Amazing Sprites in Pokémon RBY
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2023
- I recently did a stream ranking all of the Pokémon sprites from the first generation of Pokémon, and I figured a fun way to follow that up would be to talk about a handful of my favourites!
This is more of a silly lil side video than anything, but I had a lot of fun with it nonetheless, and I'd love to hear if you have any favourites that weren't mentioned here.
#pokemon #rby #gen1
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I know this is a lil different from my usual Pokémon vids but I'm focusing a lot on Street Fighter 6 atm for the next video so I wanted to do more of a silly side thing while I gather my thoughts on that, still had a lot of fun with this regardless so I hope it doesn't feel TOO filler-ish (:
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you have just ruined both blastoise and tekken for me permenantly
I would rather watch your filler than 90% of other creators content
youtube made a change that in comments on mobile, you always see like the internal youtube channel ID name @ something idfk. but anyway now you are forever branded as BigYellowSilly in youtube comments. you will never escape the silly :3
is big yellow a honda main
Tentacruel is literally 50% tenta and 50% cruel in their sprite.
Tentacruel is truly blessed. Incredible sprite, and the best in it's respective tier.
It's got it all
@@Gold_Gamer_100and its pre evolution is great in 7u
Tentacruel decided swag was overrated and chose barbarity
100% reason to remember the name
LL Cruel J incarnate
Blue Golbat looks like the kinda guy to unironically say "awooga" when seeing someone attractive in public, and whilst i do not endorse his behaviour, I love that he exists
I actually love "gamer back" Mewtwo because it really sells the idea that its a genetic monstrosity that shouldn't exist. It looks very alien and freakish.
like a lol player
@@en--9881Sam Bankman Fried type sprite
He has breathing problems due to irresponsible selective mew breeding.
but he's also a deigned creature . which is why the first movie design is the best
Broken back or not...
Mewtwo will murder you and the entire town of 300 people around you with a single thought.
You don't fuck with Gen 1 Mewtwo lol
Squirtle in Yellow with its arms outstretched upwards really gives the impression of a small child demanding a hug, and it is adorable.
Protect the Squirtle at all costs
It wants uppies!
golbat is trying its hardest to scare a small child on halloween who is increasingly unfazed to its attempts
THAT, THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING! 🤣🤣
Blue Blastoise is just that scene from Kung Fu Panda
"You're just a big, fat, turtle!"
"I'm not a big fat turtle.
I'm *THE* big fat turtle."
An extremely important context about the Red + Green sprites that I feel like is not getting talked about much is that the Red and Green sprites WERE the original designs. Sugimori later went and made the art BASED ON the sprites, and from his iterations we got the anime designs that were later officially integrated into Yellow, and that's roughly the Pokemon as we know them today. When it's said that Pikachu was designed by Atusko Nishida, what is meant by that is that she was the *sprite artist* who created Pikachu. The art that she made for Green *is* the original design.
That's important for a few reasons. First is that the "weird" or "bad" proportions of those sprites generally only look that way because what you're looking at is the original design without any further iteration - you have to judge them not as representations of the Pokemon as you visualize them now, but as designs. Effectively both the concept art and the final art all in one. Secondly, it means that the sprites of those two games also had to extremely clearly communicate the design WHILE also looking visually interesting. Considering both of those things, it is astonishingly good pixel art - it's not developers not understanding the limitations of the Game Boy, it's them working under those limitations to accomplish several often competing goals.
That's something many people don't understand even when recreating and studying the "jank" of Gen 1 sprites because they think it is just "the normal design but bad." A Tumblr user named boxheadpaint does sprite demakes in Gen 1 style and it was really eye opening seeing them talk about it. I'll just quote them here because I think it's better than paraphrasing:
"gen 1 sprites arent 'poorly drawn' on purpose or even noticeably low effort, theyre weird varying sprite styles that are still decently 'clean' pixel art, but not only are the art styles theyre drawn in stemmed from working within limitations, to still make a coherent monster design, theyre also technically the original designs and not the sugimori/anime ones we're most familiar with, theyre still recognizable! but theyre very strange early versions like developing newborns, theyre off-model in the sense that the model was refined later, so when you think gen 1 dont think like oh its sillt and drawn in paint in like a minute, but more oh its some kind of familiar thing thats just slightly off and compressed"
Another eye opening post was in this reply to that post by the user acyde:
"I think an important part of them is that they feel weird because we have the new, more “refined” designs of later gens reworked with Sugimori’s art. To me, that makes 'Gen 1 sprites' actually both easy AND hard to achieve, because you can ONLY do Gen 1-feeling sprites of creatures/characters which already have a defined design. Gen 1 sprites feel wonky despite being (quite objectively) good within their limitations ONLY in comparison to the new art."
