The most screwed up thing with the Braille puzzles is that Game Freak expected us to read the touch-requiring language by reading it on a game screen. And that this was somehow easier than simply carrying the Azure Flute with you to Spear Pillar in DPP.
@@ZebNyan96yeah, but you don't find them everywhere. there are places in Europe where the base games barely get there Edit: especially back in the days, like 2000-2005
I remember my friend helped me with regirock and registeel, and as we were trying to decipher regices braille,,,it just popped open after a couple of minutes to my absolute shock and ecstatic delight
Maybe I'm weird because I went blind in one eye as a baby and despite being a print reader until going blind in the other eye in my mid-20s, my parents insisted I take Braille classes during my time at a school for the blind and visually impaired, but when RS came out, I could sight read uncontracted braille about as well as I could read Unown and never needed the charts included in Gen 3 players' guides... my touch reading speed for Braille is still glacial though, I can touch read embossed Unown or normal print much faster than I can touch read Braille... ANother bit of trivia, when I was in Highschool, sign language counted for foreign language credit, but Braille did not.
I’m playing Diamond for the first time (age 35) and I’m so glad you put Candice’s gym on this list cos, man, I struggled with this, like, the other day!!
I was really dumb as a child. I got stuck in castelia city in Pokémon black and white because I didn’t realize you could go down the alleyways. Five year old me was perplexed, and I ended up with a serperior before the third gym because I didn’t know what else to do 😭
Similiar situation here! I read walkthrough articles and people just like "go to the Gym" and i was like "where tf is the Gym?" I didn't realize the entrance was on the the side instead of in front of you, not until a saw a RUclips video did i realize
In sun and moon, I got stuck before the fire trial not knowing where it was. Well, when I got to the trial, my lvl 73 incineroar handled it pretty easily.
In Pokémon Sapphire I got stuck on Route 110 north of Slateport City.. I didn’t realize you could walk under the bike bridge.. I was literally thinking it was part of the stupid path.. I was retracing my steps everywhere on Slateport, Dewford, Petalburg, Rosboro even going back to Littleroot town to see if I needed something.. Nope so out of pure anger pressing on my right left button on my Gameboy SP turns out the bridge wasn’t apart of the path.. I’ve could of gone under the whole time lol
Haha, same! I even deleted my safe file and started over. Out of pure luck I somehow managed to walk underneath the bridge the second time I arrived there.
One gym battle I got stuck on was Elesa in Black & White. Those Emolga’s and Volt Switch drove me crazy. Had to grind a Sandile up to Krokorok to finally get past that Gym.
I accidentally made Elesa's battle cheaply easy in my recent playthrough. You can get a Drilbur as far back as Wellspring Cave. I wanted to use one on my team and I like grabbing my permanent team members as soon as you can get them. I only realized how useful it would be once I reached the gym, which is pretty funny. It is a strategy I recommend since Excadrill is a great pokemon, and that one ended up being one of my best team members.
I have this memory of being locked for weeks in Seafoam island while I was 7 and playing Pokemon Yellow -- I even asked for help to my neighbor which was 11 and he also failed after multiples tries. I was also running out of heals, so the predicament was getting real 😂
BW1 underwater temple. No guide back then, NO LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE BACK THEN (i'm from italy but in every country the secret lost alfabeth was translated in english): imagine a child (who just survive chyntia) that goes underwater with a new HM he only heard about by his elder brother who played 3rd gen. With sub he discovers a temple and inside...the hardest puzzle pokemon has ever made. Step reset like safari zone, hints written in a secret language he can't even translate because he doesn't know english (and it was also written backwards...). In BW2 they translated it...but it remains backwards english. It was littetally impossibile without a tutorial
I forgot how much I struggled there. For five years, I didn't know the existence of Abyssal Ruins. In 2016, I discovered it and it took multiple attempts to reach the final room.
I spent like 20 minutes looking for sunflora for the grass gym challenge in s/v before realizing i had to talk to a 2nd npc outside the gym to actually start the challenge
I'm genuinely surprised you didn't put Lt. Surge's gym challenge from Gen 1 on here. Finding those switches as a kid and not knowing the pattern had me stuck for 2 weeks.
I remember getting stuck for the longest time in the ice cave in Gold/Silver/Crystal. That place caused me so much agitation and overall frustration because I couldn't figure out how to get through it.
I remember getting the brand new Yellow version when I was 5 or 6. I don’t know if I was more frustrated when I spent weeks stuck in Viridian forest because I thought the exit was just another wall or when I released my Bulbasaur because I didn’t know what the words Withdraw and Deposit meant
When I was 7 I got stuck in Rusturf Tunnel. I completely abandoned the game because the concept of backtracking was not a thing in my brain yet and I thought that the game was just broken. I also lost the cartridge.
I had the event Snorlax by that point (yeah I know, a Snorlax THAT early on?? Even I was surprised when my Munchlax evolved after the first fight with Gladion) so while the fight took a while, I was never at any risk of losing.
And then there's me who restarted my moon save after transferring over all the pokemon I wanted to home and back and one shooting the wishiwashi with my lvl 80 decidueye
I got stuck in Pokemon sun for almost 10 minutes on the bed 😂 I didn't know that I can only use the circle pad to move, I kept resetting the games to check if I chose the wrong option somewhere 😂
In gen 4, I didn't talk to the grunt after beating Crasher Wake and I wasn't able to push a Boulder I thought I needed to push, so I had a very strong Infernape. I was 5
The funny thing is that basically any non-damaging move completely trivializes Miltank. Spam Growl, Rollout's damage is insignificant even at full power. Sand Attack or Flash, Rollout can't connect to build up power. Inflict confusion or paralysis, one missed turn and Rollout resets. The only problem is if you were like most kids, you never used non-damaging moves.
Things that got me stuck that I remember: - Ice Cave - Goldenrod Underground (I swear I spent weeks trying to figure the puzzle out, I still feel instinctively intimidated when I see it) - Clair's Gym puzzle - Lugia's cave (I legit never found Lugia as a kid there because I kept getting lost) - Ho-Oh's puzzle - Mt. Silver - Sabrina's and LT. Surge's Gym - Articuno's Cave - Mewtwo's Cave (You can definitely tell I was 5-7 when I played Gen1&2 😂) - Sky Pillar (had my cousin do it for me) - Wallace's Gym Puzzle - The water currents puzzles both in Seafloor Cavern and to reach the Regis' awakening cave. Actually all of Seafloor Cavern was a nightmare - For some reason 8-9 years old me struggled to find Sootopolis City 😅 - Gen1-3-4 Victory Roads - Giratina's Turnback Cave in D/P - WAYWARD CAVE 💀 I spent roughly one month in that awful cave because I was stupid and saved the game after accepting to help Mira despite being unable to use Flash 💀 I have never ever set my foot in that cave again, it gives me war flashbacks and I don't even care about Gible. - Mt Coronet I think that's most of it, then I got older and less easily lost. However, I still got kind of lost in XY's Terminus Cave and it took me WAY too long to figure out how to reach Alfornada in SV 😅 In the end I had to resort to reach it by the sea and climb my way up from south.
