Even greater that this remake is compatible with the later installments of the game. They had too after all, since Pokémon from the original first and second Gen weren't compatible with the later games, not until they came out as console versions in 2018.

I actually started with FRLG. Not a bad way to begin, in my opinion

Gen 1 is my favorite but gen 2 will always be more fun for me to play for some reason.

This is my favorite pokemon game ever because it was the first one i ever played when i was 9. i played through it countless times and i still never tire of it. i love everything about it and yes i'm blinded by nostalgia and bias, but don't get me wrong, i love all the pokemon games that came before and after it as well.

FireRed was my first game and I have a really soft spot for this games. They are my favorite.

imo the best thing in this game is the remastered Gold and Silber music it is just so awsome and makes me feel like a child when I played gold

Full Sinnoh review plz :D

The music in these games is just fantastic. I love it.

Has there ever been a KZfaq "collaboration" video that isnt awkward and terrible as shit? Stooooooppp

"those [gen1] games are hard to play" I just played pokemon yellow 3 times in the past week. Not "hard" just different from newer titles. You have to relearn the gen1 mechanics, like speed influencing crit ratios, and which types are physical and which are special, and you have to remember that special is one stat. I found that once I relearned these mechanics, replaying gen 1 was really fun. so fun that I did it 3 times in one week. Plus I love the old sprites, and fat Pikachu is bae.

Savage Comment Section, Thanks you guys for the LOL's

I'm very anti-change lol I'm especially picky when it comes to things I love. I grew up with Red, and picked up FireRed/LeafGreen a while back, and it felt like coming home. They did a fantastic job on them. I'm pretty meh on the endgame stuff, but the look is incredible, and in spite of the annoying handholding, overall it's just so much better. I'm not easy to please. I don't even like Gen 2 very much because the new pokemon don't seem right (though amphy is great), let alone the other gens. But they did so much right with it. I'm so grateful I got a chance to play these games, and I"m so grateful they made them the way they did. They could have been a LOT worse, that's for damn sure. The originals are just kinda hard to play after the updates to fr/lg, as they make things so much nicer. Love fr/lg. Love it love it love it.

This review was absolutely amazing. And was made even better by purpleman420

i started with gen 2 as well man, don't feel bad. later I went back to play Red version

Pokemon Blue was my first game (brother had red) and if some kid now asked me if he should play the originals I would direct him to play FireRed/LeafGreen as they are originals that have been properly updated for the best experience. Now that we have gotten so far along in gameplay and technology, the originals feel very clunky and can take away from the fun.

The older pokemon games have not aged well. Plain and simple.

Arcanine is always worth it if you wait to evolve it until it learns Flamethrower

Can every month be PokeMonth?

Games in order I played them 1. Crystal 2. Firered 3. Ruby 4. Emerald 5. Pearl 6. Platinum 7. Black 8. Black 2 9. X 10. Omega Ruby 11. Moon.

Her name is not Leaf! It's Blue or Green whichever you don't call the rival do to regional stuff. She originated in the Manga, and calling her something else is just stupid.

Eleven. Red was ELEVEN. The whole "Pokemon trainers become eligible to train Pokemon at ten" was anime only, and does not apply to the games at all. There are PRE-SCHOOLERS in Gen V with friggin' dragons and they're like five. Hell, none of our protags have ever been ten; Red and Leaf were 11, we have no idea how old Gold and Krys/Lyra are, Brendan and May are 12, Hilda and Hilbert are "old enough to have a driver's license", according to the official handbook, we don't know how old Rosa and Nate are, and Serena and Calem look to be teenagers but with customization you can make them look older or younger as you please with different outfits and haircuts. Sorry, I really like RandomTens but that is a HUGE pet peeve of mine.

At least fr/lg didn't make you sit through 5 minute long cutscenes every 3 minutes. Oh and you cant skip them, so replaying the game is even worse. I mean s/m holds your hand through the entire story.

I love these reviews so much

Wow that was fast! I only remember it being like 1 or 2 weeks after the gen 3 review and the fackt that you have to play through the game write a script and you even made a collab with that other guy. I'm not a youtuber so maybey (sorry for the spelling) its more easy than it sounds but this is still an amazing review.

This was actually my first pokemon game

Also imo, I feel like dinosaur and dragon oriented Pokémon we’re definitely my favorite

Which one is the best version?!?! Fire red or leaf green? Help me guys, I can't pick one.

i loved FR/LG, just wished they were able to finish the rest of the sevii islands before the time constraints. overall one of my favorite remakes (HG/SS being the best)

I never finished fire red. It was my first pokemon game. I used an emulator, I had just reached the Elite four when I get a update notification. I update my Phone and guess what? The update bugged out and my phone never recovered. I lost the phone and the save. I was kind of heart broken. My Blastoise will never fight Blue in a Glorious battle for the championship.

