- Greetings, Pokefans! Michael here and today I'm doing another Poketuber Reacts video, this time to a video by PaPaSea, "Beating Pokemon How
Nintendo Intended It." This is a video I stumbled
upon a few weeks ago and watched the first minute,
or minute and a half of it, and then realized, wait, this actually looks
super interesting and it would make a
great reaction video, so I stopped watching it
and I reached out to PaPaSea and asked if it was okay
if I made a reaction video, and graciously, he said yes. So a huge thank you to PaPaSea for giving me
permission to make this. Links to both the original
video and his channel are in the description below. Make sure you go check him out. From the bit of this
video I have already seen, it seems the general
premise of this video is playing through
a Pokemon game based on what a guidebook
tells him to do. And I'm really excited
to see how this plays out because I was a guidebook
fiend in my youth. I had a "Ruby and Sapphire" one, "FireRed and LeafGreen"
one, and an "Emerald" one, and I think even some
Gen 4 guidebooks too. So I'm really excited to see what the guidebook tells him
to do that I don't remember. So don't forget to
subscribe to my channel since less than half of
my viewers are subscribed. (gloomy music)
Darkness. And also, of course,
subscribe to PaPaSea, and let's dive into my reaction to "Beating Pokemon How
Nintendo Intended It." All right, here we are, "Beating Pokemon How Nintendo
Intended It," by PaPaSea. I got my gamer
goggles on, hell yeah. And let's get started. - [PaPaSea] "Beating
Pokemon How Nintendo "Intended It To Be." - Indeed. - [PaPaSea] I played a
lotta games as a kid, like "Mario Sunshine,"
"The Wind Waker" and "Sonic Heroes," but what- - I never played any of
those games as a kid. I played "Wind Waker" as
an adult on the Wii U. Have not beaten it. "Sunshine," have
not played at all. I have "3D All-Stars,"
but I was like, oh, I'm gonna beat 'em in order. I haven't beat "Mario 64 yet" 'cause it is a brutally
difficult game, my God. And then "Sonic Heroes,"
I've just never played. - [PaPaSea] One thing that
all these games had in common for me was that I never
actually finished them. I would get lost or stuck
at one point of the game without knowing how
to get through it, and since I was a kid and the internet was still
pretty new at the time, I couldn't easily look
up guides on YouTube like you could today. - Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I'm trying to think of
games that I played as a kid but never actually beat, but there are games I
played as like a teenager, or as an adult that
I've never beaten 'cause I got to one fight. Like I remember I played
"Uncharted" one as a teenager and there was one part
I couldn't get through after like three tries. Then I just never
played it again because I was like this
is too hard and I'm tired. Like I'm dreading
having to do that. And then I went back as an adult and beat all four of them
in like a quick succession. So, maybe I should give
some of those games I played as a kid a try again. - [PaPaSea] Back then, if
you wanted help on a game, your best bet was to
buy a strategy guide. There were so many
different types of these in the early 2000s, especially for Nintendo games. I got a few of these as a kid-
- Absolutely. - [PaPaSea] And use
them from time to time- - Okay, So look, so this
is something interesting I need to point out. You see the "Mario Kart Double
Dash" guidebook on the left? It says, "The official guide
from 'Nintendo Power,'" which was a magazine that has
been discontinued long ago. This "FireRed and LeafGreen"
guidebook is by Prima. P-R-I-M-A, see it
at the top there? My "FireRed and
LeafGreen" guidebook is
by "Nintendo Power." And I don't have it here
in my office with me today, but I've shown it
in videos before. I will put a
screenshot of a video where I've shown it off before
somewhere on the screen. So that's one thing
I'm intrigued to see, is because while I also had a "FireRed and
LeafGreen" guidebook, it wasn't the same one. So, this will be cool. - [PaPaSea] But never actually
read through the whole thing and read about exactly
how they wanted you to- - Oh, looks so different
than mine. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] If you don't know
what a strategy guide was, since they're not
really around anymore, they were basically-
- They're around - [PaPaSea] Just a guide
that told you exactly how to beat the game. - They're still around, they just don't sell
as well. (laughs) I mean, I bought the "Sword
and Shield" strategy guide, not 'cause I needed it, just 'cause I thought it'd
be fun to have. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] I just used these
guides at parts I got stuck on or to find any secrets or
Easter eggs within the game. I recently saw a "Minecraft"
video where somebody took a guide made by Mojang and
used that to beat "Minecraft" exactly how they wanted you to. So in typical Poketuber fashion- - I had this one. I
have this "Mario," this new "Super Mario
Bros." guidebook, for the DS, I have this one. God, I wish I had 'em on me. I should've brought 'em to
the office for this video. - [PaPaSea] Else's
idea from another game and completely spin it into
Pokemon like it's original. I have this Prima guide on
"Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen"- - Oh Prima. Pretty
sure it's Prima. - [PaPaSea] Which does have
a Nintendo official seal of approval which
does technically mean that Nintendo endorses
this product, and that- - I love the check
boxes at the top. I mean, there's like,
maps for every area, hard to catch Pokemon, but then
also all 40 berries listed. We have an extensive
botanical encyclopedia. - [PaPaSea] And that somebody
at Nintendo somewhere, read through this
guide and thought, yup, that's how you beat
"Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen" on the Game Boy Advance. I took a quick look at this
guide before making this video and it seems to cover just about everything you need to