Saying this before the video, i got stuck when i first played diamond and pearl, the cave between Jubilife and Oreburgh, when you had to go to the cave, and it was the first time you went through a cave through the side, it took me so long to realize gen 4 has caves sideways instead of just a cave being upwards.
The braille puzzle seemed like it was actually impossible. Didn't have any friends who played, didn't have internet, parents wouldnt buy game magazines. I actually stopped playing Pokemon all together after Emerald, and only got back into it cuz of Legends Arceus. Went back as a 30 year old man and played all the games I missed. It was only then that I found out about the Regis. So yeah, that was a tough puzzle.
More of an embarrassing struggle, when GSC came out, I struggled for 6 hours trying to get out of my "own house" in the game. My brother had to show me how to get out.
Sweet memories from yellow :) How do I leave my room? How do I leave this house? Why won´t the "evil" professor won´t let me leave his lab? All heard question, if you are 6 years old, can´t read very well yet and have know idea, how the concept of a pokemon game works. What do you mean I must press "A" to talk to a pokeball and choose my starter before I can go outside?
Chargestone Cave in Unova gave me tons of trouble when I was younger and upon playing it again recently, I have no idea how I ever could’ve gotten stuck in there, lol
The fact Morty's gym isn't here is a crime. As a kid of about 5, his gym was the one part of the game where someone else had to do it for me. Every other puzzle in the game I was able to do by myself, but his gym I never understood.
While it never did take me "hours" like a few of the entries you mentioned, I definitely struggled a bit in getting to Flannery in the gen 3 games. To this day the geyser hole things don't seem like they have any rhyme or reason to them, and I end up battling every trainer in the gym by the time I finally get to her. Sure, this is naturally pretty easy when you pick Mudkip, but the combination of being a Treecko truther and Flannery's gym puzzle was an annoying one that I think does deserve a mention if ever this gets a part 2.
Funny story about the braille puzzles. When I was a little kid, and I first stumbled upon them, they reminded me of some thing I had learned recently. I don’t remember if it was an English class, but I remember seeing the whole braille alphabet in one of my old books, this is when I was like seven or eight and I still had those books. So the seven or eight year old me went searching through all of my old English books until I finally found the one with the alphabet then I spend the next hour deciphering all of the Reggie puzzles. Good times.
What’s even funnier is that GameFreak literally taught sighted people how to read Braille by including a guide in the manual for R/S/E. Normally Braille is mainly used by blind people so they can read books without being able to see the words but if you’re not blind you normally wouldn’t think learning how to read Braille would be helpful unless of course you had a friend who was blind. But the Braille puzzles in the Hoenn games seems to be a joke…
Defeating Darkrai in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Sky had me on the floor sobbing as a kid. That game had so many battles that took 11 yr old me MONTHS to beat. Even that Shaymin dungeon had me struggling. It’s much easier as an adult when you know how to strategize and use items properly.
I know, right? It’s way easier now especially with the internet. Now you know what to do before a boss battle, where to level grind, when to use items etc. When I was younger I thought the only way to win in mystery dungeon was level up your Pokémon and spam healing items.
When I was like 11 and played my first pokémon game, X and Y, I struggled with the frost cavern, I really couldn't figure out what the way to slide over the ice was so I had to look it up. But aside from that I can't think of anything else I struggled with, partially because I started at a later age with a more modern game than other people who struggled with some areas in other older Pokémon games.
I wish I had more of a recollection about my original Gen 1 play through, because based on what most of our ages were, combined with the lack of information available, the entire mid game from Rock Tunnel to the mansion seems like it would have been really unintuitive. Figuring out the order of the Rocket events, finding the vending machine for the guards, and of course all the moments mentioned in the video. Not to mention brute forcing it all with my Blastoise with 4 water moves
Rock Tunnel without flash and Charmander as my starter choice as a kid was insufferable beyond all reason. Rather not say how long it was until reaching the end and appearing in Lavender town.
As someone whose first Pokémon game was Yellow, let me tell you. The true rise of the internet, resembling the form we know now, was a truly marvelous thing. Once upon a time, you would have to buy special books for information, or simply go without. It was trial and error or…stuck. Finding hidden secrets was a whole different breed.
#1! THIS!!!!! THIS SO MUCH! Why, Gamefreak, why? To make matters worse, the FR/LG Braille puzzles ended up being a big, huge nothingburger. You don't even get a Pokemon out of it.
I remember when I got stuck in HeartGold, sometime after the first gym battle. I was still a kid at the time, and seeing as games rarely got translations in Dutch in those days I couldn't figure out how to get out of a simple cave. Looking back, it's almost certainly because I didn't have a Pokémon with Rock Smash, and didn't know what to do.
Same thing happened to me, but in Pokémon Pearl. Due to no Dutch translation, me and my brothers where stuck in Jubilife City for half a year because we didn't understand the 3 clowns for the Pokeatch.
As a kid i would constantly get stuck in caves. I eventually got ro the point where i would stock up on repels and save before going in. If i used all the repels before getting out I'd restart and try again. The worst one for me was probably seafoam islands. IDK why but i was stuck for about a week trying to get to articuno when i was a kid. The other place i was stuck on the longest was probably the silph building with all the warp pad puzzles.
I got stuck as a kid in Cerulian city. I didn't know at the time that you had to go into the house to get out before you had cut, and spent weeks going around that city trying to find the exit. Eventually I had to ask for advice from another person to find out to enter the house with the cop next to it to leave.
I got stuck at Morty's gym for weeks. I was wondering if I needed flash or something to get across, rather than work out a trail. By the time I found out my sister's friend's brother had Silver too - and helped me, I had grinded my Meganium to level 70!
12:59 My younger self's pain and suffering is now immortality justified...!! Hahaha, thanks MysticUmbreon, I specifically clicked on this video to see if this particular challenging moment would make the list and I'm soo glad it did!
My very first playthrough of any Pokemon game was Blue on my Game Boy Pocket in 1998. I was stuck in Cerulean City for HOURS because I didn't see the hole in the wall that you walk through to battle the Team Rocket thief in the Dig man's backyard. My journey was almost ended before it started by a crappy pixel and my crappier eyes.
If I had a nickel for everytime I got stuck in Pokemon I'd only have nickels from the times I played fangames... I don't think I've ever gotten stuck in official pokemon games.