I think the best example of that here is Charizard. Remove all your context of what Charizard *is* and consider it instead as the original design for one of the starter evolutions and an extension of Charmander. The idea of Charizard as the quintessential 90s idea of badass monster wasn't conceptualized yet, and Charmander and Charmeleon are both much more reptilian in their first designs. Considering that, Charizard looking sillier, friendlier, and overall much less bulky makes sense - the popular perception of the Charmander line came more from Sugimori's art and cover art, which were then even more reinforced in popular culture by the anime.
If you keep that in mind when looking at Red and Green sprites, it really changes your view!
On that note all my favorite Red + Green sprites that were not mentioned as being good, with line breaks for readability:
Butterfree, Rattata, Sandshrew, both Nido lines, Clefairy, Vulpix
Wigglytuff (this is not ironic I love its doofiness)
The Oddish line, Paras, Diglett, Meowth, Psyduck, Primeape
Arcanine, the Poli line (especially Poliwhirl), Kadabra, the Machop line
Tentacool, Rapidash, Magneton, Farfetch'd, Grimer
Cloyster, the Gastly line, Onix, Drowzee, Hypno
Kingler, Electrode, Exeggcute, Cubone, Lickitung
Koffing, Weezing, Rhydon, Tangela, Kangaskhan
Seaking, Staryu, Scyther, Pinsir, Tauros
Ditto, Jolteon, Omastar, Kabuto, Dragonite, Mew
My top five would probably be... Butterfree, Parasect, Tentacruel, Poliwhirl, Nidorino.
That's like a third of them! I was going to try to cut this down more for very obvious reasons but the Red + Green sprites are so often mocked and a lot of them are genuinely good, fun, and underrated. I think they deserve more love. I really appreciated the positivity in this video and I really enjoyed the opportunity to look more deeply at these sprites and the work that went into them!
This is a lot of fucken words but you're absolutely right
"We're talking about Pokemon here, and Pokemon fans are notorious for killing each other in the streets about whether trash or garbage is better"
Yellow always dropping the truth bombs on us even in the most subjective art video of all time interpreting 64x64 at most canvases
The mere mention of the word "dexit" continues to cause virtual fistfights in many places.
"Yah know, I've always thought Pokemon quality wise is comparable to a hormonal te-"
*Procceds to get brutally stabbed by everyone in the room*
Also the mere mention of kanto will be a death sentence from those who grew up with gen 3 to 5
CommanderWiggins Saying the newest games are either "pretty decent" or "kind of underwhelming" will get three people spawning out of nowhere to jump you in the comment section.
@@christiancinnabars1402Also to add to that. Or saying anything remotely decent, or good about the newest games will have someone jumping on you to either call you a sheep or that you wasted your money or the other person berating them for their hate train mentality.
The problem with blue blastoise isn't so much its face. Its face is pretty good. It's the shell. It doesn't look like a turtle shell. It looks like a cabbage. Or like a giant disembodied gloved hand is holding blastoise like an action figure.
very fair point I've never thought about tbh
that and the shading feels rather blobby imo
blue blastoise looks like a fucking balloon.
It manages to be the roundest sprite in the game, in a game that also has Voltorb in it
Also his arm _bending the wrong way_ is my issue
My guy really calculated the mushroom to bug %. Absolutely hilarious
Yellow Parasect gives me massive "Grandma on her summer vacation" vibes. Like the mushroom is her oversized summer hat and she has that "Oh, dear honey, that's wonderful" face.
I think part of why the RBY sprites get dunked on so hard is that the GSC Sprite that came out shortly afterwards are genuinely some of the best art direction in the series. Yes, being able to actually use colors rather than monochrome shading is a huge part of that, but those Crystal sprites in particular _look_ the way early fans remember their first Pokémon: simple, yet full of life
Given the GB Limitations, the small team, and their complete lack of experience with the system, these games genuinely look great, but when you have to deal with a direct comparison to pastel shaded beauty, you’re gonna be looked at as the middle child who got Bs instead of straight As like their older brother who eventually cracked under the stress once he hit college
Nailed it.
