How Mew Eventually Ruined Pokémon

There’s really not a great excuse for these unlocked events to not have actual event events and things for the player to do rather than just connect to the Wi-Fi and open a mystery gift or what have you.

They already showed that they knew cool ways to reward the player and have the player go into their game and do something really cool. This should’ve just gotten easier and easier for them to accomplish overtime and they would’ve kept on selling more of their recent games had they done this.

I mean, honestly, as far back as the Nintendo DS when one of the first things you do is set up your Wi-Fi connection, we really can’t just distribute a digital update where people can go and do something really cool now that they couldn’t do before, and expands the story or goes back and gives context to things that happened that were just kind of laid there as potential?

The number of characters in these games that have some nonsensical thing to say to you. It’s so soulless a lot of the time. If the characters aren’t gonna say anything useful, why do they even say anything at all? And then to add insult to injury, there’s no voice acting. So you’re just sitting here reading chat bubbles of nothingness in 2026.

13:30 the hilarious pattern here to me is that, yeah, of course when they made it so that you had to buy these often unappealing sideline games if you wanted to have the legendary event Pokémon in your main title game.

I feel ancient saying this but Pokemon Silver, Gold and Crystal was truly the golden era for Pokemon. I stopped being interested after Crystal, tried Ruby but it wasn't for me. Everything looked too shiny and round. In Yellow, Red, Silver, Gold and Crystal most Pokemon looked cool with sharp edges, these days they look "cutesy" for lack of a better word. You still get some cool looking ones but most look like shiny rounded jelly with big eyes or just plain weird, and having some dangerous looking dragon type Pokemon surrounded by bouncing fluffy and rounded jelly things just looks out of place. I wish they would release a 3D open world Pokemon game based on the originals from 1990s and 2000s.

22:10 same goes for mew the MRCA of all pokemon and arceus the maker of all things...

I grabbed double mew on my 3ds

I understand wanting good story implementation for new mythicals but quite frankly,, I want Meloetta and Shaymin in every single game. Not just games from over a decade ago that I can’t even obtain anymore. At the end of the day, a lot of the joy for me and others in this franchise is being able to get and use your absolute favourite Pokemon. I think mythicals should be kept post game but, I see nothing wrong with adding previous mythicals in newer games. Will it make sense lore wise? Probably not. Are there devs gonna have the time or space to add a unique event for every single one? No, but I doubt most people care

Wow, you didn't crash out at yourself for saying something negative about ZA? Shocker

I love how they gift you a Mew and Celebi randomly in the 8th Gen remakes if you own a copy of Sword/Shield and Let's go...

Completely destroys the myth in a legit fashion.

I bet that 90 % of modern full Pokedexes are cheated some way for the mythicals.

I had a full Pokedex in Pokemon Black because i bought a used copy for my nephew and, well... the boxes had some suspicious Pokemon in it (as example a shiny Arceus). But i thought there probably legit (cough cough) and traded them to my main copy.

Non other mythical had the mistery that mew had surrounding them. In fact in gen 4 everything was easily found on the internet, while in gen one it was always so mysterious.

You get hair implants?

The answer is no, because Deoxys was originally a mythical. Making mythicals more accessible doesn't remove their mythical status.

That fucking truck got so many guys, man

I wish I knew this glitch in the 6th grade I would’ve been the king of the playground with Mew

Heatran?!!

Anyone familiar with Undertale's iceberg of lore can attest to the fact that wifi events are convoluted and punishing for game owners without access to them. Just put it in the original cartridge and let us explore.

