Pokémon But Ugly

***Pokemon But Ugly*** is a video uploaded by Jaiden Animations on August 8, 2021. It showcases Jaiden playing *Amazing Island*, which was suggested by Alpharad.

## Plot

Jaiden normally talks about games that she's known a lot or very little about, but Jacob (aka Alpharad) later suggested Jaiden to play *Amazing Island*.

*Amazing Island* starts by telling her the story about a mysterious picture book about an island with amazing creatures, but people forgot about them for 1,000 years because the people decided that it was boring.

Jaiden picks the boy character as her alter ego because she didn't want to be the girl. She later finds the book that people decided they didn't care about, read it, and went to bed, but she was suddenly transported into the book world. Jaiden thought it was because she was a human and they have "low standards". She was also given a trading card when she arrived.

Jaiden decided to run around the area, before being suddenly jump scared. She later gets the creature from the trading card, spiked the evil guy into the lava with a ball that Jaiden thinks "might be the sun", got a Vision Orb, and Chinto becomes unpossessed and was saved.

The town elder sends out Jaiden to catch 7 more Vision Orbs, and she said "yes", because she said she was "an 11 year-old boy stuck on a possibly not real island with monsters and tiki torch people". Since she couldn't do the minigames on her own, which was needed to get the Vision Orbs, Jaiden went to the mirror room, and got her first monster, "Nathans". They later merged and fly off to a foot race game, where they won by a large margin, which Jaiden said was "an emotional roller coaster".

In a game called Waterskip Crusher, Jaiden said it "destroyed her", because she didn't understand the timing, making her fail 7 times in the initial game. She later won at the 8th attempt and she can't give a good reason why. Jaiden hoped that she would never play that game again. She later won Beyblade, attacked a large stone tower, and reached Evil Volleyball.

Jaiden lost immediately in the first attempt at playing another game of Evil Volleyball by flopping the ball, and had to replay all of those minigames again, although Jaiden was able to get the Orange Vision Orb later on. She unlocked the ability to Draw by Yourself, although she already had that ability prior.

Since Jaiden now has the ability to create her own monsters, she decided to make one monster per trial. The first one she created is Hayabusa, a humanoid jellybean who is withering away physically and mentally, and is shown to be sad. He failed at Basketball, matching big heavy metal heads, and a demon fight. Nevertheless, Jaiden got the Green Vision Orb.

Her next monster is Creamer, who was the top dog, which Hayabusa wanted to be. He was a basketball pro, but failed a lot in another game of Waterskip Crusher, which now included rock pillars you need to destroy while trying to skip on the water, making her fail 3 times in a row. Jaiden also failed in the Catapult phase, and lost all of her lives.

Jaiden mentions that Alpharad and herself were in a Discord call because Alpharad wanted to watch Jaiden play *Amazing Island*, and during that point, he was muted due to a business call, but he was still watching the screen share. They were both sitting there in silence watching Jaiden herself slowly deteriorate, as she fails Waterskip Crusher 6 times in a row. She later got the Yellow Vision Orb.

She later gets Wagner, an innocent one-eyed robot dog. He was good in Competitive Beyblade, stacking large blocks and racing; though in the latter, he sounded in pain during the whole race. You can get points when blasted into the air in Beyblade, but Jaiden found out that if you fall off the platform, the game thinks that you're in the air and gives you points. As a result, Jaiden exploited the mechanic and got the Blue Vision Orb.

Jaiden later makes Scoliosis, a sawblade shrimp, with sawblades as his scales and his arms along with a machine gun in the middle of his chest. Jaiden wanted to put the machine gun somewhere else, but it took all of her willpower to refrain herself. Nothing out of the ordinary happened with Scoliosis, but in one of the games, she forgot to read the instructions and later ended up not knowing what to do. However, after a while, Scoliosis got the Water Vision Orb.

Since she unlocked Kid monster type, and made a monster named Child, who Jaiden said was "buff". Another monster was created called Max, with 4 swords. Jaiden said that the game has thrown 4 games of Waterskip Crusher at her throughout her playthrough, and she is still not getting better in the slightest. Max was full-on sprinting with those swords in Waterskip Crusher like there's not a care for this world, but failed a few times.

Despite the trials, Jaiden was able to get all Vision Orbs, and later fought the Black Evil. Prior to the fight, Jaiden combined all of her monsters to form a new monster, named Animations. The monster was used to fight the final boss. She later went into the volcano and fought the Black Evil.

Jaiden says that the game developers decided to crank the difficulty to as hard as they possibly could, which she didn't know why. She said that it's another version of Evil Volleyball, possibly for clarification, and said that if you expected anything else, she said that she doesn't know what to tell you.

Black Evil throws a massive "burning star" on your monster and you have to catch it at the right time to hit them, which may be hard to do. Clips inserted into the video, which contain footage of the boss battle, depicts her losing 5 times. She later won round 1, but forgot there was a round 2. Jaiden was freaking out she wasn't mentally prepared and she didn't know what to do. Alpharad, in the midst of her panic, was coaching her in real-time. She said it wasn't good but somehow, she won round 2.

Black Evil was defeated and *Amazing Island* was saved. Jaiden watched Animations do various dances and celebration in the background, and she didn't read the plots and dialogue. One sentence she said after the game summarized it all nicely. Jaiden said that "this game feels [...] too good for [...] what it is."

Jaiden said that almost every minigame played well and the controls weren't that big of an issue, even though she failed many times, for which she said that this is because she was incompetent. Jaiden also said that the music in the game goes hard; she can't point to any aspect of the game and say it wasn't good, which scares Jaiden, especially for a game like *Amazing Island*. She said that she will cherish the memories from this game, especially Creamer, which she likes a lot.

Jaiden says that more people need to know about the game, and even advises the viewers to play it.

## Characters

* Jaiden
* Jacob (Alpharad)
* Chinto
* Hayabusa
* Creamer
* Wagner
* Child
* Max
* Animations
* Black Evil

## Trivia

* The video was formerly called *Amazing Island: The Game You wished you played*, before the video, along with 3 other videos, changed thumbnails and titles on March 17, 2022.
* One part of the video where she compared the boy to the girl character ended up becoming an internet meme within the Jaiden fanbase.
* In a part where Jaiden was looking at a large TV set with a Gamecube controller, a meme surfaced showing a Rickroll on the TV set.
* Jaiden says "Waterskip Crusher" as "Waterskip Slider", except at one time.
* She says that one of the names of the "torch people", Chinto, sounds "very kind of offensive".