They were trashed at the time.. Especially when pokemon cards started hitting American shelves.. Green sprites were always laughed at
I like Geodude’s Red and Blue sprite, he’s like “get in the car, we’re raiding Surge’s gym”
I will now quote this XD
Blue version Sandshrew is a towering achievement of cuteness. I don't know how they got it this right, just this once, but it's actually perfect
one of the absolute best lil fella sprites
no thoughts, head empty
Quagsire before Quagsire
The legend lives
Sandshrew is just a lil guy
A little baby
My absolute favorite sprite from gen 1
16:10 As a kid the Slowbro Sprite always looked to me like it was hugging / eating a big weird multi layered Shellder cake and just being really happy about it
I still picture it like that in my mind and then im kind of disappointed every time i see it and it isnt eating the shellder
I love how with RGRBY you never know if you're going to get a golden sprite that the artists chugged the dew of the gods before inscribing the soul essence of the pokemon, or half a cardboard box that got left out in the rain and stepped on.
Blue Clefable looks like it just got out of school for the day, saw it’s parents pull up and eagerly wants picked up so it can tell it’s parents about how well it did in arts and crafts that day. It just has this childlike happiness to it.
My favourite Golbat appearance is the Stadium one. He looks really devious with his wings wrapped around his body, shifting his body weight from the left to the right like he is skulking through a dimly lit street ready to flash an unsuspecting victim. And his attacking animation is basically just that. He knows he's a creep and takes relish in it with the way he wiggles his tongue around.
I'm sorry but the Tentacruel sprite just reminds me of a rantsona. I fucking LOVE Golems stupid raised arms and pogging face he looks like a football hooligan going "hough hough hough hough" at his team.
Yellow Tentacruel also has rantsona vibes but for like goofier videos where they get angry at kids movies or something
I think what makes the R/B/G sprites more fun is that there’s more experimentation/offputting choices to them, putting more emphasis on the monster half. Like Jigglypuff and Wigglytuff have these massive voids for eyes, it makes them kinda creepy for otherwise cutesy designs.
The way Tentacruel stands in his sprite is literally the most thug-gangster ass-shit like holy hell it's so badass‼‼‼‼‼
I love how Porygon looked amazing in RG and then just absolutely dropped the ball in RB and Yellow. I have no idea what they were thinking.
Glad to see some RG sprite defences! I think they're extremely overhated.
I was nowhere near as familiar with the RG sprites before that stream so finding out just how great some of them were was a really fun experience
Yeah, they actually made the limited color pallete look amazing on porygon...
And then Yellow happened.
@@bluebaron6811 it looks so sloppy :( it's like they messed up the proportions on everything.
I don’t like how Yellow Porygon looks like it has a drawn-on smile on its beak
I think what makes the Yellow sprites both generally the highest quality and also frequently the least interesting to examine is that they're much more in line with the designs of the official art and the anime. Yellow was made with that hindsight, where they would be like "yeah, that's what a Charizard looks like" and so it all matches up better. This also means that they tend to lack that sort of design exploration you got in Red/Green and Blue, where the artists were still deciding on which features of the Pokemon should be the most prominent and how they express their personality.
Speaking of Charizard, Red/Green Charizard looks like an Earthbound enemy cuz that game has some goofy-ahh sprites lol
This is a really good point, defo kinda sums up why I feel like I have less to say about the Yellow sprites despite clearly feeling like they're the 'best' overall
4:20 I believe in my heart that this is an expression of "desperate menace." If it's kill or be killed, Blue Exeggutor's middle head has chosen "kill," but isn't 100% happy about it
The sprite for Muk in Red and Blue has a shape that reminds me a ton of the The Great Wave off Kanagawa painting. His general body shape I feel is very similar to the large wave, now crashing down on the player's pokemon sprite. The artist did a good job on this sprite, really gives muk a sense of power.
As a kid, the moment I saw Slakoth's sprite in Ruby, it immediately became my most favourite Pokemon of all time. Those half closed eyes, that complete lack of an ellbow, his goddamn mini sprite in the menus. It's just perfect.
Your love for Slakoth is how I feel about Dunsparce. Those tiny little wings so it hops around, it's eyes always look closed, and I absolutely adore the way it raises it's head while screaming in the later gens 😂😂 it's evolution made me love it even more
It's cool how sprites/models can make or break people's first impression of a Pokémon.
