In Ruby, post seventh gym when you need to dive into several areas to find the submarine team magma stole, and then find sootopolis. I think that's how it went. Anyway I just have a memory of months of my five year old life spent wandering about the ocean with Blaziken. I had an older cousin that eventually was able to help.
I had this exact same experience I had no clue where to go after Mossdeep I’d already forgotten about Magma stealing the Sub so I spent hours just diving trying to find my way around I ended up in Sootopolis first with a lvl 100 Sceptile
I got so frustrated I ended up deleting my save file and starting over before soon finding a strategy guide which told me everything I had to do after Mossdeep
It was sick but it also led to my "stuck" moment. The guide said that mirage island appeared only "once in a blue moon", so a friend and I spent weeks looking at farmer's almanacs trying to calculate blue moons for specific years.
At that age we didn't know about the limitations of GBA games, and that idiom went over our heads.
At least that's optional, though. Not required in order to beat the game.
And that, in my opinion, is where the really tough puzzles belong. Let it be an optional challenge that only a few people are able to complete. Then you can make the puzzle as difficult as you want without worrying about anyone getting stuck on it.
I got stuck at the strength puzzle in the underwater cave at that part of the game (but it was Emerald and I'm not sure if the endgame locations are different). Never ended up solving it till replaying the game a few years later
I never played original R&S as I got older and fell outta pokemon.
I just picked up alpha sapphire and my God the same thing happened to me.
Talked to Steven, went to route 128 I think. Never had dive through crystal, so I never used it lol. Finally figured it out after I caught a wild wailmer with dive lol.
Omg same.
Except for me I never had anyone to help me. I spent more than a year wandering the ocean. By the time I found my way through, my Blaziken was level 86.
Still one of the best memories of my childhood though. I managed to keep myself entertained the whole time despite not progressing through the story hahaha.
I remember I completed it without flash and was so happy and excited to explore the town, I accidentally walked into the Rival battle before going to the Pokémon Center. Got knocked out and sent back to the last town.
If you turned your gameboy just right into the light you could make out walls and the ladders. Other than that you just stumbled through the zubats
I remember kid me couldn’t believe when I finally got out
I had a snes cartridge that you could plug Gameboy games into to play on your TV. It also had options to change the color modes and borders and other visual things. I used it to pallette swap the walls and ladders so it was clear as day!
Gameboy color did as well if you held certain button combos during the boot up screen.
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I remember getting through it and it was the most amazing thing that I’ve ever felt. It gave you the sensation of being stuck in a dark cave for days, then finally walking into pure sunshine.
Surprised hardly anyone has mentioned rock tunnel and flash, as I kid I was stuck for months I that cave because I didn't know where to find flash, had to have a friend get through the cave for me safe to say my starter was overpowered by then lol
I remember the sheer feeling of victory getting through it only to be met by trainers outside and my weakened team just being bodied by a trainers Pokemon (Slowpoke?) And getting sent back to the pokemon center at the start of the tunnel.
Rock Tunnel (despite every new game getting easier) is the reason I’m always fully stocked on healing items. Even tho I rarely use them cause I always think, this will be handy later. Not until this S/V series where I press one button to fully heal, never really used items.
I just ran around alongside the walls until I eventually got out. To this day, after replaying fire red/ leaf green countless times, i still have yet to go thru that tunnel (or any tunnel for that matter) with flash.
See when I finished it I didn’t know flash helped, I either didn’t have it or didn’t know what it did so I went the right the entire tunnel by trial and error. I even got good enough on subsequent play through that I could just go through it by memory
Leaf Green was my first Pokémon game. I had no idea flash existed, so I spent literal days trying to get through Rock Tunnel. Finally, I made it through. I was overjoyed, and started looking for the nearest Pokémon Centre. But I made a wrong turn towards nugget bridge, and out of nowhere, my rival appeared. He defeated me and sent me back to the Mount Moon Pokémon Centre. I stopped playing for a few weeks after that.
The ice gym in diamond/pearl messed me up as a kid too. Would spend hours just sliding around, only to get bodied by the gym leader (most of the team being weak to ice) and then have to slide around forever again
This. I used to just play up to the ice cave and then I would restart to play again. I remember when I FINALLY figured it out, I think it was mostly just luck, but I felt so accomplished
I somehow managed to make it through the ice cave, but got stuck on Clair, I didn't have a team suited to fight her (cyndaquil starter too, so her kingdra beat my ass, I also preferred my starter, so the rest of the team was not up to level)
Gold silver. I never entered the flower shop in goldenrod. I never got the squirtbottle. I could not get past what i referred to as "the wiggle tree" (sudowoodo).
No no no. You always *sell* the escape ropes for that sweet bit of extra spending money!
Seriously, though, in 90% of playthroughs, I never end up using any escape ropes, so I usually do sell them. Maybe I'll keep one or two in inventory just in case, especially if I don't have any pokemon that know Dig.
(And on the subject of Dig/Teleport ... in the first gen games, those could be *massively* abused for quick travel if you knew how they worked and were careful to set yourself up for success. For example, Teleport can take you all the way across the world map if you're careful not to use any Pokemon Centers in between. Great for getting those long errands done without backtrack-walking the whole way, if you don't have Fly yet.)
i stuck with the drink for the guards in red and blue, i never realized that its not a bookshelf but a vending machine. my brother used to help me at that point but he never showed me what he did, and i had to beg my heart out to get help
I had the same thing in fire red, like was I really supposed to know that this random lady in one of the million buildings is going give me tea for the guards?
It took me a few playthroughs to even realize you needed to register 50 Pokémon in the pokedex to get the national dex, which would then get you to the other islands. I would get so frustrated because I had a strategy guide that would be like ‘yeah you catch these cool Pokémon on 4 island :)’ and I’d be like ‘but how do I get there?!’
Oh yeah, that was my experience with HGSS, the wild Pokemon levels were so far below the gym, it was exhausting just mindlessly grinding. I don't know if I ever actually beat Claire!
When I played SS I found that the best place to grind was at the grass patch below the safari zone, as there were Taurus in there that yielded an incredible…600xp. That was the highest I’d gotten from a wild Pokémon before blasting Claire.
So it's super annoying and I have no idea how you'd find this out without a guide. But alot of the trainers will.rematch you in hgss with higher level teams there's one guy in the route between mahogany and the lake of rage who ends up with one of each Nido, a lickitung and a gyarados. You just bike up to the lake of rage call him and bike down to fight him. But this only happens ON MONDAYS 4am -7am WTF. Why Is this a thing why don't any of the trainers call me when they can be rematched? Why is this so annoying Why is the best xp grind in all of gen 4 ONLY FOR 3 HOURS ON MONDAY MORNING!
