Level 51 - There's No Time To Pokémon

[00:00:00] Wait! Don't forget to come and see me in my office in Puzzle and Village!

[00:00:03] Yeah!

[00:00:04] Did you hear me Ash?

[00:00:33] Welcome to the show everyone.

[00:00:35] My name is David Pietrangelo and I don't know what I'm doing,

[00:00:39] but I am quite glad that I recognize these Pokemon.

[00:00:43] Gen 1 for the win.

[00:00:45] I am old.

[00:00:47] And of course,

[00:00:48] Jiggy look back is with me once again.

[00:00:52] Who's that Pokemon?

[00:00:55] It's Pikachu!

[00:00:57] No!

[00:01:00] Jiggy look back.

[00:01:01] It's Jiggy look back.

[00:01:03] It played a funnier in my head, but whatever.

[00:01:06] We're going to run with it.

[00:01:06] Please, please just if you're going to watch any of the videos,

[00:01:11] any of any of our video versions of these episodes,

[00:01:14] just even if it's only the first like two or three minutes,

[00:01:17] just watch Jiggy's intros because as I said before we hit record,

[00:01:21] I'm glad that he is the one that gets physical with our intros

[00:01:24] and does anything that's not just sitting here talking into a microphone.

[00:01:28] It is worth it just for the first few minutes of that.

[00:01:30] So I will explain it slightly, but there was there was some Pokemon

[00:01:35] that made it on screen.

[00:01:36] So some Pokemon made it.

[00:01:38] I wish I had them hanging.

[00:01:40] They were hanging and then I came in and just like punched

[00:01:42] and just threw some punches like some fishing some fishing wire

[00:01:45] sort of hanging.

[00:01:46] So you know, you're just wire and I just punch him

[00:01:47] and they fly off.

[00:01:48] It's like.

[00:01:50] Pokemon action movie here.

[00:01:52] Here's a real question for you.

[00:01:53] Yes, please.

[00:01:55] If you were a Pokemon, not what Pokemon would you be?

[00:01:58] But what type would you be?

[00:01:59] I don't care what Pokemon you are.

[00:02:00] I want to know what type you interesting.

[00:02:03] I think I think I want to go with the psychic ones and I'm going

[00:02:10] with what the descriptors are for the first gen or maybe even

[00:02:14] first two gens because that's kind of all I'm familiar with

[00:02:17] which we'll talk about in a little bit.

[00:02:18] But the psychic ones always seem to be pretty powerful

[00:02:21] and also psychic is kind of like magic and that's kind of fun.

[00:02:25] So yeah, I probably go with that.

[00:02:27] Yeah, what about you?

[00:02:29] Okay.

[00:02:30] I think I would go.

[00:02:33] I'd probably be I always wear gray.

[00:02:40] Oh, black.

[00:02:41] So I feel like I would be like a rock type.

[00:02:43] Okay.

[00:02:44] Plus I hit so hard.

[00:02:47] Maybe a rock fighting.

[00:02:49] That's what I would be.

[00:02:49] Oh, combo rock fighting.

[00:02:51] Yes.

[00:02:52] I didn't say combos route.

[00:02:53] You can be a combo.

[00:02:54] I don't know.

[00:02:54] I don't know what the combos are like.

[00:02:56] I don't know if there's rules to combos because not really not

[00:02:59] really.

[00:02:59] Okay.

[00:03:00] Any any Pokemon that has a combo that is like say you have

[00:03:06] like a water electric or something right and electric would

[00:03:11] be super effective on water.

[00:03:12] Yeah, but not your electric.

[00:03:13] So it's dope.

[00:03:15] Oh, that sounds too complicated.

[00:03:17] I'm glad I only played one and a half gens of Pokemon.

[00:03:22] It's too much for me.

[00:03:24] Golden Silver was the best though.

[00:03:26] That's the one that's the one I want to finish.

[00:03:27] That's the one I got a few hours into.

[00:03:29] I stand firm that gen two is the best gen like I love gen one

[00:03:34] but gen two is gen one plus more.

[00:03:37] Is that because the games themselves or because of the

[00:03:41] Pokemon that are added or a combination of both?

[00:03:43] I guess both both.

[00:03:45] Okay.

[00:03:45] All right.

[00:03:45] Okay.

[00:03:46] Yeah, I'm not one of my favorite one of my favorite

[00:03:48] Pokemon of all time is Bayleaf.

[00:03:50] Oh yeah, I know which one that is.

[00:03:52] Oh, that was gen two.

[00:03:53] That was the evolution of Chikorita not the final evolution

[00:03:56] because the final evolution let's be honest.

[00:03:58] Not that great but Bayleaf is dope.

[00:04:00] What's the name of the evolution?

[00:04:01] Because I don't know the name.

[00:04:02] I'm going to look it up.

[00:04:03] It's like Maganium or Meganium.

[00:04:05] I don't know how to pronounce it.

[00:04:06] Gainium.

[00:04:07] Is Chikorita, Bayleaf, Maganium, Meganium.

[00:04:11] Oh, that one.

[00:04:11] Yeah.

[00:04:12] Yeah.

[00:04:13] Yeah.

[00:04:14] Yeah.

[00:04:14] I would say Meganium because it's like mega like.

[00:04:18] That could be.

[00:04:19] I don't know.

[00:04:19] Meg, Meganium.

[00:04:21] Yeah.

[00:04:21] Yeah, it's okay.

[00:04:22] It kind of looks like a kind of looks like a really like

[00:04:25] phallic dragon with a flower on its neck.

[00:04:28] That's what it looks like.

[00:04:29] Yeah.

[00:04:30] Yeah, it's okay.

[00:04:30] It was not bad.

[00:04:31] Yeah.

[00:04:32] Yeah.

[00:04:32] The Bulbasaur, Venusaur, Ivysaur sort of combo I think

[00:04:37] is is cooler if you're going to compare the grass types.

[00:04:40] Overall, but so it's funny as I always I often pick

[00:04:44] the Pokemon evolution I like the most.

[00:04:46] Yeah.

[00:04:46] And then like the others.

[00:04:47] I'm like, ah.

[00:04:49] So like Squirtle.

[00:04:50] Yeah.

[00:04:51] I actually think Squirtle and Blast Ours are cool,

[00:04:54] but War Turtle sucks.

[00:04:56] Okay.

[00:04:57] I like Bulbasaur and I love Ivysaur.

[00:04:59] I don't really care about Venusaur because I think

[00:05:01] he's ugly.

[00:05:02] Okay.

[00:05:03] And then I sort of like Charmander.

[00:05:06] I dislike Charmeleon and I love Charizard.

[00:05:09] Yeah.

[00:05:09] I think everyone's kind of on the same page like Charizard

[00:05:12] is pretty just cool looking like it just is a cool

[00:05:15] looking Pokemon regardless.

[00:05:16] You don't have to like fire or what?

[00:05:17] You know, I have to like.

[00:05:18] He's almost like.

[00:05:20] Who's a dragon?

[00:05:20] You have to pick Charmander because you know it turns

[00:05:23] into Charizard because Charmander and Charmeleon are

[00:05:26] kind of just meh.

[00:05:27] Whereas like if I was picking Gen 1 or like just from

[00:05:30] like the base evolutions, I probably would go Squirtle

[00:05:33] myself.

[00:05:34] Okay.

[00:05:35] Okay.

[00:05:35] See, I usually I usually went Bulbasaur Bulbasaur.

[00:05:38] I usually went with grass.

[00:05:40] I think because honestly like I think it's because

[00:05:43] the first I think the is it the first or the second gym

[00:05:47] and a water water is effective against against rock?

