The best pokemon game you never played

i just played one of the best pokemon games ever and i'm here to tell you all about it i'm a huge pokemon fan ruby was one of the first video games i remember owning and i've decided to devote the rest of my life and soul to the franchise and by that i mean i'll play the new games when they come out do i have to like them no frankly i think the past few recent ones have been kind of garbage but that won't stop me from getting my hopes up thinking the next game will be different even though deep down we all know it won't be but pokemon does have a few side games you might have heard of like pokemon mystery dungeon or pokemon stadium or that weird geometric one but there's one franchise that i feel like doesn't get talked about nearly as much as it deserves and that's pokemon ranger i had the original pokemon ranger game as a kid and i remember two things about it i liked it and circles lots of circles the flashbacks are beginning when i remembered pokemon ranger existed i decided to look it up and see if it was worth possibly making a video on and that's when i realized there were actually three pokemon ranger games pokemon ranger pokemon ranger shadow of zavamia and pokemon ranger guardian signs bit of a pokemon ranger mouthful but i digress i was looking at some forums of people discussing which one they thought was the best and the shadows of all meal one seem to be high on a lot of people's lists so i bought the game now sit down and get comfy because i just played this game for the first time and i'm here to tell you about why it's the best game ever the game starts off with your character taking the entrance exam to a pokemon ranger school and it only took me two attempts to draw five consecutive circles around this barely moving pikachu you're dang right that's impressive i guess that's all it takes because now i'm officially a member of this secret army for this inscrutable team school plotting to rule the oh he's just kidding yeah it's a normal school i'm introduced to my class and for some reason they've been like starved for new human contact or something because they're bombarding the teacher with questions are they a boy or a girl which is it is she cute so i'm introducing myself and apparently the teacher catches this keith kid looking at me with a big grin anyway you go sit next to keith oh okay just plop me right next to him yeah i don't mind or anything thanks teach anyway you get a tour of the school from the scroll with me meeting the other teacher mr kinsade who's apparently a stickler for making sure kids don't run in the hall and this kid isaac that rhythmy called mushroom hair both my iq and my height in centimeters are 163. all right bud after getting a feel for the school you're taught how to capture pokemon with your styler loops portray the feeling of friendship so the more loops you draw around the pokemon the more it will submit to your friendship that's nice touch the b doof uh you finish the school day and are fast asleep in the dorms when all the students decide it's initiation time get up sleepyhead it's 4am time for your student initiation yes sirs they tell you to find all four of the stylers they've hidden around the giant school and after doing so you have to put them in the basement for some reason so you head down there after finding them all and are in the basement when why are you down here only i'm permitted to be in the basement leave now anyway isaac have you finished testing my very secret experiment no one can know about the rest of the school year goes on without any big problems pokemon ranger crawford comes and talks about what it's like to be a ranger you save the milkman from some bdoof you attend a one-day internship at the local pokemon ranger base and they make you bring them their lunch is an important mission actually while you're at the internship someone runs over and says the pokemon on the beach are acting strange you go with the rangers to check it out to see all the pokemon going crazy and save the day by capturing them with your loops of friendship but yeah that's weird finally you make it to graduation jayden come up and make a speech as the class representative oh i'm the class representative huh well don't mind a fight so after saving everyone from a very strange rampage of tang growth you start working at the pokemon ranger base you interned at there's a call about some more pokemon acting strange down in a nearby cave so your first mission is to investigate what's going on in the cave you stumble upon this weird missile looking machine that seems to be what's hypnotizing the pokemon in its vicinity and making them go crazy so you destroy it and everyone's proud of you this professor hastings guy is called down from the pokemon union to take a look at the cave machine and i guess he's like a hundred years old or something because the rangers want you to go meet him halfway in paultown to make sure he doesn't get lost and die along the way you take one step in town and oh god all the pokemon are going nuts turns out there's more of those rocket machines planted in the town and as you're going around smashing them you run into some guys that are not only very shady but also terribly shifty they run away to tell their leaders there's pokemon rangers smashing their stuff and further into the town you find them again with their admin who's like dude what the heck what do you have