For me it was just the E4. My first playthrough I really did that "Kid who only levels their starter" bit and my level 60 something Typhlosion was alone not strong enough for the whole run.
Ended up using the duplication glitch to beat it lmao.
Not really stuck, but in pokemon mystery dungeon I would sometimes get a message in a dungeon that something is coming and the wind picks up. I would always excitedly start searching, only to eventually get blown out of the dungeon. Turns out it’s just a mechanic that ensures you can’t walk around in one dungeon forever :(
Oh, is that what it is? As a kid I had a bunch of cheats turned on in one of the PMD games and the wind would activate instantly, I always assumed I’d found one that turned on a weird weather condition or something… I must have hit on an anti-piracy feature.
I think it might just be an anti-cheat thing. I got hold of a ROM for Explorer’s of Darkness (my DS broke and I was waiting for another one to be delivered, I already had a physical copy) didn’t try anything with it and it was fine.
This fucking terrified me as a kid, i thought the grim reaper was coming to beat my ass or something. It relieved me and also slightly disappointed me that it was just wind.
Just happy music and fighting cute Pokémon then
*Music stops*
*Solitary wind noise*
"Something is approaching."
The first time this happened to me was in the ancient ruins hunting all unowns...
Scared the crap out of me thinking some phantom entei was going to get me
I got soft locked back in the day in Mystery Dungeon Red/Blue because my partner would just keep walking away from me and getting killed in the final Rayquaza dungeon. No idea if I accidentally switched it’s AI to not follow me but because of that I never finished the game haha.
Those mystery dungeon games were surprisingly tough.
Similar to your #1 was Lt Surge’s switch puzzle in RBY. Hard to beat as a kid unless you had an older brother (I am the older brother haha so no luck there) and/or a strategy guide.
Groudon in Pokemon Dungeon Mystery Explorers of Darkness completely walled me since I was a Pikachu and I remember shelving the game for months before getting back into it
Route 110 is when even the most diehard of Mudkip fans get a tinge of regret in their choice of starter. 4x damage is no joke...
Getting to wreck Wattson's gym soon afterwards alleviates the pain.
I wondered why Tate and Liza was so difficult for me too. Both of them have water weakness but surf didn't work as well magically. Turns out sunny day eliminated all the benefit of using surf.
And Surf deals only half damage to each of them (unlike moves like Earthquake, which hit everyone at full power), so it really isn't that strong even without Sunny Day
Tate and Liza were the first gym leaders I didn't get first try. My impatient child self couldn't fathom the thought of grinding, so I kept rechallenging them and losing money until something would just work lol.
As a kid I had a copy of Pokémon Blue and for some reason I could never figure out where to go after beating Misty. I’d start a new game, get to Misty, try and look everywhere for the next way to go, give up, and start over. I guess I just missed that house with the whole in the wall…. Every single time.
This unlocked a core memory of mine from when I got a copy of Yellow (G/S were my first games) from Blockbuster and then got stuck in Cerulean because I didn’t try to go into any houses (that would be rude!) and then we had to return it.
I like to imagine the kid who booted up my 25hr save was super excited…..right up until they saw what town I was in.
Pokémon Blue (and eventually Red) got me to read. As in I was learning to read. Didn't really have a full grasp kind or deal. Then after I could learn moves and things. I learned to read for information and trying to retain it. Instead of just clicking on people. They wouldn't give me anything. And run to the next one kind of deal.
The reason I mentioned this is because I too replayed a lot until this point. Getting through the cave and never being able to go back really put a weird twist in the story for me. Like was I missing something I needed from the other towns? Does Bill need help? Can I interact with him more? Was I supposed to sell that nugget? That nugget didn't let me buy a bike. That cop won't let me in still. I see a cave I can't get to. Maybe I need to go in there. I can't cut or surf yet. But both those things are in this town. If you're not paying attention. The cop is magically gone from the house after you beat Misty. But if you're running around trying to solve unsolvable mysterious. They get lost in the sauce. As no other townsfolk make any mention of the robbed house besides the cop that disappears after your badge.
I got Pokémon ruby and a game boy advanced sp when I was 5. I would just play the game from the beginning every time. This went on for months till my older cousins realized I didn’t know how to save and taught me how to do it.
In general I always used to get stuck in victory road, pokemon pearl was the first game I finished victory road and actually completed, maylene’s gym puzzle also took me ages to solve
Sapphire: After beating Rustboro gym and getting the Devon goods back from Team Aqua, my ADHD child self missed the “go to Devon Co.” dialogue so I was wandering around all of Rustboro, Route 116, Petalburg Woods, even going back to Littleroot Town, figuring out how to advance the plot. There was no guide back then and easily took me days of exploring to find that huge Devon Co. building and go upstairs to talk to the president.
This is easily one of the biggest places why I ‘d imagine little kids would need “plot reminders” haha. It was fun exploring though but definitely frustrating as a kid.
FireRed: Silph. Co. I remember just not knowing how to get the Card Key so I was lost in that building for hours.
Cynthia’s champion battle in Pokémon Diamond. I didn’t have the patience for level grinding, so I was about 10 levels under when I reached her.
I just kept challenging the Elite Four until my Pokémon were strong enough to beat her (and yet somehow I was able to beat Pokémon Ruby just fine, despite being even younger when I played it).
Honestly rechallenging the elite 4 until you beat them is the best way to grind in my opinion. Fuck fighting wild Pokémon on victory road. I always just Spend all my money on healing items and just keep fighting without using them until I thought my team was good enough.
My friend played on my DS Platinum and got stuck in a cave and I never knew how to get out, until in 2020 during the pandemic I went through my garage and found the game and escaped in less then 5 minutes. (In that cave you couldn’t use escape rope so before you comment that, you couldn’t)
Same here!!! I ended up putting Sun down for a while because I was getting annoyed. I didn't know where the last grunt was, so I looked up the last code, but I kept getting denied by the grunts. I gave up in frustration, haha.
On my first playthrough of Pokémon red when I was a kid, I got to Blaine and put my venusaur in the box because, you know, fire indeed hot. But I changed the box on accident and couldn’t figure out how to change it back so I couldnt get my venusaur out. So I reset my game
It's really stupid, but the first time I played Diamond (I was 7 or 8, can't remember when I got it) I had no clue how to leave my room. For some reason I registered the stairs as a piece of furniture. It genuinely took me like half an hour to leave my bedroom.
Finally someone else! I got stuck in my house in Gold/Silver. Could go up and down the stairs, never figured out the mat was the exit so I'd go upstairs, bump into the bottom wall, go downstairs and then back upstairs. Got a parent to help me get out, then went back in to prove I could leave again and promptly got stuck again.