know about these games, even from type advantages to
where to catch every Pokemon. As a kid, I cut out the page
that had all the berries for some reason, so unless- (laughing) - It doesn't even
have all 40 berries. Wait, these toys! So I don't know if I had any, oh wait, no I have that Torchic. It's not here, but
I have that Torchic. That was the Torchic that
was in the first ever episode of "Pokemon Talk." I don't know what those
things are on the upper left, but some of those
like hard figures, like they're like plastic,
they're not plushies. Those I had as a kid. I remember that
Metagross distinctly. You see it looks like
it has a weird mouth, it's like a disc it can fire. I did have that. Wow, I'd totally
forgotten about those. - [PaPaSea] Unless we need to do something
involving berries, we should be good following
this guide exactly. - Oh yeah, it's
"FireRed LeafGreen." - [PaPaSea] I'm
going to try my best to avoid any prior
knowledge I have on these games besides
very basic type advantages and stuff like that, and I wanna beat
the game exactly how this guide tells us to. Now that I have access to
all of the secret information Game Freak and Nintendo
didn't want us to know about "Pokemon FireRed
and LeafGreen," like how you should heal
before every Elite Four battle, didn't know that, and how Rock and Fire are
apparently super effective against Poison. - Oh no. (laughs) Oh no. Although mate, you didn't
know you're supposed to heal between every Elite Four? For safety purposes,
you got to heal. They're coming at you
with a fully healed team. You should be fully healed too. I wanted to double check
on the Poison thing. So I thought Rock might
have been a thing. So Rock does resist Poison. Obviously Poison
is not weak to it. Fire is nowhere. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] I really don't think they proofread
these things at all. All right, so let's
just actually start up a brand new save on
"Pokemon FireRed" and see what the
guide tells us to do. - Alright. (playful music) Oh, nostalgia. - [PaPaSea] The strategy guide is pretty straightforward
at the start. Name your rival, I
named him Nintendo. Walk into the grass
and pick your starter. It did tell me to pick
the potion up in the PC at your starting house
which was helpful, and say goodbye to your mother. And it also said to
pick the starter- - Subscribe, nice. - [PaPaSea] So I take Bulbasaur. I name it Subscribe, which you
should totally do by the way, and I hammered away-
- There you go, good, good. Good YouTube strategies. What is this? Hammer away. - [PaPaSea] Between my rival
battle just as the guide said, got the parcel, caught a
Pidgey, named it Twitter, follow me on Twitter by the way, link is in the description, and headed to Route 22, since it suggests that
I catch a Pokemon here before the optional
rival battle, although it doesn't tell me
that the battle is optional. I caught a Mankey
and named it Hawk and then level up
my Pokemon team between level seven and nine
just as the guide suggests. I beat my rival pretty easily, and there's really
not much to be said in the Viridian Forest, but I do catch a
Caterpie and name it Dan, and then head
towards Pewter City. There's only one
event in Pewter City and according to
the guide, it reads, there is only one
event in Pewter City, but you can visit the nearby
gym for 50 Pokedollars. It doesn't get you anything,
but it's interesting. The Poke Ball noted on
the map is invisible, so search the area for it. You won't be able to
proceed to the east till you complete the
Gym Leader Battle, so head for the gym. - Okay. The Prima guide is worse than
the "Nintendo Power" one. (laughs) I don't remember the "Nintendo
Power" guide ever telling me I had to pay to
get into the gym. Oh, I see what's happening! It's supposed to be the museum. You can visit the
nearby museum for $50. That's what it is. They meant to put
museum and they put gym. Okay. Analysis. - What? I found that wording
to be really awkward and I'm not really
sure what it means, but I head into the gym. - I'm sure what it means. I figured it out. Call me detective MandJTV. Private eye. - [PaPaSea] And battle
anyway, against Brock, and the guide says
to have Pokemon between levels 11 to
13, so I do just that. Subscribe and Hawk handle
the gym pretty easily, although surprisingly, the guide doesn't
tell me anything about type advantages or what
types Brock's Pokemon are, so I just hammer away at him
again just like the guide says. I don't know why it
keeps saying hammer away. I heard towards-
- With your most potent offensive attacks. Man, imagine you have like
a Pikachu and it's like, hammer away with your most
potent offensive attack. Thunder Shock. - [PaPaSea] Moon and on the
way it specifically tells me not to buy the Magikarp
in the Pokemon center right outside of Mt. Moon. Now I don't know about you guys, but I always buy the Magikarp. It's a tradition for me whenever
I play a Kanto based game- - Really? - [PaPaSea] But since the guide says not to, I guess
we're not going to because apparently they're
so common in Kanto. - My guide as a kid also told me do not buy the Magikarp. So I never did because
the guide was like, this is a rip off, you can
get them very easily later. And I was like, okay. But also, my first ever play through "FireRed and LeafGreen," my team was just my Blastoise,
so it didn't even matter. - [PaPaSea] I go through
Mt. Moon pretty easily as the guide tells me
exactly where to go which is pretty cool, pick up the dome fossil
because I prefer chaos, and teach Hawk Mega Punch
'cause it's a pretty decent move and I don't really have
that many other options. Now in Cerulean City it
tells me to battle Misty and I have to level
up my Pokemon to between levels 18 and 21, so I have to do a
little bit of grinding. If only there was a group of
nearby trainers or something I could battle for faster XP, like on a route up
north or something, but since the guide tells
me to battle Misty first, I am forced to grind the Wild
Area and not head north yet. - Oh, that stinks. (laughs) Man, I can't believe it doesn't, I mean, I feel like