If you are a 'Kanto purist', it's better to stick to the original games. I would honestly recommend Pokemon Yellow on the Game Boy Color over these remakes for the definitive Kanto experience. The remakes are basically shoehorning Gen III (including it's weaknesses...) into Kanto, rather then being the definitive experience. That's what Yellow, Crystal and Emerald are there for. Besides, who wants a Kanto experience you can't exploit glitches for maximum fun!

.....This Roy guy knows that a six out of ten is a positive review, right?

Pokemon Let's go Pikachu and Eevee will blow these games out of the water.

blue/gary has been murdered by gamefreak, ... at the demand of angry ignorant game corner hating parents, who can't stand that their children are being pushed forward by a competitive guy who BLATANTLY know more about pokemon and is better at pokemon battling than them, making their child actually TRY, to keep/catch up with their rival

i'm not a genwunner nor gen 1 purist, but i never bother to use or learn about berries because i think potions are more than enough to help me through my journey.

Wish most games did remake their old games with new engines

Yo good review! I'm not that much of a fan of these games, not that fond of Kanto personally, but I do think they are still pretty good games overall. Also, am I the only one who actually really dislikes the OST (probably not lol)? I think they ruined a lot of the tracks, and this is coming from someone who LOVED the Gen 3 trumpets in RSE. also XDboy140 did a good job in this review! now finish that DK64 review, my good man

When you said that you were so impressed by the Gameboy Advance’s new wireless trading device because “you never owned your very own link cable”, I immediately understood your position regarding Gen 1. I would even go so far as to say that one cannot possibly comprehend the true depth of Gen 1 without having experienced the full social experience. The unique combination of RPG elements that a single player loves, but inside of a candy coating of a social aspect. When one played red and blue from original release, went to school where everybody was talking about and playing Pokémon, battled each other and made trades in the classroom, it was literally magical, it took something like an RPG, the type of kid who usually played that sort of game was almost always a loner, and it encouraged them to be social in a fun and non-forcing way. So my entire point is not that you couldn’t experience something similar in later generations, but that since you didn’t play red and blue during its release timeframe, it was literally impossible to play in the same social sort of way, because by that time, the world had moved on and were playing a different gen. So if you could take that into account when you evaluate red and blue, I think it would seriously help in the overall understanding!

Please make the sound a little more hearible. Its lots of muffled speach not really understandable without CC turned on.

These were my first pokemon games. I have so much love and nostalgia for these games!

Red was a very hard game, my first time I barely beat it and quit after I beat blue. I couldn’t put down gold though, I played it until I maxed the play time and ran the battery dry. I had enough Kanto from gen 2. It wasn’t until after I lost my sapphire version that I even considered getting fire red. The game is still slow after surge, and then too fast after you get the silph scope, but the modern (at the time) graphics and mechanics made it an enjoyable game. Though I still feel the only reason I even like red and blue and their remakes today are because I’ve played through them so many times in my life and I know most of the things there is to know about them so I never blindly stumble through the whole game anymore. 5 year old me could only keep track of so many things

I also started with Gen 2. I was a Pokefan during Gen 1 with the anime, cards, and various other merchandise but the only Pokemon games I played back then where Pokemon Stadium 1 and Pokemon Snap because being a little kid I wasn't able to afford a Gameboy or convince my parents to get me one. However, my parents surprised me on my birthday with a new Gameboy Color and Pokemon Gold. It was after Gold that I saved up money and went back to Yellow and Red, and just like Gold I played the heck out of those games despite being late to the party. They may not be my favourite games or generation but I still love those games and have respect for those who grew up playing the Gen 1 games.

After almost 20 years, to me these games are still the best games to start as a new player. Just the original 151, then, when almost done the introduction to the national dex and getting some johto mons is a great way to get excited about other games.

In Pokemon S/G/C you can find roaming beasts much faster. Fly to Ecruteak City, choose any route and use max reppel with pokemon lv30-40 on lead the look for any of the trio. If you won't hit the target, fly to Mahogany Town and do the same thing. You would probably be able to encounter all the beasts within 1 hour.

Honestly, I never could bring myself to like FR/LG all that much. Something about them always bored me to death, and I would have more fun replaying Red and Blue instead. I don't have this problem with HGSS (in fact I don't think I've fully replayed a Gen II game ever since the remakes came out), for instance, so it isn't just nostalgia either. I find FRLG's version of Kanto pretty boring. While I guess they were going for faithfulness, the originals at least had the one-color cities to make they look distinctive, while in FRLG everything just blends together. HGSS did a much better job of making the cities and routes look more unique again. I also dislike most of the music remixes. Trumpets fit the Hoenn soundtrack but not Kanto's.

For the final time, charizard is not based on a fucking dragon

Bulbasaur is indeed Easy Mode

Good job guys! I really hate getting shinies in the battle frontier. RAGE QUIT COMMENCE!!!

