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Pokemon Presents 2026 Live Reaction & Review - Kinda Funny Gamescast

94 min
Feb 27, 2026about 2 months ago
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Summary

Greg Miller and Tim Geddes live-reacted to the Pokemon Presents 2026 event, covering Gen 10 (Pokemon Winds and Waves) launching exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027, new starters, and various Pokemon franchise announcements including Fire Red/Leaf Green availability, Pokemon Champions release in April, and Pokemon Pocopia's March 5 launch.

Insights
  • Gen 10's Switch 2 exclusivity signals Nintendo's confidence in new hardware adoption and willingness to hold back major franchises for generational transitions
  • Voice acting absence in Pokemon games remains a critical presentation gap compared to competitor titles like Monster Hunter, despite improved visual fidelity
  • Pokemon's multi-product ecosystem (games, cards, anime, merchandise) creates inherent constraints on core game development scope and innovation
  • The shift from mainline games to Pokemon Champions for competitive esports represents a strategic pivot toward purpose-built competitive infrastructure
  • Island/resort settings have become a dominant Pokemon region aesthetic, raising questions about creative geographic diversity in franchise worldbuilding
Trends
Hardware-exclusive major franchise launches becoming standard strategy for console generational transitionsIncreased focus on competitive gaming infrastructure separate from casual mainline experiencesVoice acting and cinematic presentation becoming table-stakes expectations for AAA game franchisesCross-platform progression and Pokemon Home integration creating seamless multi-game ecosystemsBuilding/creation mechanics (Pocopia, Minecraft integration) expanding Pokemon's appeal beyond traditional RPG gameplayNostalgia-driven re-releases (Fire Red, Leaf Green) on subscription services as preservation and engagement strategyRegional variant Pokemon becoming expected feature for maintaining gameplay freshness across generationsIsland/tropical settings dominating Pokemon region design choices across multiple recent generationsMobile spinoffs (Pokemon Go, Pokemon Sleep, Pokemon Masters) maintaining parity with mainline franchise announcementsEsports professionalization through dedicated competitive titles rather than mainline game balance
Topics
Pokemon Gen 10 (Winds and Waves) - Starters and FeaturesNintendo Switch 2 Hardware Exclusivity StrategyPokemon Voice Acting Implementation GapCompetitive Pokemon Esports (Pokemon Champions)Pokemon Pocopia Building MechanicsFire Red and Leaf Green Re-release on Switch OnlinePokemon Home Cross-Game ProgressionRegional Variant Pokemon DesignIsland-Based Region WorldbuildingPokemon Trading Card Game 30th AnniversaryPokemon Go 10-Year MilestonePokemon ZA DLC ContentUnderwater and Flying Gameplay MechanicsCharacter Customization and Outfit SystemsPokemon Legends Game Series Evolution
Companies
Nintendo
Pokemon Winds and Waves announced as Switch 2 exclusive launching 2027; Fire Red/Leaf Green available on Switch Online
Game Freak
Developer of Gen 10 Pokemon games; discussed regarding visual quality, voice acting decisions, and game design philos...
The Pokemon Company
Publisher hosting Pokemon Presents event; manages franchise across games, cards, anime, and merchandise
Amazon Prime Video
Producing God of War live-action series; first look at Kratos costume design discussed at episode end
5-Hour Energy
Sponsor of episode; Cotton Candy flavor promoted throughout broadcast
People
Greg Miller
Co-host of Kinda Funny Gamescast; primary Pokemon franchise enthusiast leading live reaction and analysis
Tim Geddes
Co-host returning from paternity leave; secondary analyst providing competitive Pokemon perspective and starter prefe...
Roger
Producer/technical support managing stream, website navigation, and visual assets during live broadcast
Quotes
"I need this pomeranian to stay on all fours all right i need this thing to evolve into a bigger pomeranian i don't need him to stand up"
Tim GeddesMid-stream during starter analysis
"The dream game for me, I always talk about it. If any video game could just magically appear for me, it would be a Pokemon that is aimed at adults, aimed at somebody like me that has grown up with this."
Tim GeddesDuring Gen 10 discussion
"I'm so upset, Greg. What? Damn computer over here with the hats that we've been looking at."
Tim GeddesTechnical difficulty moment
"I will tell you right now, all right? You're making a choice right there. You're going to hang out with those Pikachu's we were talking about."
Greg MillerDiscussing Gekwa starter choice implications
"I look at palm bond and i'm just like, yeah, if you didn't have claim to everything Pomeranian, I would be like, that would be the one I'd pick"
Greg MillerStarter comparison analysis
Full Transcript
Cotton Candy 5-Hour Energy, the perfectly sweet and possibly nostalgic treat you're craving. It's all flavor, no fluff. Order now at 5hourenergy.com or Amazon. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Kinda Funny Games cast for Friday, February 27th, 2026. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller. Kind of Funny's number one Pokemon fan. Alongside Samira's father, at Tim Geddes. Soon to be the father of a Ponbon, you know what I mean? I do know what you mean, because we just watched the Pokemon Presents for February 2026. We are live, reacting to it at 6.30 in the morning. We hope you enjoyed it. We're about to get into our thoughts and opinions on it. But, of course, we need your thoughts and opinions on it. If you're watching live, YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games. Super chat in with your reviews, your thoughts, who your starter is going to be in Pokemon Wins and Pokemon Waves. Of course, we couldn't do this show without our Patreon.com slash kind of funny producers. So thank you, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Let's not beat around the bush. Let's get right into it. It's topic of the show. Timothy. Yep. You came out of paternity leave retirement to come in here for Pokemon Presents February, 2026. Was it worth it? Absolutely. Just, I mean, Hey, Gen 10, I think looks great. That to me is like the one takeaway. Obviously we can talk about the Pokemon presents this being the 30th anniversary. Am I let down by that? Yes. Just from a presentation standpoint, that didn't think about everything we watched in the pre-show. Exactly. And how hype all that shit was to get here. Like, okay. At the end of the day, that stuff doesn't really matter. What matters is the goods. I think overall, everything they talked about, which we'll go through, we knew about. There wasn't really any real major surprises. There was no surprise. But there were good things. There were good answers. Like, cool, we know April for Pokemon Champions. That's awesome. We know March now for Gale of Darkness coming to GameCube. It's like, great. Some of the questions we've been having are now being answered. And then, of course, we got to see Gen 10 for the first time. And I can't wait to talk about that because there's a lot there that I think looks really, really good. I think that we need to keep our expectations in line with what is at all possible from a Pokemon game with all the considerations that we have to keep in mind. Mainly that it's not just the games. The games are a conduit to the TV shows and the cards and toys and everything. So no matter what, there's always going to be some limit to the core mainline Pokemon games, which isn't the best news to hear, but could be a good thing when used correctly. So far, this looks great. I want my voice acting. We'll find out later. Maybe. Maybe not. Whatever. but 2027 switch to exclusive hell yeah yeah i think i i think we start with gen 10 i do but even before then what would you rate this on the kind of funny review scale uh this is one that i don't i wouldn't even want to put a number on because it's just like it's i if i i'd go seven i guess okay like just because yeah they they didn't piss me off with gen 10 that is so that you're worried of being pissed off yeah that's where you would say oh yeah you go into a pokemon presents kind of ready to be like god i hate my life i don't hate my life why do i hate why am i saying like very excited i can't wait to watch that trailer over and over like i'm very excited to get back to seeing footage again it's off the screen right now and that is concerning to me you know what i mean i missed it i can see the winds and waves you can hear them that was the big part of it yeah yeah i i obviously enjoy being here with you and waking up for it's what i've expected from years of watching you react to pokemon where it's like don't get your high you know what i mean like what are they going to do how can they meet this they have so many products to get through and all that jazz i would have loved more from gen 10 i liked what i saw i'm not taking this is the most they've ever shown from a reveal yeah yeah like this we should be shocked that we got to see in engine starters yeah they don't do that yeah yeah i'm happy yeah um and i'm not unhappy with it i would say on the kind of funny scale i'd say it's a six it's okay maybe six five you know what i mean like again we enjoyed it and there's enough stuff there that i'm excited for again i think we don't want to take away from the fact that if we didn't know fire red and leaf green were going to be out today if they had just said that that would have been a way bigger deal it would now just already jumping into the like what am i upset of course i have to be upset you're tim i was hopeful that the announcement would come with like yeah fire and leaf green are out today they're out right now everybody can go buy them right now but also let's see if i can download you're gonna be able to buy the other pokemon adventures over the next couple years yeah Gold, silver, hard gold, soul silver, ruby emerald, all of them, right? And that didn't happen. So it's like we're still in that waiting period of will we be able to play these games again or not? Are we just going to every anniversary, go back to Kanto in a different form and never actually move on from it? That is a little concerning to me, but hey, it's fine. Pokemon's going to be here forever. So no reason to be upset. It's downloaded. It's a go. We're, of course, streaming Leaf Green right after this. My first time playing it. So I'm very excited for that. Yeah. Yeah. So let's get into it. And again, I think we obviously we can go and we will go through everything about it. But let's start with the meat. That's what you're here for. Show them the big card pack. That's what we'll do at the end. All right. If you can make it through the rest of the Pokemon announcements, we're opening up this giant press pack. Tim was sent. That is a giant pack of what it looks like a giant Pokemon pack. There's other stuff inside. We don't know what it is. Don't know. I call the Hawlucha stuff. timothy pokemon wind and waves of course this had been uh the rumored one we had seen this the leaked one uh at what point during this trailer were you worried they were just going to stop here and then because of course they went through and showed you all the different games and little drawings whatever then we got this game freaks and this is when roger burst out laughing were you afraid we were going to stop no no no because i know how they do these We didn't get to watch in the pre-show some of the videos I wanted to show you, which were like the Scarlet and Violet announcement. There's a pacing to the way they do these, and they usually do. I mean, we even did see, actually, for the 20th anniversary video when they announced Sun and Moon. They did the same kind of concept art thing. They didn't go through all the regions, but it was more just concept art of Sun and Moon. So them doing that here I thought was cool. It was like I didn't realize until Lumio City probably of like, oh, they are just going through all the different generations and