[00:05:50] Was it?

[00:05:50] Is that what it is?

[00:05:51] Yeah.

[00:05:51] So you could get obviously you could make the first

[00:05:53] first gym easier, but grass was also kind of good

[00:05:58] against rock and then obviously good against water,

[00:06:00] which is I think the second or third one.

[00:06:02] So I think that's why I did it and then by the time

[00:06:04] you evolve enough like, oh, I got other buddies.

[00:06:06] I got, you know, the other five to surround it out

[00:06:08] and stuff.

[00:06:09] And I always liked the way that all three of those

[00:06:11] looked.

[00:06:13] So I think that's why I always went that way and also

[00:06:15] everybody loved Charmander because it was fire

[00:06:17] and it was a dragon.

[00:06:18] I'm like, you know what?

[00:06:19] I'm going to go the opposite because I'm not a sheep.

[00:06:22] You know, that's yeah.

[00:06:23] It's not really there is a sheep mentality there that

[00:06:26] makes me not want to pick Charizard or Charmander.

[00:06:29] And I definitely was between the two.

[00:06:31] I think what I did was I had so my original like blue

[00:06:35] play through.

[00:06:36] I had Squirtle.

[00:06:37] Okay.

[00:06:37] And then am I when I went back and got leaf green

[00:06:41] the remake?

[00:06:42] I did Bulbasaur.

[00:06:44] Okay.

[00:06:45] But but I really don't like Venusaur and I don't like him

[00:06:49] because he's a very ugly frog.

[00:06:50] He's a very ugly toad.

[00:06:52] I think it's a toad.

[00:06:53] I think that's kind of what it is.

[00:06:54] And then like Bulbasaur and Ivysaur are cute.

[00:06:57] They are.

[00:06:58] And you get they are you get Venusaur and he's just

[00:07:00] like really ugly and big and I'm just like,

[00:07:02] he's like he's more intense, right?

[00:07:03] All three of the final evolutions are more intense.

[00:07:06] I would say at least, but he's not intense in the

[00:07:09] way that would make him intimidating.

[00:07:11] He's intense in the way like they turned him into clungo

[00:07:14] from Banjo or something like he just gets dopey.

[00:07:17] Where's like Blastoise gets machine like rocket cannons on

[00:07:21] his back.

[00:07:22] He gets rocket launchers on his back.

[00:07:23] Jarzor gets wings.

[00:07:24] It's like he got he got a slightly bigger flower.

[00:07:27] That's what Venusaur got.

[00:07:30] Longer vines man.

[00:07:31] He's more of a more of an intense weed.

[00:07:33] That's what it is.

[00:07:34] Although although I like it, I like I like that.

[00:07:37] I can use cut.

[00:07:38] I like that you can use.

[00:07:40] I can't remember what other ones are.

[00:07:42] There's like a spore one or something.

[00:07:44] I don't know.

[00:07:44] I like the moves that they had and maybe that's part of

[00:07:46] what it's one of those comfort things like the reason

[00:07:48] why I introed the way I did is because hey, I pretty

[00:07:52] much only recognize the first maybe 200 Pokemon on

[00:07:57] an average day.

[00:07:58] Sometimes pop up.

[00:07:59] I'm like, I've seen that before.

[00:08:01] Could I name it?

[00:08:02] Hell no, but if you showed me the original 150 or 51,

[00:08:07] I would probably 90 percent of the time be able to pull

[00:08:12] the name out of a hat like top of my mind right away

[00:08:15] just because I played.

[00:08:17] I also had the blue one.

[00:08:18] I also play.

[00:08:19] I played blue version probably I would say 10 times

[00:08:22] at least.

[00:08:23] Yeah, at least on the original game.

[00:08:24] Yeah, at least so you want to know something I did

[00:08:27] that was really like stupid, but I did it and felt cool.

[00:08:32] Pokemon blue.

[00:08:33] You could do like Pokemon dooping.

[00:08:36] Oh, where if you it was I can't remember the exact way

[00:08:40] of doing it, but it was basically you could go into your box.

[00:08:44] You're on the computer or whatever on the Pokedex.

[00:08:47] Yeah.

[00:08:48] Well, you could go into your box and like organize

[00:08:50] your Pokemon and it was like if you moved it and then

[00:08:53] quickly like ripped out the game, it would duplicate

[00:08:56] that Pokemon.

[00:08:57] Oh, I remember something like that now that you say

[00:08:59] that yeah, I had an entire team of Pidgeots

[00:09:03] and they were all like level 100.

[00:09:06] They all just fly all the time so no one could ever hit

[00:09:09] you like he just hit fly.

[00:09:10] I just I like Pidgeot as a kid too.

[00:09:12] Like those were those were surprisingly good.

[00:09:15] That was a surprisingly good early investment is to get

[00:09:18] grab a Pidgey and go with it.

[00:09:19] Love I loved his his hair.

[00:09:22] I had like a little toy figure and I think this is why

[00:09:26] I loved it so much.

[00:09:26] My dad got me like a Pokemon figure.

[00:09:29] It was like they had the Pokeball with like Pidgey

[00:09:33] and I actually might have been Pidgeotto.

[00:09:36] I can't remember his Pidgeot or not, but they look like

[00:09:39] somewhat similar.

[00:09:40] Yeah, some of them.

[00:09:40] But I remember I had that toy and I just loved it

[00:09:43] because it was like the only Pokemon toy I had basically

[00:09:46] and so I was like this is my Pokemon.

[00:09:49] And so it's the most common Pokemon, but it's mine.

[00:09:51] It's all maybe not.

[00:09:52] Yeah, it's like happen like for me.

[00:09:55] I was I mean this is not the same and obviously

[00:09:57] kind of shows our age a little bit, but like I had

[00:10:02] we have a Canada's Wonderland is what they call it,

[00:10:04] but it was sponsored by Paramount's like Paramount

[00:10:08] Canada's Wonderland.

[00:10:08] That's what it was and we had Hannah Barbera and everything

[00:10:11] was like all.

[00:10:11] Oh yeah.

[00:10:12] Yeah.

[00:10:12] So Flintstones was a big thing growing up.

[00:10:15] I watched lots of Flintstones.

[00:10:17] The cartoon the original cartoon was on repeat all the time.

[00:10:19] The movies came out when I was younger and I won a

[00:10:25] a Dino at a game at the theme park.

[00:10:29] Not massive, but like you know, a sort of cuddling type of

[00:10:32] toy toy when you're you know, seven years old,

[00:10:35] five years old, something like that.

[00:10:37] And I won it myself.

[00:10:38] I remember actually remember doing it.

[00:10:40] It's one of those games we have to throw the

[00:10:43] the baseball in the basket and have it like sit

[00:10:47] and it's like oh yeah, it's angled impossibly

[00:10:49] and you just have to get I think I said yeah,

[00:10:51] you have to get like two out of five or something

[00:10:52] or two out of three.

[00:10:54] I got it.

[00:10:54] I got it right.

[00:10:55] I'm going to blow your mind right now because I have had

[00:10:58] no one to tell this to okay and no one that's brought

[00:11:01] up the Flintstones in the same conversation.

[00:11:05] I went on Facebook Marketplace.

[00:11:06] I was game hunting and I was just looking at deals

[00:11:09] and stuff and one of the things that just randomly

[00:11:11] popped up for me was someone made the Flintstones

[00:11:14] like vehicle like foot powered like they just made

[00:11:19] it but it's like extra long and they call it a

[00:11:21] Flintstones bus and it was like there's like $200 or something

[00:11:25] like like like lifestyles like you'd sit in it like for

[00:11:30] people like you sit in it and you you move your feet

[00:11:32] and it's got like a rolling wheel in the front.

