The Evolution of Staleness in Pokemon | Video Essay | Episode 0: Introduction

Here it is, the big Pokemon video I've been hinting at these past few uploads. Wow, this took a long time to make, from scripting, which took several weeks, to recording and editing, which took about a week of work (each episode of a let's play video usually takes me around 5-10 hours to make). I hope you enjoy not just this video, but any other videos I will make in this series breaking down various mechanics in the mainline Pokemon games and discussing how they have evolved and/or gotten stale over the generations.

Big thanks to TWJon for discussing Pokemon with me, despite it being a series he's clearly grown out of (sorry buddy), resulting in me realizing I wanted to make a video or videos on.

And if you've read this far and watched the whole video... I dunno what to say. It really means so much to me that you would take the time to do it (although realistically, you're putting it on in the background and listening to it while doing other things, which I understand). Hope you have a good day! I'm taking the rest of this week and weekend off of YouTube though. If I have time to stream Pokemon Violet, I will, but I highly doubt that will happen.

Chapters:
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:47 The Rise of Pokemon (Generation 1: RGBY)
0:12:23 Generation 2: GSC
0:17:56 Generation 3: RSE/FRLG
0:24:08 Generation 4: DPPt/HGSS
0:30:51 Generation 5: BW/B2W2
0:43:26 The Descent of Pokemon
0:43:50 Generation 6: XY/ORAS
1:05:25 Generation 7: SM/USUM/Let's Go
1:18:51 Generation 8 Part 1: SwSh/BDSP
2:04:02 Generation 8 Part 2: PLA
2:50:39 Conclusion