leading to the new one. I immediately, though, liked the look of the Pikachus. Yeah. You know, like I know that it was just a CG thing, but there was the hair on Pikachu. We don't normally see that. Textured. You know, he's got some texture. And then when we saw the little, you know, the swinging couple at the end. OK, I don't know. I mean, yeah, these pictures be fucking. They do be fucking. They did look like it. I liked that a lot. It just got better after that for me. Okay, fair enough. Then walk me through. Yeah, is there any debate on who your starter is going to be here? Look, no, there can't be. There's a Pomeranian. Having said that, do you see this water gecko? Yeah, I do. I do. I'm obviously going Pomeranian, but, like, man, this is a hard choice overall. Gecko is cool. And, you know, thank you for pausing here, Because now I can actually take it in without, like, I want to let you know, Greg, this is how much I care about Pokemon. Sure. When we're watching this trailer, this popped up. I got so fixated on looking at each one of them that I started panicking that it was going to go away before I looked at the other. Sure. Fair enough. And if you look back at the footage of me, like, it wasn't until you said there was a Pop Raider that I realized there was a Pop Raider because I was so... I saw you processing. Yeah. I saw you processing a lot. There was a process going on. Yeah. I am a broken human being. But, yeah, now that we can just look at this, this is a pretty good trio. I like this a lot. I think a lot of times you get to, hey, here are your starters, and you go, there's one clear runaway on this one. For me, I want you to take Pombon. I want you to have that experience. I usually am a water starter. You know what I mean? When you look at Quaxley, when you look at for Alligator, eventually becoming him, not my starter I know. I'm talking about Totodile. But here I think I'm going to have to go Brout. the chicken well i think he's some kind of bird yeah i don't know if he's a chicken i don't know insult him he looks angry i don't know is he a chicken is he not a chicken now here's the big thing and i don't even want to put this out into the world because we all know it's going to happen i need this pomeranian to stay on all fours all right i need this thing to evolve into a bigger pomeranian i don't need him to stand up i don't want him by pedal please hold on i'm looking somebody super chatted a very similar thing mud boot super chatted said don't make the starters end up being bipedal furries and I'm happy yeah yeah what are the odds of that happening a hundred like yeah yeah prepare yourselves everybody this is my problem with these goddamn evolutions just don't do it let them just be let them just be I mean honestly I agree with you I'll never forgive you for what you did at Quaxley Pokemon Company every time I play gold and silver like my syndical stays a syndical yeah He's just so cute. God, I'm obsessed with this guy. I'm obsessed with this, Greg. Yeah. This is amazing. So Gen 9, I went to Prigatito, little kitty. Yeah, of course. And I named him Toretto because he kind of looks like him. Sure, I can't, though. Yeah. Toretto's a dog, though, okay? I'm worse. This thing's being named. Wow. I can't wait for this. It's a big moment. Very exciting. Big moment for you. Adorable. Talk to me, then, a little bit about going beyond the starters. this conversation of, yeah, 2027, and yeah, Switch 2 exclusive. I want to stay on starters for one more second. Sure. Just because, like, something I was thinking about recently that I don't think we talk about enough is, while the bipedal thing is kind of a meme, but also it's true, I love Gen 8 starters because Gen 8, like, it was Galar, which is, like, Europe, right? And it was, like, the, like, soccer-themed adventure. What they evolved into is kind of awesome. Scorebunny turns into a soccer player. Straight up like a professional soccer player. And then they had Intellion, the water one. He just turns into James Bond. His final evolution, he has a tuxedo on and he fucking shoots water out of his hand. It's sick as hell. Yeah, okay, I like that. Anyways, 2027, Switch 2. I'm happy. I'm really, really happy about this. I want to be clear. I want everyone to be able to play games. It would be great if this was on Switch 1 as well, just so more people can play it, so that the games can sell better, and all that stuff. Yeah. Which is good. But this is Pokemon we're talking about. This is Gen 10 after the debacle that was Gen 9. They'll never get away from it. Like, I saw in the chat before we got into this, I saw multiple people being like, I'm just expecting another performance mess or whatever. And it's like, damn, dude, that wasn't the narrative of Pokemon. Like, there were a multitude of problems with Pokemon games, but performance was not one of them. And now that is the number one thing people talk about when we're looking at these things. It's like, damn, y'all did some damage to the brand of the games, right? Yeah. So looking at this, I think that even more time, it's already been off cycle, like longer than expected to get the core Pokemon game. So another year. Yeah, usually it's three years, right? This has been four already? Something like that, yeah. And but just it's since we had a Scarlet and Violet, it's just been a good amount of time. And yeah, a little extra more. I'm so happy about it. And switch to exclusive. Like, let's just focus on one piece of. I love that. I am with you. Of course, there's so many switches in the wild. But like, I don't want to see this game held back by the switch one. We're back to this PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Pro, PlayStation 5 conversation. Yeah. Right. Where it's like, let's go. Jay says 100 percent expect it to run like ass. I don't know why you would at this point. Like, again, Scarlet and Violet was the only one that ran like ass. Like Legends Z8 did not run like that. No, no, no. One even. Yeah. I want to give, obviously, as many Super Chats that are coming through as much time as I personally can. Right. David writes in on this conversation, 2027, right? Are we waiting 18 months for Gen 10 or is there potentially a spring slash summer release? Yeah, I think that, like, all options are on the table. Like, I feel like there's a, I think it's twofold. One is, obviously, they need more time to get this game right. Yeah. The other is they need more Switch 2s out there. I think it's a combination of both, yeah. Yeah, for sure. And I wonder, you know, as much as we want voice acting and all that jazz, if that would even be – not that I'm saying they're patching it now. It's always been the plan, and that's part of it. Or if this is just going to be a souped-up Pokemon Scarlet and Violet that runs really well. I'm so upset, Greg. What? Damn computer over here with the hats that we've been looking at. Yeah, just have some – I've been fighting. I've been fighting it the whole time that Update was coming. It's supposed to be Update. My favorite thing about the update was we sat there and we're like, oh, it's got a thing. You went over and said later. Yeah. Five minutes later. Hey, I need to update. I did it again. And then five minutes later, and now it's just like, I'll start myself. It's gone. It doesn't matter. How about this? How about you just focus on me for a change? I'm focusing on you. This is your problem. You dads. We're all distracted by the babies and everything else. You didn't want to dream. The trailer ended when we were live reacting. Yeah. And I was like, hold on. They need a voice here. And you're like, no, they've already said goodbye. I'm like, no, no, from the game. and you're like, oh, that is it. What are the odds I get voice acting in this game? Ah, man, incredibly low. Like, I think 10%. And that really upsets me. Especially, like, looking at this game. Clearly, the best-looking 3D Pokemon game we've had. I'll never say it looks better than the pixel art ones, right? But, like, goddamn, I was impressed by how this looks. If it doesn't have voice acting, it's going to be a major letdown, and I think more than ever is going to be distracting. it was so hard for me to get over it in za because of the presentation they present the game as if it should have voice acting as if it does have voice acting and it feels off because of it this is going to feel incredibly off if we're not hearing voices and i i don't know man like i'm not giving up hope yet okay but i'm not expecting it to be there and i will hold it against them if it's not like i mean you should we're talking about what yeah we're talking about what games are right and even though it's pokemon it's not being made in a vacuum this is what i was talking about you know in our predictions you weren't here for it but coming off of a million different games but so fresh off the demo for monster hunter story 3 where it's like damn can you imagine a pokemon with this production value you know what i mean and like the battles look this cool and the acting's here we're doing all the stuff be rad as hell yeah and and again it's hard because there has to be 1025 Pokemon plus more. There's just no way to be able to do all of that because Pokemon has balloons so big. The dream game for me, I always talk about it. If any video game could just magically appear for me, it would be a Pokemon that is aimed at adults, aimed at somebody like me that has grown up with this. I'm not saying in place of these generations, but something that is way more focused, it can just be 150 Pokemon and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth style production value and try something a little bit different, an offshoot, right? The Legends games kind of try to do that to an extent, but not really, right? So I think, and I keep saying this, but the presentation in ZA and Scarlet and Violet, like Scarlet and Violet specifically the DLC stuff where it was like very battle tournament focused, God, some of the framing of the shots and when you're in the battles, like, yeah, it is just Pokemon battles and it's pretty static overall compared to Monster Hunter. Yeah. But it's like they do enough to be like, oh, wow, this is cool. And it feels more like the cartoon and ZA having a lot more, you know, active battles and stuff like it was hype and exciting. And the music's good. It just didn't have voices. And you see the words and it seems hype. Exactly. You can imagine it being cameras are going around and stuff. But it's like all of that is all of the presentations there. It just is missing an audio track. Yeah. You know, so I. I'm hung up on it. I won't get off of it, Greg. I'm glad it's very annoying. You got to push them forward. You're a fan. Yeah, I'm beautiful. The waves are. I mean, how beautiful the game is again, as we run through this in. I don't know if this is in game or whatever. Yeah. Well, the rest of it we saw like, yeah, it's really good looking. The wind for me, it's the wind in the grass. Those waves look amazing. again if you're going to call it winds you're going to call it waves you're going to need to nail that kind of stuff but no this does look great and i think again as i as soon as it got going you heard me say oh this is switch to exclusive because of just how it looks and i think that's the power of moving to the new hardware and being able to commit and being able to go with it too much water 7.9 eight i don't know but uh yeah it's i i am interested in the water i like that we can go under i feel like that is as good as something i do that's something that's going to shake it up a bit because I, the water is usually one of my least favorite parts of Pokemon games, which is why gen three is not my favorite generation. Some very inspired maps. I feel like the online stuff is some of the best, but like, yeah, you're just swimming around islands a little bit too much. And that's what this game seems to be. But there's the look of it and leaning fully into that. I'm excited about, and I'm really into this, like foresty jungle area, this looks a lot better than Scarlet and Violet which that's all I could