Fire Red was my 1st Pokemon game ever and I recall using a magazine given to me by my brother year prior, back on gen 2 was about to come out, but it had a complete walkthrough of the gen 1 games and that was very helpful to me whenever I god stuck thanks to the similarities between the originals and the remakes.

Great video bro, keep the good job, greethings from Venezuela

My old Ruby/Sapphire GB game broke down...but good thing I got the remake lol...but Fire Red is my go to game.

7:10 *note: actually psychic-type is still broken, for playthroughs of the game. It's pretty trivial to only use a single Kadabra for battling, for the entirety of the game after obtaining it. (There are no dark types until national dex, and, gen 1 had this problem where like 50% of pokemon were dual-typed poison.)

Did anyone catch his rating in this video? I assume 10/10. :P

I honestly love fire red so much that I’ve dedicated a lot of time recently to getting the entire national dex finished on there. It’s been quite the journey but I’m at 362/386, I can really only get realistically 381 cause I’ll need to buy gale of darkness but luckily all the remaining mons I need are on that game. I may eventually put everything over onto my emerald copy to finally finish the battle frontier and shiny hunt through breeding more efficiently but I’ll always have the main mons on fire red. My OG game

Why does every reviewer have an evil nemesis that interrupts their review?

I think you should’ve talked more about the Sevii islands. I’m not sure if you mentioned it but once you unlock islands 4-7 you can find Pokémon from gen 2 on those islands and if I remember correctly there’s a couple more puzzles and things to do. I just feel you glossed over the best part of these games

is there an extended version to your intro that I can listen to?

Gen 1 is 10/10 for it's time and innovation. Not to mention spawning the entire Pokemon series. Yeah it's buggy and dated and nearly unplayable by today's standards, do 6/10 is generous *IF* it were released today. But it was released in 1998

7:38 Could not disagree harder. The gameplay here is objectively better, but I will take the original music and graphics over the remakes. Pokemon's style on the GBA never clicked with me, felt very generic.

Diamond/Pearl is what made me love pokemon as a kid, so i immediately played every game in order up to black/white. I play fire red for gameplay purposes and red for nostalgic purposes. Story is the same so i love them equally. This is irrelevant but....Crystal is the best pokemon game ever til this day imo.

You need to go and play the gen 1 Pokemon Blue and Red. I played those games (Blue version) and loved it. You're missing out playing only Fire Red, Leaf Green. You'll never know the true differences until you experience the gen 1 games. Yeah FR, LG are better in terms of updates, etc. but you'll never know the real origins from the beginning. I suggest you buy the gen 1 system with the games, experience it, then make another video; being less bias/prejudice. Blue and Red are the all time sellers when it comes to Pokemon games despite its old technology.

last time i was this early the doctor put me in an incubator. another great review man! we have such a randy four gen four, lets get cracking on it stan!

In my honest opinion, this is not only the defendant version of Gen. 1, but also the best Gen. 3 game & one of my favorite Pokemon games in general. It did so many things right to me from fixing alot of arcadic style of the original games to a whole new & better gameplay mechanics in the remake & I enjoy this Gen. 3 game than I have with Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald. I know I'm probably gonna get alot of hate for dishing out the Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald fanboys out there, but hey. That's how I feel & whether y'all agree with me or not.

I had gotten both these games when they were new but didn't get the wireless adapter with either, but that might of just been a Canada thing? Also I'm surprised you didn't mention the glitch where if one of the legendary dogs uses roar they're gone forever, that happened to me and I was very upset. But never the less a fantastic review and video as always!

Does this have colour on the gameboy advance sp?

You are one of the best pokemon youtubers dude :)

The only thing I didn't like about the remakes is precisely that they forced you to capture a certain amount of Pokémon to be able to continue and unlock the post-game. Probably 60 Pokémon won't seem a lot to most people but for me it really felt like a chore :/

As a kid I always thought I had to catch a chansey and make it go through its evolution animation phase to unlock the sevii islands.I later found out as a teen it was actually because I always strive to catch them all as a kid I always hit the 60 species caught marker each playthrough without noticing. But I remember the first time I played through the game and thinking my game was broken because chansey and Golbat didn't evolve through my playthrough lol also I wish pokemon would use this pokedex again. This was by far my favorite pokedex.

Seeing seeing the target audience makes me question my being here.

I have to be honest, the The original games are classics but FRLG is the Best Experience of Kanto.

The physical/special split as late as occurring in Gen 4 is really unfortunate. It makes the previous Gens practically unplayable, especially with my favorite pokemon Haunter unable to effectively use Shadow Ball because it's a physical attack.

To me fire red and leaf green are pretty much perfect the only thing that should have been changed is the Kanto pokemon should have been able to evolve to their Johto evolutions and it should have had a way to catch all the legendaries/gen 2 pokemon that weren't able to be caught in Ruby and Sapphire.

So can I train a Charizard along with a blaziken?