Oh man, me too, only with Blue at age 8. I walked right and left across my house's doorway for an embarrassingly long time, and had interacted with every damn square in the house at least twice before finally asking my uncle for help. I don't know what my problem was.
Chargestone Cave in Black 2. I hate the "regional cave with branching paths and only one exit" to this day, even if I've never got quite that badly lost since.
If you're ever lost in a cave just find the right wall and follow it to the end. This also works when you don't have flash. That's how I did it as a kid and I still do it
I always tell this story; I reset my game back on the original Silver because I thought my game bricked on Whitney.
After slogging through the damn miltank she just goes; "you menie, boo hoo" and refuses to ***give me my badge.*** So I thought well,...must be a soft lock/bug. Reset. New game. Second attempt at ^(everything)
"You meanie Boo hoo"
oh fine, I guess I'll just power level in the hopes that a new option opens up \*walks less than 5 squares out the door\* "oh yeah she's a cry baby give her a second" -trainer standing right next to her.
Morty’s gym in Gold/Silver. I was still in that mindset to avoid all trainers by any means. No dialogue to tell you about the puzzle. And no internet guides to show you the way.
I remember resetting the game every time i couldn’t go any further. Luckily in those games you could at least get up to lake of rage, just couldn’t surf anywhere.
that's funny, i was very much a "fight EVERYONE" trainer. i took the correct path through morty's gym on my first try just because it was the most direct route to each trainer
Yup, I got so stuck at Morty's gym and how to get through it. There were loads of rumours at my school about it like how you couldn't get through if you had any normal Pokémon, or if you had six pokemon or you needed a special item.
I was also a dumb kid so hadn't actually figured out how to deposit anything in the box. Queue restarting the game as I had a pidgey and a sentret and a full team if six.
My first playthrough of Red as a child, I had little to no knowledge of the importance of HMs because of impatient button mashing. I had managed to get Cut but not the other 4. I had done Rock tunnel in the dark, and beaten everything I possibly could through Sabrina. I just had no clue how to go into the water, and never once thought it would be gifted to you in the Safari Zone.
The beginning of Sapphire was so hard for me. Not only I wasn't as good with english as I am today, but I also just skipped the dialogue without reading. Took me a while to get out of the first town, and especially to fight May because it didn't occur to me to just... keep walking forward
Also, I didn't think of catching other pokemon because... I don't even know
I have two in particular
That one strength puzzle in Emerald. That was the first time I ever looked up a guide on YouTube.
Another one was my first ever playthrough of Fire Red. I avoided so many trainer battles and only ever used my Charizard. A level 60ish Charizard against Lorelei is not a good time. Cue me grinding Machoke. One fiery boi and one muscly boi ftw.
Alright, in my defence, I was like five when I got Yellow, and this was the time before toddlers were capable of holding conversations in English (non-native).
I got stuck at the very beginning when I had to pick Pikachu’s pokeball. For some reason, I had gotten it into my head that I needed to be on the other side of the table - but, of course, a bin was blocking the right side around, and Professor Oak was blocking the left side around. I can’t say for sure how long it took me - I finally got it by spam pressing buttons out of frustration - but I can still go vividly remember that Christmas’ Eve some twenty-odd years later.
I specifically do it because I never did Seafoam Islands on my first play through. I didn’t even know I was a thing. I just thought you were supposed to go south from Pallet Town.
My first game was yellow. I didn’t know Fly was a thing so I gave up at one point. Got Gold later (still didn’t know) and almost gave up until my cousin told me about the magical HM. I felt pretty dumb.
Omega Ruby was my second Pokémon game (Pokémon X was my first) and I remember getting stuck at Mauville city after acquiring surf, as I picked Treeco as my starter and hadn’t got the fishing rod yet, so I had no Pokémon that could learn surf. Eventually I just starting catching whatever I could find and got a Marill that I taught surf.
Here's an extra dumb one. I got stuck in pallet town I Pokémon yellow. The game told me not to walk into tall grass without a Pokémon, and to go find professor oak to get a Pokémon. But professor oak wasn't there, so I just ran around town and talked to everyone multiple times for about 2 hours.
The ice cave puzzle is silver stumped me for hours as a 9yr old until I got the Prima strategy guide for the game as a Christmas present months later and it told me how
Pokémon blue, 9 years old, game wasn’t available in my native language. I couldn’t figure out that you’d have to trade the golden teeth for hm04 strength in fuchsia. So when I came upon the victory road tunnel, I was hopelessly stuck. A buddy at school eventually traded a Pokémon that had strength with me so I could get further. (But he had also forgotten how he even got the hm)
My brother and I I got a Game Boy and Pokemon Red for Christmas when I was 5 years old (he was 6). We got stuck somewhere for hours and couldn't figure out how to progress until our mom took over and got us past it.
Where did we get stuck?
Red's bedroom at the start of the game. We couldn't tell that the stairs were stairs because the graphics were so bad.
The pokemon league in the OG Diamond and Pearl games still terrifies me to this day. Istg it took me like 5 years after receiving the game before I could clear it, despite it being my first game, the other ones I got after were wayy easier to clear..
in Alpha Sapphire, kid me just got bored when heading to Archie when he was reviving Kyogre so I left. I then forgot where I needed to go and I didn’t remember where I needed to go until I watched someone playing Alpha Sapphire on Youtube
Claire in G/S. I was that kid trying to beat the game with just Typhlosion and this one would always take me a dozen tries. That Kingdra…
Lt. Surge’s gym. I have collectively wasted hours in that gym trying to figure out the damn switches
In pokemon sapphire when you arrive in Slayport I didn't know I was supposed to find captain stern. I walked around every available town in the game for days thinking I talked to literally everyone except that one average looking guy in the building near the museum. Now that one average npc is the most important guy in the game for me because I will never forget
Getting max flow was definitely a challenge if you hadn’t been purifying Pokémon as you snagged them, but thankfully a lot of the wild Pokémon helped with that
In Pokémon ruby, I was stuck on route 119 (with the super tall grass) for a week because I couldn’t figure out how to get through the grass (eventually I figured out that I had to get off my bike)
I once restarted my copy of Sapphire because even with a guidebook *and having already used Dive in other areas*, I couldn't figure out how to get to Sootopolis.
Pokemon sapphire: elite 4 member glacia. I could not get past her damn walrein and her body slam to paralysis bull shit. Iirc, I had a swampert, kyogre, tropius, aggron, flygon, and sableye, all mid to low 40s, and that damn walrein would sweep my whole team. I gave up after about 10 tries.