I remember getting stuck in Silph Co even in LGPE😂😅 but damn. I forgot how much that puzzle with the 3, 2, 1 answer was. And I did that a few years ago first time I played in gen 2. The hardest area I got stuck in was my coronet when I was a kid. I could not for the life of me figure out how to progress through mt coronet. It was so bad I didn’t play platinum for like 2 months.
These were all a struggle for me (was in middle school around red/blue), but Silph Co has the honor of straight up turning my younger sister off of Gameboy forever. She got stuck on that puzzle, quit and really never did play videogames after that. 😅
In Pokemon Platinum, I would always find and take the route that would get me to Meylene's Gym before Fantina's, meaning that I would get the fourth gym badge before the third. This also meant that I was trying to fight level late 30's Pokemon (Lucario as another big yikes) with Pokemon that hadn't reached level 30 by that point.
On my first ever Pokémon game which was fire red version, after receiving the HM for cut I didn’t know I was supposed to use it to later progress in my game. Instead I’d return to vermilion every time to check if the S.S.Anne was back.
Getting through rock tunnel in red back when i was 5 was rough. Literally was trying hours a day, for weeks. Eventually the older neighbor kid did it but didnt save, reset my game and told me to do it myself now. Got it pretty quickly after he showed me tho. Didnt you could use flash outside of battle until I got to victory road. Finding the seafloor cavern in ruby was tough as a kid too. I eventually got the guide tho. I know I couldnt have found the regis without it.
This is an embarrassing one, but there's one part of pokemon that I was stuck on. In Sun and Moon, when you raid team skull in Po town, I could not for the life of me get pass the grunt that blocks your way to Guzma. I knew all the answers, but he wouldn't let me pass. I was stuck for TWO DAYS and I had to ask a poketuber for help. When he told me the answer, I just felt the dunce hat on my hat. Because I saw the note that said "All grunts responsed with a hardy no" but I didn't think much of it.
Not a Pokemon story, but when I first played Final Fantasy 7, I was stuck for WEEKS in an early location of the first disc and ended up ridiculously over leveled until about three quarters of the way through disc 2. There's a spot on the way to Wall Market where you have to climb a particular obstacle to advance to the next area. The problem? The thing you have to climb up isn't labeled in any way and simply looks like it's part of the scenery. It's in the area with the Murder Houses, right after Aeris's Church.
I got stuck in a part in FF8 where you're supposed to go down a hatch in the floor but it's not really visible, so you have to look for a button prompt.
Old School RPGs 80s RPGS expected you to wander and get lost and early Pokemon was heavily influenced by those games. At least Pokemon Games don't have dangerous random encounters like those games can have.
When you mentioned Candice, I was like "dude, high five!"... without fail, every time I do a runthrough of Sinnoh, I'm at that gym for over 20 minutes doing that stupid puzzle. I've had similar struggles with Nessa's gym in Sword but this last playthrough, I might have missed a step that would've saved me a lot of frustration. I had guides for the first couple games so these puzzles didn't give me too much trouble. But I don't know how the heck I held onto my sanity doing the caves without repels. No joke- I didn't use them until I started watching Pokémon LPs on RUclips and I learned that they're a huge lifesaver
Ice walks to me have always been some of the most fun puzzles for me. I never once during my childhood and adulthood have been frustrated by an ice puzzle.
I was perhaps the *worst* Pokémon player in history when it came to getting lost as a kid. I got lost in just about every town and dungeon in Leaf Green. Couldn't figure out how to get professor oak to appear at the very beginning Couldn't figure out how to get past the "coffee" dude Got lost in Viridian Forest Got lost in Pewter City, trying to go to Pewter Gym, I couldn't figure out the concept of "Go around." Got lost in Mt. Moon Got lost in *the underground path* Yeah, it's a single line corridor, and I managed to get turned around in it multiple times. Like I said, perhaps the best at getting lost. Got lost in Vermilion City trying to find the Pokémon Fanclub Pretty sure I got lost on the SS. Anne my first few times... can't remember, though. Got lost in Diglett's Cave Got lost in Rock Tunnel (as expected, though I *did* have Flash at that point...) Got lost in Celadon City, trying to find the Celadon Gym Got lost in Fuchsia City, apparently I really struggled with the concept of "GO AROUND" as a kid Got lost in the Safari Zone Got lost on the routes east of Fuchsia Got lost in Saffron City Got lost in the Power Plant Got lost in Victory Road Got lost in the weird bunch of statues before the League There's basically not a single one of the Islands I *didn't* get lost on somewhere And it doesn't end with Pokémon Leaf Green. In Pokémon Ranger I could not for the life of me figure out how to get to this Raticate in the Fall City sewers. Turns out I just needed to go to a deeper part and... walk forward. The concept of "go around" was elusive. For things I got stuck on that weren't "getting lost" related... I didn't struggle much with Leaf Green. A few moments were rough like the final rival battle before the league, but for the rest, I only remember losing to Koga, and only once. Turns out, when you get lost you tend to fight everything with one Pokémon, and you end up with a level 70 Venusaur when you fight Sabrina, and a level 94 venusaur by the time you reach the league. For spin-offs, Sinister Woods in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team. Could not beat Team Meanies for the life of me. I ended up getting to LEVEL 32 before I beat him. Unsurprisingly, after that everything up until the later parts of the game was a cakewalk. I distinctly remember thinking "How hard is this next dungeon going to be?" and being surprised by how easy everything was.
I struggled with Victory Road in Sinnoh. Not because of the over reliance on HM's but I kept getting lost, or screwing up strength puzzles Also in regards to your number 1. Did you read the braille page on the instruction guide?
Those braille puzzles marked and absolutely fantastic and epic moment in my childhood. When I got to that part of the game I was an early teenager and was confused about what those dots where I even thought the game glitched text and the music just made it more creepy, then I remembered from the bottom of my brains that it was actually braille because in elementary school we had a book that taught us about that language. So I ran to a really old and dusty box in the basement where all my elementary school books were and I began to search for the book, when I found it I went running upstairs to immediately start translating the dots, and it was indeed braille! I felt like an actual archeologist! Then I was able to solve the riddles: found me a Relicanth, went for my Wailmer in the box and managed to capture all Regis. It was an awesome childhood moment
I strangely miss those days when you couldn't look things up. Yeah, tons of being stuck and impossible battles, but those struggles also solidified friendships. We would join forces with our childhood buds and we would crack all of them together. And man do I miss the myths that went around. I will forever remember trying to catch legendaries and holding a and b to increase chances of catching them. 5 young boys pressing those buttons in a single gameboy together, and boy were we happy when we "succeeded"
When I first played Soulsilver, my first pokemon game, I couldn’t get past the ice path. I didn’t know about the strength puzzle. I didn’t beat Soulsilver until two years later. Fun fact: it’s possible to navigate Candice’s gym without battling the trainers. At least in platinum.
