Is this the "Perfect" Version of Generation 1 Pokemon?

hey everyone how's it going so back in

October the channel Smith plays Pokémon

in collaboration with many other

talented modders created Pokémon Crystal

Legacy the so-called perfect version of

generation 2 well today we have its

sequel or should I say its prequel the

so-called perfect version of Generation

1 Pokemon Yellow Legacy does it live up

to its predecessor and is it indeed the

perfect version of Pokémon Yellow only

one way to find out but first I want to

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today so before we begin I should

explain briefly the concept of these

Legacy games the idea is not to make

Pokémon Yellow a modern Pokémon game

change all the mechanics anything like

that is to try and smooth out the rough

edges of games that are decades old

maintaining what made them so amazing at

their time while also adding quality of

life features there's a balancing act

and there's always going to be that

careful line to walk between changing

too much and not changing enough as

someone who plays generation one

essentially as his job I definitely have

a lot of opinions on ways it can be

fixed so I'm curious to see what yellow

Legacy does one of the first changes

you'll notice throughout the run is that

in yellow Legacy just like in Crystal

you can pick between a male and female

character now there was never a girl

character planned for yellow so this is

a completely custom Sprite and it looks

pretty good another change you'll notice

throughout the run is that even though

Pokémon Yellow when played on a Game Boy

Color would display in color a lot of

the palletes didn't quite match what we

would think of the Pokémon today so

you'll notice with Rattata it looks its

more normal purple color as opposed to

well whatever color this is but wait

there's more in terms of another much

needed visual difference while the front

Sprites had been updated twice since the

original Japanese red and green released

the back Sprites remain the same which

is why they pretty much never matched in

the North American Games well in yellow

Legacy painstaking effort was made to

redo the back Sprites of every single

Pokémon I'm going to try to use as many

as possible throughout this video to

Showcase them but suffice to say they

all look good and even a couple front

Sprites were redone as well although for

the most part the front Sprites other

than their color palettes are exactly

the same from Pokémon Yellow so if

you're used to my red and blue videos

that's probably why the front spres look

different one last aesthetic change that

wouldn't be incorporated into vanilla

Pokémon games until Generation 3 is

unique menu Sprites for each Pokémon in

the original Generation 1 games even in

yellow there were only 10 well if you

count Pikachu 11 menu Sprites so for

each Pokémon to get their own custom one

is pretty cool and does make the game a

fair bit nicer to play in my opinion but

let's be real nobody is playing a game

from the late '90s for Aesthetics while

they're nice how is the game play has it

been improved in any way well the best

way to determine that is to get into a

battle and what better battle to use

than the first gym battle versus Brock

but before we do notice something

different about Brock normally in

generation one his Overworld Sprite

looks I don't know kind of generic not

really like Brock but this game uses

something closer to his generation 2

Sprite Which is a big Improvement but

okay okay enough about Aesthetics so

you'll notice I have a gold de here

against Brock what the heck is going on

how do I have a goldine and an Oddish

with tackle oh boy this is not our

standard Pokemon and then I send out a

Vulpix the Vulpix would have been able

to knock out the Geodude but I wanted my

Metapod to get a little bit more

experience so I use Metapod for a bit

before it faints sending out Vulpix to

go for Ember again where did that come

from and now Beedrill is using pin

missile all of this is to say a lot has

been changed since the red blue and

yellow we know a lot of Pokémon have

been moved around including the Old Rod

itself which now catches goldine which

now knows bubble which I used to help

defeat Brock as in the let's go games

Oddish is now available in vidiian

Forest although it doesn't know absorb

which is new and Vulpix I caught on

route two now funny enough even though

typically I'm known as the guy who does

solo runs however before that I had some

pretty successful videos about catching

Pokemon so I decided to go back to my

roots and try to catch every single

Pokémon and in yellow Legacy all

151 Pokémon yep even Mew are available

to be caught if you go to Smith play's

release video you can download a Google

doc that will tell you where every

Pokémon is but the in-game Pokedex does

a good enough job and not only does it

tell you where the Pokémon are it even

tells you their level up move set the

one irritating feature about this really

cool Edition is that you can't scroll

like you would in later Pokémon games

like with all Generation 1 Pokemon menus

you just press a to go to the next page

so if you miss something you just have

to go back through it which if you're me

and press a way too fast happened all

the time but it's really cool now you

know without having to look up on

Bulbapedia where every Pokémon is and

what their move sets are this is a super

nice quality of life feature which

frankly I'm shocked we have not seen in

an official Pokémon release now it's not

just move sets and where Pokémon are