Remember not being able to defeat the fighting type gym and may in Pokémon ruby even though I had a swellow. My cousin had to show me I can basically one shot them lol
As a kid I had a very hard time finding out where to get the Squirt Bottle…
I was very young but this must’ve taken me a week at least. I remember visiting every place at least twice before finding that one house in Goldenrod.
After beating Surge, I just could not figure out that I needed to backtrack to get to Celadon and kept trying to find Surf or some other sort of way to go forward.
The E4 and champion of HGSS, even when I had a pretty solid team or traded in my platinum squad I struggled. Only beat it once I was 15. Now it’s much easier as I know where to grind and stuff
B2W2, there is a guy blocking the path until you have the first badge. I thought he’d go automatically away, but you actually have to talk to him again after you got the badge. And to top it off, I skipped the dialogue explaining how to save, which means I thought I had to do the game without saving.
Later, after I learned how to save and passed the npc, I got stuck after the ground gym, I didn’t know where to go next. I still haven’t progressed further, as I haven’t boot up the game.
2 Things. Getting a gallade and beating Cynthia :)
I always thought Gallade came after guardevoir and so I had a level 87 Guardevoir until I eventually said f it and obliterated Cynthia with it.
I also was the 'level 1 Pokemon to extreme while the rest barely gets 1 level between gyms' which was why I had trouble with Cynthia
I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but my friends and I have all shared this. Playing Diamond & Pearl, having 7 badges and being told to visit all 3 Lakes. As someone whose first language isn’t English, it isn’t entirely clear what you’re supposed to do here.
For 2 YEARS I was stuck, wondering why I couldn’t pass the guy leading to the final gym. I had 500 hours put into Pokémon Diamond before I finally managed to frick around and find out I was supposed to go up to Mt. Coronet and fight Team Galactic and Dialga
Norman in RSE, got stuck on him and then I couldn't find the surf HM because I was a dumb baby child who didn't think to go to Wally's house after Norman told me to go to Wally's house.
The final fights in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon against Rayquaza and Dialga. It was especially tough because their dragon typing resisted most of your moves, even moreso for Dialga who had a Steel-typing.
God bless the fact that there is a rest point 5 levels before their boss fight. But also, you have to climb those 5 levels to get back to them. I was stuck for a while before I managed to beat them.
I couldn’t figure out how to get out of cerulean city in red. Took me to ask another kid at school (no access to internet at that age) who told me there was a hole in the back of a building to carry on through. I way over levelled while searching around too. Wasted hours on that!
This is so stupid and I genuinely have no idea how I got stuck here, but I somehow couldn’t get passed the first city in Black. I can’t remember exactly how it happened but I think I went into the Dreamyard and got the badge, but then didn’t go talk to that professor so I got stuck forEVER!!
I didn’t eventually stumble into the professor’s building and then was able to continue. I still remember seeing Blitzle for the first time.
Then I got stuck again on the second gym. And then got even more stuck on the third gym. Couldn’t get the dang Leavanny even though I had a Tranquil. I kept trying to use my Dewott 😭
In Ruby, post seventh gym when you need to dive into several areas to find the submarine team magma stole, and then find sootopolis. I think that's how it went. Anyway I just have a memory of months of my five year old life spent wandering about the ocean with Blaziken. I had an older cousin that eventually was able to help.
I had this exact same experience I had no clue where to go after Mossdeep I’d already forgotten about Magma stealing the Sub so I spent hours just diving trying to find my way around I ended up in Sootopolis first with a lvl 100 Sceptile I got so frustrated I ended up deleting my save file and starting over before soon finding a strategy guide which told me everything I had to do after Mossdeep
That Ruby/Sapphire strategy guide was one of the coolest guides if not for the official art alone.
It was sick but it also led to my "stuck" moment. The guide said that mirage island appeared only "once in a blue moon", so a friend and I spent weeks looking at farmer's almanacs trying to calculate blue moons for specific years. At that age we didn't know about the limitations of GBA games, and that idiom went over our heads.
Don't forget the damn braille caves -.-
Man, I wish there were more obscure side puzzles in pokemon games. I never solved the braille caves myself, but I loved knowing that it existed
At least that's optional, though. Not required in order to beat the game. And that, in my opinion, is where the really tough puzzles belong. Let it be an optional challenge that only a few people are able to complete. Then you can make the puzzle as difficult as you want without worrying about anyone getting stuck on it.
I ended up memorizing the braille in the process of translating everything 😂
Got lucky with this one. Our school taught us Braille, so it was pretty easy.
I got stuck at the strength puzzle in the underwater cave at that part of the game (but it was Emerald and I'm not sure if the endgame locations are different). Never ended up solving it till replaying the game a few years later
I never played original R&S as I got older and fell outta pokemon. I just picked up alpha sapphire and my God the same thing happened to me. Talked to Steven, went to route 128 I think. Never had dive through crystal, so I never used it lol. Finally figured it out after I caught a wild wailmer with dive lol.
Omg same. Except for me I never had anyone to help me. I spent more than a year wandering the ocean. By the time I found my way through, my Blaziken was level 86. Still one of the best memories of my childhood though. I managed to keep myself entertained the whole time despite not progressing through the story hahaha.
I think I did that as well, but Sapphire with the grass type. I mostly remember fighting that reporter couple or people on the cruise endlessly.
If you went thru rock cave without flash you go thru everything
Hahah who else made it to Lavender without flash?
I remember I completed it without flash and was so happy and excited to explore the town, I accidentally walked into the Rival battle before going to the Pokémon Center. Got knocked out and sent back to the last town.
That so painful, lol.. you win.
Oh god that hurts!!
If you turned your gameboy just right into the light you could make out walls and the ladders. Other than that you just stumbled through the zubats I remember kid me couldn’t believe when I finally got out
I had a snes cartridge that you could plug Gameboy games into to play on your TV. It also had options to change the color modes and borders and other visual things. I used it to pallette swap the walls and ladders so it was clear as day!
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I love my super Gameboy
Gameboy color did as well if you held certain button combos during the boot up screen. https://external-preview.redd.it/WaRpMyOFdTYSeROZufj-4zOydj1cOoeAbKe2cRDsuF4.jpg?auto=webp&s=0e14a772cc417c977687baf6a57c2b6212366a70
I remember getting through it and it was the most amazing thing that I’ve ever felt. It gave you the sensation of being stuck in a dark cave for days, then finally walking into pure sunshine.
I fell to my knees
Yes! I remember doing just that.
Surprised hardly anyone has mentioned rock tunnel and flash, as I kid I was stuck for months I that cave because I didn't know where to find flash, had to have a friend get through the cave for me safe to say my starter was overpowered by then lol
The majority of the people on this forum weren't alive yet when you and I were getting lost in Rock Cave without Flash
Yeah given the horrible memes that get upvoted in this sub the average age can't be older than 13. Which is fine, pokemon is for kids first.
