Beating EVERY N64 Game - Pokémon Puzzle League (114/394)
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- What happens when you combine Pokemon with puzzles? Well I guess it's this game. Inspired by Tetris Attack, or Panel de Pon as it's known in Japan, this game brings the popular puzzle game to combine with a gaming titan. Is it fun, or is this a quick cash grab?
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I remember loving the 3D mode because if you scrolled your tiles up to the top of the screen, the console couldn’t keep up, and the game would lag, letting you pull off insane combos and chains.
Interesting fact: There is even a harder mode than Very Hard. There is another input you can put that unlocks Super Hard, same ending with Mewtwo only harder.
Yeah, I knew somebody who could beat the game on the highest difficulty. At the very top levels of play, it's pretty much just both sides using those huge garbage blocks to make 12+ chains against each other while the Pokemon voices reverberate in the background.
Glad to see Thab got to the point where the CHARRRR started echoing, that's when you know you're in it deep lol
I never beat Mewtwo on super hard. It was too much.
@@loulou3676 So as someone who has actually played competitive Puzzle League, there's actually more depth than just "making huge garbage blocks". There's block management on your end and adding in smaller chains and combos can end up making some awkward block formations for the opponent. Obviously the grey blocks also add a bit of variance for obstructing and limiting options.
I remember playing this so much as a kid and eventually getting to where I could beat super hard. I was stoked when panel de pon came to switch online so I could relive those good times.
This game takes me back. I played the shit out of it when I was in middle school. I used to challenge myself to beat very hard and super hard without using a single continue.
"I am beating every Nintendo 64 game, and I mean all of them..." Not since Team FourStar was making DBZ Abridged has RUclips offered such a nostalgiac and enjoyable series of videos. Thank you ThaB, not only for these videos and their "Bob Rossian" level of both tutelage and care, but for being alive and sharing your efforts with us. May every Kaizo block life put's in your path have a free life in it and ground beneath it. ✨️ ✌️
I want to like this but it's currently at 69 likes and I refuse to ruin this.
Giving it a like Just to make your comment pointless
@destroy0012 thank you for not being the one to ruin it.
Aw I miss DBZ Abridged. ... and Yugioh Abridged.
Mrgstar321 mortal kombat videos and nitendocaprisun easily up there in terms of nostalgia
James being in a Tutu and Meowth wearing the swan is actually a reference to an anime titled "Princess Tutu" which is a balet anime based off of fairy tales like "The Ugly Duckling" and "Swan Lake". Jesse is dressed as Prince Mytho.
The fact that we are not even through 1/3rd of this series brings me more joy than I can express. LONG LIVE THA BEAST!
I hope that someday in the far, far future, this series plays on loop in a retro-gaming museum 🙂
it will 100%, thab is making history
Apparently other people have and are already doing this. He said so himself in a stream I saw and think he said someone was properly 100%ing every single game? @@Joel-kc5jk
I love the parts where you show your reactions from the stream, I feel like it's a good way to show what your live reactions were to the game. The parts where you lose we can almost feel the frustration, it's so relatable. It just makes watching you succeed even more satisfying. I think more reactions from your stream in future videos when possible would be great. Love the series, love the editing, the jokes, the writing, it's all great. Keep it up!
I'm so happy with this video. This is one of the best N64 games and it is a shame it is so often overlooked. What I like the most was the fact your experience with the game was pretty much the same I had when I start playing it. You feel so lost at the beginning, staring at the screen to see where you can clear blocks, while towards the end you feel you are doing 100% of yourself to beat the AI on the very hard and still hoping for luck. The game does get very hard, but it is so much fun that you don't get bored by keep playing until you beat. Although the Mewtwo part is indeed very frustrating.
Poor Tracey he never got any respect
He’s better than what Brock became. Should have been in Pokémon Art Academy.
Now that's what I call Going the Extra Tile
Knowing it would be worthwhile, Thab will go the extra tile for you.
The editing and stream clips in this vid are SO good. I loved this game as a kid.
None of them feel like he is playing it up for the camera. His maniacal laugh of relief was so relatable.
Well done coming back and closing this one out! Love the determination!
I love this game! I’ve beaten it in S-Hard like 20 times since it came to NSO and I keep having lots of fun.
I think it’s super impressive that you could beat Mewtwo on V-Hard in only 16 hours total. You’re truly a beast at video games. I’m so glad that you enjoyed it and gave it a 9/10 for enjoyability. Difficulty being a 10/10 is awesome 😂 I’m proud I can beat something worthy of a 10/10 for you!!