that have been changed trainers have

been changed as well this first bug

catcher didn't have a Metapod Kakuna and

Butterfree and so trainers throughout

the game have had their teams updated

their levels updated and overall this

makes this game a lot more difficult

than you might remember this won't

impact me now but as I try to fill up my

Pokedex by leveling up random Pokémon it

will become embarrassingly apparent that

this game was not intended to be played

the way I think the original gen One

games were which is swapping out your

Pokemon constantly and thus not being

overleveled in this game when I did that

as you'll see I was underleveled but hey

it's still me it's still gen one I think

we'll be okay okay as per tradition we

should talk about the Rival 2 battle

there are some changes but be aware he

does always lead with a spearo you can

see Geodude has a much improved back

Sprite its back Sprite is simply

atrocious and geodo does a good job

getting through most of the team however

finally Eevee does knock it out which

allows me to show another one of my

Pokémon sandrew I mean it's just a

random sandrew no way this is going to

be an important Pokémon for later it

just faints I don't even know why I

brought it up anyway we do actually

knock out the Eevee with Bulbasaur which

you still get from that NPC in Cerulean

City the starter Pokémon are all

available where they are in the regular

game but they are actually also

catchable where Eevee is as you can see

where I pull up the Pokedex and thus you

can get all three Evolutions in this

game as well as most Pokémon in a living

decks if you wanted to not all of them

there's a couple you wouldn't be able to

get but still pretty cool all right fast

forwarding a little bit I caught a bunch

of new Pokémon 35 in total and we're

ready to battle misty misty leads with

Psyduck closer to what she has in the

anime and her psiduck with confusion

makes quick work of bells Sprout however

in this game you'll notice the AI is a

little different they don't always go

for moves classified as super effective

which does actually make them a little

better one other thing I didn't mention

which is really cool are the experience

bars reminiscent of generation 2 this

way you know how much experience points

you have to gain luckily for me because

star me didn't go for a water attack we

were able to burn it and then venonat

has leech life now leech life has been

buffed substantially from what we know

in gen one although it's not quite base

80 power pretty sure it's base 50 power

but thanks to Charmeleon thanks to all

my other Pokémon we were actually able

to defeat Misty with venonat and move on

by the time we Face rival 3 I've already

played for 10 hours of in-game time

don't forget I played four time speed

and I'm a third of the way done my

Pokedex which is really cool considering

I'm not all that far into the game we

lead with Geodude because it did such a

good job last time and there's something

you might notice after I knock out the

radicate my XP bar seems to be broken

but it isn't broken you see one thing I

didn't mention is when you start a game

of yellow Legacy you get the option

between normal and hard mode in hard

mode the game automatically level caps

you at certain points depending on the

next gym leader this means our Geodude

cannot get to level 25 and that means it

won't become a grer for lieutenant surge

which may prove to be a a little bit of

a problem unlike rival 3 who was pretty

easy now if you're one of those people

who feels bad that I insult Serge

constantly don't you worry Serge's

Revenge will be sweet so all he has is a

Raichu however even though I'm capped at

level 24 Raichu is level 29 and it makes

quick work of my first two Pokémon also

in generation one don't forget Critical

Hits are based on your base speed

and in case you thought well that

doesn't matter you a Geodude it has surf

so this Raichu one shots every single

member of my team and that taught me

that this rom hack was not messing

around I would go on to lose to Surge a

few more times with this team trying in

vain to beat this level 29 Raichu but

eventually I had to go into my PC and

bring out my secret weapon and

unfortunately for Serge it proved to be

a little too much for him you see you

can catch a Doug Trio and although it's

not as overleveled as before it nearly

onot Raichu now all we need is to

survive an attack which Ivysaur can and

we beat Lieutenant Serge on our first

try after losing like seven times with

the other team oh also I want to mention

another really cool quality of life

feature you don't have to go into the

menu to use cut surf like you do in gen

one you can just press a like in

generation 2 it's really nice but as I

was saying well that change is nice it

is a nasty change in a good way that

these gym leaders are not going to be

pushover Serge had a water move he was

ready for my Geodude and the level cap

ensured I couldn't even get close to its

level one Pokémon was able to sweep six

how are the rest of these gym Le is

going to do well I decide to battle the

next gym leader I would say right away

but you can see I spent significant time

catching Pokemon we're at 68 now as we

go to battle Erica now Erica leads with

tangala and we have venon at bind is

still generation one bind meaning as

it's used I can't attack and another

thing you should know is that the AI

makes its decisions after you've made

your decision so it knew I was going to

switch there and put Charmeleon to sleep

you'll notice Charmeleon now has fire

punch as a better fire move which is