mine also probably just showed Misty like on
the Cerulean City page, but doesn't, I don't remember if it told
you to keep going or not but I do think it's
funny that because, ope, I haven't turned
the page yet. (laughs) That's hilarious. - [PaPaSea] Misty's
gym was pretty easy since my Bulbasaur evolved
to Ivysaur at this point. So that's two
badges down already. The guide didn't mention-
- Man, if you grind that long with a Grass type. - [PaPaSea] To you Grass or
Electric types in this gym against Misty which
was a lot more helpful than the Brock fight. But I really think it
would've made a lot more sense for the guides to tell me
to battle my rival first and go battle trainers up north so I can grind a
little bit higher, but hey if Nintendo
endorses this, they gotta know better
than me I guess. - The rival battle, I lost it the first time
I ever did it as a kid. I wasn't healed and I wasn't
ready for it. (laughs) So I reset my game,
'cause as a kid, when I was a kid I never
actually lost a battle. I would always reset
my game if I lost. 'Cause I was like,
I took consequences. And so, yeah. (laughs) I was stuck there
for a little while 'cause all I had
was my Wartortle. - [PaPaSea] So
after beating Misty, I head north to fight Nintendo. Never thought I'd ever
say that sentence. But it goes pretty smoothly. My Pidgey kept
getting critted again. I don't know why my
Pidgey has this knack for having terrible luck. It also got Poisoned at
three for three times in the Viridian Forest, but
I sure was able to clean up. I was a little
scared of this Abra, but thanks to the
handy-dandy guide, I looked up Abra's
level up moveset, and apparently it has no
moves that hit Ivysaur so that was pretty easy. Charmander was the same. It was level 18 and
didn't even evolve yet. What's up with that Nintendo? So I beat the rival anyway and now I have to
head towards Route 24. Route 24- - It's gonna end up so
over leveled. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] And get
the S.S. Anne ticket just as the guide says. I head towards Vermilion City and the game has a lot of events
for us to do in this city. First, we have to
get the Vs. Seeker from this trainer of
the Pokemon Center. We'll probably
never even use it. Get the old rod, so we can catch our own
Magikarp if we wanted to now, but we still probably
won't ever use this. And pick up the Bike Voucher so we can get the bike
from Cerulean City. And then we have the most
important event of this area, the S.S. Anne. The guide suggests
that all my Pokemon be around level 20 for the
rival flight and since they are, I just go straight
to the rival battle, ignoring most of the ship. Although the guide
warns me about Nintendo's powered up Kadabra,
since it is quite fast. It tells me this will be faster- (laughs) - Before it lays waste
to most of your group. Before it reeks devastation
upon the townspeople. (laughs) Lays waste. That's just such
good word choice. (laughs) Aww, man. - [PaPaSea] And the
Kadabra, if I wanna beat it. Wish I thought of that
myself. Thanks Nintendo. I beat my rival pretty easily, get the HM for a cut, and now it's time to
go to Lt. Surge's gym. The guide recommends
that I use Ground types, as they are super
effective against Electric- - As one would. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] But since
I don't have any, I just rely on Hawk
for most of this gym. I don't know why the
guide didn't suggest I go through Diglett's
Cave before the gym? - Oh, it doesn't suggest that? Oh man, I feel like it would. I feel like maybe mine did. This might just be like
wishful thinking though, just be like, oh,
well, my guide, the one that I have, the
official "Nintendo Power" guide. It's just, but I don't have it. (laughs) It's not at my office. - [PaPaSea] To catch a Diglett, which happens to
be a Ground type, for this gym and collect
some of the items in Route 2 that'll help me out later. But since I'm trying to pretend like I've never played
these games before, I battle Lt. Surge first
as the guide suggests. I buy some Paralyze Heals. It
tells me to do that as well. And aside from getting paralyzed
and double-teamed so much, the gym really wasn't that bad. Now at this point, the guide
gets a little confusing for me- - Little trippy having
Pidgeotto on the field there in a Lt. Surge battle. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] It says
that on Route 11, east of Vermilion City, I should go left and enter
the Pokemon Center to heal, then go around the
bend into Rock Tunnel. - Think they put this note
on the wrong page. (laughs) Think this is supposed
to be the route that actually has
Rock Tunnel on it. - [PaPaSea] Rock Tunnel
isn't on this route though so I think that the guide
got confused with Route 9 which the guide tells
me to go to at the end of the section about
Lt. Surge's battle. Turns out the tip that
they have on the page about Route 9 is the same
exact tip they had on Route 11, telling me to go
around the bend, but it also tells
me to teach Flash to one of the
Pokemon on my team, since I need it to get through
the Rock Tunnel much easier. There's only one issue
with that though. I don't have Flash yet. The guide also didn't
tell me anywhere as of yet where to get Flash. I know it's near the other side of the Diglett's
Cave on Route 2, which the guide said
was optional by the way. But if someone has never
played these games before, I can see them getting
stuck at this point, especially if it was 2004 and they couldn't have
just looked it up online as easily as they could today. Luckily- - Okay, that was
where I was gonna go. Okay, so I was gonna say like, man, it's ridiculous that
they never tell you to get it. But then I was like about
to say something about, okay I know Flash, that's
gotta be an HM or a TM, and then you go to the
end and then it tells you. But it also doesn't say anything
of how to get back to it? 'Cause if it never
mentions Diglett's Cave, and if it never mentions it, then supposedly it doesn't