[00:11:34] What and I was like who makes this who wouldn't want that?

[00:11:40] It was crazy though.

[00:11:41] That's hilarious.

[00:11:43] Oh my God.

[00:11:44] Yeah, that's great.

[00:11:46] Oh my God.

[00:11:46] Anyways, your your Pidgey Pidgey yacht or Pidgey

[00:11:49] Yodo is kind of like me where it's like I had this like affinity

[00:11:53] for Dino for some reason in the Flintstones and I had that

[00:11:56] toy that plush for 20 years or something like that.

[00:12:00] His collar fell off his neck was sort of like you know

[00:12:03] because it was like the thin part of his body and his

[00:12:05] tail.

[00:12:05] Yeah, kind of like his head just kind of like set to

[00:12:07] the side kind of thing but I held on to it till I

[00:12:11] pause until I absolutely couldn't anymore.

[00:12:13] One of those like childhood things right so I don't have

[00:12:17] that for Pokemon but I do still have my original cartridge

[00:12:21] over there.

[00:12:22] My Game Boy is in the grave but my cartridge itself still

[00:12:29] works, the battery is still alive.

[00:12:31] I have a Pokemon Silver but that battery is dead.

[00:12:34] I didn't know that until after I played it for about three

[00:12:36] hours so that sucks.

[00:12:39] That's why I've never gotten through that games because

[00:12:41] I haven't started it in any other way but I played it

[00:12:44] for about two and a half to three hours a couple summers

[00:12:46] ago.

[00:12:47] I hit save.

[00:12:47] I was like alright it saved.

[00:12:49] I turned it off next day.

[00:12:50] I turned it on start from the beginning so I didn't realize

[00:12:54] so yeah so I'm going to have to play through that one.

[00:12:56] I enjoyed the beginning few hours.

[00:12:58] That's all I got to say so that's that's all I know

[00:13:00] about Gen 2 so all of all of that all of that if

[00:13:03] anyone has guessed yes we are talking about Pokemon not

[00:13:06] Flintstones but we could talk about both and that's

[00:13:08] fine.

[00:13:09] We are talking about Pokemon puzzle league.

[00:13:12] No, we are not hitting up Pokemon Stadium just yet.

[00:13:16] That will come at some point but Pokemon puzzle league is

[00:13:19] something that we're talking about this week.

[00:13:22] It's a game that has a bit of a mix of Tetris and Dr.

[00:13:25] Mario style and I think it's Tetris sphere or something.

[00:13:31] I can't remember exactly which one it is.

[00:13:34] That is what we are going to be talking about this

[00:13:36] week and to get things going and to see and just to

[00:13:40] hear a little bit of it this time this should work

[00:13:43] if anyone has listened to past episodes where the

[00:13:45] sound has not worked with me.

[00:13:47] I think this will work.

[00:13:51] Okay little intro.

[00:14:08] Welcome it's so good to see you.

[00:14:10] Welcome.

[00:14:13] So it's like it doesn't even let it play for any longer

[00:14:16] like come on that would be nice wouldn't it?

[00:14:18] I feel like that would be good.

[00:14:19] It would it's so it's so weird that he's like saying

[00:14:22] things that aren't what his text dialogue says.

[00:14:24] Yes, so strange and then this game so okay so one of

[00:14:30] the reasons why we chose to do this is because it's

[00:14:34] a pretty simple game to play.

[00:14:35] It's really just a puzzle game.

[00:14:36] It's kind of like Tetris we're like you know what

[00:14:38] let's give it a shot.

[00:14:39] So we haven't played a game like this together or talked

[00:14:42] about a game quite like this yet.

[00:14:45] So I thought you know what it's on switch online as

[00:14:46] well.

[00:14:47] Let's let's just play it.

[00:14:48] I tried it on both.

[00:14:50] It plays exactly the same I tried it on the 64 and

[00:14:52] I try to switch it's literally exactly the same.

[00:14:56] So so that that was kind of fun that we had

[00:14:58] experience to be able to do that it's easily

[00:15:00] accessible so if anyone wants to play it while

[00:15:01] you're listening then then you can do that.

[00:15:05] But before we before we dig into the game itself I need

[00:15:10] to do this closer to the top because I will always

[00:15:12] forget sir.

[00:15:13] I I need to make sure that we are plugging the

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[00:17:07] okay sir you are brilliant you're so much better at

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[00:17:18] and I screwed this up man come on really real time

