Soft Lock Picking: Trapped With Caterpie For 240 Days

Gen 2 has many ways to prevent softlocks, but what happens when those features get used in a different way?

[josiebianchi]

You say softlock, I say former League champion gives up Pokemon battling to pursue a life as a simple berry farmer.

[jamiedoesstuff]

being trapped with caterpie isn’t a softlock its just a simulator of a bug catchers daily life

[RickRaptor]

Now I want someone to actually make a dedicated gaming channel for this. Just 240 daily streams of "hey guys, today we pick up another berry, alright see you tomorrow!"

[miratarnish]

Some scruffy, homeless looking kid with a caterpillar:
*unloads 240 berries on the counter, many rolling off and falling all over the ground
1 ultra ball please.

[Cacciatoredizombie]

Caterpie: master i'm hungry
Trainer: 5 more months and we'll be out of this wretched place, son.

[dasirrlicht]

Day 33, the NPCs have accepted me to be one of their own, believing I am just a misplaced bugcatcher.

[SheutDL]

He just keeps saying that no one would ever do this to hide the fact he's been doing this since january 1st and still hasnt finished it

[RobotHunter]

Pikasprey: I’m trapped with a Caterpie
Bug Catcher: First time?

[DammitSinged]

_Ah yes the Houdini of self imposed Pokemon Game Locks is back._

[globalistgamer]

Pikasprey Yellow: This game won't let you do anything until you spend eight months of booting up it up every single day, just to pick the single berry you are allowed until you can trade in enough of them to buy your first item.

Mobile gamers: Sounds awesome, where can I download it?

[DanielWillen]

Devs: I guess we can remove the old man now that the player has a bunch of level 80 pokemon and can fly all over the map...
Pikasprey: You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!

[chompyzilla]

“A completely consistent escape method that requires no RNG, but it’s so obnoxious that nobody would actually go through with it.”
I was so hoping for it to suddenly cut to a montage of you picking 240 ice berries.

[firstnamelastname]

Honestly this is just most free mobile games when you don’t buy anything

[mercurydjinn]

Trapping someone with a Caterpie sounds like the most adorable threat of all time.

[reefu]

"So, to prove it was possible, I spent 240 days collecting ice berries."

[StarShine]

Hey Pikasprey! A little late but I thought I'd say it anyway. It seems GameFreak WAS aware that trading between foreign copies of Pokemon would cause data corruption but they didn't actually set any flags within the game to prevent it! I was flipping through the manual for the original Pokemon Silver out of boredom (yes, I have a genuine copy, thanks to my roommate hording stuff and later giving it away). On the page that details the trading sequence, it specifically states, "Also, please do not attempt to trade or battle with a foreign version of Pokemon or your data will be corrupted." So they definitely knew of the game breaking bug but I guess they thought it would be next to impossible for foreign copies to interact. Then they stuck a note in the manual, hoping that would keep it from happening. Certainly not the first time that's happened and likely not the last. Rather interesting, don't you think?

[lvlVaporeon]

*Clerk sits in Elite 4 store*
Clerk: Hello what ca-
Gold: Drops 1 berry
Clerk: *Ah shit, here we go again*

[McNugNug]

Casual players: im going to explore game mechanics to have the most fun

Speedrunners: im going to abuse game mechanics to beat the game in record time

Completionists: im going to take advantage of all
mechanics to 100% this game

Asprey: 240 ice berries

[AngeryRoshie]

Imagine escaping this in real time, being so happy and then you save battery dies.

[aidenconway]

Pikasprey: *goes through walls*

Game: do you want to girl?