Hey, FireGold fanatics! Bet you thought you wouldn't get Episode 4 this quickly, didn't you? I'm afraid you're not so lucky...wait, maybe you are. Hmm....well, here's Episode 4!
It seems that there is still a lot of tension between Draftmaster and Fat Guy. This was one instance where maybe DM should've let him read the intro. After all, it was short as heck. We pick up right where we left off and find that Gold's trick did work. SURPRISED? He couldn't avoid Sage Chow, though. In this battle we hear that Hoothoot learns Peck out of nowhere. If Pokemon in the anime can get away with evolving at any time they want, why can't Hoothoot get away with this? The bird pwns both Bellsprouts and Gold manages to avoid the Sage in the next floor. He gets to the top to find out that he is in a battle against 3 different Sages. The music used here was Dream Theater's "A Rite of Passage" in 8-bit, so it's not entirely copyrighted, right? Hoothoot quickly pwns one but is pwned by the 2 remaining Sprouts. Cyndaquil pwns both at once courtesy of his back flame. We then find Silver harshly defeating Sage Li, just like in the games. I wanted Li to sound like Bruce Lee here because when I recalled the "Pokemon are not instruments of war..." line, I figured we could use the Emotional Content reference from Enter the Dragon because Silver trains his Pokemon with rage and harshness. After Silver has his 15 seconds of fame in this episode, Gold battles Li. We find out here that Cyndaquil learned Ember after he pwned those 2 Sprouts at once. I felt this was a great way to make up for his back flame running out of PP. 2 pwnages later and Gold gets HM05 and learns an important lesson about Emotional Content and anger. My imitation of Bruce might not have been the best but hey, none of us really can imitate him. After puking because of the Escape Rope, Gold finally enters the Violet City Gym! By the way, is it just me or is Disapparating from Harry Potter similar to using an Escape Rope? Eh, tell me what you think below. Why couldn't we use a sob story to get directly to Falkner without battling those two bird bastards? Eh, I digress. Falkner is voiced by Arch Canine, making Falkner the first real character he has voiced for us. Man, it sure was a pain to edit his lines with mine. So, who would prevail in a Kanto Birds vs. Johto Birds face off? The Johto Birds, of course! After Pidgeotto faints due to burn, the moment we all waited for occurs. Cyndaquil evolves into Quilava! Things are sure looking great for Gold now, but will he soon hit a wall? Hmm...we'll see!
That blooper at the end was DM and I messing around before we started recording the episode, I guess it was to warm up or something. But I felt it was one of the most spontanious and hilarious things we've done yet. If you all want to hear DM do the AHHNOLD impersonation more often, be sure to let us know!
And that's pretty much it! As always, enjoy the episode, stay tuned for the next one, and thank you all for the support! I'll see you all for the next write-up!
-PAPAYA
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Episode 3 Write-Up!
Hey there, FireGold fanatics! FINALLY...the write-up for Episode 3 is here! Sorry it took longer than it should have, but here it is and let's not waste any more time!
Since Arch Canine was out this episode due to some evil food, Draftmaster decided to take the role as substitute narrator. The reason he read the introduction so fast was because he only had 10 seconds to read it all before it officially began with Gold's opening line. I was a little lazy and didn't want to rearrange everything just for the intro, so DM read it as fast as he could and I thought it was awesome once he finally read it through without messing up too much. And because some of the voices sounded a little too much like DM's narration voice, I decided to raise the pitch a bit to make it stand out and to provide an extra joke. Since it was nighttime out in this episode, there was a lot of Hoothoot in the grass so we made a little joke with different Hoothoots chanting and one even talking. Just like in the game, Gold battles youngsters Joey and Mikey. How did Joey's Rattata heal up fast, exactly...? Come on, Joey, you got some 'splaining to do! Well, being the immature little brat that he is, he refuses and his Rattata gets pwned by Cyndaquil's back flame. Gold then fights Mikey and Cyndaquil learns Smokescreen after pwning Mikey's Pidgey. The smoke makes his Rattata easy picking for Cyndaquil's back flame, giving Gold the victory and giving Rattata potentially fatal third degree burns. Gold then went to the Dark Cave and used Cyndaquil's flame as a flashlight to easily navigate inside it. I came up with this because in the Pokemon cartoon, Ash used Charmander's tail flame to navigate through a cave in the Squirtle Squad episode so I thought it'd make sense. After finding out Geodude's are hardly affected by fire attacks, Gold flees and finally reaches Purple City! Had Gold call Violet City "Purple City" because it's his trademark to misinterpret city names whenever he reaches a new one. Since Elm told Gold not to heal Pokemon anywhere but in his lab, Gold had to go back to New Bark AGAIN. We felt this was the perfect opportunity to bring up the gag that Red Squirtle did where the vikings stole all of Elm's root beer so we did it. Before their fans get mad at us for using that idea from them, the Red Squirtle Squad was fine with us doing it. The running without running shoes thing was influenced by Red Squirtle's funny cave music sequence. The music we used in that sequence is the music you hear in the boss battle of Killer Instinct 2, Gargos's theme. We came up with this because we felt there should be a way Gold could go back to Violet without interacting with everyone and everything for too long. SCREW THE RUNNING SHOES, GOLD HAS- uh... well, you can finish that sentence in the comments. Once Gold got back to Violet, I had him go into the Academy because there was a lot of things going on in there that we could make fun of. After Fat Guy made the obligatory but somewhat logical advertisement for Pokemon Black and White, Gold enters the Sprout Tower and tries that trick where he tries to avoid the first battle with the circle-spinning Sage that I know we ALL did playing this game back in the day. That's where we set the obligatory cliffhanger and show you some more bloopers. DM doing the AHHNOLD impersonation never gets old for me, it cracks me up every time.