I had a copy of SoulSilver but it disappeared during a move. Still, I gave up before the third gym because I learned from RUclips videos that Whitney’s Miltank has a mean move set with Attract, Rollout, Stomp and Milk Drink. But you know what’s worse than Whitney’s Miltank? Lenora’s Watchog! It has Leer, Hypnosis, Crunch and Retaliate. Even if it’s been two turns since Herdier fainted, Retaliate can still KO the rest of your Pokémon. Trying to stop Retaliate with a Ghost type? It’ll use Crunch instead, which is a DARK type move. Equipped a Chesto Berry to your Pokémon to counteract Hypnosis? It won’t use Hypnosis if you do that. Taught Rock Smash to one of your Pokémon? It does like 2 damage to a Pokémon that’s supposed to be WEAK to it!
Biggest ones for me were Gen 3 with Ruby/Sapphire 1. Finding Surf after beating Norman. Took me the longest time to accidentally stumble upon it… next door to the gym. 2. Strength puzzle in the Seafloor Cavern. I could never figure it out. At one point I just gave up and traveled around leveling up my Pokémon until my friend offered to get it for me. Then I got through and flew through the rest of the game with my way over leveled, level 75 Blaziken. Edit: I agree with Sky Tower in Red/Blue Rescue Team. Took me the longest time of grinding to get strong enough to withstand it.
Gen 2s rocket puzzle had me stumped as a kid. I tried so hard to figure it all out and one time tried to remember previous combinations. Always took me forever
I agree that the Regi puzzle was cryptic as a kid when I didn’t understand English but imo the Braille part was the easy part because every single RSE game came with the instruction booklet that had the Braille to alphabet chart. Also, I completely agree with Snowpoint gym. Easily one of the most difficult gym puzzles. In my first playthrough of Blue there were also many very difficult parts for me because English is not my first language and it was 2 years before I started studying it on school. For example figuring out how to get the bicycle was really hard.
For me playing Sapphire for the first time, for some reason I could not find where to go next (Seafloor Cavern) to progress the story. I had to ask my Mum to buy me the guide and the day before it arrived at my house I found the dive spot lol the guide was still useful though so all good
I struggle with a lot of puzzles Totem Araquanid in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon (Seriously there are very few hard counters for this spider thing, it will mess you up easily) Totem Kommo-O, Lt. Surge, Sabrina's Teleporters, Finding Sootopolis, Hoenn Victory Road, Distortion World, Sinnoh Victory Road, Crasher Wake's Gym, Maylene's Gym, Cynthia in Brilliant Diamond, Clay's Gym in Black and White 2 (so many dark areas), The bridge puzzle inside Team Plasma Frigate, Most of the re-designed gyms in Omega Ruby (Sootopolis Gym in particular) All of the Puzzles in Rainbow Rocket sidequest (Ultra Sun and Moon)
There used to be a challenge back then on navigating the Rock Tunnel without Flash back in my days. But the one challenge that I struggled in recent days is... Ultra Necrozma. I have to technically stall that thing out just to win.
I didn't start playing until I was older (university) and I always had the guide books, but even with the guide books, I hated most ice puzzels. I used a cheating device a lot to just walk past them. I hope those don't make a comeback.
The hardest thing about Silph Co for me was GETTING the Card Key. I never thought of taking the same warp panel back and forth to get to it as a kid. As for the Sarai Zone, the hardest part was just getting a Kangaskan, Tauros and Chanesy, not just getting around
Haha you showed my complaint about the Go-Rock base. I was so pissed off that i threw my DS across the room. Fortunately there was a full laundry basket there, but still.
The most screwed up thing with the Braille puzzles is that Game Freak expected us to read the touch-requiring language by reading it on a game screen. And that this was somehow easier than simply carrying the Azure Flute with you to Spear Pillar in DPP.
Imo it was not that bad because every RSE game came with an instruction booklet that had the Braille to alphabet chart.
@@ZebNyan96yeah, but you don't find them everywhere. there are places in Europe where the base games barely get there
Edit: especially back in the days, like 2000-2005
I remember my friend helped me with regirock and registeel, and as we were trying to decipher regices braille,,,it just popped open after a couple of minutes to my absolute shock and ecstatic delight
I dunno what GameFreak’s staff were thinking in that case. Visual Braille puzzles vs playing a flute to summon Arceus? C’mon guys that’s not hard!
Maybe I'm weird because I went blind in one eye as a baby and despite being a print reader until going blind in the other eye in my mid-20s, my parents insisted I take Braille classes during my time at a school for the blind and visually impaired, but when RS came out, I could sight read uncontracted braille about as well as I could read Unown and never needed the charts included in Gen 3 players' guides... my touch reading speed for Braille is still glacial though, I can touch read embossed Unown or normal print much faster than I can touch read Braille... ANother bit of trivia, when I was in Highschool, sign language counted for foreign language credit, but Braille did not.
I’m playing Diamond for the first time (age 35) and I’m so glad you put Candice’s gym on this list cos, man, I struggled with this, like, the other day!!
Long time Pokemon player here, in my 30s and I struggled too.
lol I put the game down because of this obstacle fr fr. I just finished the game (as brilliant diamond), just 2 months ago
Trying to access the Cinnabar island gym was brutal when I was 8...
After a few searches I thought the Game wanted me to give Up so i forgot to save and next time i Starter I Had to face Silph Co again
Aw man 😂😂😂😂😂
@@pekoboy803 silph co is the bane of my existance any time i play a kanto game
@@dive.cats- First step is to come to the bed where you can Rest, from then its easier
So true! There was basically nothing indicating you needed to find a key.
I was really dumb as a child. I got stuck in castelia city in Pokémon black and white because I didn’t realize you could go down the alleyways. Five year old me was perplexed, and I ended up with a serperior before the third gym because I didn’t know what else to do 😭
Similiar situation here! I read walkthrough articles and people just like "go to the Gym" and i was like "where tf is the Gym?" I didn't realize the entrance was on the the side instead of in front of you, not until a saw a RUclips video did i realize
In sun and moon, I got stuck before the fire trial not knowing where it was. Well, when I got to the trial, my lvl 73 incineroar handled it pretty easily.
Wallace's ice walk was a bit of a challenge for me when I was younger. And so was getting to Rayquaza. Such a pain! 😫
Rayquaza is the Mach bike BS, iirc?
In Pokémon Sapphire I got stuck on Route 110 north of Slateport City.. I didn’t realize you could walk under the bike bridge.. I was literally thinking it was part of the stupid path.. I was retracing my steps everywhere on Slateport, Dewford, Petalburg, Rosboro even going back to Littleroot town to see if I needed something.. Nope so out of pure anger pressing on my right left button on my Gameboy SP turns out the bridge wasn’t apart of the path.. I’ve could of gone under the whole time lol
Haha, same! I even deleted my safe file and started over. Out of pure luck I somehow managed to walk underneath the bridge the second time I arrived there.