great and thankfully was able to take

out tangala victory bill comes out next

and we do outspeed you'll see it has

headbutt but it's not enough to knock

out charmelia next comes out Ivysaur a

new addition and its new move acid

knocks me out but venonat I go for leech

life after it goes for leech seed and I

knock it out and then her vile plume

this is is not what she would have in

yellow she would have a gloom and you

can see vile plume looks closer to what

it looks like but it's giving me fits

paralyzing by Menat going for solar beam

I'm going to have to swap into do Duo

but it puts it to sleep right away and

knocks it out with a powerful acid

attack acid by the way has been buffed

to 60 base power now since this vop

plume uses solar beam and will go second

I decide to go for dig and try to time

everything unfortunately Erica predicts

it and uses stun Spore but I do get it

to half Health now War tle doesn't

really have much it can do I'm able to

get off a bite but solar beam knocks me

out and now all that I have left is

drowsy but drowsy is able to put V plume

to sleep and while it does wake up I'm

able to just just miss knocking it out

how frustrating but hey Erica beat me

that doesn't happen much after Erica

beat me one more time we do get a little

bit more luck this is something I want

to talk about with this game in general

which is that a lot more Pokemon have

moves that put you to sleep or confuse

you than in the base game and so luck

does become a little bit more of a

factor than you might be used to

especially in this battle if I don't get

put to sleep and I'm actually able to

attack I can do significant damage and

so by the time we get to vile plume I

have five Pokémon remaining and drowsy

is able to take it out on its own you'll

notice that burn deals 1/8 damage

similar to how it used to which is

enough to knock out the vile PLO but

going forward not necessarily in the gym

battles but especially in the Pokemon

Tower which we're going to get to there

are just a lot of Pokemon a lot of

hypnos haunters gastle that use moves

that are very RNG heavy hypnosis can hit

about 50/50 time confusion 50/50 that is

something I definitely started to notice

but again I probably wouldn't notice

this if I was using Pokemon at the right

level as opposed to whatever Pokemon I

just need to evolve to fill out my

pokeddex I guess the main takeaway here

is balancing generation one with its

limited move list and Smith blazs did

not add a single new move in this game

certain moves had their types Chang such

as slam being a dragon move but other

than altering what certain moves did

it's the same move list and thus it's

always going to be difficult to give the

AI good move list because it's just so

limited and so sleep rap confusing those

are things they can give the AI to make

them harder it just does introduce a

little bit more luck which is

reminiscent frankly of a game I really

liked Pokemon Stadium it's just

something to take note of now I was

streaming this live on Twitch which will

help explain why I forgot to battle

Giovani and instead went straight to

rival 4 but but look at this rival 4 no

pushover level 34 FOH and then a shelder

at level 32 I'm just going to speed

through this battle a little bit because

the shelder does a really bad job at

being a level 32 shelder rth takes out

my War Toral now I send out graler once

again graler has been an amazing Pokemon

but another thing I should mention is

that unlike in traditional Pokémon games

they will evolve via level up between 38

and 42 I believe for the four trading

Evolutions you'll also notice I did beat

rival 1A so jolon is the Pokemon the

Rival uses and since I was so sick of

being put to sleep I decided to turn

that on Rival 4 sleep has not been

changed so you still can't attack the

turn you wake up and it still lasts

forever and after we win we evolve

drowsy to Hypno meaning it is going to

get retired maybe it made the game

harder but it was really fun getting to

use pretty much every Pokémon and

getting just a brief glimpse into how

they were changed for tradition's sake

let's talk about Giovani number one so I

lead with war tal bubble beam doesn't

quite knock it out but second shot is

fine Kangaskhan so this is very similar

to what we remember my graler is

unfortunately paralyzed and you'll

notice this Kangaskhan has submission

that is a new move and submission in

this game cannot miss so that's pretty

cool I try to use Cubone but it's just

way too weak

as is grimer it does survive but poison

gas misses this is once again me

underestimating my opponent and I don't

have enough good Pokemon war tle is not

going to get the job done and I need to

use a better team if I'm going to beat

Giovani number one so I do just that

bringing a few Pokemon out of retirement

including Venusaur now level 32 and it's

able to one shot then put Kangaskhan to

sleep but it wakes up right away and

actually does some pretty good damage

but I'm able to use leech seed giving me

back some HP and taking away Kangaskhan

critting with Razor Leaf which will also

knock out Marowak and then Persian comes

out we get a crit again that's

guaranteed by the way and I send out

Kadabra to try and finish it off not

going to do it but thankfully grimer

will it is quite a bulky Pokémon and

with some retired Pokemon we were able

to beat Giovani an inefficient use of

experience points in a game where you

can't rebattle trainers but spoiler

alert most pokemon you actually don't

need to evolve people would tell me

later the few Pokemon I think there's

only about 10 of them that actually need