ask for hell yeah yeah it looks great I can't wait to learn more when do we see it again when do we get a real reveal of it constantly I feel like whenever generations reveal we get pretty constant updates a ton of trailers that have very iterative announcements in them and yeah 2027 like that's a that's a ways away like this might be one of the earliest that we've seen uh definitely in the last couple years at least like a new game and like the hype cycle for this is going to be long and with champions coming out as well it's like that being the focus for the bgc side of things like the the esport like that's where the competitive pokemon is going to be played going forward so it's not like in 2027 we're going to be playing in winds and waves right playing a champion. I want to stay with Gen 10 here, and obviously so many super chats about it. My question for you would be, what's the obsession with island life? And I don't mean just here. I don't mean just winds and waves. I mean Animal Crossing. I mean Alola region. There's so many other things. Can't we just go somewhere else? I'm sick of the sand. I'm sick of the beach. I'm sick of the waves. Why do we revere the big island? I mean, I honestly don't even know where to begin, Greg. Like, have you been to Hawaii? No. Okay, that explains a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like cities. Yeah. I like cities, too. I like cities that are maybe more than just a big circle. We sell some cities in here. Yeah, I know. And that's the thing, too. There was a couple cities in Scarlet and Violet, and it ran like trash in the cities. There was just too much going on. But there was a couple of them. this one like the the bottom right of the map that i was like man this is this is cool like i can't believe that there's a city this big and like there's a ton of stores you can go in uh in a pokemon game because it really felt like me being a kid walking around the town and being like oh man what would this look like in 3d and it's like oh we're here now yeah it doesn't run well there's a couple shots in this trailer that have more city like or town or whatever you want to call it places that aren't just like the beachy area yeah uh that i was like okay cool this looks interesting, this little water park I mean that looks like a resort that's a hotel, we got a real white lotus vibe going on here that's cool, yeah, maybe there'll be a murder you got your shops there, your shops look a little bit better that was one of my disappointments as I talked about in Scarlet Violet my shops are just kiosks everywhere that look exactly the same, I hate that shit, I loved it dude having a PokeMart, TM machine and PokeCenter all in one little spot, but I think something like ZA does it better, where it's like hey here's a shop that is in-universe feels like, oh, I think this is an in-universe shop that I enjoy. Whereas I thought just having a kiosk in the middle of fucking nowhere was weird. Yeah, yeah, a lot of weird choices. A lot of weird choices. I want to get this super chat in. Silver J. Hawkins super chat and says, fun theory that will likely not be true would be that this new region is the same region we saw slash visited in new Pokemon Snap. Oh, dude, that's actually, that's a really good call. That's from Tim. Yeah, that's from me. That could make sense. I mean, it is a beachy, like, resorty area, but there is something about the color palette that is very similar. I like that. Good. Spall Super Chat says, Tim, are you excited for the inevitable Pom Bon plushie you're going to give to your baby? Yes. This is a game changer. I can't wait to go home and tell G. Oh, she's going to raise it. This is very exciting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. K-So Bro says, We don't need voice acting. The kids need to learn how to read. It's not about that. It's really not about that. I want to give you an overall thought here. Seabury328SuperChats and says, That was a 7.5 out of 10. I wasn't jumping out of my seat in excitement, but also wasn't too disappointed by anything. But for the 30th anniversary, it was 95% video games. No mention of amusement parks, anime, movies, or concerts. Yeah, I was selfishly really hoping for an orchestra anniversary concert, because I missed out on Symphonic Evolutions when they did it, I think, for the 20th anniversary. because I was a broke boy, but I'm still hopeful that they'll pull something together at some point. Okay, fair enough. Colton Miller super chat and says, as a bird owner, I could cry. Oh, I'm sorry. As a bird owner, a bird starter, I could cry. We understood where you're going. There's a new snap. Huh? New Pokemon snap. Oh, yeah, we're seeing new Pokemon snap. Yes, yes, yes, yes. This is the back to the super chat of it. But yes. And there was a bunch of wingles there and there was a lot of wingles in the Well they going to going to be there If you got an island vibe they got to be there Miguel Superchats says if that palm stands up for his evolution I will riot Yeah. I mean, look, if he stands up and does something cool, then I'm into it. But I'd rather him stay on that. What is something cool? You know, if he turns into James Bond, like I wouldn't have expected that. That shit was sick. We don't know where this is exactly. Is it the Maldives? I mean, that's what it looked like, but I mean. Yeah. So I don't know what they're going to kind of try to go for. Because it's like, yeah, like Lytton turned into Incineroar in Hawaii because they have a lot of pro wrestling culture stuff there. And the Smohen legacy and all that. And he turned into the wrestler. So it's like they try to theme the final evolutions around the region. So if we go back to see that swinging Pikachu company, a couple, we can infer there that they're going to turn into swingers. They're going to turn into island swingers. Yes. I mean, definitely. Look at the vibe. These guys just know what's up. Fucking tourists. You know what I mean? I love that. They get there. The first thing they do, pineapple upside down on their door. They know what they're doing out there. Did you know the Pikachu male and female? Yes, I do. Of course. A male has a lightning bolt tail and a female has a heart tail. Don't try it. I read my books. I read my books. Yes. Yeah. I know what's out of that. I'm doing. I'm in the sacred texts. But like real time, I want to touch this guy. Don't you? Don't you want to touch this Pikachu more than you normally want to touch a Pikachu? Listen, I was originally going to Stoneface, and I'll tell you right now, you couldn't pay me to touch either of these Pikachus. But the Pikachu that came and interrupted us while we were looking through the book, that one I wanted to pet. At the beginning of the trailer, that one I wanted to pet. These two scuzz bags? Herpes. Exactly. 100%. I don't want to say it, but I'll say it. Come covered. All right? And I'm not going to touch them. What? Wow. They're swingers. They aren't washing properly. I wish I could see the chats. Raj, I need the chats back at some point. They're cum-covered. My lordy lord. I'm just saying, if I was stuck in there for... We were all thinking, right? We were all thinking it. But no, I do like the fluff. I hope that the swinging couple is in the game somehow. I don't expect them to be. No, I don't think so. You know what? I don't put it past you. I don't put it past you that they might be running around doing something. I hope they talk. They're the only voices in the game. They're the only voices in the game. Playing both of them, yeah. uh let's take it to this level we're talking about switch to awesome choice 2027 take all the time you need ramiro super chaston says 2026 is looking really sparse for that switch to i mean it's february sure the thing i don't mean to be upset with you Mr. Super Chatter but it's like we need to act like we've been here before like look at Nintendo the past 10 years of like how they announce things and how they release things we don't know about the games until they're ready to be released but we haven't had a direct yet this year we're going to get a direct for the games coming this year that's how it works they're coming fair enough in the chat that I can see now Let Cross says, Greg, they've got details about NPCs online. There's a wrestler among them. Where would I go to see that? Is that the Pokemon website? I've got my IGN articles open. I'm looking at that. I have some VGC opens up there. Google itself right now has a little Pokemon thing going, Tim, where you can click on the Pokeball on Google. It says catch all the Pokemon by searching their names. You fill out a little Pokedex here on Google. Oh, wow. That's cool, I guess. People love that. Come on. Something, okay. Yeah. Do it. No, I'm not doing it. I'm in the middle of a show. I'm just thinking over here. That's the reason. That's the reason. What? Well, no, I'm not going to do it. No, I can fucking do it. Wind.waves.pokémon. Okay, here we go. Wind.waves.pokémon. Roger, if you want to follow along, wind.waves. Or wind. Well, that didn't take me anywhere. What? Wind.waves.pokémon? They're saying wind.waves.pokémon, Charlie, is where I can find out about this NPC. But I did that, and it just took me nowhere. Wind.waves.pokémon.com. Well, he doesn't have a .com. Well, I know, but he can't put links. You know, I'm just saying he didn't do it, so that's on him, not me Don't be yelling at me He said plus.com It's too early for help Pissed off on him right now At who? Greg Me? Because he doesn't know .com The internet works Okay, first off, everybody First off, alright Everybody calm the fuck down We all know, nowadays You can put .anything anywhere And it goes to fucking places So don't think I'm fucking crazy that I see wind waves out Pokemon. I'm like, oh, you can go to fucking Pokemon. They're all shouting out the same link and it's not working for me so I can't do it. Thank you, Roger. Roger, you're better than me. Is that what you want to hear? Show me the NPC that's a wrestler. That's what I want to know. Can you... Oh, these are new screens. Greg, can you do me a favor? Can you read? Give me... Sure. Hold on. A new stage is set for the Pokemon series. The Pokemon wins and Pokemon Waves games, all new entries in Pokemon video game series, will be released exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 and a worldwide simultaneous release in 2027. These new titles feature an open world to explore with beautiful windswept islands and a vast ocean with glittering waves that ebb and flow. The Pokemon that live in harmony with this region's lush environments have developed their own unique ecosystems. By visiting these islands, you're sure to open the door to a brand new adventure that can only be found here. During this adventure, you'll be able to team up with all kinds of Pokemon to overcome both the difficult road ahead and even the forces of nature that block your path at times. Snorlax. That's interesting. The forces of nature. So, very into the physics of the waves all crashing and all that stuff, right? The forces of nature. I wonder if we're going to be in like storms and stuff. I definitely think you will be. There'll be a hurricane probably bearing down on the entire thing. That's pretty sick. Very cool. Yeah. Alright, first look at the main characters. So they're slightly different. I guess it's just a They have that Jurassic Park vibe going on. Jurassic Park going on. I like that. So right now, are you thinking Windsor Waves? Well, that's where you need to decide, right? So you the player, can I read that? You the player will become the main character in this adventure when you dive into the world of Pokemon Winds and Waves. The outfit your character dons will differ between the versions. Just what kind of story could be awaiting you? Alright, so is the difference? Is it really just the color? The hat, too. Oh, wait. If you're a Wins person, you got the I'm going to go hunt a dinosaur hat. If you're a Waves person, you got, I got a sick baseball cap. That's why I'm going to be a Wins person. Or Waves person. Jen, I'm calling, and I'm Waves person. Yeah, I'm