exist, then that's an issue, because you can't
get back to Route 2 at this point in the game
without Diglett's Cave. - [PaPaSea] In the appendix
at the end of the guide, it does tell me that I
could find Flash on Route 2. And since I now
have access to Cut, I can access it near
the Viridian Forest. They really should have
put more of an emphasis on backtracking to get Flash
in the actual walkthrough. Like it would have been
amazing if they said, hey before battling Surge, go through the Diglett's Tunnel. - Okay, maybe he's just like, oh, I can use Diglett's Tunnel. - [PaPaSea] If possibly,
catch Diglett here, which is good against Lt. Surge, and oh, by the way,
on the other side, you get Flash which you need
to progress in the game. I end up going back
and getting it anyway and I had to catch
a few more Pokemon for the aid to give
to me as I needed 10- - So fun fact, Flash is
not actually necessary. You can get through
Rock Tunnel without it. And in fact with the
guidebook's maps, it's easier to get
through it without Flash than it would be
without the guidebook. I'm nitpicking, I'm sorry. - [PaPaSea] One of which was
a Drowzee I named Cleetus since I can teach it Flash. I don't know why I
picked the name Cleetus. It just seemed really
fitting at the time. Heading into Rock tunnel-
- No, no, no. I totally get it. I've named many a Pokemon with an impulse word that
popped into my head like Fast the Slugma. - [PaPaSea] Well, and
either this map is terrible or I have no idea
how to read a map. Most likely the latter,
but I couldn't figure out where I entered from. Turns out I actually
entered on this ladder on the part of the map that's
labeled the exit level, not the entrance level. And there's only two levels
that you switch between. I get out as quickly as I can- - Yikes. (laughs) Wait, can I look
at this map again? 'Cause I have Rock Tunnel
pretty much memorized. - [PaPaSea] Most
likely the latter, but I couldn't figure
out where I entered- - Move your hand,
okay, there we go. Okay, I see what it is. So the entrance and exit level
of Rock Tunnel is the same. And so naming it the exit
level is super confusing. Oh God, that's terrible. My guidebook was better. - [PaPaSea] Turns out I
actually entered on this ladder on the part of the map that's
labeled the exit level, not the entrance level. And there's only two levels
that you switch between. I get out as quickly as I
can and get to Lavender Town after staring at the map for
a good five minutes or so trying to figure out
exactly where I was. But the guide tells me to
ignore Lavender Town for now and head West to Route 18 so
I can get to Celadon City. - Good thing it tells you that. - [PaPaSea] Way a lot to
do in Celadon City now, like get this free
Eevee or steal it because this guy is
kinda just standing there unless we take it. I don't really know
why that happens. I immediately get a Water
Stone as well and evolve to Vaporeon since I don't
have a Water type yet and I know I'm gonna need
Surf somewhere down the road. I also get the coin
case and gamble like the guide tells me to, although you don't really
need to gamble at all to progress in the game. I give the girl on top
of the department store some drinks as well in
hopes of getting a good TM like Ice Beam for
my new Vaporeon, as the guide says I
could get Ice Beam. I named the Vaporeon
Joey by the way. But I don't get any
special TM unfortunately, so Joey is just stuck
knowing Water Pulse for now. Now I head to the game corner- - It says you can get
Ice Beam from that girl? She's always Light
Screen, Reflect, and then I think Protect? No it's not Protect. Light Screen, Protect,
and Safeguard? It's some other status move. - [PaPaSea] And start the
first big Team Rocket event. I talk to the grunt in
front of the poster, beat them and then notice an
interesting note in this guide, as I head down into the hideout. It says, there are
no random encounters in the Team Rocket Hideout, so all fights are at
your own discretion. In parentheses, where possible. Which literally translates to, all of the fights are optional, except for the
ones that are not. (laughs loudly) - What? That's so bad. There are no random encounters. All fights are at
your discretion, (upbeat music) where they are avoidable. The other one, God that's funny. - [PaPaSea] Thank you Nintendo. I make it through the
Rocket hideout pretty easily and prepare for
my Giovanni fight. My Pokemon are all level 25
plus like the guide suggests, but it warns me about Giovanni's
Kangaskhan of all Pokemon. I have a pretty easy time
at the start of the battle, which makes me realize that
these older Pokemon games really aren't any harder than
newer games as people say, but the Kangaskhan does
give me a bit of trouble. I thought-
- Okay. In reference to that, it's
just the games themselves, I don't think like most
of the games are harder. It's just there are particular
instances in certain games that are harder
because of level jumps. So like Clair is really
tough in the Johto games because of there's
like a level jump. (laughs) You know? Like just playing
through normally, you're gonna be like 10
levels lower than her. It's harder because
it's just bad scaling. - [PaPaSea] Thought Hawk
being a Fighting type would one-shot it but nope, Hawk got one-shotted instead. The guide tells me to start
hammering away anyway, still don't know why it-
- Really likes that word. - [PaPaSea] Keeps
saying that for nearly every important battle. But I'm able to do it
and defeat Giovanni and get the Silph Scope, so we can head back
to Lavender Town. Now before heading
to Lavender Town, we have to collect the fourth
Gym Badge from Erika first. Since I have Twitter,
this is a breeze and I lay down the law
as the guide suggests- (laughs) - Hammer away. Lay waste. Lay down
the law. (laughs) This person who
wrote this really wants to add emotion
and stakes to this. - [PaPaSea] Fourth gym badge. I head to Lavender Town now and Pidgeotto continues to
be the hard carry of my team throughout this game. I dispatched my rival