And, yeah! That's pretty much the write-up! Sorry it wasn't the best summary of it or our thought process making it, I'll try to do better on the Episode 4 write-up. Until then, enjoy Episode 3 and expect it to be up on YouTube within the next few days and expect Episode 4 very soon! See you all again for the next write-up!
-PAPAYA
Since Arch Canine was out this episode due to some evil food, Draftmaster decided to take the role as substitute narrator. The reason he read the introduction so fast was because he only had 10 seconds to read it all before it officially began with Gold's opening line. I was a little lazy and didn't want to rearrange everything just for the intro, so DM read it as fast as he could and I thought it was awesome once he finally read it through without messing up too much. And because some of the voices sounded a little too much like DM's narration voice, I decided to raise the pitch a bit to make it stand out and to provide an extra joke. Since it was nighttime out in this episode, there was a lot of Hoothoot in the grass so we made a little joke with different Hoothoots chanting and one even talking. Just like in the game, Gold battles youngsters Joey and Mikey. How did Joey's Rattata heal up fast, exactly...? Come on, Joey, you got some 'splaining to do! Well, being the immature little brat that he is, he refuses and his Rattata gets pwned by Cyndaquil's back flame. Gold then fights Mikey and Cyndaquil learns Smokescreen after pwning Mikey's Pidgey. The smoke makes his Rattata easy picking for Cyndaquil's back flame, giving Gold the victory and giving Rattata potentially fatal third degree burns. Gold then went to the Dark Cave and used Cyndaquil's flame as a flashlight to easily navigate inside it. I came up with this because in the Pokemon cartoon, Ash used Charmander's tail flame to navigate through a cave in the Squirtle Squad episode so I thought it'd make sense. After finding out Geodude's are hardly affected by fire attacks, Gold flees and finally reaches Purple City! Had Gold call Violet City "Purple City" because it's his trademark to misinterpret city names whenever he reaches a new one. Since Elm told Gold not to heal Pokemon anywhere but in his lab, Gold had to go back to New Bark AGAIN. We felt this was the perfect opportunity to bring up the gag that Red Squirtle did where the vikings stole all of Elm's root beer so we did it. Before their fans get mad at us for using that idea from them, the Red Squirtle Squad was fine with us doing it. The running without running shoes thing was influenced by Red Squirtle's funny cave music sequence. The music we used in that sequence is the music you hear in the boss battle of Killer Instinct 2, Gargos's theme. We came up with this because we felt there should be a way Gold could go back to Violet without interacting with everyone and everything for too long. SCREW THE RUNNING SHOES, GOLD HAS- uh... well, you can finish that sentence in the comments. Once Gold got back to Violet, I had him go into the Academy because there was a lot of things going on in there that we could make fun of. After Fat Guy made the obligatory but somewhat logical advertisement for Pokemon Black and White, Gold enters the Sprout Tower and tries that trick where he tries to avoid the first battle with the circle-spinning Sage that I know we ALL did playing this game back in the day. That's where we set the obligatory cliffhanger and show you some more bloopers. DM doing the AHHNOLD impersonation never gets old for me, it cracks me up every time.
And, yeah! That's pretty much the write-up! Sorry it wasn't the best summary of it or our thought process making it, I'll try to do better on the Episode 4 write-up. Until then, enjoy Episode 3 and expect it to be up on YouTube within the next few days and expect Episode 4 very soon! See you all again for the next write-up!
-PAPAYA
Monday, August 8, 2011
Silver & Episode 3 Update
Hello, peeps! PAPAYA here again, and here's a quick update on things and Episode 3 requested by Draftmaster.
So that Monologue idea was DM's improvising, all of a sudden he thought we should give you all an idea of what Silver is up to during Gold's adventure. Listening it again made me realize that it wan't the best voice-over work, and the ending probably left something to be desired. But, it was still cool. Part 2 will be better, though, believe us.
Now, onto Episode 3. Well, unfortunately, we're all going to have to wait another week. One of the teamsters is out on vacation and he won't be back till next week. Most of Episode 3 IS done, we just need his lines and it'll be completed. Until then, may he enjoy his vacation!
See you all for the official write-up!
-PAPAYA
So that Monologue idea was DM's improvising, all of a sudden he thought we should give you all an idea of what Silver is up to during Gold's adventure. Listening it again made me realize that it wan't the best voice-over work, and the ending probably left something to be desired. But, it was still cool. Part 2 will be better, though, believe us.
Now, onto Episode 3. Well, unfortunately, we're all going to have to wait another week. One of the teamsters is out on vacation and he won't be back till next week. Most of Episode 3 IS done, we just need his lines and it'll be completed. Until then, may he enjoy his vacation!
See you all for the official write-up!
-PAPAYA
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