30:40 Smith dropping the F bomb is as rare as a mythical

the hair transplant is too distracting

I agree with a lot of the points in the comment section about how people can't get the pokemon without the event, but therd are reasons to have the events too. Maybe they could just have it related to a story related quest, connected to an event, but then maybe after the game has been out for a bit of time they could update the game to make the quest open to everybody? That or it should be open to everybody. I feel like the definitions should be that legendaries are directly intertwined within the story and conflict of the games, while mythics should be related to the lore and universe, you have to go out of your way to get them in a more mysterious and difficult quest. I feel like the older mythics are so interesting because they feel like real mysteries inside the world. One day you find a mysterious pokeball and then you find a mythical pokemon by investigating

Arceus aint shit, Mew is the creator of all pokemon.

Pokemon wasn't successful because of Mew. Mew just added fuel to the fire. Pokémon RBY took off HARD in the US, and the cards superboosted it. Mew was a fun and exciting playground rumor. That's was all.

Love your videos, but I'm not on the same page with this one. The events, extra purchases, etc locking pokemon is not fun, imo. I'd strongly prefer every pokemon be available through regular game-play in each game. Make it hard, sure, but don't make someone have to go to a game store on a specific day to get a pokemon. (Part of why I love your Legacy rom hacks so much)

"Far off land" Guyana btw lol...not that far for us :3

Mysteries are one of the most powerful things in the communication age.

A little horror game made by a solo dev with lore that goes extremely deep.. that's what creates a spark in the information age.

Nah , bro we made Pokémon

Bro had a hair transplant!

W hair transplant looks like it’s healing well

Alternate title : How THE POKEMON COMPANY ruined Pokemon

Pokemon is the most successful franchise on the planet if a Pokemon from gen 1 ruined it it wouldn't be so successful today

MEMORY UNLOCKED TRYING TO WAIT UNTIL 3:00am OR THE UNDER THE TRUCK AND TALKING TO THE SAILOR GUY BEFORE BEATING THE LAST GYM. hilarious how information used to spread between schools so fast like wildfire across states.

I lucked out, i had an unchecked that knew the glitch to force me to show up at Lv. 7😅 shoutout to my inches Anthony

Never forget the Cheat Module

You got gen 3 backwards. Jirachi was actually the FIRST mythical Pok'emon. Deoxys was the second. You only need to look at their Pok'edex numbers to prove that. 385 is Jirachi and 386 is Deoxys. Plus I already had Jirachi from Pok'emon Colosseum's bonus disk which you neglected to mention was only available if you per-ordered the game from Toys R Us. I had the bonus disk and actually recently sold it on ebay. I didn't even know Deoxys existed till later when it showed up in a list of Game Shark cheat codes for the game.

progress through game, do not fight the trainer with the slowpoke after crossing nugget bridge. do not fight the gambler on the route to saffron city from lavender town. obtain fly. teach and use fly to a pokemon and go to the underground path by where the gambler is from the other side and pass through, saving before exiting and walking down towards the gambler, as soon as he begins to recognize you, open start menu and fly to cerulean city and go fight the trainer with the slowpoke, then fly to lavender town and the moment you enter the route, mew will appear and you can battle/catch it from there. Works in every version of the gen 1 pokemon games.

28:23 what made it worse was that I thought I could transfer new from pokemon go, only to find out years later that the pokeball plus was the only way mew could go into let's go. I was pissed to say the least. The whole reason for playing that stupid game

Game freek and revive Mythicals they just need to use there brains to make the best mythical with gen 10 witch might be why it's taking the longest time to make a mainine game

Grew up in New Zealand literally at the bottom of the world where none of these events or options to obtain mythics ever took place.

Both sucked and provided us an endless grind of rumours that kept us trying to get the mythics.

Was always awe inspiring but also abysmal having 249 Pokémon in gold/silver and never being able to complete the game.

What ruined new Pokemon games for me was the utter dog shit optimization of Scarlet and Violet. Completely unacceptable.

Very weird take. Pokemon was a hit because of the TV show and toys/cards. It was gambling for kids, but instead of money, you got random cute creatures. With the cards, you had different rarities-- shinies, rarer pokemon. The games were an afterthought you'd end up either getting for Christmas or seeing your (richer) friends have at school.