[00:17:23] figuring things out people here we go okay so

[00:17:26] Pokemon puzzle league on puzzle league Pokemon

[00:17:29] puzzle league let's talk a little bit about how

[00:17:31] this game was made because of course let's bust out

[00:17:34] the history books everyone we're going back to

[00:17:38] September of 2000 so much later in the console

[00:17:42] cycle than I thought it was I'm not sure if you had

[00:17:45] it is yeah it's in North America at least right

[00:17:48] that's where I was in North America so okay

[00:17:51] Pokemon puzzle league is I wrote down straight

[00:17:54] up a Nintendo joint that is published by

[00:17:58] Nintendo developed by Nintendo studio Nintendo

[00:18:01] software technology does that sound familiar to

[00:18:04] you at all I don't know if that Nintendo software

[00:18:07] technology it's very very vague but they have a

[00:18:11] lot of they've a hand in a lot of other games

[00:18:13] that I'd be like oh shit that's pretty good okay

[00:18:17] so Nintendo software technology is an in-house

[00:18:22] North American developer that Nintendo launched

[00:18:26] specifically to make more games in North America

[00:18:29] and just give them a bigger sort of portfolio I

[00:18:31] guess you could call it around this time so as

[00:18:34] I did my searching I realized that they made a

[00:18:37] whole bunch of stuff for the n64 or sorry a couple

[00:18:41] things for the n64 and then did a lot of other

[00:18:43] things that weren't just games so they did the

[00:18:45] 64 emulator for the Wii and they also did funny

[00:18:49] little things like Mario and animal crossing

[00:18:52] calculators and clocks for the DS interesting

[00:18:57] which is so random so random it is so all the rage

[00:19:02] I guess I guess I don't know I didn't have a DS

[00:19:05] so I don't know if it was the rage oh man there's

[00:19:10] nothing like driving into a shady shady neighborhood

[00:19:13] and getting a random pic to chat sure is that

[00:19:18] is that what the kids call it these days

[00:19:20] if you go if you go places and you just like

[00:19:23] have your pic to chat on I did that I bet other

[00:19:25] people did that too that's just be like seeing

[00:19:28] if someone else had pic to chat that you could like

[00:19:30] chat with and like draw pictures and send pictures

[00:19:32] and stuff oh that's so it's kind of what would they

[00:19:34] call on 3ds wasn't like not game pass it was

[00:19:37] they call it Street Pass 3ds but it's not not quite

[00:19:40] the same but similar concept it just it's way

[00:19:43] better than pic to chat was just really cool because

[00:19:46] it was just like drawing and like notes and stuff

[00:19:48] Oh okay in in Super Smash Bros Ultimate there is

[00:19:53] a stage that's like pic to chat and they have

[00:19:55] like little messages oh yes oh that's what that's

[00:19:58] from okay see didn't know all that time that is

[00:20:01] it that's a cool looking level to I like that one

[00:20:03] yeah it like evolves doesn't like the background

[00:20:05] like move and stuff yeah yeah changes in everything

[00:20:07] changes yeah yeah that one's cool nice

[00:20:10] what else okay puzzle league was one of their

[00:20:13] first games was one of the first games that

[00:20:15] they ever made but they also created a bunch of

[00:20:17] other great games over the years one of them

[00:20:20] is a game that we played this past year

[00:20:23] they developed Wave Race Blue Storm so they made

[00:20:27] the sequel yeah they made the sequel to Wave Race

[00:20:30] 64 so if you want to hear us talk about that episode

[00:20:34] or level 49 we talked about Wave Race and that

[00:20:38] is the sequel to it on GameCube so they made

[00:20:40] that and they also made the Mario vs Donkey Kong

[00:20:44] franchise as well as the remake that just came

[00:20:46] out and F 099 which also came out within the last

[00:20:51] 12 yeah they're coming back yeah so they have done

[00:20:55] a lot of really cool stuff I think that is a pretty

[00:20:58] good pedigree of games I would say maybe maybe not

[00:21:03] all like all-star type of games but but those

[00:21:06] and that's not all of them they made other

[00:21:07] ones too those are just sort of the ones that

[00:21:08] I that I sort of made note of but but that's

[00:21:11] pretty good I think that's pretty good so that

[00:21:14] they must have known and been happy with this

[00:21:15] because they thought oh this isn't pretty good

[00:21:18] hands let's let's keep going with these guys so yeah

[00:21:22] that's basically it I think they it seems like

[00:21:25] everything that I looked up was Nintendo wanted to make

[00:21:28] a Tetris like game this was one of the ways

[00:21:31] that they've done it there's a puzzle league also

[00:21:34] for I believe it is for GBA plays very similar

[00:21:38] but it doesn't have the exact same setup and

[00:21:41] everything as far as modes go we'll get into it

[00:21:43] but there are a bunch of different modes you can

[00:21:45] play but to start things off Jiggy what did you think

[00:21:50] of Pokemon puzzle league for the n64 well okay so

[00:21:54] first off I got a few thoughts one please I don't

[00:21:57] know if it was mentioned but I believe it said

[00:22:00] it's based it's based on Nintendo's pre-existing

[00:22:05] game panel day Pawn I saw that yeah but it was

[00:22:09] no I was never released as far as I can find

[00:22:13] it was something that they worked on but I don't

[00:22:15] know that it was released I could be wrong about

[00:22:16] that that's that's what I saw it looks like it

[00:22:19] it was it okay yeah and the well it says the

[00:22:26] English patch was 2007 I don't know in the

[00:22:29] actual end but but apparently it was based on

[00:22:31] that game which it you know it's a puzzle game

[00:22:35] there's a there's a lot of puzzle games that

[00:22:38] function very similar yeah and you'll find that

[00:22:41] a lot of these puzzle games are based on like two

[00:22:44] or three different games like it's like at the

[00:22:48] at the core there's like three puzzle games that

[00:22:50] cover like every other puzzle game and then

[00:22:53] they're just kind of reskins or rethemes you

[00:22:57] know it plays functionally sort of like Dr.

[00:23:01] Mario except I found this hard personally okay I

[00:23:07] was struggling throughout but to talk about

[00:23:11] the Pokemon theme yeah because that's a that's

[00:23:15] a draw right I mean like that's that's part of

[00:23:18] the point of doing this is that oh you're doing

[00:23:19] something different it's not just you know another

[00:23:22] not only it not only is it a draw but this is

[00:23:27] specifically catering to fans of the anime

[00:23:30] right right no Pokemon game ever did that really

[00:23:34] like I mean there might be a handful but few

[00:23:38] and far between that actually focused on like

[00:23:39] Ash being the main character and the fact that

[00:23:42] you boot up this game and you get a full like movie

[00:23:44] sequence right that was awesome yeah I loved that

[00:23:49] I oh that is that's where we have to start to

[00:23:51] because I captured the clip of Professor Oak

[00:23:55] saying hey you're involved in the Pokemon

[00:23:58] puzzle league and this is a part of his explanation

[00:24:02] being selected for this event is such an honor

[00:24:05] well there's no time to explain everything

[00:24:08] that's you know last professor oh be excited but

[00:24:11] also there's no time there's no time we have no time

[00:24:15] I love how Professor Oak is always like he's that guy

[00:24:18] that's always there somehow yeah he's always explaining

[00:24:22] something to you but he doesn't actually have much

[00:24:25] to say or he's like he's like oh Ash I see you've

[00:24:30] got your first badge congratulations badges are

[00:24:34] drives away like he never he never he's like the

[00:24:38] he's the Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Pokemon world

[00:24:43] he's always explaining everything but it's kind of

[00:24:46] like roundabout never finishes a thought like

[00:24:51] he's got the knowledge he's got the knowledge

[00:24:53] just he's just not he's not putting together

[00:24:55] Pokemon expert of course of course he always

[00:24:59] talks like this there's no time Ash there's no time

[00:25:03] there is no time I want to help you with puzzles

[00:25:07] and Pokemon I guess but there's no time

[00:25:10] there's no time to explain other than it is a great

[00:25:13] honor all you need to know as you should be honored

[00:25:18] you should be honored

[00:25:20] how many people get to play in the Pokemon puzzle league

[00:25:23] you need to move around pink red blue green

[00:25:26] sometimes blue sometimes gray squares

[00:25:30] go Pokemon

[00:25:32] yep that's pretty much the game play and that's the

[00:25:35] game play yeah so yeah so if anyone doesn't know it's

[00:25:40] it's quick like you said it's based on a lot of

[00:25:42] other other games for sure you're right Tetris Dr.

