The Perfect Remake | HeartGold and SoulSilver

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Fun fact about the pokewalker, when HG/SS came out, the pokewalker ended up drawing the attention of many sport science facilities because for some unknown reason, it was RIDICULOUSLY good. For a toy made to be sold as an add-on to a Pokemon game, the pokewalker ended up being the most accurate pedometer at the time when tested against several other available pedometers. Amazing.

The mindset of the developers had when making HG/SS is something I wish current devs had for this and future pokemon generations. The amount of effort and content they add in a pokemon game is what makes it enjoyable and a memorable experience.

You could actually fly between Johto and Kanto in GSC by flying to mount silver and walking to the right and selecting fly again because it would phase you to the route between Indigo plateau and Mt Silver granting access to Kanto locations

Hunting Raikou, Entei and Suicune was one of the most rewarding and "Pokemon-like" mechanics ever introduced.

Ah yes, the classic shiny Deoxys event from January 0, 2000. My favorite event of all time

I was also ten when I played it and I agree that OBJECTIVELY it is the best Pokemon game to exist.

I love how kanto was upgraded from being half a region in GSC to a full fledged second region to explore in HGSS. gotta hand it to the remakes

HGSS were the GOAT. I'd take the Pokewalker with me to school and summer camp every day. If they ever bring back the Pokeathlon I will weep with joy, it's hands down my favorite side content in any Pokemon game ever.

“But there is no point in redoing the same thing, right?” Wish they had that mindset with BDSP!

This is a super in-depth overview of HGSS, probably the most studious one I've ever seen. I've never heard anyone ever talk about the block mechanic in the safari zone, never knew I'd still learn new things about this 13 year old game.

I still remember riding the bike for the first time after getting the GB tune thing and tearing up from nostalgia, this game meant so much to me!

because of the "time travel" trade mechanic, its possible to easily get a shiny ditto from the gen 1 games. 1 Catch the Lake of Rage Shiny Gyrados and replace all of its moves with non-damaging Gen 1 moves. 2 Trade shiny Gyrados to R/B 3 Use the Gyrados as your lead and go encounter a ditto on route to the east of Koga's Gym 4 Let the Ditto transform into the gyrados from the future and then catch it. 5 Trade Ditto to G/S/C. Now you should have a shiny ditto. From what I understand of this process, the Gen 1 Ditto copies the DVs of the Gyrados from G/S/C when it transforms, with the DVs being the factor that determines whether a pokemon is shiny or not. I think the DV value is the same for all pokemon for being shiny. So when you catch the Ditto, it will have the same DV value as the Gyrados and when you trade it to the future, It should be shiny. Assuming you did this on the 3DS Virtual Console editions of the games, you should then be able to send that shiny Ditto basically anywhere else you want.

The music was the reward for beating Lance and the Elite Four, IMO. The score is so underrated. While Kanto was kinda empty, it was wonderful experiencing the new renditions of the Kanto music on the Gameboy of all devices. That 16-bit sound composition deserves some type of award.

The Pokeathlon is by far the greatest minigame Pokemon has ever made.

For the record - and whoever is interested - the GTS has been revived by fans. By setting a different DNS server in your DS, you can connect to a Fan Service that replaces GTS. There are also different DNS-addresses for rediscovering past internet events. So you can get some of those event Pokémon mentioned in the video.

Modern Pokemon games could never, I pray for the day Gamefreak actually puts some effort and time into their games again.

35:24 missed a golden opportunity to say "how much heart and soul went into making pokemon heartgold and soulsilver"

You mentioned it offhandedly, and from a purely gameplay sense you can't, but lorewise, you can 100% get 4 badges from Kanto and 4 from Johto and have that count.

First they made Platinum which was super great, then HGSS came just after. There should be no mystery why to this day I still regard Gen 4 to be the greatest genereation of pokemon ever. Words cannot describe how much I enjoyed those games..