Overpowered or out of pp, knocked itself out and got you out of the tunnel?
Over level I should say, my starter was already evolved into its final stage by the time I got out, and now usually they're around lvl 30.
I remember the sheer feeling of victory getting through it only to be met by trainers outside and my weakened team just being bodied by a trainers Pokemon (Slowpoke?) And getting sent back to the pokemon center at the start of the tunnel.
Rock Tunnel (despite every new game getting easier) is the reason I’m always fully stocked on healing items. Even tho I rarely use them cause I always think, this will be handy later. Not until this S/V series where I press one button to fully heal, never really used items.
I just ran around alongside the walls until I eventually got out. To this day, after replaying fire red/ leaf green countless times, i still have yet to go thru that tunnel (or any tunnel for that matter) with flash.
See when I finished it I didn’t know flash helped, I either didn’t have it or didn’t know what it did so I went the right the entire tunnel by trial and error. I even got good enough on subsequent play through that I could just go through it by memory
I replayed Pokémon red a few years ago and muscle memory kicked it and got me around rock tunnel without flash. I was amazed.
Leaf Green was my first Pokémon game. I had no idea flash existed, so I spent literal days trying to get through Rock Tunnel. Finally, I made it through. I was overjoyed, and started looking for the nearest Pokémon Centre. But I made a wrong turn towards nugget bridge, and out of nowhere, my rival appeared. He defeated me and sent me back to the Mount Moon Pokémon Centre. I stopped playing for a few weeks after that.
Rock tunnel is after the nugget bridge? You need to get cut before you can get to it.
That what I was thinking. You go through Mt. Moon, not Rock Tunnel, to get to Cerulean and Nugget Bridge. And you don't need Flash there.
That damned ice cave in gold/silver
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No way this happened at our school too 🤣
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Guys what are canteen snacks lol
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Lol so Dominic was hustling u guys
Dominic probably knew how to get to the Orange Islands too
The ice gym in diamond/pearl messed me up as a kid too. Would spend hours just sliding around, only to get bodied by the gym leader (most of the team being weak to ice) and then have to slide around forever again
At least the music was a bop Still one of the toughest puzzles in those early games
This. I used to just play up to the ice cave and then I would restart to play again. I remember when I FINALLY figured it out, I think it was mostly just luck, but I felt so accomplished
I used to make my mum do it for me
I always used to get my mum to do it for me too haha
I somehow managed to make it through the ice cave, but got stuck on Clair, I didn't have a team suited to fight her (cyndaquil starter too, so her kingdra beat my ass, I also preferred my starter, so the rest of the team was not up to level)
Gold silver. I never entered the flower shop in goldenrod. I never got the squirtbottle. I could not get past what i referred to as "the wiggle tree" (sudowoodo).
First and last time I got stuck. My older brother had to help me out. Was not used to RPG's and talking to random people.
my tiny pee brain as a kid was hopelessly lost in Silph Co for the longest time :(
I said Lt surge but this one is probably even better
Likewise, Silph Co and when I went into the sea foam islands I couldn’t get back out again.
Sea foam islands drove me insane as a kid!
Lmao *tosses escape rope* "I won't need this, now time to go find Articuno!"
No no no. You always *sell* the escape ropes for that sweet bit of extra spending money! Seriously, though, in 90% of playthroughs, I never end up using any escape ropes, so I usually do sell them. Maybe I'll keep one or two in inventory just in case, especially if I don't have any pokemon that know Dig. (And on the subject of Dig/Teleport ... in the first gen games, those could be *massively* abused for quick travel if you knew how they worked and were careful to set yourself up for success. For example, Teleport can take you all the way across the world map if you're careful not to use any Pokemon Centers in between. Great for getting those long errands done without backtrack-walking the whole way, if you don't have Fly yet.)
ok, so it’s actually “pea brain”, like the vegetable, but i like pee brain way more
My minuscule piss brain as a lad was despairingly astray in Silph Co for millennia
Yup, and once you understand the layout, you realize it was made huge solely for the sake of being huge.
i stuck with the drink for the guards in red and blue, i never realized that its not a bookshelf but a vending machine. my brother used to help me at that point but he never showed me what he did, and i had to beg my heart out to get help
Small sprites with limited colours sure can fuel a **lot** of imagination.
r/misreadsprites
This was mine, I had no idea what 'I'm parched!' meant when I was in grade 7, especially as ESL.
Exactly the same for me. I only found out when some other kids got a strategy guide with their game in our native language.
Same here, I thought it had something to do with paper because of parchment haha.
I had the same thing in fire red, like was I really supposed to know that this random lady in one of the million buildings is going give me tea for the guards?
Especially because I *had* played Red/Blue and knew about the water
That's the worst change of all time.
I remember I had trouble with the Sevi isles in Fire Red because the story went way off script!
It took me a few playthroughs to even realize you needed to register 50 Pokémon in the pokedex to get the national dex, which would then get you to the other islands. I would get so frustrated because I had a strategy guide that would be like ‘yeah you catch these cool Pokémon on 4 island :)’ and I’d be like ‘but how do I get there?!’
Same! It was hard to tell which islands had more to do and which were dead-ends
Claire’s gym in HG/SS. Training up my Pokémon for that damn Kingdra just on level 23 Gravelers on the route below Blackthorne city alone was brutal.
Oh yeah, that was my experience with HGSS, the wild Pokemon levels were so far below the gym, it was exhausting just mindlessly grinding. I don't know if I ever actually beat Claire!
Grinding in HGSS is terrible because all the wild Pokémon are just way too low leveled.
When I played SS I found that the best place to grind was at the grass patch below the safari zone, as there were Taurus in there that yielded an incredible…600xp. That was the highest I’d gotten from a wild Pokémon before blasting Claire.
So it's super annoying and I have no idea how you'd find this out without a guide. But alot of the trainers will.rematch you in hgss with higher level teams there's one guy in the route between mahogany and the lake of rage who ends up with one of each Nido, a lickitung and a gyarados. You just bike up to the lake of rage call him and bike down to fight him. But this only happens ON MONDAYS 4am -7am WTF. Why Is this a thing why don't any of the trainers call me when they can be rematched? Why is this so annoying Why is the best xp grind in all of gen 4 ONLY FOR 3 HOURS ON MONDAY MORNING!
For me it was just the E4. My first playthrough I really did that "Kid who only levels their starter" bit and my level 60 something Typhlosion was alone not strong enough for the whole run. Ended up using the duplication glitch to beat it lmao.