Omg lmao remember tryna find the spot under the sea for the submarine. Good times
One gym battle I got stuck on was Elesa in Black & White. Those Emolga’s and Volt Switch drove me crazy. Had to grind a Sandile up to Krokorok to finally get past that Gym.
I accidentally made Elesa's battle cheaply easy in my recent playthrough. You can get a Drilbur as far back as Wellspring Cave. I wanted to use one on my team and I like grabbing my permanent team members as soon as you can get them. I only realized how useful it would be once I reached the gym, which is pretty funny. It is a strategy I recommend since Excadrill is a great pokemon, and that one ended up being one of my best team members.
The music in Silph Co and Giovanni's sprite had me CONVINCED that Giovanni was a vampire when I first played that **** as a kid
I have this memory of being locked for weeks in Seafoam island while I was 7 and playing Pokemon Yellow -- I even asked for help to my neighbor which was 11 and he also failed after multiples tries. I was also running out of heals, so the predicament was getting real 😂
I’m from Poland and to this day no Pokémon game was ever in Polish. Shoutouts to my mom, who helped me to not get stuck and enjoy games.
BW1 underwater temple. No guide back then, NO LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE BACK THEN (i'm from italy but in every country the secret lost alfabeth was translated in english): imagine a child (who just survive chyntia) that goes underwater with a new HM he only heard about by his elder brother who played 3rd gen. With sub he discovers a temple and inside...the hardest puzzle pokemon has ever made. Step reset like safari zone, hints written in a secret language he can't even translate because he doesn't know english (and it was also written backwards...).
In BW2 they translated it...but it remains backwards english. It was littetally impossibile without a tutorial
I forgot how much I struggled there. For five years, I didn't know the existence of Abyssal Ruins. In 2016, I discovered it and it took multiple attempts to reach the final room.
I spent like 20 minutes looking for sunflora for the grass gym challenge in s/v before realizing i had to talk to a 2nd npc outside the gym to actually start the challenge
SAME.
I had to search on internet the normal gym puzzle in SV, somehow missed one trainer
Bro I did that to😂
Magma Hideout in Hoen Games has to be up there. Is not a puzzle, but if you skip the dialog have fun trying to find it.
same way, i remember struggling once or twice to find where to go when you are supposed to see the cinematic when team aqua/magma steals the submarine
I did this as an adult because I skipped through dialogue haha
In Pokemon Red and Blue, getting stuck in Viridian Forest and not knowing there was a save function.
It was a tough time back then.
I'm genuinely surprised you didn't put Lt. Surge's gym challenge from Gen 1 on here. Finding those switches as a kid and not knowing the pattern had me stuck for 2 weeks.
That one especially should've been here simply because even if you know how to solve it, because of the luck factor, you can just get screwed by RNG.
Got stuck in Pokémon Ranger in like a cave for years. Then it took me a year to beat the final boss
I remember getting stuck for the longest time in the ice cave in Gold/Silver/Crystal. That place caused me so much agitation and overall frustration because I couldn't figure out how to get through it.
One puzzle that always gave me trouble was maylene’s punching bag/sliding door puzzle
Yes
I remember getting the brand new Yellow version when I was 5 or 6. I don’t know if I was more frustrated when I spent weeks stuck in Viridian forest because I thought the exit was just another wall or when I released my Bulbasaur because I didn’t know what the words Withdraw and Deposit meant
When I was 7 I got stuck in Rusturf Tunnel.
I completely abandoned the game because the concept of backtracking was not a thing in my brain yet and I thought that the game was just broken. I also lost the cartridge.
I got stuck with the Wishiwashi boss fight. He kicked my ass, even with Rowlet as my Starter Pokémon
I had the event Snorlax by that point (yeah I know, a Snorlax THAT early on?? Even I was surprised when my Munchlax evolved after the first fight with Gladion) so while the fight took a while, I was never at any risk of losing.
@@GatorOne-in7hk cool
The Araquanid was a lot harder than wishi
And then there's me who restarted my moon save after transferring over all the pokemon I wanted to home and back and one shooting the wishiwashi with my lvl 80 decidueye
@@chrisbrown2731exactly the bug water typing was hard to kill with grass moves, i used hawlucha to aerial ace that thing
I remember getting stuck in the players bedroom the first time I played Pokémon blue as 4/5 year old, I didn't realise they were stairs...
I got stuck in Pokemon sun for almost 10 minutes on the bed 😂 I didn't know that I can only use the circle pad to move, I kept resetting the games to check if I chose the wrong option somewhere 😂
Oh man that Mach bike situation was nuts when I was younger. I yelled at the game so many times lol
Getting the Key to open the Cinnabar Gym was always when I'd restart Red/Blue as a kid.
In gen 4, I didn't talk to the grunt after beating Crasher Wake and I wasn't able to push a Boulder I thought I needed to push, so I had a very strong Infernape. I was 5
Cinnabar Island Gym kicked my ass when I was 8 lol. Recently, I struggled trying to scale Oni Mountain in Teal Mask
That damn Miltank needs to be on every list period.
Facts🎯😭😭
The funny thing is that basically any non-damaging move completely trivializes Miltank. Spam Growl, Rollout's damage is insignificant even at full power. Sand Attack or Flash, Rollout can't connect to build up power. Inflict confusion or paralysis, one missed turn and Rollout resets. The only problem is if you were like most kids, you never used non-damaging moves.
Things that got me stuck that I remember:
- Ice Cave
- Goldenrod Underground (I swear I spent weeks trying to figure the puzzle out, I still feel instinctively intimidated when I see it)
- Clair's Gym puzzle
- Lugia's cave (I legit never found Lugia as a kid there because I kept getting lost)
- Ho-Oh's puzzle
- Mt. Silver
- Sabrina's and LT. Surge's Gym
- Articuno's Cave
- Mewtwo's Cave
(You can definitely tell I was 5-7 when I played Gen1&2 😂)
- Sky Pillar (had my cousin do it for me)
- Wallace's Gym Puzzle
- The water currents puzzles both in Seafloor Cavern and to reach the Regis' awakening cave. Actually all of Seafloor Cavern was a nightmare
- For some reason 8-9 years old me struggled to find Sootopolis City 😅
- Gen1-3-4 Victory Roads
- Giratina's Turnback Cave in D/P
- WAYWARD CAVE 💀 I spent roughly one month in that awful cave because I was stupid and saved the game after accepting to help Mira despite being unable to use Flash 💀 I have never ever set my foot in that cave again, it gives me war flashbacks and I don't even care about Gible.
- Mt Coronet
I think that's most of it, then I got older and less easily lost.
However, I still got kind of lost in XY's Terminus Cave and it took me WAY too long to figure out how to reach Alfornada in SV 😅 In the end I had to resort to reach it by the sea and climb my way up from south.
