How to Ruin Cycling Road in Pokemon Red/Blue 

Probably ran out of impossible soft locks

@@fulltimeslackerii8229 nah, most of those "softlocks" could be turned into actual impossible softlocks changing one single detail, but giving the player a *chance* to escape makes it so much more brutal

"and then did the saw trap myself twice to determine how bad it actually was"

They were always saw traps.

Also now I want someone to make a pokemon fangame where Christian kidnaps the player and transports them into different pokemon generations for different softlocks based on what difficulty (based on time it'd take to clear) and all you get for completing every trap in every difficulty, is a sprite of a teddiursa in a nightcap

Imagine if your B button was broken

@@MDLuffy1234YT well then you can't play the game anyway

​@Ylurple does pokemon gen 1 actually require the b button? You could beat the entire game without ever needing to press the b button. You can navigate all the necessary menus without it. You can even save.

it could TECHNICALLY be shiny if caught in gen 2, right? wouldn't it keep that quality? or am I mixing that up with held items?

Shininess is just based on DVs so it is preserved

Ok boomer. :)

Literally Fly existed

love the Steven he reference

​@@almightyk11 The famous flying Exeggutor

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And also he’s the only one that will ever try it. Dude just invents horrible traps to waste his own time for our entertainment.

He's the greatest mad scientist of our time.

a true gentle mAN

And now he returns to his slumber, until the day comes when people are enjoying Pokemon too much and he returns to cause more chaos.

See you in 3-4 months I guess

He does a lot of streaming in between on his other channel

I want to like this but you literally have 666 thumbs up right now and that's just too fitting to ruin.

What is this life? Why was I put here? Why do I feel so sick?

Born, evolved, trained to pinnacle of strength, travelled through time, only to be slowly tortured with poison and even after surviving, doomed to only explode for the rest of their life.

"I'm never asking that guy to dogsit again. I got Rex back and he forgot sit and stay."

Aren't you the guy that watches these videos and reacts to them????

​@@LazarusIsBackBabyCuriously the only thing that went through the Bellsprout's mind was "oh no, not again"

that's what I'm thinking, best episode yet. avant garde gamer torture

@@RWAsur You misused a comma.

Why

I thought I knew I the game quite well down to the Assembly code level and yet I did not even know about this fact until today. To be fair it is hardly a requirement to spend any time on that map that it is very easy to miss that feature entirely.

You can just push the character against tha walls, it works just like using the B button and is even easier

I NEVER knew you could do that. Was it mentioned in the instruction booklet (my copy of blue was a hand-me-down so i didnt have it) or is this just something everybody else figured out except for me?

I learned it just messing around, since I really like cycling theme and sometimes I just climbed the road just to let my character auto move down the road, it was fun

“Surf? Where we’re going, we don’t need Surf.”

​@@lancesmith8298"Surf? Where we're going,... we definitely need Surf."

Reminds me of that movie, "The Girl who Leapt Through Time" lol.

Only Red

​@@AwesomeHairoHis name is Jack

If you speedrun the game you can more or less reach Celadon in the 45 minutes it takes to get to this point, especially if using Pokemon Stadium's 3x fast forward feature, so not really.

But with no money, no other Pokémon, no items, what's the point? AFAIK there isn't even a renewable source of money in Gen I (besides maybe the Pokémon League?) so it just seems like you're left penniless with no creatures or items of value.

I was struggling with this too but I guess if you left Mr Psychic's TM unclaimed then you could go collect that and smash the E4 with lvl 100 Psychic.

@@WatchVidsMakeLists You still got the HMs in the storage since you cantt throw those away. and it should be possible to defeat some of the trainers we didn't beat once we escape the poison lock. Then buy some pokeballs and you're in a pretty good spot to pretend the lock never happened.

@@Tetsamaru Only possible if the eevee in Celadon City or the psychic TM have been left unclaimed, or if the HM for Strength was obtained. The only HM move Exeggutor can learn in gen 1 is Strength, and it's possible to get to Cinnabar island and unlock the gym without access to strength by surfing from Pallet town. If you neglected to get the gold teeth while you were getting the HM for surf, then you won't be able to get strength after escaping the softlock because you have no money to enter the safari zone with, and the player is left with a pokemon they literally can't win any battles with since any explosive ties count as a loss.

To add onto that: when the player finally realizes what's going on the first thing they'll do is attempt to go to Celadon, only to be met with Snorlax, causing them to waste even more time! It's diabolical!

​@@_Mars1040lmaooo we need to make this happen

That sounds EVIL i love it!

tbf thats not really possible, all these people would know the lock already because breaking the game is their job ( or they watched the video )

@@ich3730even if they already know the lock, i still think it would be fun see the attempts, especially the RNG-dependent ones like the Gyarados in the Fortree Gym. and if Pikasprey comes up with new ones, he can have the attempts be filmed before he uploads the actual Softlock Picking episode.

@@ich3730 You can find people who have never seen them, or, he could make some new challenges! :)

@@ich3730 “or they watched the video” Easy solution is to have a softlock situation where it hasn’t been shown in a video yet.

I was in the camp of calling them Pokemon Saw Traps

Just as fitting.

The flaw with a lot of the others is that it's faster to start a new game. This one, it's faster to put yourself through this torture to rescue the save file.