I have this game, same cart from childhood. The full FMV intro tripped me out as a kid, I wished they could fit a whole episode.
As for Ritchie? He was a trainer Ash befriended during the first league. He disappeared after Pokemon Chronicles without any explanation...
The Viking thing? Reference to the first movie. It did lead into an interesting line in said movie by Ash. Who knew he was a fan of the Minnesota Vikings? ^^
Not gonna lie it's painful watching thab miss easy combos, but that's with me loving puzzle games.
Great job thab keep it up
Can’t get enough of this series. Great commentary and it’s a blast waking up to it every Friday morning.
I spent so many hours of my childhood playing this game. What great nostalgia!
One thing he didn’t mention is that if you beat very hard you actuallly get a code to unlock SUPER hard. Now that is the true beast of this game
Same loved this game,
And I was thinking the same about super hard but there's no different ending for super hard mode which is sad
I think this was the one of the hardest games on N64
"Who's Ritchie who's Tracy." Lol yeesh
The music of the game is actually made up of 64 bit versions of original songs recorded for Pokemon: The Album and Pokemon: The First Movie.
I’ve been rewatching through the anime recently and it’s super apparent this came out durning the Orange islands. Very cool look and great timing because I never played this back in the day and it fits in perfectly where I’m at in my watch through of the original series lol
great coverage of the game! I was a big fan of the panel de pon game style as a kid. My most vivid memory of Puzzle League is actually Sabrina's voice line when you select her in multiplayer because me and my friend found it funny how she said "play with me? play with me!" 😳
Man this was one of my first games on N64 🥰. I remember my sister and I playing all the time. I ended up getting pretty cracked at the game and nobody wanted to play against me lol.
Me and my friend were just like Goku and Vegeta on this game. No ceiling and we just kept pushing each other until the skill chains couldn’t recognize what we were sending.
I think one of our highest chains was 16 or 17
Same mate! i lost quite a bit of skill, but still no one wants to play against me^^ i loved that game.
lol you have no idea.
He didn't fucking beat the game.
12:50 --
that awful gamer moment, when u realize the cheese and spam you relied on the whole way won't cut it late game 😂
Tracey was one of those temporary side characters in the series that showed up for a stretch of episodes as a sort of filler character, even though he's basically canon.
Diddy Kong Racing gets incredibly hard towards the end.
Especially in “adventure two”
Man this takes me back. I still throw this game on to pop a 17-18 combo every so often
Aaaah! It felt so good seeing you playing this one! I played tetris attack on the snes non-stop for a year with my friends back then. We were god-like fast! I don't even like puzzles games but this one is different. It sharpens your reflexes and quick thinking. The next big step was dance dance revolution. Thank you for bringing back those memories!
AWWWW YEAH! My favorite puzzle game of all time, and one of my top 5 N64 games! I've poured so many hours into it, though I never did beat Mewtwo on Very Hard back in the day. I'm feeling kinda inspired to go give it another swing >:D
Been waaaaiting so hard for this one! Loved this game as a kid. No idea how I ever beat Mewtwo on very hard...musta been cracked lol
"If you don't know, this is the baseball RPG where I got ean over by a car" LUL
I always loved this game, and Tetris Attack, played them both multiple times. It's true that there's a Super Hard, but I think beating Very Hard with no prior experience is still very impressive.
I actually never knew about the cheese though, that's pretty funny.
this series is GOATed with the sauce
The fact the devs put the three types of learning in this is pretty sweet
V-Hard is not even the last one, you needed to play super hard to truly beat puzzle league
Well done that puzzle play was breaking my brain. Glad you learned it got good and was able to win very cool to see this piece of Pokemon history without the mental anguish
This should make the other N64 Tetris Attacks a whole lot easier though...
Tetris attack on the SNES was one of my favorite on that system. This is basically a reskin of that. I agree with the smoothness and the skill base wins do feel super satisfying.
You do know it has an even harder difficulty? It's called S-hard and you need a different button combination (hold the Z button, and press R, L, A, B.)
It's also just until mewtwo but it's much much harder.
Interestingly, one of the songs from this game, “Catch Me If You Can”, was finally re-added to digital services a few months before the game went to Switch Online.
This game is already on Switch Online if you have the expansion pack with the N64
Thab being absolutely atrocious at puzzle games always creates an interesting viewing experience. One puzzle game down, one less to deal with!
I loved this game as a kid, but Tetris Attack. If you put it into 2 player mode with both being CPU and turn up the difficulty you can watch the CPU doing insane chains and learn from that. I even found after beating everything that the hardest mode is just seeing how long you can last while holding down the L/R buttons to keep the blocks rising!
i've seen this cart floating around all these years and never gave it a second thought. what a sleeper, this is an awesome game nobody ever talks about.
wow, I loved this game, playing 3D matches in coop, was a truly delight, they took hours to be beating, good stuff.