Saying this before the video, i got stuck when i first played diamond and pearl, the cave between Jubilife and Oreburgh, when you had to go to the cave, and it was the first time you went through a cave through the side, it took me so long to realize gen 4 has caves sideways instead of just a cave being upwards.
The braille puzzle seemed like it was actually impossible. Didn't have any friends who played, didn't have internet, parents wouldnt buy game magazines. I actually stopped playing Pokemon all together after Emerald, and only got back into it cuz of Legends Arceus. Went back as a 30 year old man and played all the games I missed. It was only then that I found out about the Regis. So yeah, that was a tough puzzle.
Every copy of R/S/E/FR/LG came with a braille chart in their box though so was pretty straight forward if you held onto that and didn't throw it out.
@zanny3085 yep, pretty sure it was in the back of the manual.
@zanny3085 hahaha no hope I kept that as a kid. Probably opened the box like an ape.
@@thisizn8what did you do on the car ride home from the store besides read the manual?
@@pokedude720 retain nothing apparently
I won't lie...battling the nightmare that is Whitney/Akane was making me pull my hair out.
I can relate to that...
If i had a nickel for every time i got stuck, I’d have zero. It’s not hard to just figure stuff out, man.
Lol I was about to mention kantos tunnels and you straight up come with it as I was typing
In pokemon yellow, I couldnt figure out how to get past Snorlax, so I quit and never played it again. I didnt know what a pokeflute was back then.
More of an embarrassing struggle, when GSC came out, I struggled for 6 hours trying to get out of my "own house" in the game. My brother had to show me how to get out.
Sweet memories from yellow :)
How do I leave my room?
How do I leave this house?
Why won´t the "evil" professor won´t let me leave his lab?
All heard question, if you are 6 years old, can´t read very well yet and have know idea, how the concept of a pokemon game works.
What do you mean I must press "A" to talk to a pokeball and choose my starter before I can go outside?
Chargestone Cave in Unova gave me tons of trouble when I was younger and upon playing it again recently, I have no idea how I ever could’ve gotten stuck in there, lol
The Cynthia battle at the end of BDSP Made me question whether or not I knew how to play Pokémon. And I’ve been playing it since it came out.
Same. I was flinging myself at that blonde wall for FOUR HOURS
my first game was crystal
i got stuck in ilex forest,not knowing we could teach hm and learn cut
The fact Morty's gym isn't here is a crime. As a kid of about 5, his gym was the one part of the game where someone else had to do it for me. Every other puzzle in the game I was able to do by myself, but his gym I never understood.
While it never did take me "hours" like a few of the entries you mentioned, I definitely struggled a bit in getting to Flannery in the gen 3 games. To this day the geyser hole things don't seem like they have any rhyme or reason to them, and I end up battling every trainer in the gym by the time I finally get to her.
Sure, this is naturally pretty easy when you pick Mudkip, but the combination of being a Treecko truther and Flannery's gym puzzle was an annoying one that I think does deserve a mention if ever this gets a part 2.
Funny story about the braille puzzles. When I was a little kid, and I first stumbled upon them, they reminded me of some thing I had learned recently. I don’t remember if it was an English class, but I remember seeing the whole braille alphabet in one of my old books, this is when I was like seven or eight and I still had those books. So the seven or eight year old me went searching through all of my old English books until I finally found the one with the alphabet then I spend the next hour deciphering all of the Reggie puzzles. Good times.
What’s even funnier is that GameFreak literally taught sighted people how to read Braille by including a guide in the manual for R/S/E. Normally Braille is mainly used by blind people so they can read books without being able to see the words but if you’re not blind you normally wouldn’t think learning how to read Braille would be helpful unless of course you had a friend who was blind. But the Braille puzzles in the Hoenn games seems to be a joke…
Defeating Darkrai in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Sky had me on the floor sobbing as a kid. That game had so many battles that took 11 yr old me MONTHS to beat. Even that Shaymin dungeon had me struggling. It’s much easier as an adult when you know how to strategize and use items properly.
I know, right? It’s way easier now especially with the internet. Now you know what to do before a boss battle, where to level grind, when to use items etc. When I was younger I thought the only way to win in mystery dungeon was level up your Pokémon and spam healing items.
Sky piller in emerald was what nightmares were made of lmao that stupid bike puzzle that's pretty much all up to chance 😅😂
Great video, I did struggle with some of those puzzles for sure, anyways, keep it up! Rock tunnel was definitely the hardest for sure!
When I was like 11 and played my first pokémon game, X and Y, I struggled with the frost cavern, I really couldn't figure out what the way to slide over the ice was so I had to look it up. But aside from that I can't think of anything else I struggled with, partially because I started at a later age with a more modern game than other people who struggled with some areas in other older Pokémon games.
I wish I had more of a recollection about my original Gen 1 play through, because based on what most of our ages were, combined with the lack of information available, the entire mid game from Rock Tunnel to the mansion seems like it would have been really unintuitive. Figuring out the order of the Rocket events, finding the vending machine for the guards, and of course all the moments mentioned in the video. Not to mention brute forcing it all with my Blastoise with 4 water moves
I distinctly remember getting stuck in Mt. Moon in Pokemon Yellow.
Rock Tunnel without flash and Charmander as my starter choice as a kid was insufferable beyond all reason. Rather not say how long it was until reaching the end and appearing in Lavender town.
As someone whose first Pokémon game was Yellow, let me tell you. The true rise of the internet, resembling the form we know now, was a truly marvelous thing.
Once upon a time, you would have to buy special books for information, or simply go without. It was trial and error or…stuck. Finding hidden secrets was a whole different breed.
Totally right!
#1! THIS!!!!! THIS SO MUCH!
Why, Gamefreak, why? To make matters worse, the FR/LG Braille puzzles ended up being a big, huge nothingburger. You don't even get a Pokemon out of it.
I remember when I got stuck in HeartGold, sometime after the first gym battle. I was still a kid at the time, and seeing as games rarely got translations in Dutch in those days I couldn't figure out how to get out of a simple cave. Looking back, it's almost certainly because I didn't have a Pokémon with Rock Smash, and didn't know what to do.
Same thing happened to me, but in Pokémon Pearl. Due to no Dutch translation, me and my brothers where stuck in Jubilife City for half a year because we didn't understand the 3 clowns for the Pokeatch.
@@_Orafu_ At least the kiddies who play on the Switch these days don't have to worry about that. Lucky bastards...
As a kid i would constantly get stuck in caves. I eventually got ro the point where i would stock up on repels and save before going in. If i used all the repels before getting out I'd restart and try again. The worst one for me was probably seafoam islands. IDK why but i was stuck for about a week trying to get to articuno when i was a kid. The other place i was stuck on the longest was probably the silph building with all the warp pad puzzles.