leaning Waves for sure. Just, I mean, it's blue. Blue and white being, those are cool colors. Some of my faves. You do like blue. You do like white. Three Pokemon you can partner with are Browl, the Bean Chick Pokemon, Pombon, the Puffy Pokemon. You're calling it Browl, not Browl? There's a T at the end there. Oh, I thought it was an L. I got it for you. I got it right here on my screen. The three Pokemon you can partner up with are Brout, the Bean Chick Pokemon, Pom Bon, the Puppy Pokemon, and Gecko, the Water Gecko Pokemon. Choose one to be your partner and set out on a new adventure together. Dude, I'm really in this Water Gecko. Like, I'm happy he exists. I like when there's some level of like, oh, man, I'm choosing this guy, but I really like the other guy, too. Let me tell you a bit more about Gecko, all right? Of course, the Water Gecko Pokemon. Type, water. Height, one inch. Maybe foot. One foot. weight 9.5 pounds and ability torrent this Pokemon launches springy balls of water from its tail Gekwa is very intelligent and maneuvers shrewdly while putting on airs while putting on airs putting on airs the fuck does that mean look at this guy's smug little face he knows something you know he knows something and look at those eyes yeah you know yeah you know I know those eyes everybody I know you're making a choice if you're Gekwa Well, I'll tell you right now, all right? You're making a choice right there. You're going to hang out with those Pikachu's we were talking about. Before we get to Pom Bon, let's go to Brownt. The Bean Chick Pokemon type grass. Height, also one foot, 7.7 pounds. Ability, overgrow. This Pokemon runs about energetically while photosynthesizing using the leaves on its brow. It's lively, but it can also be a bit clumsy. You know what's crazy, Greg? Stop right now. Look into his eyes. Who do you see? Kevin Coelho. That's right. I don't mean it as an insult. Like, I see Kevin in those eyes. That's a lot of fan art right now. That's why I'm picking him. I love Kevin. Here's what's happening. I'm picking Broughton, and I'm naming him Kev. He's Kevin. I love that. He's Kevin. I really, really love him. Kevin, I love you. That's – I will tell you. And also with the fur and brow, he's kind of angry at you. Yeah, that's Kevin. I don't not see it. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? I also want to say I don't see it, but, like, I get where you're coming from. I see the milk mommy in that. No, that's not milk mommy. Don't insult him that way. Oh, my God. I'm going to get Kevin to furrow his brow and I'll take a photo side by side. Yeah. Oh, wow. This is a very special moment, Greg. This is the moment that we'll never be able to return from. Once you see the new starters for a generation, it's like, oh, wow, now they're just part of the group. Now they're around forever. Now they're just around forever. We're going to be seeing these guys left, right, front, and center. Like the Super Chatter said, it's only a matter of time before these invade my house, this plushies that man has. Yes. Yes. And then, of course, yes. Palm Bond, the puppy Pokemon. Tight fire. Height, one foot, four inches. The biggest of the group. Weight, 14.8 pounds. The biggest of the group. Ability, Blaze. The area below its throat glows faintly from the heat-generating organ within its lungs. What? The Pokemon is... The Pokemon is guilt-friendly. You've got to do something about this, cop. It is breaking you as a person. I feel so bad for you. Oh, shit. Wow. It's happening. I went to urgent care. Yeah. What about it? I can. Why is he? Why? Why for him? Are we talking about his work? Everybody else. Everybody else. We're like, yeah, he does this. He's cute. This guy's got fucking shit growing in his throat. He has an organ in his organ. Like, what do you mean? He has an organ within its lungs. That's that's insane. I mean I get it though dude these Pomeranians he's dope he's definitely the coolest I don't know about that cool? I don't know about cool I think he's the most the water gecko is the coolest no the water gecko especially with these eyes right here so much cooler dude he's like a secret agent he's gex coded dude I'm going to need you to look up the Inteleon because he's a secret agent Inteleon? yeah What kind of Pokemon are you? We're always talking about Moose's trachea. You know, these Pomeranians, their organs are important. Okay, so this is just accurate. This would be like if I got to write the thing for Doc's Bun, and I was like, oh, he's got a bad back. I got you. Okay. We're pulling in real Pomeranian facts. Isn't he fucking cool? He's so cool. He looks like he's from Sly Cooper. This is dope, dude. But it's James Bond, dude. It's so sick. And then also, hold on, hold on. Go back. his mega evolution go to the second picture where it's like a tower sorry all the way up yeah or not mega evolution his gigantamax he turns into a tower and he's a sniper no it's so unnecessary that's awesome okay cool now back to my palm bomb I love him there's something we haven't mentioned yet that tongue look at that tongue that thing is accurate yeah that thing is accurate i love him so much now i why i roger all i'm gonna say is just don't scroll down just don't scroll down i'm not saying we're moving on yet but when we're ready to move on you don't scroll till i tell you to scroll okay roger gotcha yeah the tongue's great again i i look at palm bond and i'm just like, yeah, if you didn't have claim to everything Pomeranian, I would be like, that would be the one I'd pick, but then scroll back up to Kevin, and I'm like, I look into these eyes and I'm like, I'm in love with Brown. You know what, dude? Brout. Maybe just because you got a man, I see it. Those eyes, man. When you do something, Kevin's like, you know what I mean? That's what I see, and that's what I love about him. I'm a legitimate man. I'm just legitimate. Jay Dublin says, Pombon has a cerebus. would go insane as an evolution. That's a good call. That would be freaking sick, dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that. Are you ready to move on a little bit? Oh, my God. No, because I just want to say there's a good chance that Pom Bon's shiny color is white. And I really hope that's the case. Okay. Don't want a white Pombranian. Okay. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Okay. Yeah, we can move on. I'm going to read it, then you scroll down. Dude, I'm so impressed with these starters, man. I want it. You said it. There was a debate. special Pikachu make their debuts the latest video featured the appearance of some Pikachu with brand new look just how could these Pikachu be involved in your adventure look forward to future announcements scroll down it's Mr. Windy Chew and Miss Wavy Chew oh we freaking won they have a tan Greg they have tan oh my god dude this is so awesome this is so awesome chat you brought us here saying there was an NPC that was a wrestler. There's no NPC wrestlers here. Windychew. Instead, I'm looking at these swingers. Think about also what they've just done to the culture. Because from now on, at every Pokemon Worlds convention, whatever, you're going to see couples dressed like this. You're going to see couples dressed like this. That's you and Jen. No, no, no, no, no. I don't fuck with these guys. What the fuck, Greg? Mr. Windychew, Miss Wavychew, stay the fuck away from me. Let me enjoy the resort by myself. These are the ones I capture in the ball. I throw the ball in the ocean and say, get out of here. I'm not going to deal with you. You're weird. They look like they smell, says Brian Wynn. You're right. Yeah. Look at her blue eyes, though. If she was across the room from me, starts winking, I don't know what's going to happen. First off, I'm not going to tell you what's happening next to you. It's one of those things where I think when you look at a Pikachu in the nude, you're like, this all works. When you put Pikachu in outfits like this, and then they still have the cheeks, you're like, now it just looks like you're wearing too much makeup. You know what I mean? You look like that kind of person at the party, the bar. I don't want to hang out with you. Oh, my God. She has pink little pads. Yeah. I love it. That's where she stores the electricity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. God, the more I think about these guys, the more I'm kind of into it. Oh, my God. Kebabs has a great idea and says, Brown to Kevin Platinum to your reward. We got to, you know what? I will do that. I'll commission Andy to draw B. Kevin is brown. Yeah. Roger, can I watch the trailer again? Yeah, sure. Just the whole ass trailer. Not Calvin Perez super chat and says, Windy Chew and Wavy Chew are looking for a third. Oh, George says, dress up your dog. Oh, my God. I need another shiny color. We're watching the trailer again, everybody. Yeah, I want to see the concept art for... early gens. They have an upside down pineapple in their house. It sounds like Viridian Forest. This is like some Johto action with the tower. That's the bridge that we saw them ride the bike across. This is the Sinnoh Mountain. Can you believe that Gen 5 Black and White loves New York? No. Like, how sick is that? That's awesome. Can you imagine, Frank? Now that we know more about the wavy and windy choos. Windy choos and wavy choos. Them just showing up on your vacation, knocking on your door. Sorry, pause it again. I noticed this in their little, their art on the website. But what's going on on his tail? Is it like a cock ring? He's got a gem. He's got a gem. Yeah. He's got a cock ring on there. That's my first thought, too. holy shit what's wavy shoe got on her tail anything oh he shows it to you oh yeah see she's got something tied up there too that's a real auto erotic asphyxiation thing going on with their tail this is actually like I'm going to use the word impressive okay that's one way what part solid pause on him again rotating cast says Greg I want to apologize for ever doubting you. You are the people's Pokemon influencer. Keep those perverted leather-skinned Pikachu's away from me. Pikachuns. Oh, man. Game Freak. Do you know where Game Freak comes from? It was the Z that the guy created before he ever did anything. pause it real quick I really like the music I know it's just the Pokemon thing but the instrument being used and the bombastic nature of it it's very high quality we're getting a nice little trilly piano going on and these are songs we're going to be hearing a lot we're going to tell a lot from the vibes from this because you think back to Scarlet and Violet, right? Like, some of the songs, it was very school-focused, right? Yeah. That game was, you're out of school, you're at the academy, all that. So when you boot the game up, even, and you get this song on the title screen, it kind of has, like, a school marching band vibe, right? Yeah. So for this, I'm getting a... This seems grand, epic, open, Jurassic Park-y, you know? Yeah. I like that. Okay. I do get the Jurassic Park vibe. pause it I can't believe and I also can because again it's Pokemon and I understand they're still using the battle cries from the Game Boy games like they just threw that Pikachu out and he goes but like that's cool right I think it is but it's also like god man can you imagine if he said Pikachu? Can you imagine if Starry would? I can't. I can't. No, I know. I'm aware of that, too. I like that, though. I like that. I like that level of DNA connection to everything else. It's like, again, Dragon Quest, where even in Reimagine, like you go downstairs and it was like the, they use that crunchy sound effect from it. I wonder if we're going to be able to change our outfits if we're stuck with these. You know, God, you fucking better be. I hated how limited options were in Scarlet Violet where you could change. But ZA, fuck yeah. Let me go buy these awesome outfits and wear shit like that. Don't do that. And it's a vacation setting. Let me wear my shit. Can you pause here again? look at that dragon yeah right they're doing something yeah i wonder if that's the legendary oh yeah or i wonder if it's not a pokemon i