as the guide suggests. Great to see that the guide's
using a different word other than hammer for once
and I head up the tower. I try and catch the
Marowak at the top, but learn the hard way that
you can't do that apparently. Guide didn't say
anything about that. And after that I
rescued Mr. Fuji, get the Poke Flute, head south
to go towards Fuchsia City, wake up the Snorlax, kill it because I don't
care about catching it, and continue heading south-
- Vicious! - [PaPaSea] The guide
completely ignores Cycling Road at this point,
and looking ahead, I still don't see anything
about Cycling Road in the guide. - Wait, what? They just don't mention
that entire route? What? (laughs) That's so weird. What on earth? - [PaPaSea] Would
use a much easier way to get to Fuchsia City, but it does tell me to
go behind Cycling Road where you can get Fly which I
immediately teach to Twitter, which also evolved the Pidgeot. I think it would've
made way more sense to have me go down Cycling Road
since it's quicker, easier, and there's trainers I
can battle there as well, but we do exactly as
the guide suggests and ignore Cycling Road. Now that I'm in Fuchsia City, the guide wants me to
battle Koga straight away. It suggests that I level-
- Oh, no, no, no. - [PaPaSea] My Pokemon team
between levels 35 and 37 so I do that for
everyone except for Hawk since I don't really think
Hawk will be too useful against a Poison type gym. It also suggests that
I use Pokemon good against Poison types,
like Psychic types, and Fire and Rock
types apparently, even though those last
two types aren't even super effective against Poison. I start the battle with Koga
and let's have a little fun and guess what the guide
tells me to do against Koga. Does it tell me to
A, dispatch him, B, lay down the law, or C, hammer away? Answer's C. Hammer away-
- It's C! - [PaPaSea] Hammer away
is always the answer when you're in a Pokemon battle. The guide also suggests that
I use Poison type Pokemon against Koga's Poison
types, especially his Muk, so I don't get Toxiced, because it's a very
bad form of Poison. Now, while this would get around
being Poisoned from Toxic, it doesn't help that
Venusaur, my only Poison type, and most Poison
types in general, can't really do much
to other Poison types. - Yeah, I know. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] Since the
guide tells me to do this, I do it anyway, even though using Pidgeot
is clearly the better option for this battle. I stall with Leech
Seed on Venusaur anyway and get through the
gym pretty easily, although it does take
quite a few turns. After getting the fifth badge, I head to the Safari
Zone to collect Surf and the Gold Teeth which I can
then exchange for Strength, catch this random
Parasect for no reason which I'll probably never use. That pretty much
wraps up everything we need to do in
Fuchsia City for now. The guide tells me to
head back to Celadon City to get the tea from this lady so I can give it to the guards and then pass it
to Saffron City. - I've always thought it was
strange how in the Kanto games, that you can get the tea as
soon as you get to Celadon, which means you are
capable of beating Sabrina, clearing out Silph Co.
and beating Sabrina. Well maybe, maybe there's a
roadblock in front of Silph Co. I'm not actually
entirely sure about that. 'Cause I was gonna say you
can like clear out Silph Co. and beat Sabrina
before you even get through the Rocket Hideout. But part of me is thinking
maybe they don't let you into Silph Co. until you've
cleared out the Rocket Hideout. Or maybe they do? I'm not sure. Someone let me know
in the comments if there's any
kind of roadblocks or if it's just possible to
get to Celadon, get the tea, and then do all
the Saffron stuff before doing anything else. - [PaPaSea] It probably
would have made more sense to tell me to do this when
I first got to Celadon, but that really isn't
that big of a deal. The first thing the
guide tells us to do here is to take on the mini gym, aka the Fighting Dojo. Pigeon and Vaporeon
make this very easy and at the end I'm rewarded
between the choice- - His squad is so
well leveled. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] The
options are Hitmonchan, one of the coolest
Pokemon in existence, and Hitmonlee, a cool Pokemon, but not nearly as
cool as Hitmonchan. So I pick Hitmonchan, of course, and name it Jackie. - I don't think it's one of
the coolest Pokemon ever, but I respect his taste. - [PaPaSea] Now we have to
head through the Silph Co. and luckily the guide
has a cheat sheet for us that allows us to get
through it rather quickly, while ignoring most
of the trainers. Towards the end, we
have a rival fight and all the guide
does is trash my rival saying how this fight
should be so easy. It even goes in
on his Exeggcute, a little bit on Growlithe
for some reason, saying quote, Exeggcute
is, well, a sad joke, and if it thinks it's gonna
help against the Elite Four, it needs its head examined. Pretty much the-
- What! - [PaPaSea] Same goes
for Growlithe though, it can be tricky against
your Grass type Pokemon, so watch it. - Okay. (laughs) I've never liked Exeggcute. Always thought it
was a dumb Pokemon, but this is vicious. (laughs) What? That's so funny. It needs its head examined. Man, it's got like
six heads. (laughs) Oh, that's so good. - [PaPaSea] Not sure what
whoever wrote this has against Exeggcute and Growlithe, but the rival battle
was pretty easy and wasn't much of a threat. After the battle-
- Oh my gosh. - [PaPaSea] I speak to this
chap, as the guide calls them, to get this Lapras, then proceed into the next room where Giovanni is
waiting for us. The guide says how this
fight isn't too bad and how quote, his
Nidorino and Rhyhorn should go down fairly easily because their levels at
this point are no match for a decent Electric,
Water, or Grass type. - Electric? - [PaPaSea] Seeing as I
have a Vaporeon and a- Wait a second. Did it say Electric type? It did, didn't it? Against a Ground
type like Rhyhorn? I'll forgive this error
