Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Nick's Pokémon Red Review - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: May 23, 2024

Has Nick fallen in love with Pokémon? Will he ever play another one? Let's find out. Run of Show - - Start - Housekeeping - Topic of the Show: Nick’s Pokemon Review - Nick’s biggest PokeMoments - Nick activates the Chat - Ads - Super Chats! - Mike’s Big Power Point! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Thursday, May 23rd, 2024. And oh boy, we got a very special one for you today. Of course, I am your host Tim Geddes. I am joined by the Master of Hype, Snowbike, Mike. What up, Jim? And hello, Pokemon trainers. And making a very, very rare appearance on the Kind of Funny Games cast. But now that it's daily, hopefully something that's a little bit more frequent in the coming months, years, whatever you want to call them.

so far this week. Two in a week. Two in a week, everybody. It's the producer slash seducer. Nick Scarpino. Now here's the thing. The moniker was given to me, obviously, producer slash the douche a long time ago by Greg Miller. And of course, we vetted that thoroughly throughout the ages before it just randomly came out of his mouth one day.

But now I am a Pokemon champion. You are. Yes. So whenever I'm on games cast or any of the shows from now on, I would like to be called the champion. The champion. Nick Garpino, everybody. He did it. I've known Nick Scarpino. I wanted to say half my life. That's not true, but by the day, it's getting closer to being a

true statement. And I never thought you would actually play through a Pokemon game. Like, maybe give it a shot, maybe do a stream, maybe whatever. But for you to actually beat the champion, Greg Miller, to become the champion, Nick Scarpino, I never thought it was going to happen. It was a great day for me. Yeah. And a great day for elderly gamers all around the planet. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. No, it was really fun, man. It was an opportunity that I wanted to do for a long time. and, you know, part of being able to stream every day with everyone is I get, I get exposed to games that I probably wouldn't have, you know, in my, in my free time, taking five minutes out of my day to play. And so Mike kind of challenged me was like, what if Nick played a Pokemon game? Andy thought it was a good idea.

I thought it was a great idea. I was like, a little scared. But I'm like, I should have a, I should have some level of context for Pokemon. So I was like, I'll dip a toe into this. And it was really fun. And you did it the right way. We're going to talk all about it because this is our Pokemon Fire Red 2024 review, which is absolutely. wild because this game came out in 2004, so 20 years ago.

And keeping in mind there, this is actually a remake of the first game. So this is a Generation 3 game remaking Generation 1's red and blue or in Japan. It was red and green Nick. And that's why here for these remakes, it was Fire Red and Leaf Green. There was a lot going on. So much going on. Bet you didn't know any of that. No, I did actually.

Yeah? Yeah, it's very confusing and convoluted to me. It is. It is. And so I just really focused on. fire red. That's all you really need to do, everybody, because it's where it all began again. But this is the games cast each and every day. We're live right here on Twitch and YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. If you can't watch live, that's totally cool.

You can watch later on YouTube or listen on your favorite podcast service. Just search for Kind of Funny Gamescast and we'll be right there for you. What's super cool about Kind of Funny nowadays is each and every weekday. You can just hang out with us all day, starting with Games Daily leading into Gamescast. And then right after that, there's a game stream. What are we doing Today, Mike. Today, we will challenge Nick Scarpino once again. The chat actually threw out this challenge that they said, I could not coach Nick through one Dark Souls boss.

And I said, F that, I'll coach him through two. Two. And so today, we will play Dark Souls remastered and we will beat the first two bosses by the end of the stream. That is the goal. That is fantastic, everybody. So right after this, you could watch Nick play Dark Souls. Well, he'll become a Dark Souls champion. Is that even a thing?

I don't know, but you are going to have to find out yourselves. Thanks to the support of our amazing Patreon producers. You're going to be able to do just that. Carl Jacobs, Fargo, Brady, and Delian, DeLian, Twining. We appreciate you so very, very much. Today we're brought to you by BetterHelp, but we'll tell you all about that later. Let's just jump into it.

It's the topic of the show. Tots, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, Pokemon Fire Red. Nick, I want you to, I want you to, So what games cast were you on this week? I don't even remember that. Killer Clowns. We did a killer clowns.

Preview. Very cool. Very cool. Very cool. You didn't review that, though. You just gave a previous. This is your first official review. Sure.

That kind of funny. You're one of the first people to give a kind of funny review with the new scale, an actual number. You are very unfamiliar with the scale. I just slacked you it right now. So looking through the scale right now, of course, everybody, our scales from one to ten. We got 10 as a masterpiece. Nine amazing. Eight great.

Seven good. Six okay. Five mediocre. Four. Me. Three bad. too awful, and one is Gollum, and there's point five's there as well.

What would you, Nick Scarpino, a 42-year-old man? It's close enough. 44. 44-year-old man. Yeah. Give Pokemon Fire right. See, now this is where we start getting into the minutiae.

And I know that's your least favorite thing when we talk about our review scale, is people talking about like, asteris and things like that. But I didn't play this game as it was originally intended by God and by Nintendo. Yes. I did a Nuslock.

Well, a Nicklock, as you want to say. So we permadeathed every single one of our Pokemon that fainted. And so I really don't know what the experience would have been like had we not done that. I think it would have been a lot less stressful and a lot more enjoyable. But I think, you know how the highs would have been less high and the lows would have been less low. Losing Tim was, that was a moment. And I was starting. So much so that Andy is still talking about how do we bring him back.

I had a really great time playing this game. And I was shocked at how deep the systems were. I was shocked at how, you know, evidently this is supposed to be a kid's game, but as a 44-year-old, I was like, I need 3,000 people helping me play this fucking, because I still don't know what the difference to be a ground type and a grass type.

I just don't understand they're both on the ground. Why wouldn't they be ground-type grass type? So I would give this, for how we play through it. I would give it a nine. A nine out of ten. Amazing. A very fair score, I would say.

I would say it was really, really fun. I wonder if I were to play it the way it was originally intended if that would move the needle up or down. I think it might actually make it less. I think it would have made it maybe an 8.5 just because I think it would have made a lot easier. And I was invested in the fact that all of our Pokemon, if they died, you know, it really did heighten every single battle that we went into for sure. I mean, the way you played it, the Nicklock, which is the light and Oslock. I mean, I don't know anybody that's first Pokemon experience ever was playing with those. type of rules. So like you definitely, you were playing on a hard mode. Maybe not the hardest

mode possible, like some people that have done Nuslocks. I've never even done a Nuslock. Have you, Mike? Uh, no. This was my first experience. And, uh, I'm glad that Nick was our test, a test dummy for this one. Yeah. So you got a, I think, a very craft to tailored experience. And on top of that, Andy hacked the game to like make the character look like you and make great the rival. Mike kept popping up, starting new hobbies. Uh, like, what was that experience like for you? That was super fun, obviously. And drew me into the the game a lot more than I think I would have if I had to. You know, as I, as you know, I have trouble streaming games that have any sort of narrative

thread. So if there is, if I have to pay attention to something, it's difficult to do in a room full of forger bronies and a bunch of people in the chat talking trash. So it was fun to be a little bit more invested in that and, and have another reason to pay attention to the dialogue trees as they were popping up, not trees, rather just dialogue as it was popping up. Because Andy put so much care and so much love into it. specifically at the very, very beginning.

And then honestly, it's kind of seasoned out all the way to the final bosses. I was like, wow, he really kind of talked a lot of trash to me. And that was fun. It was super fun. It was a great creative outlet for Andy as well. So with the actual story itself, like not the Andyisms and all that, which were absolutely amazing, like this is the purest Pokemon story that there is. This is where it all started.