I got stuck as a kid in Cerulian city. I didn't know at the time that you had to go into the house to get out before you had cut, and spent weeks going around that city trying to find the exit. Eventually I had to ask for advice from another person to find out to enter the house with the cop next to it to leave.
I got stuck at Morty's gym for weeks. I was wondering if I needed flash or something to get across, rather than work out a trail.
By the time I found out my sister's friend's brother had Silver too - and helped me, I had grinded my Meganium to level 70!
I got lucky on the last one because right as I reached that area, one of my teachers in 6th grade decided to do a fun activity involving brail. Lol
4:24 I don't understand. Why would Mystic put up an image on screen with nothing at all in it?
Oh yeah, thank goodness for online guides, some of these wouldn't be possible without 'em. XD
Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :)
Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu. Zdraví Nogy.
12:59
My younger self's pain and suffering is now immortality justified...!! Hahaha, thanks MysticUmbreon, I specifically clicked on this video to see if this particular challenging moment would make the list and I'm soo glad it did!
My very first playthrough of any Pokemon game was Blue on my Game Boy Pocket in 1998. I was stuck in Cerulean City for HOURS because I didn't see the hole in the wall that you walk through to battle the Team Rocket thief in the Dig man's backyard. My journey was almost ended before it started by a crappy pixel and my crappier eyes.
Seafoam islands use to confuse me I just didn’t get it as a kid!
If I had a nickel for everytime I got stuck in Pokemon I'd only have nickels from the times I played fangames... I don't think I've ever gotten stuck in official pokemon games.
I remember getting stuck in Silph Co even in LGPE😂😅 but damn. I forgot how much that puzzle with the 3, 2, 1 answer was. And I did that a few years ago first time I played in gen 2. The hardest area I got stuck in was my coronet when I was a kid. I could not for the life of me figure out how to progress through mt coronet. It was so bad I didn’t play platinum for like 2 months.
Yeah Rock Tunnel is a pain but once you figure out the layout in the dark you'll be able to do it without Flash.
These were all a struggle for me (was in middle school around red/blue), but Silph Co has the honor of straight up turning my younger sister off of Gameboy forever. She got stuck on that puzzle, quit and really never did play videogames after that. 😅
In Pokemon Platinum, I would always find and take the route that would get me to Meylene's Gym before Fantina's, meaning that I would get the fourth gym badge before the third. This also meant that I was trying to fight level late 30's Pokemon (Lucario as another big yikes) with Pokemon that hadn't reached level 30 by that point.
navigation of the Safari Zone was never the problem for me IT WAS THAT DANG TAUROS AND KHANGASKAN
On my first ever Pokémon game which was fire red version, after receiving the HM for cut I didn’t know I was supposed to use it to later progress in my game. Instead I’d return to vermilion every time to check if the S.S.Anne was back.
Getting through rock tunnel in red back when i was 5 was rough. Literally was trying hours a day, for weeks. Eventually the older neighbor kid did it but didnt save, reset my game and told me to do it myself now. Got it pretty quickly after he showed me tho. Didnt you could use flash outside of battle until I got to victory road.
Finding the seafloor cavern in ruby was tough as a kid too. I eventually got the guide tho. I know I couldnt have found the regis without it.
What about the spin tiles on Celadon game corner? I remember that one gave me a hard time.
This is an embarrassing one, but there's one part of pokemon that I was stuck on. In Sun and Moon, when you raid team skull in Po town, I could not for the life of me get pass the grunt that blocks your way to Guzma. I knew all the answers, but he wouldn't let me pass. I was stuck for TWO DAYS and I had to ask a poketuber for help. When he told me the answer, I just felt the dunce hat on my hat. Because I saw the note that said "All grunts responsed with a hardy no" but I didn't think much of it.
I loved the braille puzzles, it made it feel like a huge exploration sort of Tomb Raider aspect in the Pokemon franchise I grew up with since Gen 1
Not a Pokemon story, but when I first played Final Fantasy 7, I was stuck for WEEKS in an early location of the first disc and ended up ridiculously over leveled until about three quarters of the way through disc 2.
There's a spot on the way to Wall Market where you have to climb a particular obstacle to advance to the next area. The problem? The thing you have to climb up isn't labeled in any way and simply looks like it's part of the scenery.
It's in the area with the Murder Houses, right after Aeris's Church.
I got stuck in a part in FF8 where you're supposed to go down a hatch in the floor but it's not really visible, so you have to look for a button prompt.
Old School RPGs 80s RPGS expected you to wander and get lost and early Pokemon was heavily influenced by those games. At least Pokemon Games don't have dangerous random encounters like those games can have.
I'm glad u made this. I wanted to see someone make a video like this. U should have done 1 each generation
My stuck places
Saffron city
Getting past sudowoodo
Ice cave
Seafloor cavern
My brain could not correlate the fact that the guy was thirsty, and the fresh water you could buy. Mind you I was 16. I’m a dumbass.
i remember in hoenn having to talk to the boat guy to opem access to the museum
I'm so glad you mentioned Sky Tower from the Mystery Dungeon games. It's always so hard! I avoid battles there as much as possible.
When you mentioned Candice, I was like "dude, high five!"... without fail, every time I do a runthrough of Sinnoh, I'm at that gym for over 20 minutes doing that stupid puzzle. I've had similar struggles with Nessa's gym in Sword but this last playthrough, I might have missed a step that would've saved me a lot of frustration.
I had guides for the first couple games so these puzzles didn't give me too much trouble. But I don't know how the heck I held onto my sanity doing the caves without repels. No joke- I didn't use them until I started watching Pokémon LPs on RUclips and I learned that they're a huge lifesaver
machine part puzzle in cerulean if you didnt pay attention to the rocket grunts dialogue you would never know where the part was hidden
Keep up the awesome work and videos
Ice walks to me have always been some of the most fun puzzles for me. I never once during my childhood and adulthood have been frustrated by an ice puzzle.
I was perhaps the *worst* Pokémon player in history when it came to getting lost as a kid. I got lost in just about every town and dungeon in Leaf Green.
Couldn't figure out how to get professor oak to appear at the very beginning
Couldn't figure out how to get past the "coffee" dude
Got lost in Viridian Forest
Got lost in Pewter City, trying to go to Pewter Gym, I couldn't figure out the concept of "Go around."
Got lost in Mt. Moon
Got lost in *the underground path* Yeah, it's a single line corridor, and I managed to get turned around in it multiple times. Like I said, perhaps the best at getting lost.
Got lost in Vermilion City trying to find the Pokémon Fanclub
Pretty sure I got lost on the SS. Anne my first few times... can't remember, though.
Got lost in Diglett's Cave
Got lost in Rock Tunnel (as expected, though I *did* have Flash at that point...)