since there hasn't been one in this guide for
a little while, but I beat the first two
Pokemon pretty easily. - Hasn't been one like
this for a little while? Was one in the literal
previous gym. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] I hammer
away at the Kangaskhan like the guide-
- There it is. - [PaPaSea] Suggests yet again. Haven't heard that
in a little while. And now it's time for
Giovanni's Nidoqueen, which is one of his strongest
Pokemon as of right now. The guide proceeds to
tell me that Nidoqueen is easily cooked with a fairly well powered
Electric Pokemon, but I don't have
an Electric type. And again, Nidoqueen
is a Ground type- - Oh, this guide is awful! - [PaPaSea] That's the second
time in this section alone that it tells you to
use an Electric type against a Ground type. I finish up with Giovanni's
battle pretty easily regardless, get the Master Ball, and now we have to head to
Sabrina's gym to fight her. I get my-
- Oh my gosh. How is this guide so wrong? I don't remember any severe
mistakes like that in mine. This is insane. - [PaPaSea] Level 40
as the guide suggests and follow the map to Sabrina
through the teleporters. I thought it was funny how
the guide also suggests I destroy the trainers
before Sabrina- - Goodness! - [PaPaSea] Is getting
more and more savage as we get on to the
later half of this game. My Vaporeon has Bite so this
gym really isn't too bad since it's mostly Psychic types, but it warns me about
Sabrina's Alakazam. It says, it's fast and many
of its moves can lay waste to your intrepid band in-
- Lay waste! - [PaPaSea] Two shakes
of a lamb's tail. - What! (laughs) It can lay waste to
your intrepid band in two shakes of a lamb's tail. I don't understand,
who wrote this? Who wrote this? It's crazy. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] I have no
idea what that means, but I get through this
gym pretty easily again and head towards Pallet Town so I can surf south of Route
21 into Cinnabar Island. Now that we're in
Cinnabar Island, the first event the
guide wants me to do is revive my fossil. And I do that immediately, but just put it in
the box right away, since it's only level five. I know that I still have
this level five Caterpie on my team that I've had
since Viridian forest and I've been using
as death fodder, but as my team is
really top heavy between Pigeon and Vaporeon, I see no reason to replace it or add a new team
member as of right now. Now we head into the
mansion to find the key to the gym since it's locked and the guide does
a pretty good job of guiding me across it. I caught a Growlithe
and named it Rover. And now since my Pokemon are
all mostly above level 40, it means I'm ready
to take on Blaine. I head in the gym, proceed to one-shot nearly
everything with Vaporeon, only going back to heal
because I ran out of Surf PP. And Vaporeon is also
slowly overtaking Pidgeot as being the best
Pokemon on my team. I defeat Blaine very easily-
- That a boy Joe. - [PaPaSea] Get the
seventh gym badge, and right after
Blaine we have to head back to Viridian City to take on the eighth
and final gym leader. It says that I should be-
- Doesn't have you go to Seafoam at all? - [PaPaSea] At least
level 45 at this point and I'm close enough so
I go in there anyway, but it also warns
me that Giovanni has a level 54 Nidoking
which seems pretty scary because that's quite
the level discrepancy, if I'm only supposed-
- I don't think that's right. - [PaPaSea] To be level 45. I go through this
pretty easily regardless and notice that the Nidoking
is actually level 45, not 54 so it was just a typo-
- Ah, yep. There it is. - [PaPaSea] The guide really
likes to make mistakes on Giovanni fights
for some reason. Maybe I'm being
overcritical since this is a 15 plus year old guide written by somebody who has probably
played many other games and has written
many other guides, and can't know everything
about every game they play, but if I have never
played Pokemon before and I follow this guide exactly, I'd definitely be confused
or lost at some parts. Luckily it doesn't tell
me to use Electric types against his Ground
types this time- - Yeah. The thing about the Poison, it was like Poison, Fire, Rock, Poison, Psychic, great. Fire, Rock. They'll do neutral. It telling you to use
Electric against Ground types? Like a kid, like
trying to do that, and it just not working? Like I'd be furious. I'm like, it tells
me to use Electric and it's doing nothing? Like that's the most
egregious one of all, 'cause it's literally immune. - [PaPaSea] The fight. I also realize that
I've swept pretty much every single gym very
easily since Lt. Surge, including this final gym. - I mean, yeah, if you
know what you're doing, that's most Pokemon games. - [PaPaSea] I feel
really good heading to the Elite Four for the
last stretch of this game. I stock up on some items before
heading into Victory Road, but we have another rival
battle to take care of first. The guide doesn't say
much about this fight so I get through
it pretty easily, but have to rely on stalling
out the Gyarados with Toxic and leeching on my Venusaur, since I can't really hit it
too hard with anything else. I continue to hammer away, as the guide suggests-
- There it is! - [PaPaSea] For about
the ninth time now, And it makes me wonder who even wrote this guide? They have such a different
style of writing for a guide with words and phrases I don't
really see written a lot. And I'm sure that if they're
involved with Games Media, they probably have a Twitter
account or something. I noticed on the very
first page of the guide, it has the name,
Eric ECM Mylonas. It's funny because
when I first went through "FireRed" as a kid, I actually named
my character Eric, for no particular reason. My name's not even Eric. - Are we going to
meet the legend behind this book? - [PaPaSea] And now
the person guiding us through "FireRed" is named Eric. I looked them up and the
first result is an obituary. Eric unfortunately passed
away in 2018 at the age- (laughs) - Oh, God! What! I'm sorry. It's not funny.