[00:25:46] Mario like there's all obviously different types of

[00:25:49] Tetris as well one of the things that that

[00:25:53] differentiates this is there's a possibility I don't

[00:25:55] know if you got to it but there's a possibility to

[00:25:58] play a 3D version of I heard that these stages yeah

[00:26:03] so like any other puzzle game like this with the

[00:26:07] bricks or pieces falling down from top to bottom

[00:26:10] and you need to match three or four or five or

[00:26:12] however many you can do or combos to clear the

[00:26:15] bottom of the screen actually they don't fall from

[00:26:18] the from the top here they come from the bottom

[00:26:19] that's how this works and if you get a combo and

[00:26:22] you're playing against someone then it falls

[00:26:23] from the top and you have to deal with it

[00:26:25] that way so it's a little bit different not

[00:26:26] quite Tetris but okay here's the thing here's

[00:26:29] the mechanic I don't understand okay right now

[00:26:32] what just happened yes you are selecting your

[00:26:36] Pokemon okay yeah we got to get to this yes either

[00:26:40] Pikachu Squirtle or Bulbasaur Bulbasaur yeah same

[00:26:43] options the whole way through as far as I know

[00:26:46] as far as I've experienced it was the same all

[00:26:48] the way through I played two different difficulties

[00:26:51] in the normal like one player mode and then

[00:26:54] I think I played I want to say a total of a couple

[00:26:57] of hours in like the other modes sort of combined

[00:27:00] kind of thing so yeah so my question about that

[00:27:03] is does type affect the match so misty for example

[00:27:09] year is a water type water yeah and you are using

[00:27:13] Bulbasaur yep and it seems right now you had

[00:27:16] an advantage right off the bat like she had more

[00:27:19] squares populating her side just from the get go

[00:27:23] right and I'm wondering if maybe that was my problem

[00:27:26] I wasn't like addressing that mechanic

[00:27:29] the end like that might be why I was finding it

[00:27:31] harder so I can't find anything about that specifically

[00:27:35] okay what you got so I got Nintendo power this is

[00:27:38] where I wanted to get my research from this is

[00:27:40] exactly what I was thinking too I had no idea

[00:27:45] if it mattered automatically like you see like

[00:27:48] you said I see misty and I'm like cool I'm

[00:27:51] going to use Bulbasaur why wouldn't I we just

[00:27:53] talk about this five minutes ago you know yeah

[00:27:56] it's going to give me an advantage so Nintendo

[00:27:59] power issue 136 it's one of the games that's on

[00:28:02] here or featured in the Nintendo power issue

[00:28:06] and it's basically just like a feature of like

[00:28:09] I think it's like six pages so it's not huge

[00:28:11] but it's on there sort of tell you what the

[00:28:13] game is and what you can expect so different modes

[00:28:16] I can chain the blocks together you know

[00:28:19] they have fun titles like block party and quite

[00:28:23] a puzzler you know stuff that you would expect

[00:28:26] in Nintendo power in in 2000 as I looked through

[00:28:31] this and as I was trying to find out if that even

[00:28:34] mattered I also found the manual at one point

[00:28:38] I I really don't think it matters it doesn't seem

[00:28:42] like it makes any difference at all it's just

[00:28:46] choice and that's it okay and to me that's a

[00:28:50] missed opportunity that's disappointing to me

[00:28:53] because it's kind of like when you start

[00:28:58] you know any Pokemon game or at least I think

[00:29:00] this is how the newer ones also make our start

[00:29:03] but presumably all the Pokemon games you pick

[00:29:05] your starter or however the latest ones for switch

[00:29:09] work and you know within the first few minutes

[00:29:12] you're facing your rival your rival always

[00:29:15] picks the one that is most effective against you

[00:29:17] yeah yeah so Misty pops up for example and she's

[00:29:21] water but you choose first and she chooses a water

[00:29:25] type if you choose fire for example something

[00:29:27] like that right but that's the fun and is that

[00:29:30] now you have to work up against what is most

[00:29:33] difficult in that that's part of the struggle

[00:29:36] right is be able to as far as I can tell there

[00:29:40] is nothing that I can find please if people

[00:29:42] are listening or watching tell me if it matters

[00:29:45] but I played through the easy and normal difficulties

[00:29:49] in in the one player from start to finish

[00:29:53] and it didn't make a difference I didn't find

[00:29:55] any difference the difference I found was the

[00:29:58] AI was better because they were faster they made

[00:30:00] more combos and more stuff dropped from the

[00:30:03] top I wish that was there I think that that

[00:30:06] what that's what makes it Pokemon is that

[00:30:08] that's the yeah that's the turn based battle RPG

[00:30:13] part of it is that I don't but like we said

[00:30:17] it's a it's the same puzzle game just with a different

[00:30:19] skin yeah essentially that's the problem you know

[00:30:23] like it did make me feel though that having that

[00:30:26] option had some sort of advantage or disadvantage

[00:30:29] if you chose wrong yeah so it made me think

[00:30:33] it made me think in Pokemon terms yeah 100%

[00:30:36] world of Pokemon and the where the pocket

[00:30:38] my types matter take a if you pick fire against

[00:30:42] water you get steam you science bitches

[00:30:51] out just slides off screen gets in his

[00:30:56] one stone bus and right runs away and gets

[00:30:58] out of there yeah it's it's I look the gate

[00:31:04] like you said the game works well functionally

[00:31:06] it it does exactly what it's supposed to I think

[00:31:09] it you know it's it's smooth it feels pretty good

[00:31:12] to play it I would say but yeah it's it's kind

[00:31:15] of a missed opportunity that there isn't more

[00:31:18] Pokemon like stuff that you can do in it like I

[00:31:21] feel like yeah if they're like maybe you don't

[00:31:24] have to level up your characters that's fine

[00:31:26] you know you just go from you know level

[00:31:28] one to level 11 and the single player you

[00:31:30] you know you play multiplayer against someone

[00:31:32] that's totally fine I get it there's a time trial

[00:31:34] type of thing there's also a mode where you have

[00:31:38] to do all you have to clear a screen in a certain

[00:31:41] amount of moves I don't remember exactly which

[00:31:44] one that's called but I have the thing that

[00:31:47] where is it spot no not spot puzzle university

[00:31:50] that's what it is I tried those who eventually

[00:31:54] they're tough man they give you like a screen

[00:31:56] with a you know mishmash of blocks and I was

[00:31:59] like shit man sometimes I spent 10 minutes on

[00:32:01] one of them I was like yeah it's this is this is

[00:32:06] hard this this game is as far as my my puzzles

[00:32:10] go so here's how I view it I don't know what the

[00:32:13] original games are okay but you have I guess

[00:32:15] you do have Tetris and stuff but I wasn't even

[00:32:17] going to count that yeah these puzzle games

[00:32:20] like Dr. Mario this one and Dr. Robotnik's

[00:32:27] mean bean machine played that I've never

[00:32:31] okay well let me just say having played all of

[00:32:34] these Dr. Robotnik's mean bean machine still

[00:32:38] stands at the pinnacle oh really okay it is my

[00:32:42] favorite it is my favorite I go back to I like

[00:32:46] puzzle games yeah I find them like relaxing in

[00:32:51] a casual way like whenever I'm just like I'm

[00:32:53] just going to go play a couple rounds of

[00:32:56] Dr. Robotnik's mean bean machine is the one

[00:32:58] I go back to sometimes I do go to Dr. Mario

[00:33:02] and I play a little Dr. Mario but I just love

[00:33:06] mean bean machine all right and I don't see

[00:33:09] myself going back to Pokemon puzzle league

[00:33:12] okay it just it doesn't feel as fleshed out