Got lost in Celadon City, trying to find the Celadon Gym
Got lost in Fuchsia City, apparently I really struggled with the concept of "GO AROUND" as a kid
Got lost in the Safari Zone
Got lost on the routes east of Fuchsia
Got lost in Saffron City
Got lost in the Power Plant
Got lost in Victory Road
Got lost in the weird bunch of statues before the League
There's basically not a single one of the Islands I *didn't* get lost on somewhere
And it doesn't end with Pokémon Leaf Green.
In Pokémon Ranger I could not for the life of me figure out how to get to this Raticate in the Fall City sewers. Turns out I just needed to go to a deeper part and... walk forward. The concept of "go around" was elusive.
For things I got stuck on that weren't "getting lost" related... I didn't struggle much with Leaf Green. A few moments were rough like the final rival battle before the league, but for the rest, I only remember losing to Koga, and only once. Turns out, when you get lost you tend to fight everything with one Pokémon, and you end up with a level 70 Venusaur when you fight Sabrina, and a level 94 venusaur by the time you reach the league.
For spin-offs, Sinister Woods in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team. Could not beat Team Meanies for the life of me. I ended up getting to LEVEL 32 before I beat him. Unsurprisingly, after that everything up until the later parts of the game was a cakewalk. I distinctly remember thinking "How hard is this next dungeon going to be?" and being surprised by how easy everything was.
I struggled a lot trying to wake up Snorlax in HGSS
I struggled with Victory Road in Sinnoh. Not because of the over reliance on HM's but I kept getting lost, or screwing up strength puzzles
Also in regards to your number 1. Did you read the braille page on the instruction guide?
Those braille puzzles marked and absolutely fantastic and epic moment in my childhood. When I got to that part of the game I was an early teenager and was confused about what those dots where I even thought the game glitched text and the music just made it more creepy, then I remembered from the bottom of my brains that it was actually braille because in elementary school we had a book that taught us about that language.
So I ran to a really old and dusty box in the basement where all my elementary school books were and I began to search for the book, when I found it I went running upstairs to immediately start translating the dots, and it was indeed braille! I felt like an actual archeologist!
Then I was able to solve the riddles: found me a Relicanth, went for my Wailmer in the box and managed to capture all Regis.
It was an awesome childhood moment
I strangely miss those days when you couldn't look things up. Yeah, tons of being stuck and impossible battles, but those struggles also solidified friendships. We would join forces with our childhood buds and we would crack all of them together. And man do I miss the myths that went around. I will forever remember trying to catch legendaries and holding a and b to increase chances of catching them. 5 young boys pressing those buttons in a single gameboy together, and boy were we happy when we "succeeded"
When I first played Soulsilver, my first pokemon game, I couldn’t get past the ice path. I didn’t know about the strength puzzle. I didn’t beat Soulsilver until two years later.
Fun fact: it’s possible to navigate Candice’s gym without battling the trainers. At least in platinum.
I had a copy of SoulSilver but it disappeared during a move. Still, I gave up before the third gym because I learned from RUclips videos that Whitney’s Miltank has a mean move set with Attract, Rollout, Stomp and Milk Drink. But you know what’s worse than Whitney’s Miltank? Lenora’s Watchog! It has Leer, Hypnosis, Crunch and Retaliate. Even if it’s been two turns since Herdier fainted, Retaliate can still KO the rest of your Pokémon. Trying to stop Retaliate with a Ghost type? It’ll use Crunch instead, which is a DARK type move. Equipped a Chesto Berry to your Pokémon to counteract Hypnosis? It won’t use Hypnosis if you do that. Taught Rock Smash to one of your Pokémon? It does like 2 damage to a Pokémon that’s supposed to be WEAK to it!
Biggest ones for me were Gen 3 with Ruby/Sapphire
1. Finding Surf after beating Norman. Took me the longest time to accidentally stumble upon it… next door to the gym.
2. Strength puzzle in the Seafloor Cavern. I could never figure it out. At one point I just gave up and traveled around leveling up my Pokémon until my friend offered to get it for me. Then I got through and flew through the rest of the game with my way over leveled, level 75 Blaziken.
Edit: I agree with Sky Tower in Red/Blue Rescue Team. Took me the longest time of grinding to get strong enough to withstand it.
Sabrina's gym was a pain in the rear when I was younger. Imagine finally figuring out the proper portals/teleporters only to be wrecked by Sabrina.
Gen 2s rocket puzzle had me stumped as a kid. I tried so hard to figure it all out and one time tried to remember previous combinations. Always took me forever
I agree that the Regi puzzle was cryptic as a kid when I didn’t understand English but imo the Braille part was the easy part because every single RSE game came with the instruction booklet that had the Braille to alphabet chart. Also, I completely agree with Snowpoint gym. Easily one of the most difficult gym puzzles. In my first playthrough of Blue there were also many very difficult parts for me because English is not my first language and it was 2 years before I started studying it on school. For example figuring out how to get the bicycle was really hard.
For me playing Sapphire for the first time, for some reason I could not find where to go next (Seafloor Cavern) to progress the story. I had to ask my Mum to buy me the guide and the day before it arrived at my house I found the dive spot lol the guide was still useful though so all good
I struggle with a lot of puzzles
Totem Araquanid in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon (Seriously there are very few hard counters for this spider thing, it will mess you up easily)
Totem Kommo-O, Lt. Surge, Sabrina's Teleporters, Finding Sootopolis, Hoenn Victory Road, Distortion World, Sinnoh Victory Road,
Crasher Wake's Gym, Maylene's Gym, Cynthia in Brilliant Diamond, Clay's Gym in Black and White 2 (so many dark areas), The bridge puzzle inside Team Plasma Frigate, Most of the re-designed gyms in Omega Ruby (Sootopolis Gym in particular)
All of the Puzzles in Rainbow Rocket sidequest (Ultra Sun and Moon)
Navigating through any Victory Road was my issue. And the reason why my mons came out over leveled, poisoned, paralyzed, burned or sleep😂😂😂
There used to be a challenge back then on navigating the Rock Tunnel without Flash back in my days.
But the one challenge that I struggled in recent days is... Ultra Necrozma. I have to technically stall that thing out just to win.
I didn't start playing until I was older (university) and I always had the guide books, but even with the guide books, I hated most ice puzzels. I used a cheating device a lot to just walk past them. I hope those don't make a comeback.
Blue version giving the teeth back to the safari guy
The hardest thing about Silph Co for me was GETTING the Card Key. I never thought of taking the same warp panel back and forth to get to it as a kid.
As for the Sarai Zone, the hardest part was just getting a Kangaskan, Tauros and Chanesy, not just getting around
Haha you showed my complaint about the Go-Rock base. I was so pissed off that i threw my DS across the room. Fortunately there was a full laundry basket there, but still.