I'm just stunned. This was not going somewhere
I thought it was gonna go. Jesus Christ. (laughs) I need a moment. - [Narrator] A
few moments later. - I promise it's not funny. Just it's a natural
human reaction in uncomfortable
situations to laugh, okay? What? This whole video we're
just laughing at this book that's got all this
mistakes and wrong things and suddenly- Like what silly guy wrote this? He's dead. Oh God! - [PaPaSea] Age of 43. And now I feel kind
of bad for making fun of this guide so much. - Yeah! Yeah, same, dude! - [PaPaSea] They actually
wrote a lot of other guides for a lot of games that I
remember from my childhood, "FireRed and
LeafGreen," of course, but then there's other games like "Spyro: Enter
the Dragonfly," "Sonic Advance 2,"
"Beyblade: V-Force," and many of the older
"Dragon Ball Z" games. Eric has a lot of other
works in Games Media as well. And after researching
a bit about Eric, they've done a lot
of interesting work. So for the rest of this run,
I'm doing it for you Eric. I get through Victory Road- - That's very sweet. I don't know if I'll ever
get over this. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] Pretty easily, thanks to this cheat sheet
Eric wrote for us in the guide. I catch an Onyx that's level 46, higher than some of
my team members even, and I name it Rocky. I reach the end of Victory Road and decide to grind
up a little bit to match some of the
levels in the Elite Four. I level up all my
Pokemon to around the early to mid fifties
since I noticed that a lot of the Elite Four members
have their Pokemon in the mid to late fifties. And now seems like a pretty
good time to recap the team. First we have- - I'm surprised it
didn't actually, he's saying, oh, I
decided to do this 'cause I saw their
levels were this, but all the other ones are like, you should be at this
particular level range. So I think it's interesting
that they don't appear to have done that for this, (upbeat music) like for the Elite Four. That's wild. - [PaPaSea] Subscribe
the Venusaur. Our star that has been with
us from the very beginning. Then we have
Twitter, the Pidgeot, the first Pokemon
we ever caught, and the Pokemon that carried us through the middle
part of the game. Then we have Hawk, the Primeape, which hasn't really been used
much since the Koga fight, but should be pretty
good in the Elite Four. - Fighting types tend
to not be as useful in Kanto playthroughs because there's no
Steel or Dark types. - [PaPaSea] And then we have
Dan, the level 5 Caterpie that's been with us
since Viridian Forest. It was originally level
three when I caught it and I didn't try to level it up, but somehow I sent it in
just to get knocked out to get a free switch,
went for a Tackle, and somehow actually got a KO
and got some levels so that's how it got to level five-
- (laughs) That's funny. - [PaPaSea] And I know I'll
definitely need to send it out to die in the Elite Four to heal some of
my other Pokemon. Then we have Joe, the Vaporeon, which has been the best Pokemon
on our team as of lately. And finally- - Oh, it's a timid! Oh my gosh, you got
a timid Vaporeon. No wonder it's so good. That's like the perfect, one
of the perfect natures for it. Well, I mean it lowers
physical attack. Any nature that
lowers physical attack is good for a Vaporeon. - [PaPaSea] The Onix. I step into the first room and the Ice type trainer
Lorelei is waiting for us. I know Hawk should be
pretty useful in this fight. So I leave it with him
and get a few nice KOs and that lines up attacks- - Okay. I said Fighting
wasn't that useful? Fighting can be
useful obviously. All the Normal types, the
Rock types, and Ice types. I'm saying it's not as useful
as it is in other games because in other games there
are Dark and Steel types, as well as the Normal,
Fighting, and Ice types, Normal, Rock, and Ice types. - [PaPaSea] Eventually
Hawk goes down and this Jynx is a pain, just like Eric warned
us about in the guide. I eventually hammer
away at it with Vaporeon and now it's time
to fight Bruno. I use Twitter to take care
of Bruno's Fighting types, then Venusaur and Vaporeon
for the rest of his team, as they're weak to
Grass and Water, and get through
him pretty easily. And then we have Agatha, arguably the hardest
member of the Elite Four. - Yeah, you don't have any
Psychic types. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] These
are her two Gengars. I taught Earthquake to Onix since Poison is
weak to Ground and- - It has Levitate! - [PaPaSea] Thinking this
would be a pretty easy fight, but then I remembered
that Gengar and Haunter have Levitate in this generation so I can't use Ground type moves to knock them out unfortunately. This fight really
was a team effort with everyone getting
in on the action. But luckily, Venusaur
finishes off the final Gengar after a lot of my
team members go down. I heal up and now
it's time for Lance, the final member
of the Elite Four. Eric warns us about
Lance's Hyper Beams, although it really isn't
that strong of a move in this generation. Lance has two Dragonairs, which Eric tells us to use
Electric moves on despite them not being super effective.
