The Secrets of the Sevii Islands

sponsored by surf shark the Pokemon region of Kanto based on the actual region of Kanto in Japan defined the Pokemon franchise ever since its first appearance in red and blue it has subsequently been remade in gold and silver then fire red and leaf green hard golden Soul Silver and one final time in let's go Pikachu and let's go Eevee but for all its incarnations there is one area of Kanto that only existed once was exclusive to the third generation and never remade the city Islands why is that well what is the goal of the Gen 3 remakes enjoy the original games along with all the improvements from Ruby and Sapphire but including every Edition since red and blue would change the remakes into different games the solution create an experience as faithful as possible to the source material and add an exclusive area specifically made to bridge the gap between gen 1 engine 3. this area would act as a greatest hits of Pokemon featuring content introduced in Gen 2 and 3. so how about we explore every nook and cranny of this unique area understand the purpose of each Edition and learn about the secrets of the savy islands before we travel though we need to be prepared our Dream Team to fight opposing trainers and surf shark this video sponsor to protect our data in both cases sharks are the way to go what's the point of preventing Team Rocket from stealing Pokemon if we don't prevent them from stealing our personal data using a VPN in real life hackers are not so hilariously incompetent and surf shark makes sure you are safe on the Internet by encrypting your personal data especially useful when using public Wi-Fi also if you know anything about Pokemon you know how much content is only accessible in specific areas of the world by using a VPN you can virtually move anywhere surfshark has over 3 000 servers and more than 100 countries to choose from so you will never miss out on regen locked content if you have decided you need sharks in your life and a VPN you can use the code Lyra or use the referral Link in the video description for an extra three months of your subscription you'll get a 30-day money-back guarantee so no reason not to give it a try thank you for using my referral code and for surf shark for sponsoring this video the city island questline starts in Cinnabar Island right after defeating Blaine or not upon exiting the gym we run into Bill The Man Behind the Pokemon storage system who invites us to his friend's Island an offer we can refuse to keep fire red and leave green as close to the original games as possible we can completely bypass the city Islands by simply saying no we still have to meet back with Bill in cinebar's Pokemon Center to unlock the post Elite 4 content but giving us the choice is a neat touch once we're accepted to join Bill we are transported to the new area where we meet his friend Celio currently working on a machine that would allow communication with other regions the first save the island we arrive at is called one Island be prepared for some very literal naming the saving name itself is a combination of the word seven and it's Roman numeral for the seven main islands we can sail to the only point of interest in this town is the Pokemon Network Center and its supercomputer south of the dock is Treasure Beach what makes this place special is the presence of infinite item spots a feature specific to fire red and leaf green here's how it works certain areas have three groups of items tied to a probability to be chosen group a has 60 chance Group B has 30 chance and Group C has 10 chance to be selected each item has its own specific spot but only spawns if its group is chosen this is refreshed every 1500 steps where the game chooses a new group and spawns the corresponding items replacing the previous ones even if they haven't been picked up groups B and C usually give out the best items this mechanic is mostly used in these savy islands but if you Canto areas have infinite item spots such as both underground paths routes 20 and 21 and most importantly Mount Moon where we can obtain the useful tiny and big mushrooms which we'll get to later in the case of Treasure Beach we will always get two ultra balls and can find an assortment of cell items such as pearls Stardust and star pieces who washed up on shore to the east of one island is Kindle Road a path going north where we encounter trainers breakable rocks and the Ambrose ball the hot springs of the spa healer team and an old man gives us the HM Rock Smash this move did not exist in gen 1 and is the reason why we only encounter breakable rocks in areas within or after the savy islands except for Rock Tunnel at the end of Kindle road we find Mount Ember the new home of the legendary bird Moltres which was originally located in Victory Road next up to Island where we are given the task to deliver a meteorite note that during our first visit to the city Islands we cannot return to Kanto until the side quest is finished and