For me, that was Crabrawler. It just looks so lively in SM/USUM, like it was pissed off and ready to punch the ever-living shit out of you.
Shout out to Omastar who is just grooving in all of their Gen 1 sprites.
Omastar and Grimer were just having a good old time in Gen 1
I was kinda hoping Omastar would be mentioned because of how silly it looks
The perfect Rain DANCE sweeper
Tentacruel is such a badass dude. Legit its in my top 5 favorite gen 1 pokemon. Tentacruel is a cool ass dude and they KNOW they are a cool ass dude. That sprite pretty much just screams "ya, I know im good. What about you?" And I love that so much.
Muk is such a cool sprite especially in placement, I remember going into the Cinnabar lab for the first time, and being genuinely terrified the first time this level 40ish fully evolved monster showed up and threatened to wipe me right before the key room that took an hour for me to reach
I really like haunter's red and blue sprite because it just looks so devious. Like there is no one more evil than haunter making this specific face, and I really like it, it adds a lot of personality to them.
Haunter's RB sprite is my favorite haunter sprite in the franchise. It looks quite cynical.
The funniest part about Arbok’s Yellow sprite is that in Red and Green, a bunch of Pokemon looked straight at the player, with Blue and Yellow changing that. Seeing how Arbok did the reverse, it makes him even more smug
I think the biggest reason that the Gen 1 sprites are overall so great is because they do an amazing job at expressing the personality of each Pokémon, something more appreciated now with the mostly idle poses we see in modern Pokémon sprites, great video as always
I really appreciate the Gen 1 sprites. What they lack in quality they make up for in charm, and even the "bad" ones will probably brighten your day with how delightfully derpy they can be.
The thing I liked about Blue's final evolved starter sprites is that they worked well as the final story boss pokemon. They looked cool if you picked one as your starter and would probably turn out as your ace, but also intimidating as the final story boss before the post game superboss Mewtwo.
Fun and games until his Rhydon hits you with Tail Whip and Tackle
I feel like the RB Blastoise really matches Blue's smug personality
As a trash enthusiast don't you even DARE insinuate that garbage even comes close
Blue Slowpoke is the pinnacle of "no thoughts, head empty"
Tentacruel looks like it’s letting you go first and knows it’s still gonna come out completely unscathed.
Big Yellow with the weird glasses to make fun of sprite haters gives me LIFE
Literally just the nerd emoji. while defending the sprites of a game that's more than 25 years old from the opinions of people of more than 10 years ago which is unironically the most nerdy thing i've ever seen.
Reminds me of Jwitz for some reason
RG mew has always been an interesting one to me. It's so different from all of its later designs because it was snuck into the game. It also feels very fittingly primal, the hunched back and face bump and looking like a fetus just fit together perfectly. The other sprites of mew are just perfect, but the official is a real monster and I love it. I wonder if there's any official art that references the old design
Honestly its a shame that they revised how Mew looked to make it more cute. R/B Mew is great and all but man R/G Mew is something else
Bats are my favorite animals precisely BECAUSE of how weird and endearing they are, so I shall forever miss Golbat’s OG sprite.
My headcanon is that it just flies with the tongue hanging out as it tries licking up bugs. Or spills of blood. Or both.
Parasect looks great here too, that thing TRULY looks dead.
Parasect is one of those weird little goobers that I am more fond of than I should be. In gen 6 or so, I used him on an ubers double team. Disgusting amount of regen with a surfing kyogre and dry skin
@@skinnysnorlax1876banger idea. Too bad it still dies to flying types
@@theschnozzler that's why I had heliolisk. Stab choice specs thunder while getting healed by rain and surf, and he goes toe to toe with any flying uber. If not, I had some ice types to smack em down
What's this? Someone else that likes Gen 1 Golbat! You're not alone, brother!
@@skinnysnorlax1876 dry skin is cool on rain but how did you prevent groudon/sun teams in general from killing some of your mons? Switching kyogre in and out leaves you vulnerabile for a turn
you know what blue blastoise looks like to me? he looks like a yakuza clan head. like he gets his own name and title splash screen when you fight him in a sewer tunnel with your shirts off
Reminder that blastoise has 78 speed, thats pretty fast for the franchises standards of the time, and heck even now, I like that his yellow sprite shows that he's a lot more agile than what you would expect from a giant turtle.