You start off as this kid, go off on this adventure, get the eight gyms, beat the elite four, fight team rocket along. the way. Were you captured by that? Absolutely. Obviously, contextually, like, Pokemon has been, I mean, you've been around it forever, right? Working at IGN, obviously, you know Pokemon, right? Growing up, you know Pokemon. But for me, I sort of missed, I sort of missed out on that for some reason. And I don't know why, because I've been playing games my entire life. And I just never, I think I had such a predisposition toward shooters, toward actiony-style games that, to this day, I miss out on the entire era of turn-based, like, fighting, like, fighting combat.

Oh, yeah. So, like, never played a Final Fantasy, never played a Pokemon. I just didn't care for them. I was like, this is not the kind of experience that I'm looking for. So coming back into it and playing through it was, it was really fun, man. And I think that they did, they do a really good job of world building, I guess, might be the world. I mean, they build, they build this fun kind of, like, competitive world that, speaks to me because I'm like, you take on the first gym, you take on all eight gyms, you get the badges.

It's good escalation leading all the way up to the rival. I don't know who the rival was supposed to be, but it was Greg for me. It's just your neighbor. Like in the actual game, it's just, I mean, I guess it's the same shit here for you, but like the neighbor, grandson and professor O. could use just this little shit that's always just like on your tail. Always one step ahead of you. Yeah. So you take that shot.

It really is. It really is. Mike, you were sitting alongside Nick for this entire experience. You've obviously played Pokemon many times, including Fire Red, which you gave me your copy of Fire Red. I did. I did. Where last year, Gia played through Fire Red as her first video game, she ever beat. And she, just like Nick, absolutely loved it.

What was your experience like, experienced Fire Red this way next to Nick? It was a really awesome, cool experience. Getting to be Nick's navigator, being in the room with Andy and Kevin in all of the chat alongside Nick. It was really, really fun to see his mind of, like, the decisions being made. how he was working through problems and trying to solve. And then, of course, having the chat, so many incredible community members, helping us out, guiding us,

us giving them the wrong information, them, them correcting us. But funny enough, Tim, this is the first time I've played all the way through a Pokemon game since Red and Blue when they first came out. I've always been a Pokemon kid,

but I actually, after Red and Blue, stopped playing Pokemon altogether, and I would just buy Pokemon games. I have a collection from anywhere from probably Pokemon, black and white all the way down. I think I bought every generation, but never played them through, never played more than five hours. This is my first time really deep diving back into a Pokemon game

and to do it in Fire Red, where it is that Gen 1 nostalgia for me, which is like my touchdown to Pokemon. It was like, oh, we're so back. Safari Zone, right? Getting to meet Bill and the PC, like, I'm all about that. Brock and Misty and Lieutenant Surge. Like, that was a big deal. Getting on SS and the boat. It was like, oh, I remember. all of this when I was a kid staring staring staring staring at the game boy screen that was like this big you know it's like what a good time and so yeah to be nick's navigator and probably point him in the wrong direction a fair amount of times was really fun I think there was a lot of a movie yeah like every great road trip movie we had some you know we took some detours

unfortunately but we did get there on the end yeah it's really cool tim like what a what a great experience to share with kind of funny in our community and to build kind of content around I didn't know if it would work, right? I begged Nick before we started this. I was like, please just give me a good effort on one. And if you don't like it, we'll back out, right? But like, I did pitch like, we're going to do the true Nuslock, right? Nick, any Pokemon that faints, you have to kill it and release it.

It's out of the team. You can only catch one Pokemon per route, right? Like I read the rules and I was like, we're going to stick to them. Of course, we adjusted accordingly. And I think that was probably better for Nick's first experience and for us to create We're all to create memorable. Yeah, exactly.

Because I think ultimately the Neslock would have been a one and done. I would have probably gone up against that first gym and just got knocked out and be like, I can't, I can't do this because we just don't,

we can't go collect the Pokemon that would have been, you know, good for that gym. But I do remember Tim specifically pulling me aside and was like, you should take this seriously. And I was like,

I'll take it seriously. He goes, no, no, no. Like, give this game a fair shake. Yep. Like, take it seriously, try to get invested in it,

be open to it. And I was. And it was really, really good. Dude, you, I'm so proud of you. I'm so impressed because I was like,

I knew, like everything Mike was talking about about the pitch for this stream, I was like, this has potential to be a like, kind of funny cultural moment. Like, I feel like this journey,

this streams, or series of streams, I think it's going to go down in kind of funny history of like, the people that were in chat will remember the characters and the moments that were made. And I feel like that's the beauty

of a game like Pokemon that there is the story. But like, there are so many different characters. grow these attachments to these digital creatures that are like, it's unlike anything else. It's like kind of bizarre that you really like you, the fact that you're able to name them and it's like everyone has a charmander or a bulbous or a squirrel or whatever, but everyone has their own.

You know what you mean? And when you name it something, it's like it builds that attachment. And when those characters would die, you'd see the moments that on your guys's faces of like true loss. Like what were some of the highlight moments for you? Or low lights, but like the moments that you feel really made the, the, the, venture for you. I mean, the gut punch is of, the gut punch of losing Tim. That was tough. He was my, he was my day one. Uh, as you know, when you start the game, they give you three choices.

You can get a water type of fire type or grass type. And I was like, well, I will choose. And then Mike said choose bulbosaur. And I was like, okay, we'll choose that. I was going to charmander because come on, come on, goaded. Uh, and I'm glad I didn't because it was fun. But, you know, coming up against Greg, going north, obviously, we just don't do anymore. Um, that's, That's something we've learned. We just don't go north. We don't go north. Ever in the game because that's when that's generally where bad things happen.

I want to shout out Furibbee Productions in the live chat right now, watching live with us, who is saying, you know, before the stream started, I was saying Pokemon's ass. After the stream started, he was saying WTF happened to Kep Kep Wet Way. Yeah. People got really invested in these. And you do get invested because you grind them up and you get new powers and you get new, you know, or new attacks rather. And you just follow them literally watching them grow up.

so beautifully designed. You know, you get to evolve them. Like some of the, my first evolution, my evolution from, a magic cart to a Giroz was amazing.

That was a big pot for me. Oh yeah, dude. Going into the Elite 4 and preparing, overly preparing for that without Mike telling me that we were, Mike just said, just go through the door and I was like,

no, we need 40 full heels. And he was like, you just don't need it. All of that was really really fun. But really the ups and downs of sort of like, finding the new Pokemon, training them up, and then having them unfortunately get

knocked out by something that I didn't even know could happen. I mean, dude, was it the death of Tim with the self-destruct? Yes, the self-destruct. That was like a 240 crit, like once in a lifetime, just took my tank out and then just, you know, me going through the 12 stages, you know, and just, not 12 stages, the three stages of grief, how many stages of grief? We have a lot. Five stages of grief.

Thank you. Just going through that. And just telling the chat, still, to this day, chat, if you're watching, 200 gifted subs right now. We bring him back. We ride together. He died together. Bad boys for life.

And then, you know, like going in and being overly confident with the elite four and they're losing Zaptos at the end, right? Oh, I didn't even know. Oh, yeah. We lost Drexie. I made one fatal move. I came up against a fossil type that I never seen before. I was like, what hell is that?

