SO RANDOM XDDD (Pokémon Red Randomized)

Okay SO Spekkal says I should do this, so here goes! Welcome to my screenshot let's play of Pokémon Red Randomised. The reason I'm doing a randomised run rather than a challenge is mostly because it goes against how I play Pokémon. Normally, before I even touch the game I'll have a team of 6 planned out exactly how I like it, according to my own (pretty silly) rules. This time round there'll be no planning, just wacky 'anything can happen'-ness.

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The setup I've created will give me three random three stage basics as starter Pokémon, and completely randomized wild and trainer Pokémon, all of which can be from all 6 generations, including lengendaries. Items (other than TMs) will also be randomized. 

In terms of audience participation, I'm gonna make things interesting. Rather than straight up making you folks pick nicknames for the Pokémon I catch, you'll post two numbers in the comments, one number between 1 and 156 translating to a page in a list of names, and another number between 1 and 50 translating to which name on said page will be the nickname, keeping things totally random. If you have any other ideas for how you can get involved, I'd love to hear em! c:    
[EDIT] I've changed the name system to a list of names rather than a list of words, makes more sense imo!
                                                       
(Note again that this is NOT a Nuzlocke, or any kind of challenge, it's simply a weird and hopefully fun playthrough of Red where anything can happen.)

With the lengthy ass introductions out of the way, let's get started!



It begins.



Ah the olden days, with the male only character (I'm talking like I'm old enough to remember those days). Using the more pretentious abbreviation of my name because it's a little more gender neutral I think. Of course the rival had to be named Kai, the ultimate in-joke.

From this point, it's pretty standard stuff, not much different from the original. Leave room, leave house, go up to the grass, get rekt by Oak, get brought to the lab. Now the fun begins.


Here we are with Officer Oak and his Benjamin Button ass grandson (only the beginning of the random sprite wackiness), and of course our starters. What's fun about this is that I can actually relate to my character, in that I have no idea what's inside the balls. Let's have a look, shall we?


Oh... Huh. I'm actually very happy with this! If you think of the 700-odd 'mons there could have been, I got two I'm hecka fond of and another I'm pretty down with!

SO, now it's up to you nerds! Which do I pick, and first pair of numbers in the comments will be the nickname.

86, 5

And oh my goodness, those ye olde sprites look... really well-done! In fact this entire thing seems like it's gonna be a real blast!
ALSO #HYPE

FWNNEKIN FENNEKIN FENNEKIN FENENEKFDFN AAAA
AND WHY DID I NOT NOTICE THIS BEFORE????? CAN'T WAIT FOR UPDATES YO

YOOOOO everyone sorry for taking so long to update, I suck with schedules and I was ill for like two weeks over Xmas. Hope you all had a nice new year, have some original art doughnut steal xoxo
 





So without further ado, let's reveal which starter we'll be working with!



BIGGEST SHOCK OF 2016 WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT. Oh also Laura is the random name that came out from the two numbers chosen by Spekkal! Now for the rival fight, which I belieeeeve should be against a Lillipup, no problem!



Behold, his true form. (The reason I love this so much is in-jokey as heck so I won't milk it.) ANYWAY LILLIPUP GO.

surprise

Well that came out of nowhere. Long story short we got annihilated, as you'd expect. But remember, this ain't no Nuzlocke, so it doesn't matter.

Basically from this point it's the standard issue journey from Pallet to Viridian. albiet with Bastiodons, Gligars and Bergmites on the way. Nothing I wanna catch yet, and I've grinded to level 10 (Let me know if I should be showing more, I just didn't wanna pile on 20 screenshots of something we've all seen before). I deliver the parcel, get the Pokedex, yadda yadda yadda. But what's this on route 2? I hear memories of emerald tinted grinding...



Oh hello beautiful.  Yeah I know I'm predictable, and I will get some crazy stuff on the team soon, but come on I had to catch this lil fella.

SO next person to give two numbers gets to pick the name. Well, not really, but you get to roll the dice for it at least. Sorry again for the lateness in this update and general memey sloppiness, I'll tighten it up next time when things aren't so crazy irl. Also, bonus content, have Ralts' Pokedex entry. It works all too well not to show. Stay chill guys, see you next time <3

...Now I don't know much about Pokemon, but I'm pretty certain Ralts is not meant to be a poison time.

Disregarding that, I thought I'd commented on this before! Because like, dat rival name. Seriously.

Oh, also 92 4

damnnothere wrote:YOOOOO everyone sorry for taking so long to update, I suck with schedules and I was ill for like two weeks over Xmas. Hope you all had a nice new year, have some original art doughnut steal xoxo
 

God is dead.

Also this playthrough is already great and please keep updating it, I need it like I need your playthrough of Sonic 06.
AND HAH.
OF COURSE KAI ONE-UPS YOU.

(25,25 ;D)

Oh yeah this is a thing. WELP sorry for such a delay folks, I really wanted to update this sooner but it's been final college project time for a couple months. I won't bore you with the details but long story short it's practically over now, which means I have much more tie for fun stuff, like this! To make up for such a huge hiatus, this'll be a long'n, a double feature if you will. So, I believe we left off with the oh so nail biting cliffhanger of what to nickname our lil' poisonous Ralts! Dre left the numbers 92 and 4, which with my list brings us to...