Never been a big puzzle game guy but I liked this one for whatever reason.
I love this game so friggin much. I didn't play it until 2015 or so. Very underrated!
I just recently played this a few months ago on switch and did not remember it being so hard, having trouble on easy was pretty disheartening. Such simple gameplay was still able to have a lot of depth. I pulled out my 64 and played the copy I got for Christmas decades prior. This is a definitely pure nostalgia
There's actually a harder difficulty than very hard, there's a super hard difficulty as well which is considerably harder
"He's 'charring'! Oh my god he's charring so much dude!" 😂😂
He's charring so hard, he turned into Quattro!
As of now, you beat every n64 game I had lol. Gonna watch to the end still. Good job so far Mr. Thab!
I remember playing the game boy sequel to this and absolutely loving it despite the fact that I sucked at it
I think the gameboy version has so much better graphics like leagues ahead of this game
Aww but you didn't mention s-hard! 😅
Did you attempt the first stage on it lol
Also the 3d mode can lag the game if you're both doing big chains simultaneously.
Also Tracy was a big main character. He was in the show for the entirety of the orange islands arc at least iirc. Ritchey was also in the main show as someone Ash battles in Indigo Plateau.
Also the Mewtwo laboratory and him copying your pokemon was ripped straight from the first pokemon movie.
Thanks for playing one of my favorite n64 games ever. Head to head on in person matches is quite a rush. Glad you enjoyed it more than most puzzle games.
Those cutscenes were very impressive for a cartridge console back then.
This is one of my favorite games of all time, this is also one of my favorite OST's ever. I'm really happy you got to this one early rather than later (>^^)> this video series is one of my favorites I've seen on youtube in the last 15 years. Amazing series and watching that livestream of that Sabrina moment was one of the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. It was like Widowmaker Jerma Royal Rumble moment kind of funny. (That sounds really weird out of context.)
I haven't played this one much, but I sure smashed the hell out of Tetris Attack on the Super Nintendo. Like you said, this game is an absolute blast, and it's a shame that it isn't played more nowadays.
As someone who played this all the time as a kid, I think if I predicted the transcript for this video, it wouldve been 99% accurate lol you had the experience i expected. The true ending is a grind, going back to Gary after Mewtwo every time...i still feel the pain in my heart. That small block glitch is the only reason I EVER beat it. Anyway congrats man!
The 2 player mode is super fun, you can choose from any of the characters in the game to play as. There's even a way to play as Mewtwo if I recall correctly.
The music always stood out to me. Something about the N64 versions of the tracks from the show just sound really good.
I laughed out loud at the charizard part!
I was a huge Tetris attack fan, so of course I also was happy to paint his when it came out. I played in some tiny tournaments back then, and man, there are some _incredible_ players out there, it’s very much worth looking up some videos of high level vs matches.
Tracy was Brock’s replacement for a whole season 😂
I can't believe Thab hasn't seen The Movie 2000!? That's my favorite one
@@dnicej1293 I watched that in theaters. I remember they used the Pokémon Elekid to promote the movie
@@mhm6 yep, wasn't the short before the movie all about Elikid. He helped Pikachu and friends find togepi and saved them from the lightning? Ahh, nostalgia at its finest 😍
Tracey Sketchit was a Pokemon artist from the anime. He was Chuck Cunninghammed and was never heard from after returning to his home planet.
He does occasionally appear as Professor Oak’s assistant in the anime.
This is one of my favorite games of all time. It really is one that you improve at. I thought hard was super difficult for a while, but I worked my way up. Now, I can beat it on very hard and super hard. Oh, and I never knew you could cheese the computers like that.
I played this so much as a kid since I had Tetris Attack on SNES too. When he said it's a Pokemon game so it shouldn't be too hard I burst out laughing. This game was not easy as a kid but then I got good.
Awesome work ThaB, this game has a crazy high skill ceiling. I can beat Very Hard consistently without a continue if I play really good.
Good job beating Very Hard though, I don't think anyone has beaten Very Hard mode on their first try without a lot of luck and sheer determination
These videos are the highlight of my week bro. I love this series. Thanks brother
There's a section of the game called "Super Easy" it basically trains you to get better because it lets you play in slow motion, and with this you can train your brain to make setups on the fly, I made my little brother play that and after a few weeks, we played together and he actually beat me x3 lol I was so shocked and impressed.