Oh, the hell is that? Yeah. And the problem is the chat who was infinitely more helpful than they weren't. I'm not going to say you were 100% helpful chat. That's how it goes. But you were 90% there and 20% absolutely confusing. They're always on a 10 second delay. So when I kept Zapdos out,

he went down and I look over and that's when everyone was like, no, pull him out, pull him out, pull him out. That's a rock type. And I'm like, outright rock type versus flying. But then it's super confusing because he's also electric. Yeah, but he's also flying. And he also looks so cool. He looks so cool.

So RIP to Zaptos. Yeah, he's very cool. I mean, some special moments as well as all the hard work that Andy put in. We talked about it before. But like truly and honestly, Andy made something really special, spending his time late at night to do all that for us, right? Like, there was moments where Ethan Hunt might have gotten involved

and all of a sudden there's snacks underneath the couch. Like, we made this experience and these stories that Andy was able to quickly put into the game or make Nick the main character, right? Like, that little character running around is Nick. That was a beautiful thing. Also, we had moments where it felt like a kid's sleepover once again. We've done this before with our streams,

but like this one felt special, first night of like it was getting super late. We were getting kind of weird. We had lost Pidgey and all of a sudden we rolled the dice on a Spiro and that became our guy, right? The coups where we rode with the Spiro and we thought this was going to be the greatest Pokemon since sliced bread. And it's like fun moments like that where it's like anyone who plays Pokemon normally,

Spiro's probably not your dude. But that time for us, that was a special moment. Honestly, I think that's what's so cool about this is like everyone has. their Pokemon moments and there's, you know, they kind of guide you in a way where there's an average team lineup that people have put out there of like percentage wise. Like there's a high chance you're going to have a fully evolved Pidgee that Pigeot in your final team just because of the way the game's designed you need fly. You need cut. You need these like different abilities. So it's like your team is probably going to have either a snorlax or a laparice because they're high level ones that they kind of give you along your journey.

But because of the way you guys played it, it's like you just found these. like characters and stories within just random things that popped up. Like were there going to the different gyms? Did you feel like you were actually learning the types? Or I know you relied a lot on the chat and stuff. Like do you actually feel like you had that level of like, okay, rock paper scissors and then going on. It's like, oh, there's even more to this with all the different types.

Definitely the base rock paper scissors for sure, right? The base sort of like the top three. You can kind of grasp, get your head wrapped around that. But there was, I mean, the chat made fun of me along a lot because I still don't know what type a Niddo King is or what type of Rattata is. I just don't, I don't understand it. It looks like a rat that should be in grass, but it's a ground type. I don't want to get into it right now. Because the rats in grass doesn't make it a grass type.

They show him in grass. He's running around in the dirt. He should be in the ground. He's in the high grass. He should be a grass. Yeah, you see what I'm saying. But I think that minutia is interesting. And I'm just dumbfounded and just awestruck by the fact that people understand and

Apparently, they're like, no, that's this type. It's a ground type, but it's also a poison type. But I'm like, well, they don't tell you that really ever. I would not. And that's why I'm so shocked. I'm like, this is a kids game for all intents of purposes. How the hell would 12-year-old Nick Scarpeana have ever figured this out without the internet? It just wouldn't have happened.

That's the thing is like, it's so hard to explain. But like, it was such a cultural generational moment when Pokemon came out where it wasn't just the game. The game was backed up by. the cartoon and the cards and everything all of those there was a synergy to teach you all this shit like the game had a lot going for and the modern games even now like specifically

like on the battle screen will tell you what types they are so it's like when you're fighting it'll straight up say what types oh and that would have been very helpful for sure for sure because we're talking about a very even though it was a remake it's still old like gen 4 which was the generation after this made a lot of changes to how the battle system even worked

like it's split where there's physical and special attacks So it's like there's even more depth than there is in this game, which you kind of see with like you had your ghost Pokemon. We had Big Thick Tom. Yeah, Big Thick Tom. Oh did you like he was a gangar. So many of these names, it was just pure chance that it was the perfect name for it. Big Thick Tom is a gangar is amazing.

Oh, Josh Deweesey saying special and physical were in Gen 3, too. And we learned a lot of like dual type Pokemon. We didn't know at the beginning. We, of course, being generic Pokemon guys like we were, it's like water type, fire type, grass type. That's what we're going to see. And then you quickly learn there are many other types in that. And then you're going to get into dual types and you're going to learn about stab and you're going to.

You're going to learn, which we still don't understand. But we're going to pretend like we do for the same type attack bonus. We know about. Yeah. We know. Does that mean that you're going up against someone who's exactly like you? You get an attack bonus? Does it mean that your attack that's special for you gives you a bonus against someone else?

It's all there's like levels to it right? Where it's just like the same type of attack bonus also works again. It's like if if there's a negative effect it just also works in iterations of multiples To be clear about all this I've played these games my entire fucking life I still don't I don't understand I don't understand I don't understand I don't fucking get it I'm barely above you guys I For some reason all the types and like the charts there was a time back in my my day I when Pokemon Red came out actually my mom took me many cities away.

I have no idea where the fuck it was. And there's pictures of me at a tournament playing Pokemon. What the fuck was I doing? There was no, I got knocked out round one. Yeah, of course. Because I was a freaking eight-year-old

that didn't know what the hell I was doing. Going in with a team that like, like, you know how you allegedly cheated, got all those rare candies? No, no, no, no. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We don't. There's an investigation still outstanding.

We have been cleared by all that because nobody cares anymore. Back in the day, there was a cheat, this thing called Missing No, where you could literally like glitch the game and get unlimited rare candies. And of course I fucking did that. So I'm running into this tournament

with a glitched out team of like fully leveled up. What the fuck was I doing? But anyways, point is I did not understand any of the type stuff besides the basic. Okay, cool, fire. This guy's green.

He's probably a grass type. I'm gonna put out a guy that's red because he's gonna burn him. You know what I mean? The moment they broke off that or it wasn't some tactic I learned from the cartoon, get the fuck out.

I'll never forget the ghosts are strong against psychic because of the episode of the show. We learned a lot as well about items and stuff like that, right? Like this is an era where there is an XP share like you would normally see in the later games, right? So we did have to very much practice, hey, how do we keep all of our six leveled up at the same time, making sure everybody's getting XP?

Now all of a sudden we're getting items for these Pokemon to hold and we're playing, hey, which Pokemon should have the leftovers to get extra HP? Who probably needs that XP share bonus? Should we be putting the gold amulet on someone to get more coins while we're battling these Pokemon? I mean, we're in our kernels here, right? We're in the chat. We're like, chat. I mean, I activated the chat.

I was like, what? I was just giving people specific things. I'm like, tell me where on the map we can make the most money right now. And it was like, bo, blah, blah, blah, blah, but whatever. Not Fuchsia City. I forget where it was. But there's like a pair of twins that give you 5K of P's every time you. I'm like, that's it.

That's where we need to grind right now. The glamorous ladies is right. I think that there's a duality to Nick Scarpino, right? As you know, Tim. And as, and the first thing I ever told you, right? Was that always wear a condom? No, not that. We're shooters.

We're shooters, right? Oh, got it. That's why we always wear condoms. We're shooters, first and foremost, right? But then there's another part of me that really likes getting deep into the sort of metaness of these games. And learning those systems is cool to me. It is like learning a language or learning jujitsu. We're learning something crazy where you're like, this is going to take me a really long time.

But I feel like this is worth my time to invest. Similar to how during the pandemic, I was like, I need. to invest in a game because I'm playing a lot of games and I'm sitting at my computer a lot and I just randomly picked Call of Duty. I'm like, we're just going to play Warzone and I want to get good at this. Not me, but I'm enjoying the shit out of it

and there's a met in this to that too with a gun, there's loadouts and all these things and it's very tactical. And so for this, it scratches an itch of the Nick Scarpeino that just wants to sit and watch YouTube videos all night to try and figure out how to get better at this thing.