do wonder and it probably is but i i wonder if this is like if because we're talking about the um i forget the word they used but it's like if you go over there and there's a storm coming or whatever oh sure yeah i'm really gonna be the biggest threat is that there's probably again we're taking a lot of leaps in logic here i feel the Jurassic Park influence here. And again, there was a big hurricane in Jurassic Park. And the islands are often dealt with that. I think that'll be the thing. You have something coming. It probably is a Pokemon. Which leads us to Con Man super chatting and saying, any predictions or hopes for the Gen 10 box legendaries? You know, I'm going to say this. Hurricane Mon. I want dinosaurs. We're getting so much Jurassic Park. I think that'd be kind of cool if it was like if they went and there's there's been dinosaur pokemon before yeah there's a thousand at this point 28 pokemon that we know of yeah that have been discovered sure right so you're always gonna have to kind of go back to the well a little bit but dinosaurs i think would be cool maybe they're having a different conversation but over there uh kills on three says you're giving game freak too much credit on doing anything cool like dynamic weather and storms i think we're talking about dynamic i think it's just a storm is coming and there it is and everything goes dark and they're running in the rain or whatever. Also, do we think there'll be any new battle gimmick? I'm hoping there's no new battle gimmick, but we can use all the past ones. Oh my god, the dream. Yeah, that's what's interesting about this, right? Every generation has, not every, but most recent generations, starting with Gen 6, have had some level... Actually, I guess the other ones did too. We just didn't think of them that way because they had the rotation battle, the trio thing, and even the dual battles introduced in Gen 3, but uh which have kind of become the standard for the competitive gameplay um so i i think that with the big focus on mega evolutions and za i don think mega evolutions are going to be in this game um because they going so hard right now on all that for za specifically the dlc and all that um i do think they have some type of new gimmick i hated uh terrestrializing in scarlet and violet like that stuff it i never wrapped my head around it definitely was not necessary for playing that game competitively i'm sure it had some uh benefits and like that's the level that i just is way way way above my pay grade yeah uh But even then, it's not cool. They look stupid. It took way too long. Do you agree with me? Oh, yeah. I hate this stuff. I much prefer Mega. Mega is my favorite, for sure. So I feel like they're going to add something just because they feel like they have to. But, yeah, I think it would be the best call to not do that, especially with Champions coming out. They have said Champions is going to have multiple gimmicks. So are they going to add more gimmicks? Maybe I'm not sure, but prepare yourselves. They're going to add some weird shit. I am still looking for this wrestler NPC. People are saying, I saw somebody say it was on pokey news on Twitter. I went there and couldn't find it. Have you found it, Roger? No, I went there. I went there and couldn't find it. And then somebody just said, I think the Japanese presentation had more. I just scrubbed through it live with you and couldn't find anything there either. So I saw someone in the chat say that the, I think it was the person that brought that up. Oh my bad. It was in the champions trailer. Oh, Oh, that makes more sense. You're forgiven, and we love you. We're going to keep talking about everything that's happened at this Pokemon Presents. Maybe something other than Gen 10, but we're pretty excited about Gen 10. And we need to open this giant Pokemon pack that came here. Right. But we're going to do all of that after I remind you we couldn't do cool stuff like this without your support. Thank you for super chatting and being part of the show, of course, on YouTube.com slash KindOfFunnyGames. But why not pick up a membership? You can grab it on YouTube.com slash KindOfFunnyGames, Patreon.com slash KindOfFunny, Apple, Spotify. Get all of our shows ad-free. Get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller, in a 15 to 20 minute podcast each and every day. And of course, get good karma for supporting an 11 person, 11 year old small business. But right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from our sponsors. Come one, come all. Step into a world of wonder, full of laughs and sweetness. Enjoy summer's brightest moments and experience a circus of flavor with the new cotton candy flavor of five hour energy shot. astounding and amaze your taste buds with sweet, fruity clouds and a hint of vanilla. Plus B vitamins, nutrients, and caffeine. You'll be ready to see the sights and ride the rides. Try Cotton Candy 5-Hour Energy today. Order now at 5hourenergy.com or amazon.com. Not a super chat, but in the live chat, Joey Ratstone says, these two dads need to take a nap after this. Too bad we won't. We're going to play Leaf Green. My first ever playthrough of Leaf Green will kick up and start right after this. So excited for you. Let's get some chats going in here. Because, again, we've been chatting. Gen 10, obviously the thing we want to talk about the most. We'll run you through the other news after this, all right? Oh, interesting. Yes, that makes a lot of sense. Initially, AW says, with winds and waves being in the titles, we're definitely going to get a legendary bird and a legendary fish. do you buy it timothy getty's yeah that's actually a very good call i'm still i fuck it pterodactyl water pterodactyl oh yeah yeah maybe it's just a big magic harp yeah you know i mean everybody's favorite everyone's favorite uh over here it's melons in the same line if we have underwater gameplay waves we have flying gameplay elements to wind of course they went underwater in the trailer here one of the things leaked was your trainer underwater in like a scuba suit yeah so you imagine that's accurate yeah the underwater definitely uh the flying stuff i i also would bet on specifically because the last couple games have like really started to if at the least flirt with but at most like fully go into you flying around like even on a like the let's go pikachu and eevee like you could fly in the pokemon and actually fly over the overworld. You're on the charge of flying over the map, which was super sick. You're controlling it. And then in the DLC for Scarlet and Violet, you eventually get your Maridon and Coridon to fly. And so you're flying all around. I remember gliding a lot. I forget about flying. In the DLC, you don't want to fly. I can't remember. The core game you had glide, but you were flying everywhere. I feel like that's kind of like that was them testing it out a bit. We saw that too with the Gen 8 DLC. They introduced some elements that we then later saw in the actual core games. Okay. I wanted to take you to this one. Rez says in a super chat, of course, Gen 10 has to be in the Indonesian islands. You have tourist huts like in Bali, magma chambers like volcanoes, and dino feel like kimono dragons. Yeah, that's sick as hell. When we were on this wave of Hey, maybe it's dinosaurs Frolicious said, with the Field Museum having A Pokemon fossil exhibit in Chicago This could be good brand strategy But I feel like that's been going on With the what? The Field Museum, it's a Natural History Museum in Chicago They're having a Pokemon exhibit right now where they have Skeletons of Pokemon I was like, what the fuck does Chicago have to do with this? No, that's just where the exhibit is right now I think it's touring everywhere, I can't forget uh 124 Manny says Tim and Greg thank you for waking up and early doing this anyone think Pikachus might have a different Raichu evolution like the Alolan versions Tim's thinking real hard I mean it's we'll get different versions like since they introduced that in Gen 7 we've seen like every region has region variants, right? So we'll get some here. I am interested, though, because I think a lot of them will be... I don't think we're going to go back to Pikachu because we already got that. I don't think that... I guess we don't know the name of the region, whatever this region is, but this region and Alola, I don't think are going to be that different. Right? Yeah, I don't think so either. Because of the vibe, so... I think other Pokemon will, but I don't think Pikachu. Thanks for keeping me honest. Jord over here says the Pokemon fossil thing is from May to September and it's only in Chicago. My apologies. But guess what? I'm going to a wedding in September. I probably won't make time for this because the wedding's in fucking middle of nowhere in Illinois, but I'll try. Don't worry about it. Steve Jr. says, doesn't look like it, but I want so badly for Pokemon Gen 10 to keep the catch mechanic from Legends games. In my opinion, it feels better with the open world open slash overworld Pokemon. You know, I would actually kind of bet that they're going to. Really? Yeah, because I, again, explain the difference for somebody who doesn't know well i mean it's the difference between like actually having to go into a battle and go through the menus and then the pokeball or just actively throwing the ball uh on the in like in the gameplay right yeah like i'm going around and like in scarlet and violet you could kind of do that like with the auto battle like you send your pokemon out to like fight and kill yeah you know what i mean um so i that was i think a step towards being able to catch that way as well and i think that the legends games and the the like the core generation games are kind of like learning from each other a bit yeah like and as we see like how different za was even from rcs like i i think that the dna is going to start to blend even more so yeah i think that there might be some pretty pretty dramatic for pokemon standards uh changes to have actual core gameplays in the same way that scarlet violet compared to sword and shield like was very different yeah just running around like the battle's the same and all that but like just the way you're able to interact with the open world, because it was the first time it was a true open world. Sword and Shield only had the wild areas, so this is now their third full open world to some extent. Or fourth, even. Tim, would you like to move on to the rest of the announcements? Yeah. I don't twist your arm if you would. Of course, everybody, this is us kind of funny reacting and reviewing the Pokemon presents. Starting at the top, of course, you got hyped for a second, thinking you were getting some kind of game boy with cartridges in fact you weren't getting uh the small player the game music collection 45 songs 45 cartridges it's a small player that plays the songs off of it a exactly what i i'm surprised there wasn't more of weird shit like this packed in it's the 30th anniversary let's give you a bunch of goofy pull on the nostalgia strings and get you going thing there are a ton of those they just weren't in this presentation and that is kind of interesting because you've been on the internet the last couple days there's been a ton of shit that they've uh been posting that they're putting out the pokemon center like the the og fat pikachu plush is coming back there's the now a fat pikachu that's like black and white that's styled after the old game i'm like that stuff's cool so i'm surprised this was like the one unique thing uh announced here and this is a funny one right where it's like this is kind of made specifically for me and i don't want yeah whatever it's cool but it's also not cool enough then uh yeah it's a neat little thing but yeah not for me by its best imagination but neat that it's there but i like my nintendo music app thanks so i'll keep using that uh from there we went into talking about of course pokemon worlds uh here in san francisco august 28th through the 30th as you said not a lot of information there about Pokemon XP. Yeah. That hurt your soul? I mean, it doesn't hurt my soul, but I'm a little bit like, guys, what is this thing? But I think also, I'm not sure they know what this thing is, and I think it is just, hey, it's just celebrating Pokemon. Yeah. You know? What have they said about what XP is? This is it. Okay, okay. Yeah, it's a celebration of Pokemon. Like, it's happening at the same time as Worlds. I think they're trying to, like, get people to understand, like, hey you don't it's not just the video game tournament like come here and hang out culture yeah yeah and there is it was a lot of fun yeah for sure um but yeah just explaining that to other people it's like oh it's a pokemon convention from there we rolled into just a little uh trailer really quickly about the trading card game of course celebrating 30 years bunch of cards went through we're gonna celebrate 30 years of it you went okay yeah the card thing was interesting because normally, like, by this time, we would, like, kind of know more about the anniversary set. Like, in the 20-year, we had Generations. 