- No! Eric, why? (laughs) - [PaPaSea] Apparently
everything is weak to Electric according to this guide. But Vaporeon did a pretty
good job in the fight though, since it has a
super effective move for everything on Lance's
team except for the Gyarados, which I again stall
out with Venusaur. And now we have
one final battle, a fight against
our rival Nintendo. Well, actually his name is
just Nintend without the O, since the full name- - Yeah, I noticed that earlier. - [PaPaSea] Not sure why
I'm addressing this now, not at the start 'cause
I'm sure a lot of people noticed it was missing the O, but the guide tells
me that my rival is gonna lead with Pidgeot
so I lead with Vaporeon since I have a nice tight move and take it out pretty easily, although Surf does more
than the Ice type move. The next key Pokemon go down pretty easily as well-
- Yeah, STAB. Stronger move plus STAB. - [PaPaSea] But I have
to stall out his Gyarados in the same way that I stalled
out the one against Lance. - I question the decision
to not have an Electric type on your team in a game
with just so many Gyarados, Gyaradosi? Gyaradi? Gyaradoses? Gyaratres? (laughs) You get it? 'Cause dos, tres. I'm very funny. Laugh. - [PaPaSea] And now all that's
left is Nintendo's Charizard. I decided to stay
with my Venusaur, even though I'm
not at full health- - (gasps) The drama! Ooh,
is this an anime battle? - [PaPaSea] Hammering away at
my enemy for one final time just like suggested in
the first rival battle. I select my move with Venusaur. But unfortunately Charizard
goes for Fire Blast and takes me out very easily. So I just send out
Vaporeon and kill the Charizard instead.
- Ah, bummer. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] And that's it. We are now the
champion and we beat "FireRed and LeafGreen"
the way Nintendo intended thanks to Eric and his guide-
- Very nice. - [PaPaSea] That Nintendo
approved of over 15 years ago. Not gonna lie, I felt a little
emotional at the end there. I didn't end up crying
or anything like that, but I haven't played
through a Pokemon game like that on my own
without doing a Nuzlocke or any other type of
challenge in a long time. And although this
was all for a video- - Wow. I can't say
the same. (laughs) - [PaPaSea] I did still
play on my own time, over the course of a week or so and enjoyed playing it a lot. Finishing up this
game this time, felt a lot like when you
spend all week binge watching a show you really like, and then you finally finish it and feel a little
empty on the inside. - Oh yeah. I know what you mean. When "Avatar" ended,
when "She-Ra" ended, the emotion. - [PaPaSea] Through
it, but then again I was following a guide and
doing exactly what they said, and I have played through
the Kanto region dozens of times before even though
I was trying to pretend like this was my first
time playing the game. I think that's part of
the reason why I enjoyed this playthrough
so much as well. The guide took me through
a slightly different route than I normally would if I
was playing this on my own. And it just made this
playthrough feel a bit different than other ones I
have done in the past. This is one of the
most fun playthroughs I've ever had in
any Pokemon game. And even though this 14
or so long hour journey is gonna be all condensed into
a 20 something minute video, I hope you guys liked it too. So thanks again Eric-
- I enjoyed it. - [PaPaSea] For guiding
us through this game. And while there were many errors in this guide and
things I definitely would've done differently, the guide still does
a pretty decent job, as long as you already have a basic understanding of Pokemon. - I think the guidebook's
main strengths is helping you navigate through
tricky to navigate places like Silph Co. or like
caves and stuff like that. With the exception of
Rock Tunnel in this, that was obviously a mess, but getting through
the SeaFloor cavern in the Hoenn games, "Ruby,"
"Sapphire," "Emerald," the maps for that are a godsend. Yeah, the maps are excellent. And like the movesets, like
the level up in TM movesets, in a time period prior
to when you can just go to Serebii.net
and look it up, those were the two things that
I think are the most helpful. - [PaPaSea] I'm not really
sure how to end this, but I have to say
that this has been one of the most fun
videos I've ever made. And I also think it's
gonna end up being one of the best
videos I ever made. So thank you again to Eric-
- I liked it. - [PaPaSea] For making
this video possible And helping countless
people like myself through some of their
favorite childhood games. We finally managed to
beat "Pokemon FireRed" the way Nintendo intended. So thank you all once
again for watching. Hope you guys have a
great rest of your day. I'll see you all next
time and bye bye. - Well, I will have a
great rest of my day. Thank you. Thank you so much
again to PaPaSea for letting me make this video. I had a lot of fun
reacting to this, (laughs) just so many things
I wasn't expecting. But thank you guys for watching with an extra special
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