And then you get gut punched when the coups to, whose control goes down. And then you go, damn it, I never want to play this game again. But to the game's credit, why I give us to high score is it keeps calling you back. Like, I want to play another Pokemon game. Spoilers. You heard it here, everybody.

I want to play another Pokemon game. And God, do we have the one for you? The sequel to Fire Red and Leaf Green, Heart Gold, and Soul Silver. When we'll do this? We'll have to wait. We'll have to see because it has to be special. Yeah. But, oh, man, this is going to be a fantastic, fantastic time for everybody involved.

And we had fun coming together and learning and solving some of the puzzles. I was impressed that, you know, this has been 20 plus years from me. It almost tore us apart too. It's been 20 plus years for us since I've played this game. So going into the cave without Flash and trying to figure out that without having Flash was crazy back in the day. Because I didn't know you had to go get it. We get Flash. Then all of a sudden, now we're out there in the Articuno Tunnels trying to find Articuno.

And we're kicking boulders around trying to figure out how to solve this puzzle. The boulders may have torn. Like the boulders may have torn our family apart. Yeah, we were close. At one point, I thought, I was like, I have to walk out of the room right now because I think Mike and Kevin are having like a cathartic moment.

And we got through it, though. We got through it. We pushed through like adults. I didn't know that they had all that in this kind of games. The teleporters in the Slifco, yeah, HQ. Kevin's out here looking at seven different maps. We're looking at children's drawings of the kid

drawing an arrow to the place you have to go and then back. We had no idea all this stuff was happening. It was crazy. And the amount of times I was like, yeah, Nick, go to the far teleport and he would just start going somewhere else. And then he would get mad and be like, I don't know where I'm not going to the right place. It's like, because you're not listening.

The teleports. But you know, the problem of the game is like, I'm going to the teleporter, I see a ball down below. I'm like, I got to get that. We got to get those items. Even though we don't need any of these items, we need those items, right? You got to do it, man. Because of course, that we were playing.

There were no revives. You didn't need any revives. So a lot of this was like, oh, we're not using those items, you know. Yeah. So you, I mean, I was, I'll never forget. Like the way the kind of funny set up here is in the office area out there, we have like a bunch of big TVs all over the place, who would be surprised. And on those TVs, we have whatever's happening in here, like in the studio live.

You can watch it out there or whatever's happening in the lab. So oftentimes I'll just be walking around doing work and the stream's happening. And every once in a while it catches my eye. This Pokemon stream constantly, we would have half the office over there just sitting down on the couch watching like, oh shit. Like this battle's important. Like it was like such a big moment to see things happen. And when I looked over and I saw a Zapdos there, I was like, they're going off the main path. You're getting the legendary birds.

So you, you did you end up getting Articuno? Yeah, we got all of them. You got Maltre's? I got Maltre's. What? I got Mulder-Dose Trace, what we thought. I love it, man. So like going to get out of those extras.

I was like, I'm going to put all three in these squad. And they were like, absolutely not. Do not put three flying types in your squad. You will get destroyed. And I was like, that's a good call. And so. And the one of my final six that I lost was Zaptos. Man.

Just a stupid decision. God. So who was your final lineup then? Final lineup was, uh, we had a Nido King. You want to go through? Yep. Nido King. We had Zaptose.

What did they? Sexy Rexy. Dilsch. Zaptose was, sorry, Nidok king was Dilsch. Sexy Rexe was Zaptose. We had Big Thick Tom, who was our gangar. And then we had, uh, E. Dravey as our Vaporian. Vaporium.

We had to pull out because we lost Lappar Kef kef, kev. We did lose Kev, Kev, Wet. So I did have a choice of a... And 8-bit Louise was pulled out earlier. Probably still in daycare, actually. Yeah, we left a couple people back in daycare. We learned a lot about daycare of, like, daycare can be very useful for low-level Pokemon. Nick and everyone else probably in the world is not taking enough steps in the later game

to really level up a level 40-plus Pokemon because you got to get enough steps in. But yeah, we left 8-bit-Lewis. And we also had C-Bent, who was our fire type. Shout to C-Bet. Who was a... Arcanine. Arcanine. We really liked our archina.

And last but not least, we just randomly, and again, the game gave it to us. We prayed to the game. Yeah. We said, Dear baby Jesus, Kenny Loggins, please give us a Dratini. Oh. Please let us, give us a Jutini and let us accidentally level this thing up to like level 55.

So we had Drago, our Dratini. But we really were taught for that. The evolution of Drat. Dragon Night. Yes. Tell you what, though. Minor criticism of the game. Not really.

Because it adds to the fun factor of it, right? But you think about evolutions. Right. You think about when you get a little puppy dog, a little golden retriever. You're holding in your arms, right? And you go one day you're going to be a big boy. You're going to have big ears, big paws.

You're going to go hunt for me, right? By, by hunt, I mean you're going to, I'm going to teach you how to give you a refill of iced coffee at Starbucks. Oh, yes, yes, yes. You got magic carp. Carp. Goes to Giridos. Holy shit.

Wild. This thing is sick. It's the coolest looking Pokemon you've ever got. You get a Jatini, right? That's a cute little thing. Then it goes. to the second evolution which is just kind of bigger

and has a little ball on its neck for no reason. Nick did not like the jewel on its neck. Didn't like the jewel, want to pick it and reminds me of assist. I want to get it, get in there and dig it out. Right. Then we go to the Dragonite and I'm like what where did we go off the beaten path here?

Where did we go wrong with this dragon? It looks like first off he's half asleep which I expect from a snorlax because it's in the name Snorke. Also our snorlax was fodder. Also we our snorlax was fodder. Unfortunately, we had to give him up to the gods of,

I think, the eighth badge. Yeah, we had to give up a couple. We needed a couple of, like, we've got to be strategic and smart here. Some people have to go. Our snorlax died to Greg as we were going north. Remember? That's right.

Yeah, we were like, oh, let's go and check out the victory road. And, oh boy, that sucked. I love the going north is the funniest. Going north happened to us about three separate times where we were not prepared. There was one perfect one of like, fly.

was just right over there. Maybe it was surf. But like we were going somewhere else and then we decided, well, let's go north and go get this. And we lost some people because of that. That's how we lost. That was chat.

That was chat. They told us to go north to get it. We lost two people on that, I believe. Yeah, there were two fire times. That's where C-bent bit someone else. There was an accident. Tough. Listen, there was a lot of mistakes were made.

Yeah. I did not know that you could like heal or also hurt one of your. your people. Oh, so I actually Dark Batman. Almost killed him.

We weren't quite ready for the double matches. Very few and far between on the double matches. For something that is like, oh, is Andy Pandy. Very cool. Yeah.

They only do it maybe three, five times maximum, so you don't see it that often. Well, you got to remember this is the remake of the first gen that didn't have it. So they just kind of added that stuff in where it kind of fit because that was introduced

to Ruby and Sapphire. Obviously more strategy, right? Oh, yeah. You can, if you know, you can do multiple things. It's pretty cool.

Yeah. In the competitive scene of Pokemon in current days, double battles are the standard. Okay. It's, yeah, single person playing with two Pokemon. Yeah, it's interesting because like when you're playing Pokemon, I think as newbies like we are, right, you quickly get rid of a lot of moves that are maybe more

passive abilities on like, hey, I can either buff a teammate or buff myself or maybe like decrease the accuracy of my opponent. You know, I think we're more of the trainers of like, shoot or shoot. Let's get rid of that and let's just move on to give me the baddest moves possible. You're on Rebirth Island. Yeah. You see a team coming towards you. What are they doing?

