I really wish the Pokemon TCG video game series continued. I feel like the DS would have been the perfect system to display the cards in your hand and would allow wi-fi battles.

I think that Voltorb on the cover is supposed to be a team GR leader's mask. Especially since right under it is the GR from the logo. Great video btw!

Something that I would like to highlight about the Game is the Rival: In this game the Rival seems to have a "Character Development": Compared to the First Game, he is much nicer and treats you much better in comparison and he even goes directly to help on the island right at the beginning of the game On his own account, he also infiltrates Team GR and tries to enter the GR Castle and although he lost, he directly encourages you because he knows that you are the best of the two. Obviously this is nothing special xd, but I think it's a nice touch that he went from a guy who constantly puts you down in the First Game to one that you could practically consider a Friend in the Second.

TCG2 is a phenomenal game. Sucks that it never had a proper release to North America. The Artemis251 version is the ROM patch everyone plays.. I swear there was someone who was making a true Japanese to English translation but it never came to be..?

With the release of the GBA literally a week before TCG2 released, TCG2 was kind of perfectly positioned to be part of a special 2-in-1 edition. They would do those pretty consistently throughout the Game Boy Advance's lifespan. Personally, I think they missed a serious trick in not continuing the pokemon tcg video games. There was SO MUCH opportunity for cross promotion, and card fight sims would have kept the TCG more on the casual Pokemon player's mind, for those people who liked the game but just didn't have the disposable income.

I recently played this for the first time! Maybe it's because I'm not doing so hot right now, but I actually really appreciated the story - yeah, it's ridiculous on the surface, but I kinda like how when you go to GR island, all of your opponents are just regular passionate cardbattlers - not some amalgamation of evil for the sake of evil grunts. Even Villicci himself seems to only want to play and have people play. Sure, it's kinda forceful, because all villains with decent motivations are villains because they take it too far, but he also says something to the effect of "it would be a shame to have these powerful cards collecting dust". Which, not gonna lie, isn't a bad motivation in a world fueled by the cardgame. The fact that in the postgame, Team GR members and Legendary Card islanders intermingle and play and talk with eachother is also pretty wholesome - and fitting, since even the hooded members turned out to just be regular players. It's nice. Every portrait now reacting to their draws and situations is also pretty humanizing imo. You also instantly know if they drew that last energy they need to bonk you, which is fun. Gameplay-wise, this game's structure really fixed many of my issues. In the TCG, it so often only comes down to getting an advantageous type and then steamrolling (though there ARE some stoppers like flying electric cards). In TCG2, the irregular situation of the invasion, as well as most members having multicolor decks, made for a decent challenge. Not having easy access to farmable boosters early on also adds to the difficulty curve. When the game really opened up in the second half (when GR island becomes accessible) that genuinely felt freeing as way more cardbattlers were challengeable now. I really really like this game. I purposely didn't watch TCG2 challenges yet and as a result, I was surprised by the game multiple times. It was very fun and I'm glad we got a fan translation. I just wish we got more Pokemon TCG videogames, because the Pokemon TCG in particular feels like such a good fit for AI opponents. The abundance of coin flips and volatile stun lock status effects would make for a salt mine against people imo, so I barely played it outside these GBC games.

I grew up during the pokemon boom. I still remember getting Red in its release year and still have all my old cards in a binder (including a charizard) and I didn't know how to play the card game until I decided to play the gbc game like 2 years ago. I finally understood why energy cards were so numerous.

this game is awesome i only played it for the first time last year, but being able to save like 30 decks means i can just follow any deckbuilding whim (dark machamp/dragonite deck, nidos, rhydon, big eggsplosion, only fat colorless) and not have to worry about it being worthy of staying as one of my four decks. lets me enjoy the card game in a way i could never afford as a kid (and don't care to afford now)

That game is really hard, but also very funny. My MVP card was Gyarados

First time to the channel! Excited to hear someone talk about this game, but more importantly...I realized that Paraspectre is, indeed, looking just over my shoulder and not straight ahead. I thought they may have been just me. :)

7:45 interesting thing about team rocket, their crazy antics make sense if you view the theme of the main games as "The world through a child's eye". The whole game is set up to be viewed by a 10 year old and team rocket might be how a 10-year old boy imagines the yakuza/mafia: Evil people who look crazy and do evil stuff.

I would be so happy if TCG Online would come to Switch actually or a new TCG Storygame.

Another Paraspective! You love to see it

Casually getting on KZfaq for something to watch, and the first video on my feed is a paraspective. Okay, the hype is fucking real.

Yoooooo!!! I subbed for this. You a real one! Gen 1 Pokémon era baby

I had never heard of this game until I saw the challenge runs on your channel.

I was in elementary school when the base set was released and the overwhelming majority didn't know how to play, just collected.

Can we all agree that the Shroomboy opening is as iconic as Nidorino/Gengar, or the couch gag from The Simpsons, or seeing the line-up of Z Fighters at the end of the DBZ anime opening? lol Thanks for another great video! 👌🙂

Switch Online could finally get it localized but I would love an SP edition where they give us a complete save with a complete library to run classic matches.