Probably based on Gamera who is pretty agile for a turtle
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BLASTOISE IS FASTER THAN DECIDUEYE?
14:30
Muk looks like he's about to drop the sickest beat in ruby and sapphire.
Big yellow has been one of my comfort creators for over a year now, and I just realized I haven’t subscribed. It’s indescribable just how safe their content makes me feel. I’ve gotten through some really rough times just binging his content, and I really can’t thank her enough for that. Another fantastic video ❤
Same. I know I can always put on a Big Yellow video and have something comfy to listen to. She perfectly fits that niche of "making extremely enjoyable videos about incredibly obscure stuff you didn't care about at all before". I don't play competitive Pokemon at all, much less RBY competitive, but I absolutely will watch a 20 minute video on the changes in Pinsir's competitive viability in RBY UU.
@@CommanderWiggins I completely agree. I have negative interest in Lego, but as soon as Yellow starts excitedly talking about Power Miners I'm tuned app the way in
On the subject of Parasect sprites, the sprite for Gold and Crystal is basically just a redone version of the Blue sprite that is way better than it has any right to be. Legitimately spooky how good it looks.
On other sprites, I think the Blue Meowth just has a lot of character that simply doesn't exist in any of the Meowth sprites after. Like, it has that hint of the maneki-neko inspiration, but it feels like a real animal. Also really like the Red/Green Nidoran F and Nidorino sprites and Blue Nidorina sprite... All just feel very lively.
Listen, I just think the Togekiss watching Doduo taking a shit thing is really funny ok
Golbat looks like an earthbound enemy and I’m here for it
The Red and Green Sprite for Dragonite is just so ridiculous and I absolutely love it to death
Red and Green Dragonite gives me dragon from a 1930s movie vibes
Here to show love for the Gengar line. R/B in particular really sell these guys as evil spirits.
Haunter is so good in RB!
The Green sprites are also fantastic!
I miss old sprite work in games.
I think this is why I love pixel art as my medium of choice
Tentacruel is straight up DJ Octavio from Splatoon in blue, and that's just so perfect. Easily the best gen 1 sprite imo.
Also, Haunter. That goes hard.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how the Gen 1 competitive tiers are so thoroughly defined that every single Mon essentially has its own personality traits now? Like instead of being a limited meta where everybody runs the same three teams, it’s more like everybody is playing with their favorite characters in Smash or something. And I think that’s wonderful.
blue version blastoise looks like he’s chuffing back a fat dart and i love that for him
That slowpoke sprite is incredible
YOU'RE incredible
I love the Nidoking sprite in Blue. He just looks like a final boss. Absolutely love the energy he radiates.
Red and green muk looks like a sixth grader trying to ask their math teacher a question that they know was already answered
My favorite sprites are still the gen 2 sprites (despite me being trash at GSC), but I think I've gained a new appreciation for these gen 1 sprites. I used to just treat the gen 1 sprites like non-finalized versions of the designs, but next time I happen to watch some RBY gameplay I'll try paying more attention to the spriteart.
Crystal was arguably a high point for Sprite art and animation. Not THE high point, just A high point. The pastel coloring looks beautiful, all the designs are cleaned up significantly from RBY, _and_ given a proper entrance animation in Crystal specifically, and all the attacks are also quite colorful. Despite the lack of in battle movement, I’d argue that battles in Crystal can often look more likely than in SwSh
Absolutely loved this video. Gen 1 sprites are so fun because (I believe) so many were made before the official art. They have so much personality - generally Gen 2 on everything looks the same because we know what the pokemon are "supposed" to look like.
Really appreciate you highlighting a lot of the red/green sprites that we might not be used to.
I genuinely have come to kinda love the scuffed fetal mew sprite. I'm a little sad it wasn't mentioned in the video, seeing as it's one of the most infamous. Like yeah, this thing is like, a semi-divine sentient stem-cell, of course it'd look so messed up.
It looks odd and "unfinished" but I like it lol, part of me wishes Mew should've stayed like this.
The Japanese Blue Grimer sprite (party Grimer, as I call him) and the disco Omastar from Japanese Blue are two of my top favorite gen 1 sprites.
The gen 1 sprite art had so much personality. This was a fun throwback.
I'm a huge sucker for RB Haunter. This is what a ghost that rips your soul from your body should look like. Amazing nightmare fuel right there.
