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Test Chamber – Pokémon Conquest

If you thought Yoda being a part of Soul Calibur's roster was a strange crossover, wait until you see Nintendo's happy-go-lucky Pokémon invade feudal Japan. Wait... Is it even Japan? Historical figure Oda Nobunaga is in the game. He's apparently trying to destroy the Pokémon-infested Ransei region. Why? I have no idea. The one thing I do know: Pokémon conquest is weird. Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, and intern Ali Rapp all try to figure out if this game's story is canon. They seriously talk about this, folks. And it feels like they discuss it for hours! This discussion becomes so intense that Kyle routinely stops playing the game to get his points across. I don't think I need to say it, but this is easily the nerdiest Test Chamber episode yet. Ben and Ali venture down a path of Pokémon admiration that I wish I never heard. I no longer respect either of them. Do yourself a favor, watch this episode without volume.

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    HIT BUTTONS, KYLE!
  • i knew the historical characters from the Samurai Warriors series

  • What is this, I don't even...

  • I'm assuming someone is working on it, but not being able to set the quality on the videos right now and always watching in SD is kinda disappointing. Especially this one, I can barely tell what's going on in full screen without the HD option.
  • My brain can't take the Pokemon talk! But, it looks like an interesting game. -RGC
  • Well, in an episode of Pokemon, Ash ate a Magikarp. Also, each game is a prequel because each Generation looses Pokemon because they are going extinct.
  • I'm actually quite looking forward to getting my hands on this game and hearing the nerd talk. ^_^
  • One day, Meowth came across a female Meowth named Meowzie. She rejected him, saying that he was poor and that she preferred humans, so Meowth attempted to make himself more human-like to make her love him. Thus, he painstakingly taught himself to speak human language and walk upright like a human. When he approached her after this transformation, she once again rejected him, calling him a freak. Heartbroken, Meowth remembered the first human word he learned to speak—"rocket"—and was inspired to join Team Rocket.
  • I want to watch this but of course its lagging all over the place and won't let me choose quality. I think Team Rockets out to get me.

  • I honestly wasn't even paying attention to the gameplay..  Haha I just listened to ya'll because I was, in the words of Lady Reiner "bored s**tless."

  • Is it sad that I feel so starved for some GI video that I don't even care what it's about? I think I'm suffering from Super Replay withdrawal.
  • here is what happened http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=370894
  • It takes place in the present,as one of the warlords says how weird it is that other places in the world keep there Pokemon in small little balls.

  • Picked up this game yesterday it is actually pretty fun.

  • I thought Ali was a guys name
  • I've never heard Reiner so quiet.

  • This game is actually really cool. It's pleasant mix between RPG and strategy games. It definitely has some things it could do better (only 1 move per pokemon?!), but all in all a solid experience. Around a 7.5-8 for me
  • I got this game a couple of days ago. It's pretty good, although I definitely prefer the "traditional" Pokemon games (the ones with a color in their names) rather than all of these spin-offs.
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