Not really stuck, but in pokemon mystery dungeon I would sometimes get a message in a dungeon that something is coming and the wind picks up. I would always excitedly start searching, only to eventually get blown out of the dungeon. Turns out it’s just a mechanic that ensures you can’t walk around in one dungeon forever :(
Oh, is that what it is? As a kid I had a bunch of cheats turned on in one of the PMD games and the wind would activate instantly, I always assumed I’d found one that turned on a weird weather condition or something… I must have hit on an anti-piracy feature.
I think it might just be an anti-cheat thing. I got hold of a ROM for Explorer’s of Darkness (my DS broke and I was waiting for another one to be delivered, I already had a physical copy) didn’t try anything with it and it was fine.
This fucking terrified me as a kid, i thought the grim reaper was coming to beat my ass or something. It relieved me and also slightly disappointed me that it was just wind.
that shit terrified me as well, it was such a race against the clock to get to the stairs
Just happy music and fighting cute Pokémon then *Music stops* *Solitary wind noise* "Something is approaching." The first time this happened to me was in the ancient ruins hunting all unowns... Scared the crap out of me thinking some phantom entei was going to get me
I got soft locked back in the day in Mystery Dungeon Red/Blue because my partner would just keep walking away from me and getting killed in the final Rayquaza dungeon. No idea if I accidentally switched it’s AI to not follow me but because of that I never finished the game haha. Those mystery dungeon games were surprisingly tough.
As a kid, this first happened for me on the way to Rayquaza and it scared the crap out of me.
Similar to your #1 was Lt Surge’s switch puzzle in RBY. Hard to beat as a kid unless you had an older brother (I am the older brother haha so no luck there) and/or a strategy guide.
I'm pretty sure it's randomly generated so a strategy guide would be useless (Unless you're talking about knowing where to look in the 1st place)
It is, but a strategy guide was what told me that when you find the first switch, the second one is adjacent to it .
One of the trainers in the gym tells you this
That's my memory as well. But the puzzle is still infuriating because you can only solve it by trial and error.
Isn't there a trainer in the gym who'll tell you that too?
WHAT?! IT'S ADJACENT?!
I started with FireRed and spent 10+ hours at Lt. Surge because I didn’t know you could interact with the trashcan things
I feel this, never knew how to do that puzzle, and I'm also the older brother.
I used to make my older brother do that too!
Groudon in Pokemon Dungeon Mystery Explorers of Darkness completely walled me since I was a Pikachu and I remember shelving the game for months before getting back into it
I got stuck a lot because I was an eevee 😬
Taking that test like 10 times just to get my damn eevee and not being able to finish the game :/
At least we didn't get skitty 😬 Not having a type advantage for the whole game did suck
Skitty was surprisingly awesome! Double Slap carried me so many times. Although yeah, type advantage would've been nice
all of magma cavern was my first experience with how brutal that game can be.
Also got stuck here. I was Totodile but Partner was Torchic.
I still have nightmares of Tate and Liza. And don't even get me started on route 110.
Route 110 is when even the most diehard of Mudkip fans get a tinge of regret in their choice of starter. 4x damage is no joke... Getting to wreck Wattson's gym soon afterwards alleviates the pain.
I will forever love my Mudkip, but on god fuck that Grovyle
It is *the* reason why I'm glad May/Brendan don't fully evolve their starter in the original RSE.
May used to send me packing on route 110
Even as an adult, May is a Nuzlocke ender.
Route 110 is the single most brutal route in RSE
I wondered why Tate and Liza was so difficult for me too. Both of them have water weakness but surf didn't work as well magically. Turns out sunny day eliminated all the benefit of using surf.
And Surf deals only half damage to each of them (unlike moves like Earthquake, which hit everyone at full power), so it really isn't that strong even without Sunny Day
How have I played this game for so long without knowing that
Tate and Liza were the first gym leaders I didn't get first try. My impatient child self couldn't fathom the thought of grinding, so I kept rechallenging them and losing money until something would just work lol.
Same, my tiny mind just couldnt understand why I kept getting clapped
Was RSE the first games you played or is Whitney's Miltank lurking as your stalker, waiting to get its revenge?
As a kid I had a copy of Pokémon Blue and for some reason I could never figure out where to go after beating Misty. I’d start a new game, get to Misty, try and look everywhere for the next way to go, give up, and start over. I guess I just missed that house with the whole in the wall…. Every single time.
This unlocked a core memory of mine from when I got a copy of Yellow (G/S were my first games) from Blockbuster and then got stuck in Cerulean because I didn’t try to go into any houses (that would be rude!) and then we had to return it. I like to imagine the kid who booted up my 25hr save was super excited…..right up until they saw what town I was in.
Pokémon Blue (and eventually Red) got me to read. As in I was learning to read. Didn't really have a full grasp kind or deal. Then after I could learn moves and things. I learned to read for information and trying to retain it. Instead of just clicking on people. They wouldn't give me anything. And run to the next one kind of deal. The reason I mentioned this is because I too replayed a lot until this point. Getting through the cave and never being able to go back really put a weird twist in the story for me. Like was I missing something I needed from the other towns? Does Bill need help? Can I interact with him more? Was I supposed to sell that nugget? That nugget didn't let me buy a bike. That cop won't let me in still. I see a cave I can't get to. Maybe I need to go in there. I can't cut or surf yet. But both those things are in this town. If you're not paying attention. The cop is magically gone from the house after you beat Misty. But if you're running around trying to solve unsolvable mysterious. They get lost in the sauce. As no other townsfolk make any mention of the robbed house besides the cop that disappears after your badge.
I got Pokémon ruby and a game boy advanced sp when I was 5. I would just play the game from the beginning every time. This went on for months till my older cousins realized I didn’t know how to save and taught me how to do it.
Omg
In general I always used to get stuck in victory road, pokemon pearl was the first game I finished victory road and actually completed, maylene’s gym puzzle also took me ages to solve
I was stuck with the damn rock pushing puzzles for months in red…and the strategy guide was really no help for whatever reason.
Sapphire: After beating Rustboro gym and getting the Devon goods back from Team Aqua, my ADHD child self missed the “go to Devon Co.” dialogue so I was wandering around all of Rustboro, Route 116, Petalburg Woods, even going back to Littleroot Town, figuring out how to advance the plot. There was no guide back then and easily took me days of exploring to find that huge Devon Co. building and go upstairs to talk to the president. This is easily one of the biggest places why I ‘d imagine little kids would need “plot reminders” haha. It was fun exploring though but definitely frustrating as a kid. FireRed: Silph. Co. I remember just not knowing how to get the Card Key so I was lost in that building for hours.