to be evolved via level up the vast

majority can either be caught and most

of the ones where you can't catch the

evolved form evolve via Stone so in fact

I probably didn't need to be leveling up

as many Pokémon as I was but I didn't

know that back then

and hey when else am I ever going to use

a grimer anyways the next major battle

we talk about is Kaa and there is a ton

of game between now and then so my

team's going to look pretty different

it's kind of fitting as I cross the

halfway point of the game by Gym badges

I have halfway completed my Pokedex but

Koga would not be as easy as normal in

yellow he has three venonat and a

venomoth in yellow Legacy he leads with

a goldbat which Bo speeds my Kadabra and

you'll also notice I'm using experience

all that way I don't have to use worse

Pokémon I thought graer would be a good

swap in for Muk but it knows Mega drain

Smith Blaze predicted it Kadabra does

outspeed Muk but sludge is the power of

sludge bomb 90 base power no shot Cubone

comes out next no shot with mega drain

and I reset I'd lose a couple more times

before some of the developers told me to

turn around that I'd missed one of the

trainers as it turns out Janine makes an

appearance in this gym and she's not

quite as difficult as her dad I was able

to beat her in my first attempt a pretty

cool little Easter egg something I

wasn't expecting since for the most part

this game didn't actually change things

like this that often but after losing to

Kaa so handily I battled all the

trainers other than the ones in Sil

company and I think it made a bit of a

difference so my cadabra is now in

Alakazam should be tired but it has one

last thing to do it evolves at level 42

by the way which is why it's at level 42

and you can see with the experience all

at least the other lesser Pokemon are

still gaining some experience but yeah

Alakazam just completely obliterates

koga's team and it made me realize I

probably didn't want to be using it for

the rest of the run I was having more

fun when I was trying to piece a team

together not just use the evolved form

of my favorite Pokémon to sweep I mean

it worked and it was good but going

forward I think we should try to use

some more underappreciated Pokémon most

of these will be the Pokémon I need to

level up in order to finish the decks

and it was this point after being able

to use surf out of battle that I was

able to complete a large majority of the

Pokedex unfortunately this motly crew of

Pokémon that needed to be evolved

weren't very good and were being

defeated by just random Sil company

trainers our Ace as you will see is

dragon air it's good with three

Elemental moves and slam coughing and

ekin also need to be leveled up this way

but since a lot of the trainers have

Hypno they weren't so great now you

might think I selected the dome fossil

in Mount moon but I actually selected

the Helix Fossil you get your fossil at

level 40 meaning I only have to level up

omite once as for Kabuto you get it

where you would get the good rod in

fuchia city but it starts off extremely

underleveled meaning we're going to need

to get it all the way to level 40 to

become a Kabutops as you're seeing now

this team did not farewell against the

random trainers in Sil company but

rather than bring back retired Pokemon I

spent hours just trying to build them up

first against wild Pokémon and then just

finding the perfect route and with the

exper share on slowly but surely the

team did start to improve and at some

point we hit a break through our team

genuinely started winning despite the

fact as you'll see they're pretty

underleveled unfortunately as it would

turn out beating random Sil company

trainers doesn't mean you'll beat rival

fival so rival fival leads with a

paraset and then a Gyarados dragon air

has Ice Beam and it has Thunderbolt but

Thunderbolt is not enough to knock out

Gyarados Kabuto knows rock slide but

Gyarados has surf meaning we're going to

need dragon air to knock it out well

that did eventually happen Ryon came out

next and we knew surf so we could knock

that out bringing Alakazam Al Kazam went

for try attack inexplicably but just

completely made minced meat of the rest

of my team we were making progress we

had gotten through the build building

and again streamed live on my twitch I

spent over 2 hours just battling random

rockets in Sil company losing a ton but

occasionally winning with this team and

since it was clear we need to level up

more I decided to go battle all the

swimmers on the way to the Seafoam

Islands and couch Articuno but as it

turns out it wouldn't be so simple

because webra was in my way with her

level 55 Snorlax and if you thought

rival fival was tough a level 55 Snorlax

is not something this team could defeat

so we will battle webra later in the

meantime leveling up against random wild

Pokemon you can see dragon air is

close-ish to evolving and it will need

to do so probably to defeat that Snorlax

but we're going to have to come back a

lot later and level up somewhere else

for now one place I figured would be a

great place to level up for a Kabuto and

a dragon a is Blain's gym at this point

I don't need to level up any more

Pokémon than the ones I have so even

once they evolve I don't have to retire

them now you might assume with Kabuto

Blaine would be a total joke you would

assume

incorrectly because as it would turn out

this rapid Dash knows a bunch of great

moves including high jump kick which is

super effective and with rapid Ash's

speed it gets a lot of of crits so at

first I thought this might be a mistake