25, we had Celebration. That's when I really went off the deep end. It went way too hard, the Pokemon cards. A full set of them, though, and I'm happy about that. You know, we're seeing some classic cards here that they're going back to, so I imagine it'll be somewhat in line with the 25th anniversary one, but there's, like, no marking. on it or anything like these are just the cards whereas like there was the 25 the little pikachu with the two and the five on his cheeks um so i'm a little let down by this just because i'm like all right like what is it though fair uh from there we rolled into pokemon go celebrating 10 years i'm gonna read ign's blurb about it to give you everything as the pokemon franchise as a whole celebrates its 30th anniversary its mobile spinoff pokemon go is celebrating its 30 10 year milestone A two-day tour event aims to bring players back starting tomorrow with the February 2026 Pokemon Presents, telling fans to be on the lookout for a huge range of returning monsters. There's also a code here they tossed up for code distribution. Go Tour Kalos. Don't lock a bunch of stuff there. Yeah. I mean, this is another weird one where it's like nothing new is really announced. Like, yeah, I've been doing this event for the last couple days. Yeah. But I get it. I know that. Yeah, exactly. I haven't played since last weekend, right? So it's like, oh, I need to jump in there. I need to use this code. I need to do whatever. Yeah. This is so sick, though. Explain it to me, of course. This is the OG protagonist coming to Pokemon Masters. Yeah. And he's been in. It's red. He's been in the game already. But, like, this is, like, he's styled, like, specifically, like, the OG concept art, which, like, God, why don't they just make the games look like that? But, yeah, Masters has never been my thing. Yeah. But I do appreciate that he's here. They already announced this, I think, yesterday or two days ago, and they dropped his battle theme, and it's a dope-ass remix of a ton of different songs from Red and Blue. Okay. So very cool, but not for me. On top of that, you're seeing, of course, Cafe Remix is here. It's just a roundup of all the Pokemon partners. Arrives tomorrow, according to IGN, starting with Kanto Regions, Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur. Additional chef outfits. More new Pokemon and customization options are on the way as well. from there we got some Pokemon sleep stuff basically hey not only does sleep still exist, Mew's coming to it there's Mew missions that begin tonight everybody. Dude people be playing sleep it's kind of crazy. Have you ever tinkered or ever played? Yeah yeah I played for a week and I was like I don't like this but yeah they did a lot of co-marketing with Pokemon Go like this little autocatcher thing that I have like when you bought that there's a sleeping Snorlax in it and you had to play Pokemon Sleep to like unlock it and he has a little sleeping cap on. So now I have that in Go. Cool. Four stars, everybody. As the trailer rolls on, you see we then moved in to Pokemon Unite, getting three legendary bird Pokemon coming together. Love them. Do you ever play Unite? Sorry, what? You play Unite? Oh, yeah. You know what? I don't think I've ever actually even played it. Yeah. I watched this movie. This is a MOBA, right? The boys did, yeah. And it looks cool. I like the idea of it, but maybe I'll give it a shot later. From there, we went into the trading Pokemon, the card game pocket, TCG pocket. Of course, this is Palladio Wonders starts now. You can get in there and start getting new cards. Have fun with that, of course, as people like Barrett cannot stop playing. Ben luckily forgot about it, and I've never reminded him again. Yeah. Because it was a good distraction of, can I open a pack? Yeah, you can open a pack. There you go. Burn a pack and do it that way. Yeah. And then, as you've seen, everybody saw on my Instagram.com slash GameOverGreggy, he's into the cards physically. So cool. So I had to be, last night, I was like, what do you want to read? read before bedtime and he was all excited about pokemon today and i was like i pulled two or three pokemon bedtime books and he's like i want to read my card i swallowed the card like all right let's read cards but i can do that i can be a part of that life don't worry about that so sick uh from there as you see we rolled into the gamecube announcement pokemon xd gale of darkness coming in march timothy are you are you stoked i mean i'm excited this is happening this is definitely uh preservation of video game history in a lot of ways like these are definitely these are games that in the last couple years, I think the internet culture has kind of made sure that there's no did-you-know thing that people don't know. But these were for a while games that I could mention, and people were like, I didn't know that existed. Like, full-on console games. Straw Hat B, Super Chat, and I'm shocked you guys didn't get more hyped for Gil of Darkness, a $200 game that became essentially free with Switch Online. Yep, and that's the thing. Switch Online for the GameCube has been such a boon. Fire Emblem, Path of Radiance, and now these Pokemon games, and Fire right even being $20. Way cheaper than how you could legally play these games otherwise. So yeah, cool this is coming. I'm a little surprised that it's coming before Pokemon Coliseum because Coliseum was first. Yeah. But hey, WNDs, man. What are you going to do? I'm excited. I do like that the GameCube library is like slowly very slowly starting to grow a bit. But that's the thing with how Nintendo Switch Online has worked. I've always said this. It is such an amazing value. like you get especially now and it just continues to get better because they keep adding things and they don't take things away so when you look at it now it's like dang dude like the majority of games are there and gamecube that's not true over the next couple years though i think it will be neoayoshi in the twist chat pops off and says for the uninitiated because he doesn't know what is pokemon xd gale of darkness how does it play what is it just a pokemon rpg it's a pokemon rpg that is is different than pokemon it's like it's some similarities but like the some of the battle systems are just tweaks kind of like how in legends rc is like the battle system had like the strong style and then weak style whatever it was called out i don't remember what it was fast and strong i don't know um it's just slightly different and it's like a completely different tone you're not doing gym battles yeah there's like an actual there's a story to it um i i will say i don't think that they're that good okay you know but are they worth playing i i don't think so okay okay i don't I don't know. I don't know. But it's cool classics. Like, definitely. And I think people like XD more than they like Coliseum, story-wise. But Coliseum, it was a weird one. Because everyone wanted a console RPG Pokemon game. And it felt like a tacked-on mode to what everyone kind of assumed was Stadium 3. Okay. So it just came at a weird time. I don't know. But I do know people really rock for this. Comrade says, are you catching Pokemon? Yeah. Okay. Just make sure. We move on. after that we of course got fire red and leaf green uh we already knew this they dropped it in here of course they're available right now we will be playing leaf green my first time playing ever right after this stream uh it's compatible with pokemon home in the future they got to their very hilarious chart showing you the game they can go into pokemon home and they then they can transfer between champions back and forth and then they can just deposit and withdraw from scarlet violet and za and other games it's so funny that you that you said because it's like I look at this and I'm like, wow, this is actually very clean. No, it is clean. We've got to a point. Like, man, back to the day with Pokemon. I lived through Transparen. I lived through Transparen. I know. It's like, this makes sense. This makes a lot of sense of how home works and how the games work. You can't put the new Pokemon into Pokemon Leaf Green. That doesn't make sense. The entire chat is against me with XD and. Yeah, I saw the turn on you, but I was going to run away. I think that's great. But I do think that that was a place in time game of what your age was. Let me put it this way. The people that had Gale of Darkness, yeah, you'll love Gale of Darkness. Nobody had it, though. But if you did, that's your claim to fame, and that's going to be one of your favorite games. Damn, you're going to go to your deathbed. You're going to meet that person. Game of Crone says, hell yeah, transpiring. Never forget. Kojima ahead of his time. From there, Pokemon Champions went with a nice little trailer, a little girl battling a man. Of course, he was using Hololucha, so he should have won, and he did an RVD pose to start it. But, of course, it's a fucking trailer for kids, so this guy lost. the big news out of Pokemon champions, of course, available in April mobile version later this year. We have, of course, been waiting quite some time to find out when this game is coming as this is now the game they're going to play at worlds. This is the one that will not decide for the video game portion of it. Right. Who's who and what's up, Tim. I don't expect to play a lot of this, but I do expect to jump in, try it and hopefully get into it. Yeah. I mean, I've never been a competitive Pokemon player. I'm very bad at Pokemon. honestly like i it is not being good i'm a catcher i'm a collector yeah i mean um a valid play style i want to be good at it i want to have fun and do tournaments with us and like actually take it semi-suit you know like that'd be cool um we're many steps away from that i i do hope that potentially there's like a dope tutorial in this that does kind of get you up to speed on some of the extra things you need to know like the way the deeper layers uh to this game because playing the games doesn't do that yeah yeah um but beyond that like i saw mike on one of his streams he like went through like generation by generation and kind of chose his favorite pokemon and like i i think what i gotta do is over tool this and i need to like go through i need to figure out what is my team of six sure you know and i i want to do that starting with like the ones i like and then trying to make a it doesn't need to be the most competitive i'm not trying to just google what are the best pokemon and then come up with a team right it's more like i want to create a team of that i like i want visuals to match so i'll have to choose shiny versions or not shiny versions of each one uh make sure types are represented fairly nicely and uh then we'll go from there because i have a working team in like my uh scarlet and violet but i'm not ignoring you i'm trying i just did the instagram thing yesterday where it was build your six and i was really happy with it kind of screenshot it but it's in my archive now so i got to do this hold on i want to send it to roger keep talking say something else