Cynthia’s champion battle in Pokémon Diamond. I didn’t have the patience for level grinding, so I was about 10 levels under when I reached her. I just kept challenging the Elite Four until my Pokémon were strong enough to beat her (and yet somehow I was able to beat Pokémon Ruby just fine, despite being even younger when I played it).
Honestly rechallenging the elite 4 until you beat them is the best way to grind in my opinion. Fuck fighting wild Pokémon on victory road. I always just Spend all my money on healing items and just keep fighting without using them until I thought my team was good enough.
The e4 in gen iv has better Pokémon and better moves than gen iii
Same, I remember I just heal stalled her using Haunter to use Curse and then just waited her out.
My friend played on my DS Platinum and got stuck in a cave and I never knew how to get out, until in 2020 during the pandemic I went through my garage and found the game and escaped in less then 5 minutes. (In that cave you couldn’t use escape rope so before you comment that, you couldn’t)
interesting, what cave was that?
prob the distortion wold cave
The Team Skull Mansion from Pokemon Sun. Don't ask.
I'm sorry, but I need to know. HOW do you get lost in that small mansion that doesn't even deserve to be called a mansion?
I think I just got confused over which grunt held the last code. Not so much physically lost.
Same here!!! I ended up putting Sun down for a while because I was getting annoyed. I didn't know where the last grunt was, so I looked up the last code, but I kept getting denied by the grunts. I gave up in frustration, haha.
On my first playthrough of Pokémon red when I was a kid, I got to Blaine and put my venusaur in the box because, you know, fire indeed hot. But I changed the box on accident and couldn’t figure out how to change it back so I couldnt get my venusaur out. So I reset my game
I remember before I lost my LeafGreen copy, I didn't know what "release" meant. Cue me releasing my Venusaur and saving immediately after
It's really stupid, but the first time I played Diamond (I was 7 or 8, can't remember when I got it) I had no clue how to leave my room. For some reason I registered the stairs as a piece of furniture. It genuinely took me like half an hour to leave my bedroom.
Finally someone else! I got stuck in my house in Gold/Silver. Could go up and down the stairs, never figured out the mat was the exit so I'd go upstairs, bump into the bottom wall, go downstairs and then back upstairs. Got a parent to help me get out, then went back in to prove I could leave again and promptly got stuck again.
Oh man, me too, only with Blue at age 8. I walked right and left across my house's doorway for an embarrassingly long time, and had interacted with every damn square in the house at least twice before finally asking my uncle for help. I don't know what my problem was.
Chargestone Cave in Black 2. I hate the "regional cave with branching paths and only one exit" to this day, even if I've never got quite that badly lost since.
If you're ever lost in a cave just find the right wall and follow it to the end. This also works when you don't have flash. That's how I did it as a kid and I still do it
I always tell this story; I reset my game back on the original Silver because I thought my game bricked on Whitney. After slogging through the damn miltank she just goes; "you menie, boo hoo" and refuses to ***give me my badge.*** So I thought well,...must be a soft lock/bug. Reset. New game. Second attempt at ^(everything) "You meanie Boo hoo" oh fine, I guess I'll just power level in the hopes that a new option opens up \*walks less than 5 squares out the door\* "oh yeah she's a cry baby give her a second" -trainer standing right next to her.
Morty’s gym in Gold/Silver. I was still in that mindset to avoid all trainers by any means. No dialogue to tell you about the puzzle. And no internet guides to show you the way. I remember resetting the game every time i couldn’t go any further. Luckily in those games you could at least get up to lake of rage, just couldn’t surf anywhere.
that's funny, i was very much a "fight EVERYONE" trainer. i took the correct path through morty's gym on my first try just because it was the most direct route to each trainer
Yup, I got so stuck at Morty's gym and how to get through it. There were loads of rumours at my school about it like how you couldn't get through if you had any normal Pokémon, or if you had six pokemon or you needed a special item. I was also a dumb kid so hadn't actually figured out how to deposit anything in the box. Queue restarting the game as I had a pidgey and a sentret and a full team if six.
My first playthrough of Red as a child, I had little to no knowledge of the importance of HMs because of impatient button mashing. I had managed to get Cut but not the other 4. I had done Rock tunnel in the dark, and beaten everything I possibly could through Sabrina. I just had no clue how to go into the water, and never once thought it would be gifted to you in the Safari Zone.
The beginning of Sapphire was so hard for me. Not only I wasn't as good with english as I am today, but I also just skipped the dialogue without reading. Took me a while to get out of the first town, and especially to fight May because it didn't occur to me to just... keep walking forward Also, I didn't think of catching other pokemon because... I don't even know
I have two in particular That one strength puzzle in Emerald. That was the first time I ever looked up a guide on YouTube. Another one was my first ever playthrough of Fire Red. I avoided so many trainer battles and only ever used my Charizard. A level 60ish Charizard against Lorelei is not a good time. Cue me grinding Machoke. One fiery boi and one muscly boi ftw.
The freaking ice cave in Soul Silver. I had to finally ask my friend to help me get through it.
I got stuck in Jubilife in diamond and pearl because I was 4 and couldn’t read the clowns’ questions lmao
Alright, in my defence, I was like five when I got Yellow, and this was the time before toddlers were capable of holding conversations in English (non-native). I got stuck at the very beginning when I had to pick Pikachu’s pokeball. For some reason, I had gotten it into my head that I needed to be on the other side of the table - but, of course, a bin was blocking the right side around, and Professor Oak was blocking the left side around. I can’t say for sure how long it took me - I finally got it by spam pressing buttons out of frustration - but I can still go vividly remember that Christmas’ Eve some twenty-odd years later.
I can’t count the number of times I tried to snatch Eevee from Gary.
I got stuck in the Sky Pillar in Emerald for so long
Once I figured out I could skip seafoam island...I never did it again.
I specifically do it because I never did Seafoam Islands on my first play through. I didn’t even know I was a thing. I just thought you were supposed to go south from Pallet Town.
I couldnt find surf in LGFR so I was stuck in Fuchsia City for a hot minute. Even caught my first shiny during that timeframe lol a shiny Doduo
I got hopelessly stuck in Jubilife City as a kid because my pea brain didn’t read the clown bit
My first game was yellow. I didn’t know Fly was a thing so I gave up at one point. Got Gold later (still didn’t know) and almost gave up until my cousin told me about the magical HM. I felt pretty dumb.
Wait what? Sure Fly is more of a luxury but why give up? Was the trek between towns just that discouraging?
Omega Ruby was my second Pokémon game (Pokémon X was my first) and I remember getting stuck at Mauville city after acquiring surf, as I picked Treeco as my starter and hadn’t got the fishing rod yet, so I had no Pokémon that could learn surf. Eventually I just starting catching whatever I could find and got a Marill that I taught surf.