It's like catching a speedrunner doing GDQ and being on their best behaviour. Feel like I should be wearing a suit to watch this.

the idea of “formal” vs “casual” Asprey is hilarious to me, like he wears a blue t-shirt for his playthroughs and then a bright yellow suit for his softlocks and reviews

Hey, what is the blue channel? I've seen random videos of Pikasprey, but never looked deeper into his content. You might just point me to something cool with this comment =)

@@RadeticDaniel pikasprey blue is his other channel where he posts let's plays

@@schwammbo thanks 😁

Not necessarily, there is grass along the road. You could use rest to cure the poison and then run from the encounter!

"Tojo's basilisk could never exi--"

Thank you for actually matching the meter and stressed syllables.

I was thinking this as well. In one of the Gen1 games, the Safari Zone guard will eventually let you in with no money and only a single ball. However, I'm pretty sure that's in Yellow, which is probably why Asprey chose to do this in Red/Blue. Another possible option is the Game Corner, as long as losing/spending all coins wasn't part of the setup (it's incredibly tedious to get down to 0 coins, but this is a Pikasprey Yellow softlock video after all). You'd have to win enough coins (since you can't buy any!) to either get a Pokemon or a TM that Exeggutor can learn. EDIT: Oh wait, Exeggutor can learn Strength. Although, it is possible to skip the gold teeth and thus not be able to re-enter the Safari Zone to go get it.

Right? I was thinking exactly this the whole time. Even if you made it to Fuchsia, all you're left with is nothing but wasted time to show for your effort. I guess it would depend on how much of a jerk the person setting this up was being. If they were going for tedious, they could just not sell EVERYTHING and leave an assortment of usable items in the PC, which would make it DOABLE, but not pointless. Anything outside of that would just be unnecessarily barbaric, and you'd be better off just deleting the save and starting over anew all over again.

You can get the Psychic TM from Mr Psychic, which solves your money problems after you've murdered a few cyclists with lvl 100 Psychic Exeggcutor

You can go get the coin case and pick up free coins to gamble for a usable mon Edit: or go get the eevee now that I think about it

@@rooislangwtf Pretty sure the Eevee was already obtained in this game. Pikasprey had a Vaporeon that he released during setup.

it just isn't the same after the first time

i’m down

I mean, he could easily simply hand the save file of this video pre-completion and use it as an Escape Room.

to me its boring because its same as being softlocked anywhere else its just a different location like its just going way out of your way to soft lock yourself, nobody in their right mind would deposit and sell all items etc and if they do then they deserve to get their save file ruined because these feel like: if you opened a huge safe walked inside it and someone lock the door behind you like DUH obviously if you purposefully make it impossible then that is what gonna happen

@@norbyn6537 It's not about practicality. It's about testing the limits of the game in a highly specific way that not a lot of people are interested in personally doing. Suit yourself though.

Wasn't there some text in Gen3 like "you ran back to the safety of the nearest Pokemon center" or something. But they changed the mechanic so you warp back to the last town you were in not the last center you actually healed at, so that sorta makes more sense. Pokemon have always been able to surf while fainted, so there not really an issue. My head cannon is like they the Pokemon get beaten up and can't be bothered to fight any more, but they're still like conscious and can do easy stuff.

I just realized that trading the exeggutor out for another pokemon is still an option, since it wasn't until gen 3 if I recall where you had to have at least 2 pokemon to trade. This is relevant mostly because after you escape the softlock, you're still left with a ruined save file and a useless pokemon that can't win any battles. Every other potential fix for that problem I can think of is something the person setting this up could sabotage by picking up valuable items, TMs the exeggutor can use, getting rid of the hidden coins in the game corner and the gift eevee, and making sure to avoid getting the gold teeth or the HM for strength. Trading with another game (or, if doing this in version Yellow, getting into the safari zone for free) is pretty much the only way out that can't be rendered impossible in 1st gen.

@@chaosvoltmost of these videos are based on the player not having another game to interact with. If you had another game to trade from you could just faint and trade or use stadium to get a Pokémon that can either surf or fly to end it without even trying cycling road

@@th3bear01 Fair, yeah. If trading was permitted as an escape method then the most efficient method would be to take the death and trade for something that can learn surf once you're at Cinnabar island, skipping the cycling road gauntlet entirely.

It's called experience

You have to start from the different things you're trying to achieve. For exemple the cinnabar softlock is a known one so you can add it to your toolbox as a fail condition for losing a battle or dying to poison. Starting from there you know you can create a stiuation where if the player fails to through a process you setup you can softlock them. If you also know about the way the poison works in the game (having to abuse that poison thing can actually be useful in a nuzlocke) you can easily think about that for the hurdle the player has to go through. And then you can iterate from there, trying to figure out what the longest distance you can force someone to travel poisoned is. (another funny place to use could be the dark cave, cause having to save and load all the time would make it disorienting and you could even make the pokemon low level to make sure it can't escape from random encounters making the whole ordeal even worse) Having those starting point make it a lot easier to connect the dots. I can't tell with certainty that it's his process but that's the kind of approach that works to create puzzles, thinking about different tools you have access to and simplifying the core problem to it's essential components and then slowly adding complexity and fluff. It doesn't come out fully formed. Knowledge of tools available and iterating on ideas is key.

He streams several times a week on Twitch~

Nice profile pic

That wouldn't actually work since if your Pokémon knows Surf, you can escape from Cinnabar Island or Indigo Plateau without issue.