Fun fact for those who don't know - Pokémon's initial lore when they were just making the first games, which was translated from a Japanese interview, was similar to this. Was along the lines of being 1:1 of the real world, and the sudden mutation which overwhelmed normal animal ecosystems.

Oak literally did gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss the whole Kanto region in this game huh

This explains so much. Giovanni actually treats you with a moderate level of respect in RBY, something Oak never seems to show Blue.

I thought this was gonna be a slice of life game with oak helping the world while John tries to stop him,not oak literally become a menace to society 😦

This storyline.. Very intriguing, and really puts those like Alder into a new context. That the Pokémon League attempts normalizing technology and strict carrying limits.. and yet he refuses to. Also, it looks like Blaine's implied to be related to Flint. It even explains why the Original Bird Trio are more common than other legendaries. (Plus, the unintentional horror in-game, explicit in this, that Kanto was forced to lose any of the later-gen elements. Fake Dexes.)

When a fan-made game makes in-game lore for Pokemon itself: This game is AMAZING🎉🎉🎉

This story sounds like a fever dream conspiracy theory someone woke up from and had to write down before they forgot it

It pained me when you didn't catch that Exeggcute as exeggcutor is literally one of his main pokemon

I know this is supposed to be a prequel to fire red, but I hope that there is a sequel to this game that goes alongside reds journey but shows how he was being used

I love he keeps calling them “teams” or “groups” when they’re gangs.

This is actually a very cool concept bc you could use the same maps in these and just change the time frame. Very versatile.

Damn, this was actually pretty cool. Lore like this just makes the game feel more rich and really makes you think about a lot of the stuff we grew up with and had seen. Its almost as if the very reality we were living growing up had been a ruse the entire time. Good video!

10:00 GOT DAMN that man took her soul😭 has me feeling bad for a video game character 😢😂

To think that Grandpa Oak lore went down crazy just doesn't sit right with me 🖤

The fact that this is very close to the initial lore pokemon had is what i love

I laughed so hard when he just deleted the palkia lol

“And well”

That game is dope and also contains a lot of references, specially "Club Fight" that inspired the final scene! It's amazing and I think it deserves a sequence or at least an official fan made series on KZfaq, it'll be awesome

This is so interesting man. I love it I always knew Agatha and Oak got somethin goin on in the past and this game is like a huge fanfic of his past life

It's not John, it's Jorgio, Jorgio Giovanni

Dude. This was actually so informative. Impressive. And I love your voice ❤️

30 minutes into the video and I’m like this bizarro Poké-Verse Feels like the Illuminati run wild And batshit cray cray 😵‍💫😂🤣

Wow the story behind this game is awesome. Will definitely try it although the story doesn't fit with the hisui arc and other storylines in Pokémon, only with Kanto

One day, two grown-up friends met and laughed about their childhood passion for pokemon games. "Everything seemed right, but it's actually so nonsensical and incoherent!I mean, for THAT to be make sense, you would need... " and that's how it all started.

the most beautiful rom hack i have seen

26:00 So, from what I read, it looks like he forced Pulkia to teleport to a set of coordinates, likely the league HQ or near it.

Oak: You can only have 6. Me: OK, I know this is crazy... but what if... I had 7.

If Samson felt remorse for his vile actions, he'd go back in time to stop himself from insulting Agatha in the first place and prevent the events of this game from ever happening. I seriously hop this idea becomes a sequel to this game

Omg that Lapras Surf sprite was amazing!

Hope you play the sequel!! Your storytelling of these games are great 🔥

13:43 | "THE PLACE WHERE LEGENDS ARE MADE"

That thumbnail foes not give this story and video justice, absolutely insane

I wish we had mainline games with this art style. The backgrounds in battles are gawjus

Obligatory Shoutout to Masked Oak the gigachad from the Pokemon Adventures manga. Shd check it out if you haven’t, gives context of this game(not surprised if it’s inspired by Manga Oak as well)

I wonder now how Agatha ends up in the pokemon league after all this. And how they keep the story when there are still so many people that remember the way it actually was. Koga Blaine Mr. Fugi etc.

It's mildly amusing and kinda horrifying these fangame always turn Red into a sort of "puppet-ruler". ESPECIALLY if you take into account an iteration of his and Blue's friendship say he picked up an interest in pokémon because Blue started bullying him. Blue, the grandson of the guy who's trying to make him into a pokémon master, decides to start bullying him and causes him to get interested in pokémon, with the Pokémon Professor living in his town… Ya'll see what I'm trying to say here? Like, fellas- GSC/HGSS tells us he hasn't talked with his mother in THREE YEARS, and a good chunk of Blue's dialogue is telling us how much he misses him (and how Ethan reminds him of Red), Oak's done some fuckery here. At least he and his -boyfie- best friend are now enjoying vacation in a tropical island while doing what they do best, pokémon battling, together.

either a sequel where you play as red from when he was a kid or as giovani tryna take oak and the league down would be class

Amazing content!

i love this idea sm and the story is very interesting but i hate how terrible and evil oak is in this lmao

This is a really cool story!