Or it would if I used the list wrong. Which I did. But noticed to late. Off to a flying start here aren't we! Anyway, say hi to Biddy the Ralts!

Next up on the agenda is Viridian Forest, which trust me was basically dull as heck. The most interesting random pokemon was a Walrein. Bit disappointing, but on the plus side I picked up a fire stone and a leaf stone, because remember, items are randomized/randomised too! Still don't know how to spell that. Keeping them on hand in case we run into a nuzleaf or something. So apart from that and grinding... that was basically it for Viridian, so I won't bore you with screenshots (trust me, this update gets image heavy reeeaaal soon so it's wise to cut down on filler).

Okay this is where things start getting interesting, at the north end of route 2.



Ohhhh how I was tempted to catch this li- big guy? little guy? It's a level 3 Garchomp I'm not exactly equipped with the correct nomenclature. Anyway, bit of grinding later and we're ready for the Pewter city gym!



Now remember, every pokemon in the game is randomiszed (listen I don't care anymore I'm using both spellings) so the chances of Brock having rock types are veeery slim. With that in mind, let's head into gym number 1!




I don't know why but this is one screen always gives me loads of nostalgia. I think it's the kid who we'll be fighting in a sec, it was always nice to see that a little kid was in the gym as Brock's number one guy and not some big brute. Gave little kid me a little confidence booster, as daft as it sounds. 



...Nevermind then, final boss time.

   

Oddly seems like a team the real Giovanni might have to me, huh. Anyways these two were surprisingly difficult! Grumpig used splash and nothing else for like three turns then out of nowhere hit Laura with a really weirdly powerful Psybeam, which took her out in one hit. Biddy cleaned up the rest pretty quick.



Damn, beat him so hard he turned back into a kid. with Giodude out of the way, time for everyone's favourite pokemon breeder/sexual predator, Brock!



Aaaaand he's a dinosaur.



A bald... dinosaur. Okay so like expected his usual team is out the window, replaced by a Shroomish and that one Pokemon whose name I wasn't allowed to say as a kid because it sounds like that one naughty word. Pretty easy to beat with my team (really starting to get attached to the lil guys now), and with that we have our first badge, the Cue Ballder badge (I did the best with what I had).

Oh? But what's this? Well truth be told I was a little slow with the snipping tool so I missed the act itself but...



We have ourselves our first evolution! Love that sprite yo. Anyways, all healed up so let's move towards Mt. Moon and see what surprises await us!



I dunno what it is about this randomiszser and swapping out young trainers for near endgame bosses, but okay, route 3 off to a thrilling start! From here, we have a couple regular trainers with nothing too special about them, then from there...

   

Hot(or cold) damn that Froslass sprite is looking fab-u-lous. Also didn't I literally just fight Blaine like two trainers ago? 

Whatever, that really isn't the weirdest thing I've seen tonight. Time to search the next patch of grass and see what treasures we-



Oh... Welp, first legendary! Honestly I might've picked it up for the novelty but my team would've been a tad oversaturated with psychics once Laura evolves again. I'm sure we'll find our next teammate soon, after all we've only just started explori-

  

Oh good Jesus give me a break... Let's be honest, I had to catch this, I mean wouldn't you? For the record the catch rate was exactly the same as what it should be, pretty damn low, so you can imagine how long I sat here loading save states throwing balls at God. But in the end, we got him! (No entry) Nickname given to this guy was once again decided by Spekkal who gave in 25,25 (ily2bby), which gives our Arceus the name...

  

Caspar!  Used the list properly this time which is why the numbers don't quite match up. Okay so the interesting thing about Caspar is that as far as I can tell, the only move it's gonna have from this point on is... Seismic... Toss? If anyone wants to draw an Arceus suplexing a Swadloon I'll pay you in eternal love (please don't). I'm hoping that I'm wrong, but we'll see! Anyway Mt. Moon time now (oh for the record I fought two more Blaines since I last mentioned him).



Okay I know I'm on a catching frenzy but I just had to catch this little fella. Especially with a Pokedex entry like this.

Using its heavy muscles, it throws powerful punches that can send the victim clear over the horizon.

Finally, this bumper edition of Pokemon Red Randomizszszed is over. Thanks for bearing with me over the whole disappearance thing, and I hope this has made up for it. Promise that there won't be any stupid gaps anymore, smooth sailing. OH and fyi I haven't forgotten about that Sanic tattoo I promised I'd get for laughs. My birthday's in July, so maybe the meme fairy will be nice to me, that's all I'll say. Anyways PEACE, stay chill guys <3

I don't think I ever caught this, but dude, this retrograde is fricken cool. OwO
Also I refuse to believe you named the god that is all "Caspar"
Well, Spek did anyways. And that makes it much more believable, upsettingly enough. 8I

In many ways, this feels like a hardmode version of the normal game, what with Blaine and Giovanni hitting you up in between the wild Arceus and Lugias. c:
As for names, I'll throooow...
2, 22
As well as...
156, 20 =3

ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE
God just wants to get buff. God just wants to get swole and enter WWE to wrassle some pokebitches into submission. God don't give a fuck.

I'm sorry but 'Biddy' is such a weirdly fitting name for a Ralts. Iddy piddy biddy.