They're all in the boy's skin, so you know they're sweatlords. They're just dripping, right? Do you shoot at him or do you call them up and say, hey, do you guys have full armor? Could you drop a couple plates from me? No, we're shooters. Yeah, we go after. Any of these abilities where it was like, I'm going to buff my own defenses or like, forget it. Yeah.

You know, strike first, strike hard. No mercy. No mercy. Man, you have these tactical moves, like a stun grenade or a flash grenade. Maybe you throw that at your opponent, throw them off guard. or you just shoot out him blindly and hope to God it works. That's how we play. Chris Anka would really like us to play with smoke grenades.

That's a PSA for everyone out there. If you're playing rebirth, please play with smoke grenades. Now, Nick, I do want to touch back on your comments on the Drotini to Dragonite kind of lineage because I'm so proud of you for having some feelings. But I want to talk about that after a quick word from our sponsors. This episode's brought to you by BetterHelp. We all carry around different stressors, big and small. I'm currently planning a wedding, so I know all about that.

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And then it ends up being that. I wanted to bring this up because many, many years ago, nine years ago, Jesus Christ. I reviewed Pokemon Red on Hot Pepper Gaming. Oh. Wow. So I'd like to, let's just watch. Let's just start this and see where we go. Can we get audio in here?

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out why audio's not working. Give me two seconds. Do your thing. I remember this. I know, right? You did one too. I did. What did I review?

No, I just did one, didn't I? I mean, you had to review something. You did a Batman game, right? Greg did Batman. No. Did you also do it? Maybe. I don't know.

I believe I have a piece of that. wall. That's awesome. Believe I have a piece of that wall. Awesome, man. The OG wall, dude. That's the original spare bedroom, man. Heavy.

Look at that. With our little freaking hot pepper just in the frame in the background. That was sick. Oh, man. But anyway, I reviewed this. Sorry, audio is not working. All right. Well, then this isn't going to work then.

But I, as I'm breaking down, I, I start freaking out about how much a doofus dragonitis. It's just like, why would they do this to our boy? But it's one of those things where like, look, obviously I'm basic, right? And if I see, uh,

you know, a charmander, what's the, what's the highest evolution of, of a charmedan? You know. Charzard? Yeah, okay.

If I see a czarred, and he looks like he's been doing steroids since he was 12. Yeah. And then you go to the dragonite and he's like, no, man, I just haven't been putting it in the timing of the gym. Obviously I'm going to pick the dude with the shoulders.

Mm-hmm. Right? I stand next to the rock, you're picking the rock 90% of the time. That guy looks like he can take care of you and he's awesome on the mic. So it's interesting. Obviously, part of my brain goes, that's dumb. The other part of me goes, of course they had to design him like that. Because you've got to have a couple fails for the winds to look even better.

Exactly. You know, you got to have the juxtaposition, as they say, Mike. I think I figured it out. We got it. Start for the beginning. It's also just where the Dragon Knights is not blue. It's weird. It's very weird.

It's weird. a hot pepper game review of the classic Pokemon red and blue. But first, I need a Hohmeda pepper. What is that? Poppe? I won't get the rest of it. Oh, God. I'm gonna die.

I could already tell you this is the worst thing I've ever done. Oh my god. This is the worst idea ever. The only thing worse is the story of Pokemon, which is this 10-year-old boy whose mom doesn't give a p-a-b about him. And just let them go out and fight monsters together. And holy crap. It hurts.

I'm getting PTSD right now. I see how fast and hits him in the eyes right there. My outsides right now. Just so they can feel in the air. So you go next door to the professor's house and you have to choose your Pokemon. They're these pocket monsters. This milk looks so good. You can choose the squirrel or the bolbassoor or the charmander.

But nobody chooses. Bobasaur that's stupid. So you choose them, you go out and you pipe. Why did I have to choose? It made it easier. Oh my god, you could have been jacked bro. It's like breathing makes it worse, but pretty far as we have to live. So you have to go out and you fight these adults who fight you with their monsters and you get badges. When you get eight badges, you get to go to face the other guys that you leave four. And then your neighbor's grandson, who's your rival, because kids have rivals. Man.

Man. Okay, pros of this game. It's awesome. There's a lot of monsters. You can play with your friends, and there's Pokemon cards, and there's an anime, and you get to be the very best, like, no one ever was. And everybody likes that, because it's so cool. I remember being in third grade and loving it.

And I'm, like, a grown-ass man, and I still love it. This is a review of Pokemon Red and Blue, but really, it's a review of every Pokemon game. It's the same thing. Sometimes the monsters aren't is cool, but... But back then there was 150 of them. Someone say 151. New counts.

Okay. So the cons of this game, really there's not that many. It's an amazing game. I think the cons are like... Is that the original music? No. Like Dragon air? And then it evolves into Dragonite.

That kind of sucks. Like, it sounds cool. But it looks like a dupus. Yeah, it looks dumb. And then there's other ones They're so cool. Like Scyther. Why is Scyth?

They're so cool. Fether rocks. He was very cool. I thought I got to the Dragon Night way earlier, but I love that my con of the game, Dragon Nights a doofus. It's true though. It's fucking true. And I'm happy that you also touched on that.

I think everyone saw that. We got some super chats in here real quick. We got Samsonel saying, I remember digging up couch cushions for cash to buy this game as a kid. Nick needs a bad bad Good, bad, and good, good score, too. Oh, this is a good, good score. Yeah.

So obviously, the Nick three-figured scale, which Tim told me not to use because it throws off the meta. Obviously, folks, if you followed me in my movie reviews, which I've done three of, we have my three-fingered scale, which is good-good, bad good, which is the wide variety of movies that we watch that I love. This is my favorite category right here. And then bad-bad, bad. This is going to go in the good-good category, of course, because this game is beautifully designed, and it is just absolutely fun to play.

We played it for almost 70 hours, and I would still play it more. That's insane. 70 hours. That's awesome, though. We got Kinek saying, when we were kids, we weren't playing a Nuzzlock. So if we made mistakes with types or what's super effective and not effective, we could just try again. That is a good point. There was a lot more trial and error back then.

Yeah, and I think, obviously, like, that's, it would be interesting to go back and play a game that's not one that we're going to play on stream like that, like that, to see how much it keeps my attention. But I do think it added to the heightened tension of the whole thing that we just had to figure it out. Yeah, man. Haley writes in and says, how long was Tim out for after this video? Dude, it was bad. It was bad. That wasn't the worst

a hot peppers ever affected me, though. The worst was when we did the Mario Kart 8, kind of funny world championship race, I think it was, me and Greg. And there's a less play of it. And I think it was for an extra life. And it took me out.

Like, it fucked me up. Los Peppers were the worst, man. I remember, I'm ever going in and was tough. Coming out was, that was spicy. Oh. Kabob says, is Nick the keeper of Fire Red?

I think I am now. A keeper of many things. Yeah. Keeper five things. I think so. Of course, ladies and gentlemen, what are those five things? One, is the departed a good movie? Spoilers, it's not, should you go and see Blade Runner 2049?

Absolutely, it's been out for about 10 years now, so I think it's probably time that you go into the theaters and see that. Number three, we keep open for Jesus. Number four, am I the keeper of Pokemon Fire Red? I am. And number five, I get to decide. when we play another Pokemon game. And I get to decide. I mean, it's when Mike thinks it's reasonable.