Well well well, that was entertaining

This is fire my boy

Top-tier video, for sure.

This would make a sweet Pokemon special/mini series.

It’s a really cool idea and I like the origin story but it contradicts legends Arceus ( I am aware of the old Pokémon lore from first series games) plus oak is massive prick in this

oak is really good at in forcing the NO FUN ALLOWED slogan!

Movie spoiler - In the 4th pokemon movie we meet professor Oak as a kid. Back then he hade a charmilion in a old versin of a pokeball. So in fact pokemons existed when Oak was a kid.

The premise that Pokémon were discovered during prof oak’s lifetime is truly laughable

Take a shot every time he says "well"

this is really cool, but there's one problem with the story - why would the pokemon league care about manipulating people like that? they're already the most powerful group just by virtue of having powerful pokemon

this storyline just destory the legends arucus timeline

This is very well made story

This game's story is so cool

Nah, I'm not going to watch this vid rn, I will play it first. Then I will watch, but thanks for letting me know about this!

poor agatha, no wonder she turned to ghosts

Well written story

Pokemon Legends: Professor Oak

This game and Rocket Red are canonical backstory as far as I'm concerned.

The team rocket oath makes so much more sense now

Oh wow. So all the gangs in the pokemon games were actually the good guys 😭

seems like this would be a glorious "prequel" to the ream rocket game where you play as a grunt and the main villain was oak all along

Oak: Well this is… interesting

Sam is basically arceus

Interesting story man now I really wanna play the game to find out. How does it end? The way I see it it was like you did some and cut, but that’s understandable. You don’t wanna get banned or other.

I played this game and reminded me of a legends game

Paradox rift lore

Wow that’s a very cool video, love the set up before the Pokémon mangas and Sam. Did you created this game? Looks fab

Bro I gotta figure out how to get my hands on this rom. If Nintendo employees, ever find this comment i just want you to know “Roms/Rom hacks are a way for people to live out the dream games they always imagined playing. There are ones where you can be a Gym leader, or play a story about a character there isn’t much lore in then fill in the background, you can play as a villain or be your own evil boss. Everything a regular company would think as being too much of a gamble, a rom hack can situate that need or fill that niche desire. If anything, my last ditch response is look to see what implementations or tactics people choose for the popular rom hacks and use it as a means to glean off of them for the main series. They can never compete with you and your resources, but you can allow them to act as a pseudo testing division with none of the expenses or bad publicity involved in it.”

I Play This Game. It's So much fun tho.... 🔥❤️

One thing. The main dev is getting an update soon, so it's recommendable to wait for it.

This would be awesome if Game Freak and The Pokémon Company didn't put Pokémon in ancient times in their lore.

GG😁

Holy crud that game got really dark. Interesting plot though!

Hurting mew causes a rift in time 🎊🎉🥳

This game is such an edgy and badly written fanfiction... Oak having the powers of essentially God, going mad with power and being a huge dick, essentially faking the history of the world and working to set up shadow puppet governments in all regions is SO contrived. The 4th Pokemon film had better worldbuilding about the past using Sam!

Pokemon Legends 1984

wew! super dark! XD

I think I'll never look at the 3 legendary birds the same. I'll keep remembering that each of these birds simply saw each one of its species died, until they're the last ones alive.

I plan to make a fan game of oak and giovanni story to someday

This is one of the epic game ever 👍

Pokemon will never be the same for me after this 😢

This disturbes the lore of many things such as the pokedex, the anime, and an entire game. Although I do still like it

BRO, JOHN?! Lmao

Sam is cold

"Legendaries" being actually the last of it's kind and facing extinction without a mate, much like the last Rhino IRL, would make a lot of sense. What was once common, will forever be lost once the last one dies. Unless it's a ghost pokemon, or Arceus (and by extention, Legends Arceus game) which I have no idea how that would fit into this fanfic lore with all the time traveling and whatnot.

Awesome

If we could get more mature story in a main line game I'd buy one of new ones. Arceus was ok but this could be so much better

Animated sprite? What version is this originally come from?

I didn't know oak killed almost all the bird trio 😮

This could somewhat make sense with the team rocket fire red story 👀

I’m 30 min into the video, please tell me Mr. Fuji rides a bicycle indoors

at some point i thought it would be the prelude to pokemon rocket edition but what a shame i was not

Still i dont Like "Pokemon were Not thing before" the Lore told us they existed was before 1960

.....insane.......

wow i love this idea it’s cool to see how you can relate this too real life as the government sets up systems and rules for the people living i love the dark take on this kids franchise

The whole idea of Pokémon being mutations in the fifties is proved wrong by Hisui

honestly this looks really good but i dont think Oak is that ancient and all the pokemon thing is that new to the world.

The professor is Sam Oak 'n it in this video!

The story is kinda sick and fix some inconsistencies about pokemon world, but I think i prefer the original lore, the pokemon original lore is also pretty complex but simple at the same time

They just discovered the critters but everyone already has them,and there's a flareon which requires a fire stone... Tell me how that makes any sense.