Played a translated rom on emulator and loved that game. My main play was an energy removal deck. I wish Nintendo would put this on switch like they recently did the first one.

Great video love TCG 2 content

Ty for the video. I had always hoped the made a 2nd tcg game, I never knew it a JPN release only. If I could have played this back in the day....man 😅

The reason I never got this game and just kept playing with the first game was that it was so behind in the card sets. You laid out that release schedule perfectly

It's a shame that the Pokemon TCG never got a constant stream of video games like, say, Yu-Gi-Oh did. Those sorts of games are great time capsules to go back and experience what things were like at a specific point in time. And their frequent releases (until they eventually died off) means that there's a good stretch of Yu-Gi-Oh's history covered.

I was lucky enough to get a cib copy of this game, they're quite rare an expensive now. I have the full Japanese cib collection of pokemon gen 1-4 as well as the TCG, stadium and gamecube games, as well as the celebi/jirachi bonus discs.

a way to make this story less goofy and a little more substantial would be making Villicis (wtvr) motivation for stealing cards the fact that hes a collector whos against playing the cards, but is willing to do it in order to defeat the player and achieve his goal Kinda like Gen V but 20 years earlier

I think it would be really cool to put together a challenge with a Dark only deck, being allowed to swap around as needed because there are a lot, _but_ being required to use all of them at least once.

A goodnight when paraspech uploads 😊

I was one of those people that dude would have gotten mad at lol. I was around when Pokemon was EVERYWHERE in the late 90s/early 2000s and I'd go to the mall and buy packs every weekend, even buying some singles of cards I was missing if it was a harder card to get. (my grandmother was fine with this as she equated collecting these cards like her collecting coins or postcards lol) I played rarely and just liked collecting them to have a collection and to trade my extras.

I recently played through this and it was so weird to me that so few decks even seemed to use Energy Removal. Did you get this impression?

Loved this game as a wee lad

I have an idea for a video i would like to watch from you: you could make a video about your favourite üokemon cards. Maybe just from the old cards, maybe all cards. Maybe the cards you like most to play with or the ones you like tje artwork most. Its just an idea, but i would watch such a video from you

It’s back!

It’s always a good day when there is a paraspective

Is TCG 2 available in DS nintendo store (like TCG1)?

100% believe that Pokemon TCG 2 is just a LARP Event on the Island.

Any perfect save files out there for this game ?

Pokémon TCG2! Also known as objectively better than the original except for challenge runs. In all seriousness, I love the game. It’s one of the best Pokémon spin-offs and is a great way to unwind after something annoying. I sincerely hope either the GB emulators on the Switch will allow us to get an official localization of this.

Where can someone play this in english? Can it be downloaded? I've always wanted to play it but don't have the technology.

Nice! I am excited for this one 😊

Yeah, have a distinctive memory have beint aware of this game but either not being savvy enough to get a fan translation, or them not being as readily available. Super fun game, highly recommended.

One of the few releases I haven't played. Maybe I should.

My TCG2 game ended when a guy requested i duel him with like 3 double colorless energies in my deck and i didn't have any and had no idea where to find them. Otherwise this game ruled

Soooo when are you doing a Pokemon Infinite Fusion run with just Parasect fusions or Sandslash fusions? 😉

How can i play this game in english? I really love the first pokemon tcg game for the gameboy and i would really like to play it, but i didnt get it, how that works

Specter made the video so I watch it Pokémon cards on game cartridge

Nice

I would possibly play a tcg game on switch for like 30ish bucks if I can get all the cards thru normal gameplay Sounds neat and I probably couldn’t get into the game or learn the mechanics on my own otherwise

0:29 The what conspiracy?

Well jeez, if you do something with the Mafat Conspiracy, I'll watch it.

Waaiiiit a minute, there's a 2nd tcg? (Japan, got it lol) Good thing I've been trying to learn Japanese and I can understand sort of what nps are talking about

I love you dude. Thank you for including TCG2 on the paraspective review series.

I'd unironically love to see an episode on The Mafat Conspiracy tho

The plot of this one is some Yu-Gi-Oh shit and I love it, I cope at the prospect of how the new animated series for the TCG could be like this, but the pokemon company are cowards

if the game was only released in japan, how are you able to play it in English? does it have the english translations built in? if so, ill be buying this on ebay soon :)

Mint is just Marc after transitioning, duh. You get your choice of two timelines-

Huh, yeah what you gathered makes sense why this game never came to the US.

I love the old Online TCG. I wouldn't recommend transferring any digital collections you have over to Live... yet

ahahah nice intro

Based

How is he playing it in English

Come on nintendo remake these games on the switch or at least make the pokemon tcg available on switch

I love the soundtrack 🎵

the scenario is so lazy lol

The plot of this game sounds like some Yugioh anime nonsense. Except Yugioh will take it seriously.

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Yeah, there are more than double the cards but most of the new cards are total a**.

Fucking love this game lets GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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