no going back using surf in fact we cannot swim or fish around two islands as the current is too strong this is an interesting alternative to the way Pokemon usually restricts water movement putting rocks everywhere two Island features numerous points of interest first a market stall with an evolving stock although very limited for now second the move reminder unlike other core games the NPC does not ask for the usual heart scale as those were added in gen 3 along with love disk instead we need either two tiny mushrooms or one big mushroom held by the Gen 1 Pokemon Paris and Parasect or found in the newly introduced infinite item spawns in Mount Moon next the joyful game corner where we need to deliver the meteorite but the owner won't hear anything until his lost daughter is back her name lostell remember names are literal here finally north of two island in the picturesque Cape rink we can teach our starter a new gen 3 move if it is fully evolved and has maximum friendship frenzy planned for Venusaur blastiburn for Charizard and hydro cannon for Blastoise next is three Island right outside the dock we find a tiny cave with a man prospecting for gold in the town proper are a gang of bikers looking for trouble nothing a young kid can't handle west of town we cross Bond bridge to get to Berry Forest this place is full of easily noticeable infinite Berry spots replacing buried trees this is because fire red and leaf green don't keep track of time making trees impossible to implement and is why infinite spots refresh every 1500 steps as other Pokemon games usually rely on daily events instead at the end of the berry Forest we find lostell who gets attacked by a Hypno This creepy encounter is consistent with Hypno's fire red pokedex entry which mentions an incident in which it took away a child it hypnotized once the Lost Girl is brought back to her father and the meteorites delivered two islands the stall is updated with better stock and the joyful game Corner opens allowing fire red leaf green and emerald players to enjoy two wireless mini-games Pokemon jump and dodrio berry picking we can then go back to the Pokemon Network Center on one Island and finish our first Savi Islands visit back to Cinnabar Island where we can continue our Kanto Journey we are free to come back to the islands at any time from the Vermilion City Harbor but nothing more will happen until we unlock the post Elite 4 content and that's where things get dicey one aspect I have not mentioned is how different these City islands questline feels from the rest of the game the original Pokemon games are extremely open we are free to explore the world however we want even if it means beating gyms out of order or missing important items like the XP share or the HM flash but as soon as we enter the city Islands we have to follow the rigid path set for us which includes several cutscenes and cannot leave until finished and this jarring difference in design from gen 1 to 3 becomes clearer upon defeating the Elite Four becoming the Kanto Champion ordinarily opens Cerulean cave but in fire red and LeafGreen we only gain access to it after completing both savey Island visits which requires obtaining the National Pokedex meaning we have to own 60 Pokemon taking into account version exclusives choices and Evolutions it is close to half the Pokemon available and our task is made Harder by the fact that the place designed to help us catch up with Pokedex completion cyrillian cave is inaccessible it gets somehow worse as the game never tells us the national decks being necessary the only hint we get is that we need to have made a great achievement whatever that means it is very strange how the Gen 1 games had a completely optional incentive to catch Pokemon with the Professor Oak rewards which gen 3 expanded and rendered mandatory and harder to achieve once we go back to Professor Oak's lab with 60 Pokemon owned both ours and blues Pokedex get upgraded our rival then decides to go to one Island we do the same and meet up with Celia once more helping him improve his Network to allow trading between regions the first step is to go back to Mount Amber and beat up the two rocket goons guarding an additional cave inside it we find inscriptions in Bry if you ignore what Rye is Game Freak has added in every gen 3 games instruction manual a small text explaining it as well as a translation of the basic alphabet in fact this alphabet is repeated in game first before a second longer inscription in the floor below this writing system was also used in Ruby and Sapphire to find the legendary Titans so it is fitting we find it once more next to the Ruby key item we bring it to Celio who needs the sapphire to finish his work to help us locate it we are given the rainbow pass allowing us to explore the rest of the islands we can stop by two islands to notice the stall stock NOW includes Mumu milk an item introduced in Gen 2 with meltank which explains why it required the National dex and on three