[00:33:15] it feels like the Pokemon theme is a shoe

[00:33:18] horned in there and it doesn't actually do too

[00:33:20] much I like the the actual like anime being

[00:33:25] incorporated rather than the just the games

[00:33:27] it looks good it definitely looks good video

[00:33:29] yeah that's cool yeah professor Oak school

[00:33:35] yeah it's just you know it just doesn't do

[00:33:37] enough for me I guess

[00:33:40] yeah so I played when I realized that this was

[00:33:43] on switch online I think I think they put it

[00:33:47] on like a few months ago as of this recording

[00:33:49] like sometime in 2023 I believe it went on

[00:33:51] maybe it was even earlier than that on my

[00:33:53] emulation device I played the the GBA one is

[00:33:57] the GBA version of the game is Pokemon puzzle

[00:34:00] challenge is what it's called essentially the same

[00:34:03] game but there's a little bit more of like a

[00:34:05] story element to it I wouldn't call it like

[00:34:07] you know really detailed or heavy or anything

[00:34:09] like that but you basically go across this

[00:34:12] this the screen from right to left or left

[00:34:14] to right and and you kind of bump into other

[00:34:17] characters recognizable ones in the in the

[00:34:19] Pokemon world and you and I think this

[00:34:22] includes also gen 2 yet also includes gen 2 in it

[00:34:28] and you're kind of fighting different and battling

[00:34:30] different people as you go it's not just hey

[00:34:32] here's 1 2 3 4 and so on and just fight the gym

[00:34:37] gym leaders and that's basically the one player

[00:34:39] version of it it actually has a little bit of

[00:34:41] that you know quote unquote story to it and

[00:34:44] it plays the same way it just does and the

[00:34:47] screen is obviously a little bit smaller it's

[00:34:49] actually more horizontal than vertical so it's

[00:34:52] a little bit different that way that felt

[00:34:56] more fleshed out as far as single player goes

[00:34:59] if you want to do like I said the quote unquote

[00:35:02] story version of it there's more modes in this

[00:35:04] one because it's just more possible to possible

[00:35:07] to put more things on here but

[00:35:09] unless you're playing this multiplayer it does

[00:35:12] your right it does just feel like a skin with

[00:35:14] with Pokemon it look I think it looks good

[00:35:17] but like these these kind of games aren't

[00:35:20] something that I would particularly play multiplayer

[00:35:24] I understand there's a there's a 2v2 mechanic

[00:35:26] yeah but

[00:35:29] again

[00:35:31] there are other games I would

[00:35:32] I would do that before this as far as puzzle

[00:35:34] games go like this is not the game that I think

[00:35:36] of and maybe I just have zero nostalgia for it

[00:35:39] but I just I

[00:35:41] I'm not I'm not huge into Pokemon I was in the

[00:35:44] wave I liked Pokemon I was never like

[00:35:48] Pokemon is everything you know same same

[00:35:52] but if you were talking about Beyblades

[00:35:57] see I would be like I what's a what's a Beyblade

[00:35:59] you know like I know what it is but you know what I mean

[00:36:01] like I just

[00:36:02] no man doesn't mean not mean literally next to nothing

[00:36:05] to me be please and dude I love just

[00:36:09] launching a Beyblade and you've explained it sounds

[00:36:13] it sounds cool like it sounds it just was out of

[00:36:16] the age range at that time for me that's that's really

[00:36:18] what it was like I used to have all my fingers

[00:36:21] man I miss my I miss my right pinky it was great

[00:36:26] I regret nothing

[00:36:28] I am a Beyblade Masters I would as Beyblade Masters

[00:36:31] a Bay Champion Bay Champion ooh okay I like that oh yeah

[00:36:35] yeah it sounds cool too

[00:36:37] also look pretty cool babies look kind of cool I get

[00:36:39] it I get it again there's like an arena it's physical

[00:36:42] it's not just cards well it had an anime too it had an

[00:36:45] a to that that's what I know it from is just that

[00:36:48] is seen that the commercials like on TV essentially

[00:36:51] everything was trying to mimic Pokemon sure sure and

[00:36:54] Beyblade it's about spinning tops but the spinning

[00:36:57] tops had monsters like stickers in the middle

[00:37:01] and then the show those monsters would like beam

[00:37:03] out of the Beyblades like holograms almost

[00:37:06] and then the monsters would like fight and the Beyblades

[00:37:08] would be like replicating how the monsters are fighting

[00:37:10] fighting hey that you know what that's an inventive idea

[00:37:13] I think it was cool yeah that's I you know what

[00:37:16] hey man you're not crazy favorite was black

[00:37:19] Dronser Dronser it was yeah Dronser was like a red

[00:37:23] Phoenix okay and it was like one of the main one of

[00:37:26] the main Beyblade guys right or one of the main

[00:37:31] characters Beyblades yeah but black Dronser was

[00:37:34] like the evil version that he like went rogue

[00:37:37] and that like his whole team had to like gang up

[00:37:39] on him to beat him and I was like black Dronser is the

[00:37:42] best the whole team has to fight him to win.

[00:37:48] I mean that's that's just fun as a kid to be able to have

[00:37:51] that so I get it I get that like we were saying we

[00:37:54] didn't want to be a pictures art at first because

[00:37:57] we wanted to not be sheep.

[00:38:00] Don't be mainstream.

[00:38:01] We can't come on.

[00:38:03] That's why there's an N64 podcast.

[00:38:06] Yes and surprisingly this game has really good reviews.

[00:38:12] Yeah I just looked it up it's like really really kind of

[00:38:15] overwhelmingly positive.

[00:38:17] So you're pretty surprised by that.

[00:38:19] I well I'm surprised that I'm not surprised that it got

[00:38:23] good reviews because it's not a bad game right.

[00:38:26] I'm surprised that everyone's like oh the best bubble

[00:38:29] game ever.

[00:38:29] Oh here we go here we go sorry what is that a six out

[00:38:33] of 10 by Yo Jimbo 2015 Jimbo rather cynical attempt to

[00:38:39] repackage a bog standard block matching game with

[00:38:41] Pokemon characters.

[00:38:44] Okay it has a perfectly decent it's a perfectly decent

[00:38:48] one but has little to do with Pokemon which is exactly

[00:38:51] what I said.

[00:38:52] Yeah it's kind of what we're saying yeah I would I

[00:38:55] would give it a seven probably okay like I'm on my

[00:38:59] scale I feel like it's solid.

[00:39:01] It's a good it's a good game.

[00:39:02] It's not bad at all.

[00:39:04] It's just yeah it's basic.

[00:39:05] Yeah it just doesn't need to be Pokemon like the Pokemon

[00:39:08] aspect of it is is just an ad doesn't hurt it.

[00:39:12] It doesn't know that's that's true that's true because

[00:39:14] it's not like we say we said that it was like shoehorned

[00:39:17] in but shoehorned sometimes is more negative.

[00:39:20] It's more just like the skin that that is doesn't make

[00:39:25] the game worse.

[00:39:26] It's not like they tried to add stuff in that made the

[00:39:29] game feel like well this isn't a puzzle game anymore

[00:39:31] this.

[00:39:32] Tell you it I'll tell you exactly how I feel about this

[00:39:35] please okay the skin the skin thing the skin comment

[00:39:38] okay it is an echo character in Super Smash Bros.

[00:39:42] It is like Daisy to Peach whereas Peach would be

[00:39:45] the original puzzle game and then if people like Daisy

[00:39:48] they're going to like this more fundamentally the

[00:39:50] same maybe slightly different like stats or something

[00:39:55] affects it slightly different but it's very very

[00:39:58] similar.

[00:39:59] Okay yeah I can see that yeah that makes sense that makes

[00:40:02] sense that the one thing I mentioned this earlier and

[00:40:04] I wanted to make sure my biggest disappointment with

[00:40:07] this game isn't the fact well actually probably is

[00:40:10] actually that the the Pokemon aspect of it in

[00:40:12] the sort of balancing your different types and stuff

[00:40:15] isn't quite there.