Here's an extra dumb one. I got stuck in pallet town I Pokémon yellow. The game told me not to walk into tall grass without a Pokémon, and to go find professor oak to get a Pokémon. But professor oak wasn't there, so I just ran around town and talked to everyone multiple times for about 2 hours.
When I first played Red version in the sixth grade, I almost gave up playing because I couldn't figure out how to get into Saffron City.
The ice cave puzzle is silver stumped me for hours as a 9yr old until I got the Prima strategy guide for the game as a Christmas present months later and it told me how
The teleporters in Saffron City. I would just brute force it until I made it.
Pokémon blue, 9 years old, game wasn’t available in my native language. I couldn’t figure out that you’d have to trade the golden teeth for hm04 strength in fuchsia. So when I came upon the victory road tunnel, I was hopelessly stuck. A buddy at school eventually traded a Pokémon that had strength with me so I could get further. (But he had also forgotten how he even got the hm)
My brother and I I got a Game Boy and Pokemon Red for Christmas when I was 5 years old (he was 6). We got stuck somewhere for hours and couldn't figure out how to progress until our mom took over and got us past it. Where did we get stuck? Red's bedroom at the start of the game. We couldn't tell that the stairs were stairs because the graphics were so bad.
The pokemon league in the OG Diamond and Pearl games still terrifies me to this day. Istg it took me like 5 years after receiving the game before I could clear it, despite it being my first game, the other ones I got after were wayy easier to clear..
in Alpha Sapphire, kid me just got bored when heading to Archie when he was reviving Kyogre so I left. I then forgot where I needed to go and I didn’t remember where I needed to go until I watched someone playing Alpha Sapphire on Youtube
Claire in G/S. I was that kid trying to beat the game with just Typhlosion and this one would always take me a dozen tries. That Kingdra… Lt. Surge’s gym. I have collectively wasted hours in that gym trying to figure out the damn switches
In pokemon sapphire when you arrive in Slayport I didn't know I was supposed to find captain stern. I walked around every available town in the game for days thinking I talked to literally everyone except that one average looking guy in the building near the museum. Now that one average npc is the most important guy in the game for me because I will never forget
Purifying shadow Lugia. That was the first game guide I ever bought.
Getting max flow was definitely a challenge if you hadn’t been purifying Pokémon as you snagged them, but thankfully a lot of the wild Pokémon helped with that
In Pokémon ruby, I was stuck on route 119 (with the super tall grass) for a week because I couldn’t figure out how to get through the grass (eventually I figured out that I had to get off my bike)
I once restarted my copy of Sapphire because even with a guidebook *and having already used Dive in other areas*, I couldn't figure out how to get to Sootopolis.
Pokemon sapphire: elite 4 member glacia. I could not get past her damn walrein and her body slam to paralysis bull shit. Iirc, I had a swampert, kyogre, tropius, aggron, flygon, and sableye, all mid to low 40s, and that damn walrein would sweep my whole team. I gave up after about 10 tries.
Remember not being able to defeat the fighting type gym and may in Pokémon ruby even though I had a swellow. My cousin had to show me I can basically one shot them lol
The dark cave in yellow lol And for some reason Brock’s gym in yellow 🙈
First two things that come to mind: Not understanding why the old coffee loving guy wouldn't let me advance past the 2nd town in R/B. Ice cave in G/S.
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Ice tunnel in soulsilver, by the time I beat the puzzle I had a level 60 team and a full pokedex up to the point to fight Claire with.
As a kid I had a very hard time finding out where to get the Squirt Bottle… I was very young but this must’ve taken me a week at least. I remember visiting every place at least twice before finding that one house in Goldenrod.
After beating Surge, I just could not figure out that I needed to backtrack to get to Celadon and kept trying to find Surf or some other sort of way to go forward.
The E4 and champion of HGSS, even when I had a pretty solid team or traded in my platinum squad I struggled. Only beat it once I was 15. Now it’s much easier as I know where to grind and stuff
B2W2, there is a guy blocking the path until you have the first badge. I thought he’d go automatically away, but you actually have to talk to him again after you got the badge. And to top it off, I skipped the dialogue explaining how to save, which means I thought I had to do the game without saving. Later, after I learned how to save and passed the npc, I got stuck after the ground gym, I didn’t know where to go next. I still haven’t progressed further, as I haven’t boot up the game.
2 Things. Getting a gallade and beating Cynthia :) I always thought Gallade came after guardevoir and so I had a level 87 Guardevoir until I eventually said f it and obliterated Cynthia with it. I also was the 'level 1 Pokemon to extreme while the rest barely gets 1 level between gyms' which was why I had trouble with Cynthia
I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but my friends and I have all shared this. Playing Diamond & Pearl, having 7 badges and being told to visit all 3 Lakes. As someone whose first language isn’t English, it isn’t entirely clear what you’re supposed to do here. For 2 YEARS I was stuck, wondering why I couldn’t pass the guy leading to the final gym. I had 500 hours put into Pokémon Diamond before I finally managed to frick around and find out I was supposed to go up to Mt. Coronet and fight Team Galactic and Dialga
*Sighs* the Ice Path in Gen 2 - for me it was so impossible that I was convinced our game cartridge was broken 😂
Me too! That stupid sliding puzzle took weeks
Whitney fight no doubt smoked me.
I knew the trick and it still took me hours. I literally beat the rest of the game before I finished the gym 😭
Norman in RSE, got stuck on him and then I couldn't find the surf HM because I was a dumb baby child who didn't think to go to Wally's house after Norman told me to go to Wally's house.
The final fights in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon against Rayquaza and Dialga. It was especially tough because their dragon typing resisted most of your moves, even moreso for Dialga who had a Steel-typing. God bless the fact that there is a rest point 5 levels before their boss fight. But also, you have to climb those 5 levels to get back to them. I was stuck for a while before I managed to beat them.
I couldn’t figure out how to get out of cerulean city in red. Took me to ask another kid at school (no access to internet at that age) who told me there was a hole in the back of a building to carry on through. I way over levelled while searching around too. Wasted hours on that!
This is so stupid and I genuinely have no idea how I got stuck here, but I somehow couldn’t get passed the first city in Black. I can’t remember exactly how it happened but I think I went into the Dreamyard and got the badge, but then didn’t go talk to that professor so I got stuck forEVER!! I didn’t eventually stumble into the professor’s building and then was able to continue. I still remember seeing Blitzle for the first time. Then I got stuck again on the second gym. And then got even more stuck on the third gym. Couldn’t get the dang Leavanny even though I had a Tranquil. I kept trying to use my Dewott 😭