Island the cave is fully dug out giving us access to a small patch of grass exclusively containing done sparse the only other place to obtain this Pokemon in gen 3 being Pokemon Colosseum we use the rainbow pass to sail to four Island and with the National Pokedex unlocked the game can open the floodgates with Gen 2 and 3 features and items first several themes used are remakes of music from gold and silver in the style of the Game Boy Advance games we also find the Pokemon daycare which contrary to the Gen 1 version on Route 5 allows for two Pokemon at once unlocking breeding in fire red and leaf grain next we have the house of the Elite Four member Lorelei and she is quite the Pokemon doll aficionado every 25 times we enter the Hall of Fame a new doll is added to her collection starting with six and ending with 14 after 200 entries to keep track of our victories we can go to the braggart's house who gives us Trainer Card stickers the color of the sticker is dependent on our progress in one of three categories number of hall of fames entered Pokemon Eggs hatched and Link multi battles 1. finally to the Northeast is icefall cave a small area containing the Gentoo held item never melt ice and the HM waterfall which only existed as a combat move in gen 1. the only required use of this hm in all of fire red and LeafGreen is in this very cave to access the Cove where we find Lorelei beating up some rocket Goons this looks like fun let's join in The Cove is also the only area in gen 3 where we can encounter a wild Lapras with a one percent encounter chance which could be interesting if we weren't just given one in Silph Co during the story the trend of giving the player all the items and features missing in gen 1 continues with five Island to the east of the very small settlement we arrive at is the five Isle Meadow where is located the rocket Warehouse we only have one of the two passwords required to enter so we'll come back later East is a small island full of bird trainers and by going south from there we arrive at Memorial Island in front of the memorial itself is a morning trainer who explains the monument commemorates tectonics the Onyx if we put a lemonade on the memorial tectonics favorite drink its trainer thanks us with tm42 I personally love this place it is a fantastic example of environmental storytelling should we read into TM 42's move being facade or maybe it's Japanese name bravado what about the metal coat we pick up Southwest of the monument is it a random item a Memento or was it left there by the morning trainer who was originally planning on evolving His companion this area is simple yet touching going back to five Island swimming North we pass through the water Labyrinth don't let the name of this place fool you it is very small and quick to navigate to its Center Island where an old man gives us a 2gipi egg if our first Pokemon has high friendship North again is Resort gorgeous which is an empty small house its owner is currently lost in the Lost cave to the east this cave acts similarly to the Lost Woods in The Legend of Zelda one wrong choice and we are sent back to the entrance thankfully the number of rocks presents in each room indicate the clock position of the correct path three six nine or twelve if we go the opposite direction in every other room we can find various held items notably both newly introduced C and lacks in sensors at the end of the cave we meet the owner of Resort gorgeous the self-centered selfie she is cartoonishly mean and once brought back to Resort gorgeous asks to see one of the Pokemon in our Pokedex changing her mind every 250 steps if we show her the right Pokemon she begrudgingly reward us with either a luxury ball a cell item or a rare candy on Six Island we are greeted by Blue who's had enough of the city Islands well we haven't so let's see what this place has to offer to the east we have the branching water path the South path leads to ruined Valley along with the only Sunstone in fire red and leaf grain an item added in Gen 2 alongside bellossum and sunflora at the end of this spiraling path is the dotted hole the second area to feature Bry the text here tells us to use cuts to open the cave and then which hole to jump into at the very bottom we have a message referencing the fact we can unlock trading with Hoenn if we reunite both Ruby and Sapphire key items alongside said Sapphire unfortunately the gemstone is immediately stolen by a rocket scientist Gideon we could go back to the rocket Warehouse as he gives us the second password but we still have a few places to explore first in the northern part of the water path leaves a girl looking for the ultimate horn she will measure any Heracross we show her looking for the biggest one and reward us with a nest ball every time we beat the current record conveniently the nearby pattern bush is full of hair across this Forest has trainers and players like wondering about its grass pattern what do you see I just see bad area design we