against our gigaremos you vandals treat things with respect and then attacks me with rattata and a toxic croak not gonna lie their battle music kinda bangs though [Music] turns out they're part of this gang called team dim sun and after capturing their pokemon with friendship loops they decide to retreat we're able to find professor hastings and bring him back to the base to analyze what we now know are gigaremo machines he finds a tiny black crystal in the center that seems to be the thing that allows team dim sun to control the pokemon the base considers this a problem which is reasonable and now the pokemon union starts getting involved which is like the big head honcho of pokemon ranger bases where all the ranger prodigies are the story continues as the union tries to uncover more about what dim sun is up to and you keep interrupting their plans you catch them trying to drill a tunnel in the side of a mountain you catch them having a secret base and cargo ship in the middle of a volcano which mr kinsade has found to be part of dim sun big surprise didn't see that one coming you haven't been running in the ship's hallways have you you catch them mining hundreds of dark crystal shards in an abandoned mine that one was a bit of a problem because apparently there was the mother of all shadow crystals they are powerful enough to power this incredible machine they're in the middle of developing that they plan on using to control all the pokemon within a 500 mile radius they got their grubby hands on and helicoptered away to their headquarters probably should tell someone about that but the good thing is we ended up finding the diary of the dim sun president's father who writes about how if we gather these three gems called the tears of princes the gems will be able to combine their power and negate the power of the shadow crystal alright let's let's go do that the first gem is told to be in this giant ice castle called alama castle and on the way there you run into dim sun grunts trying to stop you they're not hard to deal with and they start getting a bit frustrated i want to pay you with a snowball hard you make it to the castle after swimming through a bunch of ocean boulders and whirlpools that totally didn't slow me down at all and end up at the castle where dim sun is already running around and trying to get the gem first these guys are blocked from going any further because this giant chunk of ice is in front of the door and the grunts are like man that's a big hunk of ice if we made snow cones out of it we'd be able to feed like 403 people and then they see me standing there and all hey that outfit what are they called again pokemon ranger you came for a snow cone you deal with that whole situation and end up in the room just before where the gem is being kept where you're introduced to one of the members of team dim sun's sinistrio ice i don't know what his deal is but he called me jaden noob and then dabbed so i had to murder him well i captured and freed his frostlast and he scurried away all well i didn't need the gem anyway after gaining the trust of the lucario guarding the gem with more of my loops the blue gem of the tier of princes is mine fast forward a bit and you get the red gem as well after defeating sinistrio levana and her infor nape she doesn't dab but she does do this sexy little dance the guy from school keith who's a ranger now was assigned to get the yellow gem and hasn't come back yet so the union's like all right jaden go check on him you hop on a boat to the destination but whoops apparently a wailord is in trouble i'll just go down there and see yep i thought so these dim sun grunts are trying to kidnap a whale lord and after destroying the machines that were trapping it they decide to just grab a whaler instead and try to convince their boss it's a wailord mini you follow them on the rescued whale lord and start infiltrating their base down the hall you discover the grunts squishing the whaler through the door and as you follow them into the room they're like oh crap uh shoot do you want to deal with the ranger oh no i'm too wimpy uh i know let's apologize sorry we got the rangers confidence charge and then drop a truckload of slack off on me after capturing all their slack off they're like oh no and then all of them just grab me and shove me out of the room and lock it which honestly is more effective than like 99 of all video game villains so you keep running through the base and end up actually finding mushroom-haired isaac from ranger school he's been manipulated into building dim sun's incredible machine and we agree to take him back to the union after we finish up our business in the secret hideout we finally encounter mr kinsade who's manning the wailord operation he's being all maniacal but we successfully capture his glasgow save whaler and bring isaac safely back to the union where he gives us access to the incredible machine blueprints skipping ahead in the story a bit we end up not being able to get the yellow gem because heath the last of the cities trio kidnapped keith and we exchanged him for the yellow gem i kept trying to say no but i guess it's good we saved him the union makes a plan to have their top rangers go and fly to dim sun's headquarters and face them head-on jaden you can just sit in the corner and do nothing but right as they leave to do that the sinistrio busts through the union walls and are like hahaha we'll be