Thank you, thank you. I love it. Then we got Light of the Desert saying, I would love an edit of this run to share. Are there plans for that? There's no plans for that. That is a great idea. I just, I don't know.

70 hours of time. Yeah, I don't know how we would make that happen. We got a great playlist. Yeah, there's a great playlist. I know it's a lot of hours, but it's a great playlist. Yeah. It also hurts that we're saying 70 hours when it was nearly 69 hours.

It was like 68 and a half or something. We're so close. We'll say 69 hours. I mean, we're going to go a little longer too. We'll play it again. Tricy Kappa says, fun fact, Ritini and Dragon Air were designed by one person and Dragonite was done by someone else.

So that's at least part of why it looks so different. Well, they should have fucking figured that out because that was a disastrous call. It's just who looks at the two and then looks at the third and goes, yeah, they're in the same family. Yeah. Get out of here. Get out of here. It's dumb. Nick,

what else do you have to say about Pokemon Fire, Red? It was a tremendously fun experience. I am now into Pokemon. I look at those cards that are sitting on your desk every single day, and I think to myself, I can steal a few. He wouldn't know. But it was really fun, and I want to thank the audience and everyone else watching out there for all of your support, both mentally and physically.

It was a roller coaster, and I'm glad we did it. I'm better for it. And I can now say I'm into Pokemon games. Who are a couple of your favorite Pokemon now? Ooh, a couple of my favorite Pokemon You know I kind of like Seabent, the Arcanan.

Arcanine, yeah, Andy loves Arcanon. That's one of his favorite. That was a fun one. I would have loved to have spent a little bit more time with Vaporion. I could say, I mean, I'm a, you know, I'm a Balbazar guy. I got to be, through and 30.

He's my day one. Day one, dude. He's always going to be right here. And I will always have a fear of, of Charzard. I will always have a morbid fear. Yeah, that's how they get you. How messed up is it that they give your rival,

you're like the one that's like strong against you. Oh, that makes sense. That's great from a design standpoint, of course, for the game. Yeah, so attention. But yeah, and I loved all the, uh, the rare birds. Those are incredible as well. So sick. So, legendary birds, baby.

And the thing is, there's one more out of mute. Oh, we're going to do. Not a bird, but legendary. Spoilers. We're going to take that music. You're going to find out. You think you're going to get mute. I think here's the deal.

We have one more stream that we want to do. I don't know if we've talked about. about this. A little victory lap. We're going to do a little victory lap. There is a Gibroni at the mouth of this cave that just would not let me in until I'm champion. Guess what I'm champion. And you better tell them that hell's coming with me.

Yeah. I'm coming to hell's coming with me. We're going into that cave. We're going to catch a bunch more Pokemon for everyone that supported us. If we owe you a Pokemon, we're going to catch one for you. And then, yeah, we're going to lead up to you two. And I got to go grind to get more ultra balls because we sold them all for no reason. But maybe I'll sell all my, I don't want to have any rare.

candies either. I'll sell my heels. Whatever. It doesn't matter. But yeah, we're going to try to go get Mutu at some point. I don't know how much you guys got into this. I know you guys went through an emotional trauma in the abandoned mansion on Sinbar Island. Yes. The self-destruck

happened and killed Tim. But did you get to like get any of the lore and story of Mutu in there? I sort of. Because one of my favorite things of the original game is like, you know, there's the main storyline of getting all the badges, then there's the Team Rocket stuff going on.

but there's like a throughout it, but mainly in the Sinbar Island mansion stuff, like all the notes that you could read from people are all like the diaries of them doing the experiments to make me you to, which is the coolest thing ever. And then you go catch it in the cave and I'm like, God,

Pokemon's the best game ever, man. Like just so much imagination being put out there, the world building that they got going on. So if you didn't see that, what were your thoughts of the team rocket side of things? Oh, I mean, at first I was like, these guys are cool. Right, they're the cobra kite of this universe.

Oh, yeah. And you got to respect that. and I kept I kept talking them up until Kevin pulled me aside I was like they're not cool you just you're not gonna by the end of this game you're gonna be real

disappointed with yourself that you spoke so highly of them and I still think they're cool yeah I mean Team Rocket fucking rocks I wear a Team Rocket shirt yeah we did punch a hole through that guy's house and we never fix that guy's house

oh yeah left a hole in the back of his house uh huh at one point if I were writing the story and this is where I thought it was going and it still is my head canon is that you know you go into the headquarters that's like been taken over by Team Rocket, right? You go to these little stashes

or these little like stash houses that Rocket's taken over. And I think to myself, if I get the badge for a gym, when do I get to be the head of Team Rocket? Is this how this is going to go? Oh, that would be cool. I live long enough to see myself become the villain.

Where if I were writing the sequel to this game, some young upsar would have to try to take me out because I've destroyed every single person. And now I am the emperor. And now I've become like the bad guy. I am become death. Yeah. Yeah.

How was it a reveal for you, like a big moment to see that Giovanni was the eighth gym leader? That was pretty cool. Pretty damn rad. Yeah, that was pretty bad. Two of my favorite moments of the original games are the Vridian City, the first city you get to has a gym that you just weren't able to access. And you have to go back and it's the final one. It's Giovanni. That's awesome.

But also Palat Town realizing that you can, once you get surf, surf down to Sinamar Island from where you started? Come on. Come on. Surf like. Cut. Amazing. Wish you could just put it on one of your Pokemon and speed right through that. Yeah, man. The animations are kind of annoying.

Just Hems in general, definitely one of the low points of Pokemon overall for a variety of reasons, I would say. But they improve it over time. Yeah, it's just one of those things where you get it and you're like, oh, like there was multiple times where I just didn't have the Pokemon. We didn't have Frank Ocean with us who had cut. Who's Frank Ocean? He was an Otis. He was an Otis. Great, great.

And so, you know, you'd have to go back in there if you wanted to get to specific points. Of course, fly was a, we got fly, which was bittersweet because that's when we had to take on the twins. And that's when we lost our, our diglet, which is a bummer. Yeah. What was Digl's Digl's name? Do you remember? Andy Pandy. Andy Pandy.

One level away from leveling up. People were very excited about that. Could have seen the Doug trio. It would have been special. We never saw him, right? I've never seen him. Chris Anka sent me one. He sent me an image of what that looks like, but it was super horny.

looking, so I'm not sure if he was, if that was real or not. Yeah. So you don't want to call Chris out, but I don't know if he drew that himself or, and he was fucking with me or if that's what Mr. Pokemon had intended for the dog trail. Mr. Pokemon. Yeah. But yeah, overall, really, really fun. Andrew Brown writes in and says, you have to finish the island storyline to get Mew 2.

Yeah, Fire Red might make you do that. I'm not so sure. Didn't I finish the island storyline? Yeah, we found the little missing girl. Yeah, she was missing. We found her. We saved her. We did the fossil.

We did all that shit. Yeah, interesting, the fossil types as well. You know what I mean? Didn't it kind of that a lot? Well, the fossils that you get, right? And then we leveled it. But, like, we didn't really love them. You know what I mean?

You get the ember for aridactyl, which was cool. But, like, the two fossil types, we didn't really love them. We should do a stream where we accidentally find more rare candies, go back through all of our lineup, and just see, and just do an evolution stream where we see the evolution. Oh, well, I mean, I love that. I love where you're going there. But, like, we're talking right now, it's like, at what point you're just going to catch them all? there's 150 of these motherfuckers. We've caught, I think, 80?