[00:40:16] The other thing that I don't quite understand this

[00:40:19] this idea or why they went this way is that you

[00:40:23] can play this game in a 3D version and you can

[00:40:27] play it in like a cylinder essentially so it's not

[00:40:30] just flat on the screen and 2D as you move from left

[00:40:33] to right the screen kind of rotates left to right I

[00:40:35] have a video of it so I'm going to find it and pull

[00:40:37] it up while we're while I'm talking about this but

[00:40:41] that what happens is is that just makes things more

[00:40:45] like in depth like there's just more going on

[00:40:49] and it's just it's oh yeah it's just way more fun

[00:40:54] this way and I don't know why they buried this behind

[00:40:58] a higher difficulty and behind a mode that isn't

[00:41:02] part of the basic mode so the only reason why I got

[00:41:06] to play this was because the cheat codes can be

[00:41:09] entered at any time and you can access different

[00:41:12] difficulties and different levels and at a certain

[00:41:15] point I think it's in the spa service one or in

[00:41:19] the time trial one you just open that mode you

[00:41:22] type it you put it on hold on to the Z or the Z button

[00:41:24] and you do like L R A A or something you can do it

[00:41:28] on switch online to it's available on both which is

[00:41:30] kind of nice you can do the codes and then you're

[00:41:32] able to access these stages but you have if you

[00:41:35] didn't have the code you have to play for a long

[00:41:37] time to reach these stages and it's unfortunate

[00:41:40] that they bury it behind that because I think this

[00:41:43] is it's more difficult for sure but it is way better

[00:41:47] it's way better yeah little jigglypuffs over there

[00:41:50] in the corner like getting angry awesome I don't

[00:41:52] know why I'm trying to like shove the microphone

[00:42:01] actually going to turn the sound on for this this mode

[00:42:03] too it's kind of the same but let's see if it works

[00:42:06] here did it work did you not work there we go don't

[00:42:13] mute it there we go that's okay it's okay you didn't

[00:42:30] hear it but I heard it and it was me failing so yeah

[00:42:33] so I think this should have been the main draw of the

[00:42:38] game I think I think this would have been so much

[00:42:40] better because it differentiates itself it maybe you

[00:42:44] don't have the different types of Pokemon maybe that's

[00:42:46] not something they end up going with but at least

[00:42:48] this made it feel different than other ones in the

[00:42:51] genre or other ones with a similar style so they

[00:42:54] should have had the little Pokemon like battling

[00:42:56] at the top or something and like whenever you get

[00:42:58] like a chain of blocks or something it would attack

[00:43:01] and then the other Pokemon be like ah yeah instead of

[00:43:04] just like the color falling because all this is color

[00:43:06] coordinated yeah blocks that fall they try to do it like

[00:43:09] via types which just further confuses and makes you think

[00:43:13] that the type thing is a thing yeah exactly 100% it doesn't

[00:43:17] matter just do anything kids don't waste your time

[00:43:21] but you know what don't waste your time but you're

[00:43:23] right playing the game is still pretty good I enjoy

[00:43:26] it I wish this 3D thing was was more accessible and

[00:43:30] was more clear you can get it easier you can play it

[00:43:35] in the multiplayer one as well so we play against

[00:43:36] somebody it's available but you know we were just

[00:43:39] playing at single player I think that's also a missed

[00:43:43] opportunity there's a lot here though if you play

[00:43:46] the different modes you know there's there's the

[00:43:49] puzzle one the university thing that I that I

[00:43:51] mentioned there's also one that's like an endless

[00:43:53] mode is another one where the team rocket is involved

[00:43:55] and you have to like go through like a hundred

[00:43:58] stages or something crazy like that so there's a lot

[00:44:01] to play but it still is the same thing over and over

[00:44:05] and over again with a little bit more difficulties

[00:44:08] so it really depends on if that's what you're looking

[00:44:11] for I think yeah I just wish they had a separate

[00:44:15] mode that was just the 3D one and he didn't have

[00:44:17] to go searching for their enter codes I think

[00:44:19] that would actually go a long way in making this

[00:44:21] a little bit more robust or making a little

[00:44:24] bit more entertaining but I like that it spins

[00:44:27] it gives you a sense of urgency like you got

[00:44:28] to look at everything yeah and you can kind of see

[00:44:31] your your rows that are that are around the cylinder

[00:44:34] behind you as well so as it's moving up you can

[00:44:37] kind of be like oh shit the one that's you know

[00:44:40] five rows over I or five columns over I need to

[00:44:43] get over that one before I fix this one yeah

[00:44:47] and then you know you have combos chains and

[00:44:50] all these things that you see in other games but

[00:44:53] I it's a good time it's just not a home run

[00:44:57] I think that's that's kind of where I sit with it

[00:44:59] yeah so yeah it doesn't if you haven't played it

[00:45:04] before and you have switch online or you have

[00:45:07] an opportunity to get this 464 or even emulate

[00:45:11] it if that's something that you you're doing

[00:45:13] you're not going to hate the time with it but

[00:45:15] I don't think you're going to experience

[00:45:16] anything that you haven't experienced before

[00:45:19] unfortunately unless you play the 3D version of it

[00:45:22] I think that's actually really fun and I would

[00:45:24] recommend if you do have the switch online one

[00:45:26] and you want to try the 3D thing look up

[00:45:28] the codes are really easy to find and try that

[00:45:31] out and just I think that's that's a better time

[00:45:33] it's more fun so yeah Pokemon puzzle League

[00:45:37] it's it's okay it's okay that's okay that's kind

[00:45:40] of yeah it ain't no Elmo's number journey

[00:45:44] but you know but hey not everything can be

[00:45:47] you know not everyone everything can be not

[00:45:49] everyone can hit everything was almost number

[00:45:51] journey we have only good games we if everything

[00:45:56] could be as good of a journey as Elmo has

[00:45:58] when he's snowboarding and collecting the world

[00:46:02] would be so much better off there'd be peace

[00:46:04] in the Middle East there'd be just okay I'm

[00:46:09] going to stop right there you're right

[00:46:11] I mean I don't think you're wrong I don't

[00:46:14] think I don't think you're you're off on this

[00:46:18] you know taxes would be lower house prices

[00:46:21] would be manageable free and we'd be slowly

[00:46:25] transitioning to electric right that's it

[00:46:28] at the we would at no cost at zero cost like zero

[00:46:33] cost it would just be everyone would break even

[00:46:35] it would be you'd be fine and the economy would

[00:46:38] survive yeah you'd walk into restaurants and

[00:46:41] they'd be like hey here's your food for free

[00:46:44] you know have a great day have a great day

[00:46:48] thanks for stopping in you're welcome kind sir

[00:46:54] that's not my now my sick that's our professor

[00:47:02] Oakwood come oh my god but also he would have

[00:47:07] no time to explain being selected for this

[00:47:09] event is such an honor well there's no time

[00:47:11] to explain everything oh I will say I'm

[00:47:15] going to play that again and the music in this

[00:47:19] game is actually pretty good being selected for

[00:47:21] this event is such an honor well there's no

[00:47:23] time to explain everything yeah it is it's decent

[00:47:27] there's there's some there's some jazz bass

[00:47:29] going on some like cool music even the rendition

[00:47:32] of the theme at the beginning and like the menu

[00:47:34] music was really good it is good I wish it

[00:47:36] lasted longer but it is good yeah so that

[00:47:38] that's a positive for two I think they did

[00:47:40] a good job with that part of it is like you

[00:47:41] said they're trying to bring in the anime

[00:47:45] crowd and stuff like that too and I think they

[00:47:47] did a good job of making that happen so and that

[00:47:50] opening scene like you said is fully animated

[00:47:52] just like the show is it looks it's brief but

[00:47:55] it looks really good doesn't feel choppy doesn't

[00:47:58] feel really pixelated or nothing so there's

[00:48:01] positive here that's right meow meow yeah it's

[00:48:04] just it's yeah there's that there's lots of

[00:48:07] voiceover which is a mixed bag I think

[00:48:10] oh but the cheese the cheesy awful voice acting

