Pokémon Yellow: Professor Oak Challenge - Session #1
68Hello everybody, SlimKirby here, and welcome to my new Youtube streaming project!
Doing something a bit less ambitious this time as I'm heading back to the world of Pokémon and attempting a challenge run of one of the Generation 1 Pokémon games. For this playthrough of Pokémon Yellow, I will be attempting what's called the Professor Oak Challenge. This a Pokédex-related challenge where you must completely fill out the entire Pokédex (or at least what you can without trading) as you go throughout the game; being unable to progress past certain milestones until you max out the Pokédex (or what you can do with the Pokédex) at that point. For example, before you beat Brock, and give yourself the ability to go beyond Pewter City, you have to catch and evolve all Pokémon you can get at that point, which I believe is 17; the most extreme example in the first stretch being capturing and evolving a Pidgey/Pidgeotto at Level 36. Now, if I was playing Red or Blue, just for comparison sake, I would have to evolve my Starter Pokémon up to 32/36 as well, so since I'm playing Yellow, I do get a bit of a break there, but I'm sure there will be other nuances we'll have to look out for as we go throughout this adventure that are unique to Yellow and not the other two games.
As you can probably tell, this challenge will be very, VERY grindy, but because of that, I will be using a speed-up key to make the process go a lot faster, and may even play some music during these grinding periods as well, so I'll try to find a way to make those slower parts more interesting.
I'm not sure how this will be received, but as I've stated before, I want to try more challenge-based content on this channel, and since I low-key enjoy filling out the Pokedex in the Generation 1 Pokémon games, I thought this would be an interesting experiment. For my second challenge, I'll probably do something a bit more "skill-related," as the main test of a Prof. Oak Challenge is moreso patience and game knowledge as opposed to skill-related abilities, but again, this is something I really wanted to do, so I decided to go for it.
I hope you guys enjoy!
-SlimKirby
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