It's honestly refreshing to see someone pointing out how charming gen 1's sprites really were instead of "lol ugly lol so bad" there are 100% some stinkers in there but some of them are actually far better than the more modern sprites imo. Though i still think gen 2's sprites are my absolute favorite.
Haunter is probably the best gen 1 sprite for how menacing it looks, but i also really like Nidoking, Mewtwo, and that oddly scary Exeggutor to name a few (talking specifically about the r/b sprites, not as familiar with the yellow and green ones personally)
Gosh can I just say I really appreciate how the sprite always is on-screen while you talk about it btw? Such a great QoL feature, thank you
this video made me laugh a lot. Thank you. And thanks for showing love for Blue's tank-ass Blastoise. That sprite singlehandedly saved Blastoise's entire concept for me.
Blue's Porygon is kinda messy but it's crazy ambitious. They're trying to convey polygonal edges at a slightly off angle-which is already tricky at this resolution-but THEN they try to fit in glass-like reflections? With 4 colors? Yeah it came out a bit cludgey but they really went for it.
I'm a bit sad you didn't mention R/B Grimer, it's one of the cutest sprites in all of Gen 1 in my opinion! It just looks so happy c:
I always love to see appreciation for gen 1 things like this, they get such a bad rap because of the small team and comparatively limited resources but I just find them impressive still. Like the rest of the games in a way, some people may find these sprites ugly but I love them nonetheless
sometimes that "ugly" quality is what makes it appealing, too. i love old pokemon sprites with lots of character and personality, and i'd take even the worst ones any day over the expressionless bland 3D models we've had for the past 10 years (though it's getting better as of late)
@@chainswordcs showdown having 2d versions of newer mons is why it is the best pokémon thing ever
Not even a gen 1 exclusive deal, but Venusaur, as my absolute all-time favorite Pokemon, is just an infinite source of serotonin for me so they're good in all iterations imo. This isn't to discredit their previous evolutions either because they bring their own flavor of cute and slightly dopey. You labelling Yellow's Bulbasaur as a "Nasty Angry Child" got me howling good.
Golbat has the greatest blue sprite. Mew has the greatest green sprite.
Golbat is excellent but the tongue being vertical kinda scrumbles it a bit
Yooo
What's up, Cowboy Octopus?
@@CoralReaper707oh wait heyy
I had a small feeling it was you
Blue Mew looks like the rehydrated raisin version of green mew
🤪
The thing with Blue Golbat for me is the eyes; there was a particular way Golbat looked in official art around the time; you even showed some of that art, and I think if Blue Golbat had eyes like that it'd be a perfect sprite, because the body is wonderful.
The Exeggutor sprite's middle head feels like demented condescension
I really love Red/Blue Mewtwo. I always saw it as like, it just stepped out of a giant test tube and is getting ready to wreck the Pokemon Mansion. Or how when you encounter it, it's at the bottom of this giant postgame cave and this imposing huge catlike creature is just hunched over, staring at you, about to give you the battle of your life. I also have a soft spot for his giant noggin because I think around gen 3 they slightly redesigned Mewtwo to have less of a big head, and now in the 3D games its head just feels tiny. Compare Stadium/Melee Mewtwo with XY/Smash 4 Mewtwo and you see what I mean.
Also they weren't in this video but Red/Green Jolteon and Red/Blue Nidoking might be the best those mons have ever looked.
Defo agree on Jolt and Nidoking, the eeveelutions generally have some of the rougher sprites in RBY I think but a few of them really shine
Blue Blastoise has all the confidence of a mafia boss and as someone who grew up repeatedly clicking Hydro Cannon in the FR elite 4 with my first starter blastoise lil 6 year old me identifies with the sheer amount of swagger that sprite has.
Also Pokémon needs more "cute adjacent" but fucked up designs like Golbat. Less marketable, sure, but imo menaces like the bat are pretty fucking memorable lol
rb golbat is such a legend that he was specifically added back into pokemon snakewood (the hack of all time) what higher praise could you ask for
So glad to see someone still mentioning Snakewood!
Graveler over here looking like a mf’ing Bohrok
Yellow Blastoise needs a skateboard
Tbh, I think the gen one sprites make the game better. It makes me feel like I'm fighting and catching real monsters
makes you wonder how the games would look today if they leaned more into the "monster" part of the designs past gen 1. Not trying to imply the direction they went was bad in any sense, but it would be fascinating to see!