about pokemon yeah so i mean i need to figure it out my team is obviously very uh gen one focused because i'm on me and i am one of those people and it doesn't really bother me but i would like to and then all the like the pokemon that aren't gen one or it's like lucario like i'm pretty basic yeah you know and also i don't want to have legendaries on the team that just seems like too much if i did it'd probably be very rayquaza yeah you can't throw a legendary in there you can't know what's about you know what i mean yeah uh Roger, are you in there? Yep. Okay, cool. Sorry, I'm opening slack and seeing that you had to run off and do an errand real quick. Can you throw up my asset real quick? Yeah, I got you. Hold on. I'll run you through my six office. I like it. So, of course, Haw Lucha. We're putting him right there, okay? You got to have the Haw. You got to be the Lucha. You got to be ready to rock it. You know what I mean? My boy, my man. Getting choked up thinking about him. Then, Pumpkaboo. Everybody knows I'm the king of Halloween. It's my favorite holiday. I got to have him in there. Again, just looks like a pumpkin with a bat on his head. I'm all about it. why not porygon listen it started as a joke but i'm never gonna leave him behind back in the day at ign when that was your favorite i would just say porygon because he looks like such a clown but yeah i love a clown uh then incineroar we got halucha we gotta have the we got the face we got the heel let's have a whole whole stable here oh i like that i gotta toss in dox bun all right you got your palm yeah i got my dachshund pokemon there and then of course altaria and i always feel like I'm saying it wrong, but again, it's because the game doesn't fucking talk. But this is my level 100 Pokemon, of course, from Violet, the one that saved the day when I needed a flyer to get in there and stop it. That's what it's all about. No Machamp, somebody says, yeah, no, I've never connected. I'm a Hall Lucha fan. I'm an Innocent Aurora. I think for a lot of the Machamp thing, sometimes he gives off a boxer vibe more than a wrestler vibe Sometimes And I ain about that life So I moved on Hall Lucha Lucha Libre let go he all in on it i love this i love that obviously this is a greg miller team i get that yeah i do love the idea though of you being like a fighting gym leader sure and i have like a wrestling team like that's that is cool that is cool i like that too um the other thing too is like with champions oh okay okay everybody again over engineering this what if what if greg we are kind of funny committed to champions for a tournament but it's a role-playing tournament sure we each have to be gym leaders yeah i love that we each need to choose a type sure and we need to like have outfits and shit yeah it's amazing that's a great idea i like this i like we got time do we? April? what fun we get there right? you know how you acquire him right there's a whole thing of like I was reading about it yesterday for acquisition it's not the way we think it is from a normal Pokemon what do you say? in champions how to get in there and you can get a champion you can get a Pokemon every day or something like that I don't know I don't know what you're talking about where did I read this I'm not going to be able to find it off the top of my head I also imagine you could just Transfer them from home. Sure, but then we gotta figure out how to do home. Nobody has time for that here. Let's jump this way. I'm just fucking around. The right Hodeldo writes in with a super chat and goes, Pokemon mainline not being at championships. And then one of these. One of those faces. How do you feel about Pokemon mainline not being at championships? That it's going to be Pokemon champions for playing the video game. That's the whole point. What? How do you feel about that, right? That's a change. The fact that they're going to Pokemon Champions now, no longer using a mainline game in it, right? How do you feel about that? Are you offended by that? Are you mad that the company is pivoting to Pokemon Champions? No, that's good. He is. I don't know why. Okay. That's the reason Champions exists. Well, yeah, but I think some people don't like that. They like using their... Explain why. Right, Haldaldo, Super Chat back in for more money. I don't understand. I simply don't get it. Because it just means that the VGC stuff is going to be presented in a more correct way instead of being at a school, the backyard of a school. You know what I mean? It's weird. Fair. That's fair. You're not wrong on that one. I appreciate that. From there, we got a really weird, hey, everybody. Let's talk about Pokemon ZA Mega Dimension DLC. And then it was like, guess what? It exists. It's out. You've been playing it. I didn't like the donuts that much. Neither did the chat from what I saw. But guess what? you can get a mega Garchomp Z, a mystery gift today, which of course I will be doing. Yeah. So that was the new thing, right? Yeah. Yeah. I still haven't even booted this up. I don't know that I will. You're not missing much. You don't need to go back for that. Z, a great game, but like, I don't, the DLC didn't do it, especially as a paid DLC. I have been hardcore Pokemon fan since it existed, right? Yeah. But obviously you ebb and flow of like how crazy into it you can be. and i would say like gen one to three was like i'm all in when we watched that video earlier it's like every single thing they showed i'm like i was a part of that and then otherwise it kind of just turned into i play the games when they come out or whatever but then it was gen 9 scarlet violet in 2022 that really or end of 2021 whatever it was i got so in like yeah more into pokemon since i've been since i was eight years old right like so so so in and getting back into pokemon go to this day, I'm kind of there getting the entire Pokedex in Scarlet and Violet, like going way too hard. The entire Pokedex in Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, I was just going back and doing all that stuff. And by the time we got to Legends EA, like I beat it. I really enjoyed the game. I like it a lot. I didn't complete the Pokedex. And it's like, I'm just kind of like slowing down a bit there. And maybe it's just because of what this game is too, but I'm a little bummed by that because I do have the dream of completing the national decks at some point. Wow. Maybe you and maybe Sammy could do it. I mean, she's not a baby. Yeah. Right hold, although is back and says, ah, I can't type today. Mainline games aren't in competition at Pokemon World Championships this year. Which is what I thought I presented as the problem. And Tim still doesn't understand you. Well, I just like this. This isn't news at all. Like they announced this. But it's the Pokemon show. I think he's just here airing his grievances. But I don't understand. I don't get it, though, because it's like all the tradition thrown out the window. i mean i'm filling in the gaps yeah yeah we move on uh then it was pokemon pocopia's turn a game i cannot fucking wait for in a game i did not think was presented well here i understand if you're a pokemon fan and an animal crossing fan and a minecraft fan and a dragon quest fan and a fan of games coverage you've heard a lot about this so i feel like this trailer just wasn't for us this was the trailer for the casual pokemon person of like come live on an island with your pokemon and i think it's way more exciting to talk about the builds talk about i i didn't even know mike was showing me yesterday tiktoks of hey guess what you can have cloud servers in worlds here where you share with other people and the host doesn't need to be online and you all build i'm like that's i didn't even know that that's fucking incredible so i thought this is an interesting take on it that I just I was shocked. I knew you weren't here yesterday. We did March games. I watched this, yeah. I was blown away that the entire panel was like, no, no, I'm excited. Really? None of you have said anything about this. Me and Joey thought we were all alone. Vibe-wise of just kind of what I've seen on the internet and everything I've heard about this game, this is about to take shit over, dude. I really think that... Blessing came so hot off that New York preview. Yeah, exactly. The previews are are very glowing and just what this is what we know of how much people love pokemon but then also love dragon quest builders for the people that played that uh it's like yeah this i expect this to really hit and i think it's going to sell very very very well and it being switched to exclusive too like i i can see this being the type of game not a system seller in like a crazy way but i think it could be i think it could i do think that this can get some some people in and i i think that the tone of this trailer was very off-putting to us but it clearly is for kids right like this this trailer is trying to speak to a different audience which just i don't think works in a pokemon presents but i think it does just work as like oh yeah like being a parent watching this and like dumb ass goofy kid being like look at the green you know yeah and doing the hide and seek thing and everything else again i think if reviews are as hot as these previews it'll speak loudly to the gamer you don't need to worry about that and you are trying to get out there to mom and dad and again the pokemon fan who played a lot of animal crossing during covid and didn't come back to it right i think this is yeah totally very interesting thing we're about to get here i'm stoked to see what happens oh we also met dj roto neat you put in his mouth i do like that it's like a bunch of classic pokemon music like that's yeah that is cool i'm still not sold on the ditto thing i don't like the look of the character yeah gives me roger vibes i'm not saying it looks like roger I'm saying it looks like the type of thing Roger would be really into. And I am. And then tattoo on your body. You know what I mean? Yeah. Am I right? No, you're totally right. Yeah. And this trailer did something for me. Yeah, what did it do? I think it was honestly the building of it all, right? Like you see it later on where it's like, oh, no, this is like more Minecraft than I would have ever thought. Because I think the earlier trailers show off like, hey, this is like more Animal Crossing vibe. So to see you can actually get really creative with it, that sold me. And also I like the weirdness of that. What's that chef guy? What Pokemon is that? Greedent. Greedent. Okay. That guy is cool. This was such a ridiculous way to end it. It's so stupid. I love it. I love the way the Pokemon look. They're very high quality in this. Can't wait. Right around the corner. March 5th, correct? I believe, yeah. Right around the corner. Can't wait to hear more about this and play it. And then, of course, we end it on Pokemon Wins and Pokemon Waves Gen 10. We met the three starters. Brownt, Pombon, Gequa. 