The "Perfect" version of Pokemon Crystal was TOUGH!

I've watched so many of your videos, man! It's an honor to have the romhack featured on your channel! :)

Smith actually made no changes to the AI. The reason it feels smarter is due to it having options to switch into or use to set up. It really shows what the original AI was built to do.

One really neat thing about this rom hack is that if you do the gym leaders in a different order, they'll have different teams based on your number of badges.

I love Jrose saying he doesn't read dialogue, him missing the trainers saying they have a legendary bird, then being surprised when they have it.

Jrose: Don't read pokemon dialogue Lance: "I am about to pull pro pokemon move"

Electrode: explodes itself Jrose: Truly incredible

It’s cool how it may be implied that Gen1 legendaries have already been caught by strong trainers before the protagonist starts their journey

“Oh wow, it uses fly. IT FLYS NOW?!?” 😂 That part made me crack up.

Can you imagine how different Lance's legacy as champion would be if he had a ZAPDOS on his team in the original game? Honestly, making Clair water themed and Lance flying themed is a genius move that not only works well with their designs, but the designs of Dragonair and Dragonite.

I'm going to go over some of the changes that he doesn't go over about the story and nice features I noticed in my playthrough. You can get the fossils and the GS ball from the ruins of alph. You can buy evolution stones in the town where Chuck is and there is a berry salesman in Goldenrod. Rocket Story: it has been improved slightly if you read the dialogue but overall the changes aren't amazing. Silver: Silver in victory road explains that he has been training with the monks in the dragon den and he said while there he learned to trust and love his Pokemon which causes his Pupitar to evolve early.

I think the intention behind forcing you to rematch the Elite Four is to get your levels a little closer to Red’s

Lance: “I have a Zapdos” JRose: “yeah yeah get to the battle” Lance: sends out Zapdos JRose: Pikachu surprised meme

The best part is that there are no ai changes - just better tools available with synergies built into the teams.

3:52 Cut being a Bug move in this game makes more sense than being Normal. It cuts down trees just like how Bug-Type moves take down Grass-Types. Also, it fits, as Bug moves have a lot of slashing moves: Fury Cutter, False Swipe, X-Scissor, etc. (Edit: Not False Swipe, that's a Normal move.)

I absolutely love how because JRoss skips dialogue he gets surprised by Lance's team even though Lance spoils the most surprising member of his team in his dialogue lol

SmithPlays is awesome! Loved the hell out of his zombies streams and videos when I was in college and ive seen some of his pokemon videos too

A crossover I had hoped for but never DREAMED I would see!

It's funny that you say you don't read the text and then were shocked by Lance having Zapdos considering he says that he has it in his before battle dialogue :P (Actually, a lot of the mechanical changes are brought up in dialogue, so that I was able to mostly suss them out while playing blind, for example the gym guys who in a normal pokemon game just remind you of basic type advantages, instead they tell you hints to the leader changes. Like saying that Bugsy recently discovered Cut is a bug-type move)

We absolutely need more jrose11 ROM hack reviews! I'd love to see a review of Pokemon Brown, Prism, and/or Crystal Clear! They're all absolute classics.

I don't think anyone really expected the Team Rocket and Kanto stuff to be changed, it's not that bad honestly in terms of Team Rocket and the Kanto part is iconic.