Episode 409: "The Scheme Team"
JESSIE: Jessie, James, and Meowth reporting, sir!
JAMES: Our operations in the Hoenn region have brought glory to the name Team Rocket.
GIOVANNI: Do you really expect me to believe that?
MEOWTH: We figured it was worth a shot...
[ JAMES grabs MEOWTH. ]
JAMES: You're blowing this, Meowth!
GIOVANNNI: Are we done here? Get to the point!
JESSIE: Both the Team Aqua and Team Magma organizations in the Hoenn region have been completely eliminated, Giovanni, sir.
GIOVANNI: Yes, I already knew that. Is that all you have?
JESSIE: Then you should also know that it was us who destroyed them, sir.
GIOVANNI: What?
MEOWTH: Yes! We were battlin' 'em tooth n' nail! For awhile there it looked like we were goners, but we never gave up! An' finally, our bravery an' cleverness triumphed!
JAMES: And when we came out of our hiding place, they'd all just disappeared!
[ JESSIE and MEOWTH pounce on JAMES to silence him. ]
JESSIE: Obviously they were terrified and ran away from us!
GIOVANNI: ...whatever.
Children cost so much money, don’t they? My little brat boy at home is horrible!
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| — | Madame Boss (Giovanni’s mother), Birth of Mewtwo CD drama |
In terms of Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2, it was actually near the end of the development of the first games when we started talking about what we wanted to do next. It was maybe only three or four months before the actual release of Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version in Japan.
By that time our internal staff was able to play the game even though it hadn’t been released yet. They were able to go through the whole scenario and start getting feedback about how the story was good, and they enjoyed characters such as N and Ghetsis.
But our staff was very interested in what happened to these characters after the ending. From all this feedback, we got the idea that would could expand on the story using those characters, and that’s when the idea of a direct sequel came up. We figured it’d also be a good challenge for us because we had never done a direct sequel before.
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| — | Junichi Masuda, when asked how far ahead they thought of the story for BW2 |
Reference Post: Every Line of Aqua or Magma Dialog from “Pokémon Emerald”
Found this on my computer, forgot I had it, might as well share in case someone else is just as insane as I am. Under the cut is a transcription of every single piece of dialog said by any Aqua or Magma character in Pokémon Emerald, including stationary grunts who are only there at certain points in the game to provide roadblocks, and including all dialog by all grunts spoken after you fight them. (Later games stopped doing this at some point, but in RSE at least, all grunts have three pieces of dialog–what they say when they challenge you to fight, what they say when they lose, and what they say if you choose to speak to them again after you’ve beaten them; you won’t ever see that last piece of dialog unless you walk up to them after the fight and press A.)
Basically, I just wanted a reference of all of this, but couldn’t find the game’s script online (and certainly couldn’t find any of the “optional” grunt dialog) soooo I just played the whole game through and wrote down every single thing.
Grunts say some hilarious shit, you guys.