86? I mean, he's up there. But I mean, here's the thing. Like, some of them you got to catch, like, we had it, we had, okay. Again, I'm a man of my word. I'm a man enough to admit when I'm wrong. There's a old rod. There's a super rod.

Yeah. And then there's a good rod. I didn't know. I didn't know I had the good rod. Yeah. And everyone's like, you gotta use the good rod to catch this specific type of Pokemon. And it's only in this one specific area. And so those are the kind of interesting.

intricacies that I'm like maybe we don't catch all 150. Yeah. I don't know if I'm going to be super. Some catch rates as well. Oh, yeah. Very lucky. We got very lucky with an early Pikachu, which has a low catch rate percentage in that first. That's insanely lucky. We got very lucky.

We got, we got lucky Tim on a couple of them where it's like, that probably shouldn't have happened and we got that. So let's just count it. The one thing that keeps this game from being a 10, aside from the fact that I had to permadeth all of my Pokemon, which I know is not how God intended. Yeah. is the safari zone. Yeah.

Just the worst thing that anyone's ever designed in the game. An amazing idea, horrible execution. It's one of those things where, you know when you watch Netflix and you're watching a show and you go to yourself, this should have just been a three-hour movie.

There's five episodes of this show that are just filler to keep me in this experience and on this platform longer. That is the safari zone. You get there and you're like, this is terrible. There's no skill involved.

It's all chance. There's a rock that you throw, but that doesn't do shit. You feed them. You would think that would make them more docile. That's useless. They're counting my steps. It's a jip to get into this place.

500 bucks. And this guy's like, here's four of these balls that don't fucking work. It's terrible. I love the idea that you're going in there and you're getting chance and counter. It's like a 5% chance of getting a jetini, which is super cool. I wish there was more skill-based.

I wish they had a mini-game where it was actually skill-based. You could actually like cheese it a little bit. But yeah. Yeah, we tried to get a Dratini. We spent like a half hour, maybe an hour trying to get a Dratini. I was like, we're not doing this. We're going to go by one. We're going to go by one.

We've all been right there at some point in our lives. Andrew Brown says, no, you have to complete islands four through seven. So there are more islands. You got to get back to the M. What? And then A.

K. says, can we get a Nick review of Mew two strikes back? One day maybe we'll get to the movies with Nick. I think that that might be, we might be a little early for that. He's seen one of the movies. Well, he's not a detective. I don't know.

I don't know if that's like, you know, that's where you want to, you're jumping off point for being, for the live act. It's beautiful. I mean, yeah. I think at some point we'll do a rewatch of Detective Pikachu.

I'm excited for that. But all right, this has been Pokemon Fire Red. We got all of Nick's thoughts on this game. I gave you a little history lesson, a little hot pepper gaming review as well. But that leaves one more person at this table that we've gotten some thoughts about this game. Yeah.

But we did not get a PowerPoint presentation. Snowbike, Mike. Where are you at? What's going on? Thanks, Tim. Ladies and gentlemen, of course. I'm going to use the stick, Mike, because I want to stand up, walk around.

and get loose with this one because I would be remissed if I didn't tell you all about what we learned on Pokemon. Of course, this is what I've learned from Pokemon that Professor Hardwood and I make a great duo. Okay, look at these two right here.

Let's go to slide number two, Kevin Coelho. Did you know, Tim, I'm 34 years old and I just learned today that Palat Town meant a palette of colors and all the cities that you ran into were different colors. didn't know that. Did I just learn today what fuchsia the color look like?

Hell yeah, I did. Did I know indigo was this purple color? I didn't know that, but I learned today, ladies. It's in the rainbow. Pretty freaking amazing that you can go around and learn different colors. Nobody told me that? Pretty amazing stuff, okay? Just wanted to let you know that one.

Let's move on to the next game, Mike, they're all, which you didn't play golden silver. No, no. They're all different types of wood. Get out of town. Kevin, I'm switching back to the other mic, just because my camera's cutting off when I'm standing up.

Okay. Up next. Our next slide. Tim, we learned that ratatata is not a ground type. Yeah. That was a tough one for all of us to learn. His name is also not ratatata,

but I'm going to continue to call him ratatata because it feels right. That's what his friends call him. Yeah, ratatada. Yeah. And so we learned that ratatata is actually just a normal type Pokemon. Sometimes you have four legs. Sometimes you burrow in the ground. Sometimes you run around in the tall grass.

And that doesn't mean. make you a ground or grass-type Pokemon. I can run around in the tall grass. Am I a grass type? No. You're a normal type. Okay. So we learned that Ratatata is a normal type

Pokemon and not a ground-type Pokemon. This guy is horrifying, by the way. I mean, also shout to this guy who bought himself a full-on ratat-tata mascot outfit. It is interesting, though, because looking at the name without spelled, there was a lot of letters going on. Yeah. It's kind of overwhelming. And I'm with you.

Growing up, I didn't call it ratatata. Ratat for some reason. I knew there was no tea at the end of it, but I was always, it's ratatat. So we learned a lot about ratatat. Up next, what the fuck is this? Oh, yeah, dude. We didn't know Pokemon games were this difficult. This is a child's game.

How are we going and making these games so tough? You need flash. And we went into one cave and a diglet trying to lock us all in. And we had a moment there where we're like, we're not going to escape this cave. This diglet's probably going to kill all of them. Oh yeah, Diglets Cave, baby. Who knew this child's game was difficult, okay? We learned a lot.

It's got layers. Up next, what is stab? What is stab? Okay, we learned what stab is. Now, a lot of people doubt that we don't know what stab is, but we know what stab is. What is it, Mike? Okay, same type attack bonus, okay? You want to know what stab means?

It's not, oh, you're a grass type attacking another grass type. So you're the same type. You should get a bonus. No, no. It's a grass type Pokemon using a grass type move, which then would give you the boost bonus because of that move. So did we think, oh, man, sometimes Pokemon could be dual types, but then you got to use the first type because that's the boost right there.

So if it's a flying ground type, which probably is impossible, but I just made that up, you want to use your flying moves, you know what I mean? So what stab? We know what stab is, okay? Up next. Mike, we met a flying ground type, right? That's archaactal. Eradactal.

That's the one that killed. Really? Is he a ground type? Yeah. Wow. See, we're learning. Yeah, he was learning. We're learning. Up next, this guy is a freak, okay?

Did you know that Nita King can learn cut, surf, strength, and rock smash? I mean, this guy is just... He's a Swiss Army knife. He's that dude. I didn't know that this guy could swim like that. I didn't know he could cut like that. Tragic figure, though, because everyone that touches him gets poisoned, just like rogue. Did you know, any time you touch him, you're going to get poisoned?

What a cool freaking dude is right thing. there for you. So I wanted to give some big love to Dill, Shard Buddy, because he's a freak, and I didn't know he could learn so much. Like, shout out to you and your Photoshop skills. Thank you. These are all Photoshop's going on here. I do want to, can we go back one to Stab? Yeah, go to Stab?

Can we go back to Stab real quick? Yeah, yeah. You're missing one little one little period at the end of there and also a question mark, but we're good. Well, you know, it felt good. It looked good. You know what I mean? Neesaurus, like, leaf looks like the period is there, so no one would have gone. Oh, shit.

You know, I didn't get deep into my font duffy this time, so I apologize. I know a lot of you look for my incredible fonts that I find. But, you know, pretty generic fonts this time. But I play with the colors and the sizes. Roger would be happy. You're freaking out. I love this. This is my favorite thing.