@@RivLabs Oh, most certainly!
One thing I love is how the backsprites are lower res. I'm guessing that wasn't intentional, but it helps visually indicate that it's the same size as the opponent, just closer
I’ve loved these sprites for like the last decade. The RBY sprite style actually inspired a whole series of drawings I did at one point, where I drew characters from another game aiming for this style. Doing that series of drawings taught me a lot, so honestly, I kinda associate those memories with the sprites. They have such a special place in my heart, even beyond the gen 1 nostalgia. The shading and dynamic poses on them are insanely fun, and it’s a really fun combo with the exaggerated features and more cartoony feel to these sprites. They kinda speak for themselves, and it’s glorious. You can drop stuff like Golbat and Grimer anywhere and it just works. The personality is insane. I can remember so many of them perfectly. I also love the look into early, unpolished Pokémon where they hadn’t settled on the look or pose of a lot of mons and did some weird experiments. And I straight-up prefer the earlier look of some Pokémon like Charizard having a more aggressive face and of course Pikachu. Even though they’re less interesting and usually not quite as good, I think even some of the trainer sprites are really fun. The dramatic shading on Brock’s sprite always stuck with me and I remember a couple of classes having more dynamic poses than usual too.
I loved Golbat's sprite even as a kid because it reminded me of a line of toys I loved that were called "Thingz" (the hot water bottle one in particular). Basically they took like household stuff and put a monstrous spin on them.
“He is THE big turtle on the block and if you have anything to say you’ll have to take it up with him”
God I fucking love this guy 😂😂😂😂
The fumbled bags are really funny to talk about with gen 1 sprites, but when they hit, they *hit*. I wasn't expecting this, but I love it all the same.
Edit: R/G Clefable is my spirit animal, I love them
No one calls machamps yellow sprite bad and gets away with it it is pure peak
It's maaaaybe the best of the Machamps I think I will give it that
@@BigYellowSilly I'll take it
@@BigYellowSillyDamned by faint praise
Muk in Ruby/Sapphire lookin like he boutta drop the sickest bar
Cant wait for rating gsc sprites
Tentacruel sprite will always be the best sprite in all of pokemon. I also love the yellow clefable sprite. The idea of clefable getting distracted mid sprite and looking off to the side is so in character and hilarious.
I like to think the wigglytuff on the thumbnail is the same one from the "slow attacks" video but evolved
she's really going up in the world
I really really enjoy watching or just listening to your videos. Makes me feel really cozy, entertained and I also feel like I am sharing many similar perspectives on things! Keep doing what you are doing, I love your passion!
And on an unrelated note- I think You look great in your videos as well!
THICC PIKACHU IS BEST PIKACHU AND SLIMMING HIM DOWN IS THE GREATEST TRAGEDY IN THE POKEMON FRACHISE AFTER SNORLAX STILL NOT GETTING SLACK OFF AFTER 20+ YEARS
The eggy sprite is the same in gen 2 as in gen 1, thats because the sprite is perfection
Tentacruel's sprite in Blue is so badass, probably my personal favorite out of all the sprites in the Gen 1 games.
EDIT: shoutouts to Green Pidgeot for actually looking like a badass bird as well
executor is absolutely amazing! I feels so dramatic and very Japanese theater feel. It is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!
Omfg, that is an amazing idea
It really does look like a Japanese theater mask
Tentacruel making the Gunbuster/Gainax Pose makes him automatically the most powerful entity in the Pokémon omniverse.
What's equally as impressive to me as the small canvas size is how well they used the color palettes. GBC Pokémon sprites only use 4 colors, with black and white being two of those, so they only had 2 colors to work with for shading, and it's actually genius how well they do it, in my opinion.
The reason why I subbed is because you love to go at it with the most niche stuff no matter the franchise. That Worms 3D video got my attention and this just keeps proving how worthwhile it is to tune in and see you speak your mind about anything, adore this content.
I think my personal favourite is Yellow Kingler. It absolutely nails the vibe of “when I catch up to you I am going to cut you in half”.
He is so cool
only like 3 minutes in and the editing on this is just top notch so far, very glad to have recently subbed and am enjoying rby content a lot more than i would have ever expected
noting more to say but ur so gender ilysm
What I like about yellow arbok is that it looks a lot like giovanni. It has that same (kinda?) stance and smug expression.