taking this and steal back isaac because they need him to complete the incredible machine by midnight so they can activate the shadow crystal isaac complied because they threatened to kill his sister or something so new plan now i have to get isaac back and basically destroy the machines that were protecting their building incredible machine because oops i didn't mention this before but they turned their entire building headquarters into the incredible machine what we basically just waltz right through the front doors of the headquarters that'll stop people from entering what how did you get in here and battle our way up to isaac who's like uh you're a bit too late i totally just completed the entire machine and they're about to use it to hypnotize all the pokemon in the region in like five minutes well at least your sister's not dead so you run to the top defeating the sinister trio every floor of the way and grab the last tears of prince's gym and you get to the top where you meet the dim sun president blake hall for the first time and he's like you're too late it's time for darkness get her death noir and then i capture it immediately and he's like uh just kidding get her dark rye and then darkrai just starts dipping me into darkness and keith has to come save me on his star after so dark cries like well then i'm gonna just dip these guys into the darkness and throws blake and his assistant into the void but i decided to capture and free darkrai anyway with the help of the tears of princes and save the day yay woohoo i'm a hero a time to take a nap now pokemon ranger is a big game it took me about 24 full hours to get through the game so i had to leave out a lot and i mean a lot of other points in the story there's even a bunch of side quests that are actually pretty entertaining and funny you can complete that help power up your styler there's one where this guy says he researches smells and wants me to bring him the stench of a muck so you do it and he's like yes and puts it in a jar then later on in the game he pops up again and this time asks for a wheezing and a scum tank to what she's like yes and puts them in jars then he's like thanks dude and you never see him again the dialogue is absolutely amazing this game has probably the best writing out of any pokemon game i know of team dim sun is obviously the star of the show and whenever they come on screen you know they're gonna have something funny to say at one point while i was trying to get into their secret base in the volcano i captured the pokemon they were controlling and they're like time to make our escape and set off dynamite which exploded a giant boulder and blocked the entrance to the base which they're like shoot we were supposed to detonate it after we go in so they had to wait for me to go get a pokemon that can destroy the rock and they're like thanks ranger we'll be grateful for this for about a second and they run through the door so you follow them and they come back like hey we forgot about you helping us take this and drop a bunch and numble on me also all of the music that plays when they're around is awesome i was jamming out whenever i was running around their base it's a bummer this game isn't super popular i know it's got a small cult following but it definitely deserves to be more well known and i really consider it one of the top pokemon games out there just on writing alone it's not a hard game but i mean pokemon isn't meant to be a difficult game series anymore i can see some people getting a bit tired of the capture system since it doesn't change much throughout the game but honestly again i think the story and dialogue far make up for the semi-repetitive capture and battle system now i know i kind of just talked about the entire plot but if you're curious about playing it yourself there's so much i left out and there's still a lot to discover about the game so i highly recommend it i'm being honest when i say i didn't even cover a third of what happens in the game and there were a lot of funny moments i really wanted to talk about that i just didn't have room for in the script i'm just trying to convince you to play the game yourself at this point because i think it's just that funny of a game but i'll stop but here's all my stats after completing the game it took me about 24 hours to complete it i captured 734 pokemon and ran away from 106. i think that's a pretty good ratio and look i drew a total of 9077 loops with that amount of practice i bet i'm a master at drawing circles now thanks for watching the video on me drawing circles for 20 hours huge thanks to the team for their hard work this video was massive and it turned out amazing i've mentioned this before but i've been enjoying the video game videos a lot so if you have a weird game you think i should take a look at let me know a lot of people have already been requesting this game called elite beat angels which is some sort of rhythm game with male cheerleaders which looks amazing but i think that video would get mega copyrighted so unfortunately i don't think i can play that on youtube it looks really good though if you want to check it out anyway i don't have much to say this time so see you later

Channel: Jaiden Animations

Views: 21,762,607

Rating: 4.9583483 out of 5

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Id: jJNgocrAbKA

Length: 14min 51sec (891 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 12 2020