keep going through the Scenic Green Path and swim North until we arrive at the Intriguing altering cave in this mysterious and unique area we encounter Zubat and just Zubat 100 of the time the altering cave also exists on Route 103 in emerald and unlocks after defeating the Elite Four it also features nothing but Zubat what is going on here well the idea was to add Pokemon to the cave using the mystery gift system through official events both the message that would appear and the encounter table exists in fire red LeafGreen and emerald but are never used interestingly all the Pokemon featured are from gen 2. that's the main problem with Pokemon events if they are over or Never released it is content present in the game but inaccessible I made an entire video on the subject if you are curious for more funnily enough the fact we cannot encounter any of the planned Pokemon makes the berry juice held by wild chuckle unobtainable in all of gen 3. literally unplayable the final Island we have access to seven Island also features inaccessible content this blocked off door leads to Unique trainer encounters unlocked using the mystery gift only in Japan the trainer Tower to the north is fire red and leave Queen's version of the battle tower with a focus on Speedy challenge completion there are four modes of play each rewarding with a different Evolution held item south of seven island is the savolt canyon other than being the only place to catch gentu's Larvitar in the GBA games we pick up a King's Rock do the Chanty dance with a Chancey next to the chancy specific item lucky punch and enter the tanobe key a cave with a puzzle unlocking the true potential of the tonobi ruins located south that true potential is the power of unknown the tanabi ruins are composed of seven to Nobi Chambers each one has a unique name color and after completing the tanubi key set of unknown the chamber names are a mix of its number and the plant moonian leap2 weep dilferred scafib Rexy and viapoa viapois Via poise the something finally gen 3 introduces two new unknown forms the question mark and the exclamation point now that our exploration is done we can go back to the rocket warehouse located on five Islands to get our Sapphire back after a puzzle like the one in the rocket Hideout we convince Team Rocket to leave the city Islands it is then revealed the goons we have encountered here are the ones responsible for the events happening in Pokemon Gold and Silver we finally deliver the second gemstone to Celio and can now connect our gen 1 remake to every other gen 3 game as all the features we should have access to are now accessible the stall on two Island updates one final time with the Hoenn lava cookie the repeat bowl and the timer ball in fact we can obtain almost every gen 3 ball now thanks to infinite item spots selfie the ultimate horngirl and its netball equivalent with the super rod NPC on Route 12. who asks us to bring him big magic harp only the premiere and dive balls remain exclusive to Ruby Sapphire and emerald but there are still two secret City islands we have not explored yet Naval Rock located between four and five Islands accessible using the Mystic ticket and Birth Island between 6 and 7 Islands using the Aurora ticket the tickets were only obtainable through Mystery Gift events specific to fire red leaf green and emerald and the islands don't show up on the map until we visit them or not at all in the case of emerald Naval rock is home to both Lugia and Ho-Oh and we can pick up the sacred Ash with the item finder after encountering the latter Birth Island is where Deoxys makes its appearance once we solve the mystery of its triangular Rock both extra islands are really cool and I wish they weren't event exclusives but if you know where to look for you can find ways to trigger these events even today and there we are all the city Islands explored and the quest line completed we finally unlock Cerulean cave where Mewtwo awaits us now we understand why these islands were absent from subsequent Renditions of Kanto hard gold and soul silver introduced all the Gen 3 and 4 changes within the story and let's go Pikachu and Eevee purposefully only included gen 1 content it is a bummer the city Islands were lost to time as they feature some of the best parts of gen 3. they also would have gained from being easier to access as the National Pokedex requirement is rough but are a fantastic reward for those who are determined so next time you set food in Kanto make sure you explore the Seas and don't miss the city Islands they are well worth the detour I hope you enjoyed this excursion at sea special thanks to every Patron supporting the channel especially chrislanders the only Venom Lucas Maximilian lure Jonah C or cat store and kelzini additional extra things to Surf shark for sponsoring this video make sure to use the referral link for all 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Length: 25min 49sec (1549 seconds)

Published: Tue May 23 2023