[00:48:17] is what I like about oh yeah yeah yeah

[00:48:21] straight straight from the show right so oh

[00:48:23] yeah it's it's awesome yeah I'm gonna turn my

[00:48:26] trusty frying pan into a drying pan like you

[00:48:31] don't find dialogue like that you know that

[00:48:34] doesn't exist in other places I mean it

[00:48:35] does but just not so special white like

[00:48:38] so special about it yeah yeah for sure

[00:48:40] I love it all right Pokemon puzzle league

[00:48:43] give it a shot you know if it's your thing

[00:48:46] if it sounds like your thing I think you're

[00:48:47] gonna you're gonna find something here

[00:48:49] it just might not be a homerun and that's

[00:48:50] okay it happens right so jiggy we're

[00:48:53] saying that guy it's probably like a 7

[00:48:55] I would say it's something like that for me

[00:48:56] to maybe maybe a little bit lower just

[00:48:58] because I'm disappointed with some of

[00:48:59] like the choices that they made but it

[00:49:01] doesn't mean that the game doesn't play

[00:49:02] well so it's just more of like I'm puzzled

[00:49:06] by the choices that they made in some

[00:49:08] ways so I'm a little bit disappointed

[00:49:10] yes but it's not not a terrible game so

[00:49:12] check it out if you want it's out there

[00:49:14] on Nintendo switch online it's a

[00:49:16] unfortunately as far as I can tell

[00:49:17] kind of expensive to buy the cartridge

[00:49:20] I don't know if that's because it's

[00:49:21] late in the cycle of the console and

[00:49:23] it just probably wasn't a ton out there

[00:49:25] I got a copy of it ages ago for a

[00:49:28] pretty good price I just grabbed it

[00:49:30] so for now I have it whether it's

[00:49:33] something I hang on to or not I don't

[00:49:34] know but I'm not I'm not upset about it

[00:49:37] those games that released like post

[00:49:39] 2010 to be a little more expensive I've

[00:49:41] noticed yeah because it's just far less

[00:49:43] on them so that's yeah their focus was

[00:49:46] elsewhere right understandably yeah so

[00:49:48] so Dave was by this game I was

[00:49:51] struggling I thought it was kind of

[00:49:53] hard it was a little out of my league

[00:49:55] you might say might say you might say

[00:49:59] but it was Pokemon oh I will say

[00:50:03] as far as the difficulty goes really

[00:50:04] briefly before we get out of here I

[00:50:07] thought the easy mode which is a good

[00:50:09] place to start still like don't go

[00:50:11] straight into normal I recommend try the

[00:50:13] easy one and do just the one player

[00:50:15] thing where you just go through all the

[00:50:16] all the badges that I had no problem

[00:50:19] defeating and beating like I did a whole

[00:50:21] run with it without failing once but

[00:50:24] when I got to normal it definitely gives

[00:50:27] you a test like things move faster

[00:50:29] they're making matches better to

[00:50:32] combat you and stuff so and if you

[00:50:34] get to the higher sort of matches in the

[00:50:35] other modes you notice a difference but

[00:50:38] I would say get your feet wet with the

[00:50:40] with the easy mode and single player if

[00:50:42] you're playing it and then just kind of

[00:50:43] go from there don't don't be here oh

[00:50:46] because yeah it's not easy it's definitely

[00:50:48] not an easy game and I think I think

[00:50:50] for me like the learning curve came

[00:50:52] from I wanted to match as many as I

[00:50:56] could as opposed to getting high match

[00:51:02] what I'm trying to say is I would see

[00:51:04] three and I would line up those three so

[00:51:06] I got a match but really what you want to

[00:51:08] do is you want to wait until you have

[00:51:09] like six you know or five like he just

[00:51:12] got yeah you really like it in other

[00:51:16] games I feel like you could do that

[00:51:19] and it's just about kind of bringing

[00:51:22] things down and chipping away at

[00:51:23] everything whereas this game it's more

[00:51:25] like you want to get those high

[00:51:26] matches so you can really like screw

[00:51:28] over your opponent otherwise yeah you

[00:51:31] know and mean being machine was a little

[00:51:32] bit of that but I don't feel like it was

[00:51:34] as as necessary well it was necessary

[00:51:38] like you had to do it but it wasn't as

[00:51:41] um I don't know what the right word is

[00:51:46] like not as I guess necessary I guess

[00:51:50] like I guess necessary is the word because

[00:51:51] it's it feels like if you didn't do

[00:51:54] it you were going to lose and they

[00:51:56] start loading you up yes 100% that's

[00:51:58] what it feels like yeah yeah and

[00:52:00] that's when you're playing against

[00:52:01] someone when you're doing the sort of

[00:52:04] solo just try to like yeah clear a

[00:52:06] certain amount it definitely helps you

[00:52:08] because you're clearing more at once but

[00:52:10] it's not going to make or break it I

[00:52:12] don't think but yeah when you get into

[00:52:14] the higher difficulties and when you're

[00:52:16] playing against someone whether it's

[00:52:17] the CPU or whether it's an actual

[00:52:19] person you got to like line up combos

[00:52:22] or larger numbers otherwise stuff does

[00:52:25] not drop on the opponent's screen and

[00:52:28] then now not only are you not clearing

[00:52:31] stuff faster they're not being punished

[00:52:33] for your good place so there's a difference

[00:52:35] there yeah and it's also it's also throw

[00:52:38] it throws me off a little bit because

[00:52:40] it doesn't play like the puzzle piece

[00:52:42] comes from the top like tetris style

[00:52:44] or maybe machine style or dr.

[00:52:45] Mario style everything just kind of shows

[00:52:48] up yeah from the bottom and it's like

[00:52:50] you have no you have no um like pre

[00:52:56] vision of what you're about to match

[00:52:58] like you barely see anything yeah I

[00:53:00] just like a tiny bit but as I'm watching

[00:53:03] you play this and I can like focus and

[00:53:04] look at the pieces I'm just seeing why

[00:53:06] I think this is more difficult than

[00:53:09] other puzzle games because or like why

[00:53:11] I personally was struggling because

[00:53:13] I'm so used to the way other puzzle

[00:53:15] games function that this one just

[00:53:17] functions slightly different it's like

[00:53:19] fundamentally it's similar but it

[00:53:22] functions just different enough it

[00:53:23] throws me off yeah you gotta get a

[00:53:25] wrap there was a type thing it's

[00:53:27] I'm not kidding right you gotta wrap

[00:53:29] your head around the differences when

[00:53:31] you're when you almost like felt like

[00:53:33] you were going into something different

[00:53:34] or felt like it functions yeah I

[00:53:36] totally get it I'm like that with a

[00:53:38] bunch of different types of games too

[00:53:39] so it's kind of the same thing for me

[00:53:41] I was mostly okay but I I definitely

[00:53:44] struggled with the combo thing especially

[00:53:46] at first and was like oh okay yeah

[00:53:48] really got to do this got to do that

[00:53:49] and it took me a bit it took me a

[00:53:51] bit it wasn't wasn't a simple

[00:53:53] simple get so yeah anyways give it

[00:53:55] a shot Pokemon puzzle league worth

[00:53:56] your time probably not going to blow

[00:53:58] you away maybe it will didn't for us

[00:53:59] but it's still a fun time but until

[00:54:02] next time jiggy where can everybody

[00:54:04] find your awesome stuff on YouTube

[00:54:06] because it is awesome yeah well my

[00:54:10] awesome stuff on YouTube can be

[00:54:12] found on YouTube on the look back

[00:54:15] channel I just looked back and

[00:54:17] realized that my look back I realized

[00:54:21] all the lights on my shelf went off

[00:54:23] for some reason so I hope that

[00:54:25] doesn't mean something but yeah but

[00:54:28] we're all good yeah jiggy look back

[00:54:30] on YouTube go look me up it's fun you

[00:54:32] won't be disappointed we've been I don't

[00:54:35] know I've been going pretty hard yeah

[00:54:37] it's you're being kicking out for me

[00:54:39] you've been kicking asses been it's

[00:54:41] been great lately and I think other

[00:54:42] everyone needs to be a part of it so

[00:54:44] just keep an eye on that on YouTube

[00:54:46] give them a subscribe and and tell

[00:54:48] your friends that's that's kind of

[00:54:50] the tell your friends tell them

[00:54:52] friends you know but but that's it

[00:54:56] that'll do it for this time everybody

[00:54:57] thank you so much for joining us

[00:54:59] there's no time this we've got to go

[00:55:01] there's no time to explain we have

[00:55:04] to go this has been remember sexy

[00:55:06] power good bye