2027 Switch 2 exclusive. Yeah, I mean, I was saying this during the ad break, but the more I kind of sit with it and say, like, I'm really happy with this. Like, I, again, voice acting is a make or break for me, where if this game does not have voice acting, you're not going to hear the end of it from me. It's going to be annoying, but you won't be as annoyed as I am that the game doesn't have voice acting. Besides that, though, I think it looks great, and like, what I was just saying is, I look at this game, I'm like, I'm going to complete the Pokedex. You know what I mean? Like, I'm going to get into this, so cool stuff. This is, sorry, I'm jumping back. I just want to call out, because there's so much going on with Pocopia that I don't think they talk about necessarily or don't. Not that Lyleander says, just sucks that it's way easier to buy Minecraft four times for my family than Pokemon Pocopia at $70 or whatever. I think what they've talked about before with Pocopia, and again, Mike sent me a TikTok last night, is the idea that it's game share. So it can't be that you have it on your Switch 2 and share it to your kids, your two kids Switch 1s, your wife Switch 2, and you're all playing together. From what I understand based on that TikTok I saw last night. So they're trying to get around that. I know that doesn't help if it's Well, I guess you can game share sometimes over the internet. I'm not sure if that counts. I'm talking out my ass on that part. But there's a lot going on with Pocopia that we really need to get into the weeds about. But we won't until reviews and or it's out in a while. C-Doy in the chat says, I'm hoping that it doesn't have voice acting. I don't understand that. I understand the fear that the voice acting might be bad. I think bad voice acting is... I'd like that. It'd be okay. The thing is, I'm not saying that we need every single line in this game to be voice acted. It's a presentation specifically of the battles. Watch a battle in ZA, Scarlet Violet, or specifically Sword and Shield. Because Sword and Shield had that sports vibe. We're in an arena. This is very much like there's a crowd of people watching this fight happen. Yeah. And it's just dead silent with the talking. Then watch a clip of Pokemon Stadium on the Nintendo 64 where there's an announcer. And look and feel how the vibes are. That's all I'm talking about is we just need some level of an announcer commentary or something to like add to the like excitement. Cause that's the way the games are presented. I agree. You're not wrong. I'll continue to argue with the chat about Pocopia. Somebody's like, it's not game share to switch one. No, it is. It's advertised right here on the website, sharing to switch one right there. So shut it. And somebody was like that. You have to have four switches. That's even worse than, uh, but you're behind four Minecraft licenses. You're all playing on the computer at alternating times. It's like the old Animal Crossing thing. At that point, why not just buy Minecraft once and then just have everybody play on the same thing? What are you talking about? I don't know. You're all making up things to be mad about. I'm so mad. Quaxley evolves into fucking Will Ferrell from Blades of Chaos. I'm not about it. Glory. Blades of Glory. Whatever. Don't get me started, Roger. I'm so happy they're here. I just forgot about them, and then my life is brightened. Weeby Chew and Weeby Chew. There they are. There they are. What do you think their go-to karaoke song is? It's a duet. Probably Islands in the... It's Sweet Caroline. That is what we are. No. Rockstar. They've got to be up there together. You don't want to Sweet Caroline. He's singing it to her. Well, that's different. She only does the dun, dun, dun. That's it. Dun, dun, dun. That was good. I like that. Thank you. Did they do the so good part? Does she do the so good? So good. She's drunk. She's got to do... You're right. Yeah, she's got it so good. So good. Oh, God. And that was Pokemon Presents. Our final super chat, at least for right now, will say Cognitive Clip says, I will do whatever Pom Bomb says. No questions asked. Also, welcome back, Papageddies. Thank you for coming in, Tim. Of course, you're not back. You're only here for this and to stream Leaf Green with me. Yes. But before we end this, we have to open the bag. We have to get into the gigantic Pokemon bag next to you that you completely forgot. It just became part of the set. All right, let's see what's in this. It was my favorite. Caterpie. Caterpie's your favorite? I didn't know that. He was my starter in the first game when I first played Greg. Okay. I was like, I don't want one of these three. I want Caterpie. Okay. So I got rid of my starter. Oh. And I caught a Caterpie. Oh. And then I played the whole game with him. Damn. You want scissors? Yeah. I'm going to go get him. Oh, everybody, if you're at home, it's a box inside a bag. It's in a little, this is a very big plastic thing. It's a humongous box. It's the art that was on the bag is all over this. And then, yeah, it says, what's your favorite with a very long letter on it? 30 years ago, on February 27, 1996, the first Pokemon video games, Pokemon Red and Pokemon Green, released in Japan. We know. We watched the presentation. This is trying to get us to share our hashtag Pokemon30 snapshot, saying who your favorite Pokemon is. So is Hawlucha is your number one? That's right. I respect that. Thank you. All right, let's get into here. Yeah, spin around. Take up that sleeve. See what happens. Who's going to pour out of there? Oh, a lot of things poured out. you got an eevee in there you got a pop socket in there damn they hooked you up what's in the picture frame the pic we got a picture frame inside it is oh just it's a pikachu picture frame put it every one and i like that a lot take a picture of us in our favorite and then put it in here oh i like that a lot then yeah all these little things fell out what's your favorite piece of cardboard i got you got a 30th sticker there you got more what's your favorite these are all for the photos. Oh, look up, Pokemon Trainer Name Badge, I like that. More stickers, you got a Gengar in there. Give me that for Jen because you know Jen loves Gengar. What is that little box? A card holder? Oh, nice. I kind of like that. Tim's going through, he's doing a little thing. Oh, double deck! Put a double deck in there, a double decker they call that. I like that. That's the pop socket, I assume? Oh, it's a selfie ring light! Ah! Okay, I see what they do. More cards, nice. okay what else we got in there more even more oh you got some packs to rip you got a pack to rip you got multiple one pack to rip you got the eevee one of ben's favorites yeah hold on pull up i'm gonna pull out the pop socket okay the pop socket's a jigglypuff pop socket there you go pop socket jigglypuff pop socket you got your eevee there what else you got you got a poster want me to open the poster the more card sleeves card sleeves in there damn they hooked you up this is nice and then yeah the poster is Luxray in her alright it's Luxray and her favorite Pokemon oh no no it's the Pokemon's Luxray the Pokemon's Luxray it's Pokemon Luxray and their favorite person some influencer i don't know so there was the super bowl commercial yeah no i remember the super bowl commercial she's the one i don't know i knew all the other people yeah no she has good taste though luxury definitely a a fan fave um one of my favorite things uh that i saw recently is like somebody did a stat breakdown of um the most overused teams in pokemon yeah and it's because the games that kind of guide you, right? And it's like you have your starter, and then you get one of the... Don't worry about it. You can't even catch my fuck up on camera. Don't worry about it. You go through, you need a flying Pokemon. You need a... You get the one that they give you, like a Lapras, or you catch the Snorlax or whatever. So everyone ends with a very similar team at the end of the game, for the most part. And so Luxray... I forget what gen that was. Gen 4, I think? Yeah. is like one of the most common ones. Anyways, I'm now realizing they did hit me up and they gave me a list of Pokemon that were all the ones from the Super Bowl commercial. They asked me which one my favorite was and I said Eevee. So that's why I have this Eevee here. And it's the most basic bitch thing ever because Eevee's like, they're like retroactively made her like one of the faces. Yeah. Can I ask a question publicly over here? I was listening to a podcast. Has Eevee been around since the first game? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. And But it was not that big of a deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're trying to, afterwards, they're trying to make her another Pikachu. But I love Eevee. I love Eevee so much, and she's one of the most popular, and she's definitely probably, like, one of the most people's favorite Pokemon. Yeah. But, man, it doesn't stop me from being like, I'm a girl. Tim Pop, I'm sorry, Ben pops for Eevee all the time. I love her. I hope we get a new Eevee evolution. It's been too long. Winds and waves. Tim, that was an amazing box. Thank you for bringing it in. Roger, I'm sorry I spilled coffee all over the ground. We'll deal with that later. Oh. Huh? No, I just didn't realize that happened. Oh. Well, I thought when you cut around trying to catch it, you're trying to catch that I took. I fucking nailed it. There's ice everywhere. Tim's ice coffee. Not everywhere. You can see the coaster there in the thing. And here it comes. It's like the Titanic. It's like Apollo 13. Let's spin around and see the damage. No, it's fine. It's perfect. It's just there. It's there. The ice only extends a little bit further. There wasn't that much in it. There wasn't that much in it. What would you do? Coffee would be fine. The reveal of the lid? Apollo 13! Apollo 13! Before we go, I put this into chat. Did you see it, Rog? We have a super chat from Anthony. Since we only have Tim for this, can we get a quick reaction by Tim before he leaves for the God of War first look at the end of the show? While we've been live, Amazon has put out the first shot from the show of Kratos and Atreus. Atreus, I don't know why I said it like that. You ready? Yeah. Yeah. There it is. First look at the God of War series coming to Prime Video. It is not a positive reaction from Tim, it would appear. The first chat that I see there on Twitter, this looks like a low-budget fan film on YouTube, not a flagship Prime series. If this is the official first look at Kratos and Atreus, they need to delay the show and completely overhaul the costume design. I don't like it. Can you put your finger on why you don't like it? If you're an audio listener, as I know there are some people, let me read from Paul Tassi over at Forbes. While we've been burning through the cast announcement for God of War's Amazon series, I did not realize we would be getting a look at the series in action so quickly. Now Amazon Prime Video has just released the first look at Ryan Hurst as Kratos and Callum Vinson as Atreus. It looks dot dot dot strange. The costume seems fine and very one to one with the game. Hurst is almost unrecognizable as Kratos, which was sort of a necessary development. but I'm not sure if the way this shot is rendered or lit or framed, but it does not look good. It looks like cosplay or some sort of fan film. Yeah. That's the thing is I, maybe this is the hopium in me, but I feel like this is a behind the scenes shot. This isn't like in show. And I imagine in show it will look good and solve a lot of the problems I have. Cause a lot of it is just kind of the presentation of this image. But yeah, it's, I don't know something about Kratos not loving. It looks like cosplay. My thing about it is, as somebody who knows Ryan Hurst from acting and from Sons of Anarchy when he was Opie, he is not lost to the character of Kratos to me. I look at that, and I'm like, oh, that's that guy from Sons of Anarchy dressed as Kratos. And that's the problem. Is that it's like, I don't see Kratos there. I see the guy from Sons of Anarchy dressed as Kratos. I don't know the guy like that. I don't see Kratos here, though. Like, I don't see Kratos. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It is Kratos, but that's not Kratos. Yeah. And then the Atreus over here I mean no insult to the kid He's the part that looks the most like cosplay to me Like a father and son cosplay out there Like we wanted to do with me and Andy Remember that? I don't remember that Andy I'm still available if you want to get doing it You know what I mean Just thinking about it Andy Anyways ladies gentlemen and bees This has been our Kinda funny games cast live reaction and post-show to Pokemon Presents 30th anniversary. If you're watching live, don't go anywhere unless you're on YouTube where you have to go to the other video. We're about to start my first ever playthrough of Pokemon Leaf Green. If you're listening or watching later, go to YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games where everything's archived all the time because remember, we are a company all about live talk shows, and we are fucking live today. 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