He did try that mode in his livestream, but didn’t seem to get a lot out of it.
You didn't talk about the amazing music! And how it's dynamic and reacts to the battle.
Loved the video! Great Job learning it.
It is on switch online
One of the most underrated games on the N64!
Ace talking about revisiting Flying Dragon @1:45 xD
Dude the laughter after beating Lorelei was great haha
Awesome series man always looking forward to the next game
I wish I wasn’t circed 😢
This game is on the Nintendo Switch online expansion pack.
woooooooo
Also picking you pokemon is HUGELY important. Your bond with your pokemon is what makes you a good trainer unlike someone who let their Charmander die.
He didn't even mention that there's ANOTHER difficulty setting. It gets way harder
6:06 "starts bopping my head...oh yeah this song slaps what is it? hits that long note 6:16... OH SHIT IM ON THE ROAD to VIRIDIAN CITY!"
This is probably my favorite 64 game. I rented it over and over as many times as i could.
Every week I sit here and hope that like 3 games are called for you to play since they were my fave as a kid:
Fight Force
Conkers Bad Fur Day
RAW no mercy
I love watching your speed run of every n64 game. Especially because you mean all of them.
Holy shit dude congratulations this video is crazy! I could never spend nearly as long fighting 1 boss as you did with Mewtwo. Mad props bro you a king for that one. Very enjoyable series keep up the good work!
I loved Tetris Attack on SNES. When this game showed up on Nintendo Switch Online’s N64 lineup, I played for a looooong time. Good stuff.
Tetris Attack was the version I played, and it was so good
extremely hard, but very good
Damn that ending, in the zone. 21 seconds.
This is one of the few games my sister was better than me at on N64. I remember she got stuck at the cylindrical Jesse and James battle.
I dont know how you manage to stumble your way through beating these puzzle games. This is some witchcraft.
I love it when you wear your grey wig! MORE WIG!
I’m guessing you didn’t watch a lot of the TV show if you didn’t get the references in this game. They’re pretty good
I was really excited for this one! I remember when I first played that I had mixed feelings towards it: The game looked cool and had all the voices and music from the anime, so that was really cool, but... It was a puzzle game lol. Back then, I was used to playing Pokémon Snap and Pokémon Stadium, so when I first saw and played this one, I wasn't really sure if I liked it or not, especially because I had so much trouble playing it, it was really hard for my 5 year old mind to comprehend lol. Then, way later, when I was already in high school or college, I decided to give this game another try and ended up falling in love with the gameplay, it's just so fun! Still hard as balls, though, I would never even attempt to 100% it lol
Did ya link New Snap?
@@Eidenhoek I really enjoyed New Snap! I mean, it was something that I was waiting for more than 20 years, so seeing it finally becoming a thing almost made me shed a tear lol. I played it and had a lot of fun, although, and that might be considered a weird critic, I felt that the game was pretty overwhelming with the amount of things to do and see in it, especially at release. Like, there were so many requests from the other characters, often kinda cryptic about what we had to do, and then there interactions that were really hard to get, and 5 or 6 different versions of each area (research levels + different time of day).
The graphics are amazing, the controls are amazing, the progression is amazing, the only complaint I have about it is the amount of things to do, it's weird to say that, but I would've loved it even more if they had dialed it a bit down. The original Snap is still my favorite and probably the reason why I felt New Snap was so overwhelming: OG Snap is too small and short, while New Snap is too big. If New Snap was something in between, it would probably be my favorite Pokémon game, I think lol.
I played this game a ton when I was a kid! I could never beat Mewtwo on Super Hard. It’s still a goal of mine. I was so excited when I found out they were adding it to the N64 Expansion.
20:18 maybe by that point, the game let you win by survive a certain time on some levels
I'm liking all of these videos, and I mean all of them. Happy Friday everyone 🎉
-AI opponent losing
"I'm going to win"
So glad you went the extra mile for beating mewtwo. PPL is one of my favorite games and somehow I never knew of the AI issue with small blocks glad to learn something new!
My favorite game back then besides SSB. Because of the insanely hard computer I just grinded it a lot. Can't wait to see you play it :)
that first mewtwo win always has the 99 in continous i guess. gg for pushing through
I am very impressed with the determination! I appreciate the extra content. Incredible stuff!
I effin love thab!!! Thank you for sharing this with me
Top 5 greatest ppl.
1. Luke wilson
2. THAB
3.Jack Black
4. Jesus
5. Keanu reeves
I’ll always be into Dr. robotnics mean bean machine that’s the original for me
This game looks fun, kinda want to play it now. While it looks like a challenge, it looks equally chill.