Can you get TRAPPED in Every Pokemon Game?

[KLGB]

Pro Tip: Never do in-game trade in gen 4. You might end up crying with a trolly Haunter or stuck on an island with a useless Magikarp.

[deltaquarayza]

Imagine actually escaping the first one. That Caterpie would become your best friend.

[io-xznt]

I got softlocked in Sun/Moon once as well. When defeating Guzma and Team Skull in Aether Paradise, if you fly back to an island to heal, there is no way to go back to Aether Paradise to continue the story- softlocking you to either Melemele, Akala or Ulaula islands.

[zigazav]

Nice job referencing Pikasprey's "Soft Lock Picking" series. Where he tries to find ways in games (Pokemon being the games in the majority of those videos) to get permanently trapped with no way to progress. Usually by exploiting intended mechanics in unintended ways. It's my favorite series of his to watch

[adamzero_]

if you eat the game cartridge it becomes significantly harder to complete a pokemon game

[trumpetplayer]

A little note on the methods mentioned for gen 6 - As the event disks were considered for gen 3, it is also important that the person in gen 6 does not have access to Pokemon Bank, which would make picking the softlock significantly easier, as you can put pokemon in the PC at any point, allowing migration of a pokemon that knows Surf or Fly. This makes it impossible to fully prevent the standard methods of removing HMs whilst still having access to the PC impossible, as any HM you could've used prior to the softlock can still be used if obtained through this method. Of course this requires having a pokemon in the pokemon bank that has the move.

[X-aron]

Wow I did not expect this to get so dark but at the same time it was so poetic and beautiful thank you sir

[vonskeedle]

What's funny about a lot of these softlocks is that just giving the player a "pity" pokeball if they have no money or other balls would fix almost all of them but I guess they never thought of that

[dorkenspache]

Gen 2 also has the ability to get stuck on the island with the Fighting Gym by just doing the same thing, but that is a true softlock

[kentmichaelgalang]

in honor of the fan hobby of dooming save files, gamefreak could add an npc that looks almost exactly like the player, and this npc will explain that they went here and did some stupid things -while drunk- for a dare and they couldnt leave so they started living there, got married, and didnt feel like leaving anymore. said npc then is also a sneaky anti-stuck measure by having a helpful abra or gives items

[mdxgaming]

there is a softlock in let's go pikachu and evie, which is technically generation 7. I forget which route but it is before you get fly and a trainer can sometimes shove you behind him, trapping you there forever. Also BDSP is technically generation 8, so if there is a softlock in that then generation 8is possible too. idk about Generation 9 tho

[semajniomet]

The Victory Road with Caterpie in Gen 2 would what would be called in the Mario Maker community as an "anti-softlock", a screen where you have to work really hard to die to avoid losing a checkpoint, typically done in a troll level. In this case, it'd be done to avoid needing to reset the game.
Come to think of it, would you really WANT to keep your save in this case? Wouldn't it be faster to just start over? What kind of world would you want to keep what little you have, when you could probably start anew and get it all back so much sooner?

[NovaDelta]

rip asprey and the constant curse of being called "pika-sprey" lol

[bsharpmajorscale]

That one filter on Black/White was pretty rough. But I did appreciate your thesis about the cruel angel. You have my congratulations! Penguin.

[Clownin-round]

There's another popular softlock in B/W! In Drayden's gym, there's a specific tile that you can surf on, the only issue is that you can't get off. If you save there, you're there forever.

[joffrock]

The early days of internet would've said that you get an rare item by performing the first lock.


The real item you get is bonding time with caterpie ❤

[cdrhiggins]

"Money, items, and all pokemon" or the Pikaspray Torture 😂

[youtube-kit]

Jesus, so not only is the dreamyard tree weirdly out of place with its one mandatory HM usage, it also causes softlocks, lol.

[Brawler_]

Hello internet users, and welcome to another episode of Soft Lock Picking.

[GameRiza_]

Por un momento crei que habian resubido tu video en ingles hasta que me doy cuenta que te hiciste un canal en ingles, lol
Suerte con el nuevo canal crack