Let's go to another top five. Of course, ladies and gentlemen, I love to bring you top fives. And I've got to bring you the top five of our Pokemon journey. And I thought mistakes happened. Let's bring our top five mistakes, Nick Scarpe. You don't look back on our journey. Number five. Great way to spell mistakes too.

Going north. Ladies and gentlemen, if the chat tells you to go north when you're not prepared, do not go north. Okay? You always go south in Pokemon because that means you will avoid Greg Miller, you will avoid those twins over by flyer surf

and they will not take one of your Pokemon. So, RIP the Coos, RIP, Andy Pandy, number of Pokemon we lost because you told us to go north. So please always stick on a level. Don't go up. Don't go up. Number four.

Buy water. Nick Scarpino. Our biggest mistake was just continuing to smack this vending machine. And I know you'll tell me, Mike, this was the most economic friendly move to buy health potions. But God damn it, buying one water a pop. This took 30 minutes of our playtime to watch Nick at a vending machine. Just go water, lemonade, sweet tea, water, It was water, soda, lemonade, Mike.

If you're going to criticize me, please get the critique correct. We somehow, Tim, found that buying water, lemonade, and soda pops were a better deal than buying potions during the mid part of the video game. Now, did we learn at the end? We actually never needed those because then we started to buy hyperpotions. Yes. But, yeah, the potions that fully heal you and restore status effects are kind of awesome. Those are the move.

We have 40 of them now. vending machines. We fell in love with them. We probably should have caught off that relationship like me buying waters across the street a little bit of a go. Like that one in your hand? Just like that one and

this one. Why too? Because he doesn't have big water bottles, okay? He's listening to the advice here. Mike's out here buying water. Although wait, this is your things not to do. These are the mistakes. Yeah, this is a big mistake.

And here you are. Okay. So number three. Not a mistake. It's just technique. What is it? We never really mastered the type chart. Of course, Sandy Cortez made a type chart

for us. It was very good. that Zaptos getting hit by a rock. If you're trying to figure out what that is, that's when we lost Sexy Rexy to a ground type rock Pokemon that threw a rock at Sexy Rexy and took him out of the flying stance and killed him. That'll do it. What type is that?

You question yourself and you ask, what type is that? We didn't really know what was happening a lot of the time, but we felt it and we had the intuition to guide us through this 68-hour Pokemon journey, and we did just fine, but there were mistakes made along the way. Number two, we get into the big two. Don't bite me. It's fucking tricks your mind. Good for you.

Look at that. Thank you. Look at that. What? There were no negative ramifications. There's no negative ramifications. From being bitten by Seabent. There was none.

It was a momentary lapse of judgment on my part. You know, Faga War. And he's fine. He's still in the part. We can put him in the party tomorrow. I don't think this should be on the list. I'm actually protesting this. Isn't this why you had to switch Andy Pandy in and then Andy Pandy was

immediately killed? There's no negative consequences that happened to Poon. Of course, it wouldn't be a PowerPoint without bringing you the play-by-play. So, Kevin, please prepare and click this link because we're going to take it to Reddit over here. We don't need to do this. Our friends over on Reddit made a full-on video for us to relive the moment. Oh, don't make Scarpino possibly biting his own Pokemon. This is why I hate.

Thank you to Reddit. That's why I hate all of our audience. Oh, we're fucked. This is not good. Oh, that person said, yo, you better come over here and hang out with us. Kids. Oh, there's two of them. They're together.

Oh, I love that. Oh, shit. Two fire Pokemon. We did not have our water time. A-bit Luis up in this. Somebody told us to come up here. We got Andy Pandy's. We got Andy Pandy's 25.

That was the crew. Instead of going with a water type? We don't have a fucking water type, Kevin. Oh, my God. Andy Pandy! Fucking Andy. Fuck. That was on me

That was on me Oh, we're fucked This is not good I'm just gonna I gotta keep biting Wait, sorry, why are we using Garrados? We don't have him in the squad

Kevin, got it got it He's out, I did, it took a 15 minutes It's fine, it's fine, it's fine, you're back now You're here now you see it happening Kevin Now we got We need good I just pause, pause this for a second Why was I confused?

Do you think it was the Why was I confused you now? Don't fucking blame me Don't blame me Somebody was asking me the same question five times. Look at the bar at the bottom. It says 8B. Louise. No one told me to update the bar.

I'm using the knowledge that we have. Do you think it's that five people are asking me the same question? I've already asked an answer. There's Nick in the middle of Mike and Kevin just jabbering away. Put Garados in. He's not in the squad. Well, then why don't you put him in? We had never pulled him out.

That was a new move for us. All right. Keep going. I don't think you can. I have something that allow me just to run from this? I don't think there is a way to get out of these job movies. I might doing any fucking damage. Come on, girl.

I hit him a lot. I hit that guy a lot. Come on, keep the confidence. We're all good. We're just fine. We're out of it. We're out of it. Good job, Nick.

All right. I'm going to take this five days without incident down. We're back to fucking zero. Yeah, we were building up some great momentum during that. Oh, man. So, of course, number two is being aware of your Pokemon and their moves, and don't bite your fellow Pokemon. Don't bite them. And number one, on our biggest mistakes, step back, he's going to blow.

Wow. We learned that there are six types of Pokemon that can self-destruct in this video game, coughing, wheezing, electro, Voltorb, Gravler, and GeoDood. And we learned a valuable lesson. Kevin, please go to the final slide where we can look back on one final moment. Oh. You need one of those? We do. If it doesn't have a little ball bite, I need it.

Joey, have you seen Ripley on Netflix? Oh, shit, it blew up. I have not. It's on my life. Oh, no! What the fuck? What the fuck just happened? Holy shit!

We fucked up, guys. How did it have self-destruck? Oh, my. Holy fuck. ...immigately blame you this on Joey. Why are you damn fun?

Use Razor, they said. It's fine. Nothing will happen. It's bad. Oh, my. Whoa. I can't believe that. Where did that come from?

Why are we using Tim? Everyone's so pissed. Nick is defeated, Madsy. It was my idea. day one? Yep. Oh my God.

I didn't know the guy could fuck yourself destruct. We learned a lesson. We learned a lesson. Someone who was 20 levels higher than him or however how I was.

What's an incredible moment in a series of incredible moments, everybody. You can watch the entire 69 hour adventure. The Nick Scarpino, Snowbike Mike,

Andy Cortez, Kevin Coelho and so many other amazing people from kind of funny have went on. Mike, is this the final? And this is my final

slide just to say, yeah. We love Andy. I went to Google and typed to Andy Cortez. this is one of the only up there. And so Andy, we love you.

I love you. Thank you for everything. Mike, I just want to say this is your best. Oh, thanks, honey. It's a good power point. We're getting there.

We're getting there, everybody. Thank you all for your support. Watching this show, watching all the streams, supporting us through all this stuff. We're going to keep doing so many fun things. Thank you, Nick,

for giving this a real shot, putting your all into it. And it really created a very special moment for kind of funny for all of us here and for all the community out there. We're going to continue that goodwill going right after this. with the Dark Souls stream. They're going to get into the two bosses is the plan. Two bosses.

I promised them we could beat two bosses, not one, but two. So let's get a good solid try here. Let's have some fun. Fantastic job, Mike. The PowerPoint was going to be playing off screen. What's going on? How am I going to beat these two bosses? This is going to be fun.

Let us know in the comments below what you would give. Pokemon Fire Red on the kind of funny scale. And until next time, got to be the very best like no one ever was. Goodbye.