I love how this went from “I made it impossible to beat this game” to “I turned this game into a saw trap

@fulltimeslackerii8229

15 күн бұрын

Probably ran out of impossible soft locks

@lemons38

15 күн бұрын

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

@firstlast2206

15 күн бұрын

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

@ThatOneShortieHo

15 күн бұрын

They were always saw traps.

@ThatOneShortieHo

15 күн бұрын

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

I love how this escape isn’t even about insane luck, or tantalizing you with a shiny you can’t get, or making you waste hours, days, weeks, or even months to leave. It’s just a really annoying means of hiking it allllll the way to a Pokémon center. This one’s a funny one. I love it.

@MDLuffy1234YT

15 күн бұрын

Imagine if your B button was broken

@Ylurple

14 күн бұрын

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

@MongooseKingOfTheWastelands

14 күн бұрын

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

@jacketofdiamonds

14 күн бұрын

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

@TheMoogleKing93

14 күн бұрын

Shininess is just based on DVs so it is preserved

The fact that you always try to escape these yourself is hilarious. Like, "Yeah, i invented this new form of torture, but I MUST test it on myself first."

@tedkottke

12 күн бұрын

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

@Dreadjaws

12 күн бұрын

He's the greatest mad scientist of our time.

@j.b.5422

12 сағат бұрын

a true gentle mAN

Red talking to his future grandchildren: "Back in *my* day, there was no flying taxi! We had to go back and forth Cycling Road uphill both ways, on a fake bicycle, with one poisoned Exeggutor!"

@Redpoppy80

15 күн бұрын

Ok boomer. :)

@almightyk11

14 күн бұрын

Literally Fly existed

@TrainerGoldAlt

13 күн бұрын

love the Steven he reference

@SpanishSebas

13 күн бұрын

​@@almightyk11 The famous flying Exeggutor

@carltonleboss

13 күн бұрын

"..."-Red

The psychopath himself Pikasprey has awoken from his 3 month slumber in order to ruin pokemon once again.

@zexalbrony4799

14 күн бұрын

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

@Detective_L

13 күн бұрын

See you in 3-4 months I guess

@Joker22593

13 күн бұрын

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

@Nepter8248

3 күн бұрын

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

Having to transfer the Egg into Gen 2 just to delete it's moves and then sending it back must be so confusing for the poor guy

@LazarusIsBackBaby

13 күн бұрын

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

@UltraAryan10

13 күн бұрын

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

@gpoop23

11 күн бұрын

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

@yeastyman

10 күн бұрын

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

@88porpoise

7 күн бұрын

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

When these traps begin to involve the ergonomics of the device you're playing it on, they've truly become art.

@RWAsur

13 күн бұрын

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

@AwesomeHairo

13 күн бұрын

@@RWAsur You misused a comma.

@vegard7020

3 күн бұрын

Why

I like the idea of Ash/Red riding down Cycling Road trying to save his poisoned Pokémon, only to get magically teleported to Cinnabar Island and crash into the ocean, as if he was riding the DeLorean from Back to the Future.

@lancesmith8298

15 күн бұрын

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

@CaedmonOS

15 күн бұрын

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

@chillstorm2341

15 күн бұрын

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

@AwesomeHairo

13 күн бұрын

Only Red

@OhSayWhatIsTruth

8 күн бұрын

​@@AwesomeHairoHis name is Jack

The torture isn't even about going to cycling road. It's about how strained your finger will get from having to be in that position constantly for almost a hour.

If you completely forgot about the "hold B to stay still" mechanic like I did, then this gets even more painful, since the alternative is timing your start presses to happen on the third step (and losing significantly more time if you fail this).

@VinsCool

15 күн бұрын

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

@anlev11

14 күн бұрын

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

@cooldog1994

13 күн бұрын

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

@jancojicanoder

12 күн бұрын

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

It's kinda telling that this is still probably the most forgiving Hell Save File, as I'm gonna call them.

@InkubozuNikki

15 күн бұрын

I was in the camp of calling them Pokemon Saw Traps

@Iris_Descent

15 күн бұрын

Just as fitting.

@dontmisunderstand6041

11 күн бұрын

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

forget saving next to Snorlax. imagine being at the top of Cycling Road where the map starts forcing your character down, saving there, and *then* giving it to a rando to escape. they open the save file and are basically instantly greeted with "Exeggutor fainted!" and being transported to Cinnabar before they even have a chance to understand what's going on. 😂

@_Mars1040

13 күн бұрын

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

@louiserocks1

10 күн бұрын

​@@_Mars1040lmaooo we need to make this happen

My favorite part of these torture scenarios is not only that you concoct them, but that you also subject yourselves to them in the name of science.

Dude you should make a series where you present these weird ass softlock saves to speedrunners and have them compete to get out as fast as they can with basically no information.

@Gamesmarts194

15 күн бұрын

That sounds EVIL i love it!

@ich3730

15 күн бұрын

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

@dawnsempire8510

15 күн бұрын

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

@Jabadamazo

15 күн бұрын

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

@Gamesmarts194

15 күн бұрын

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

i really love this one. i always enjoy imagining what these videos would look like in-universe but this one feels especially vivid. the mental image of trying to precariously transport a bunch of extremely fragile eggs down a very steep hill is incredible. the exeggutor, slumped in the basket of the bike in a delirious near-death stupor, the slightest bump in the road sending them careening to the ground. the failure condition is compelling too, the player character being in such a determined state of mind that if their eggs get too hurt they'll run all the way to a hospital that's physically impossible to return from. to be so destructively selfless... contemplating their life decisions, sat at the coast of cinnibar island, their recovering exeggutor hobbles over to telepathically tell them "hey, at least you've still got me.".

I think the biggest thing that makes this one special is that it is actually theoretically worth it to go through the tedium of picking the lock. With most of the other setups, just restarting the save file is going to be the most efficient method, but with this one the player is actually encouraged to go through with the evil plan

@Vulpas

15 күн бұрын

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

@WatchVidsMakeLists

15 күн бұрын

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

@DanielHarveyDyer

15 күн бұрын

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

@Tetsamaru

15 күн бұрын

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

@chaosvolt

15 күн бұрын

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

I'm so used to the blue channel that formal Christian always catches me off guard

@greenhowie

15 күн бұрын

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

@mevicky100

15 күн бұрын

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

@RadeticDaniel

13 күн бұрын

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

@schwammbo

13 күн бұрын

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

@RadeticDaniel

13 күн бұрын

@@schwammbo thanks 😁

Pikasprey getting more evil with each video

@vlc-cosplayer

12 күн бұрын

"Tojo's basilisk could never exi--"

It may not be the longest you've done, but the sheer tedium of having to save and reload so many times with so much precision would drive me insane. Reminds me of those toys where you have to move a metal loop along a path without touching it. Just sheer frustration. Love it.

With the rise of "escape room" rom hacks, you should try and make one that's nightmarish but "doable" to torture poketubers lol

@sometimesjoeyplays

15 күн бұрын

i’m down

@toumabyakuya

15 күн бұрын

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

There's actually even more to this than you pointed out. After reaching Fuchsia and healing, you are still stuck with a useless Exeggutor, no money and no items. *Depending on how thorough you were getting to this point,* actually getting the save back on track can still be incredibly tedious or just straight up impossible anyway. Imagine how cruel that'd be. "Congratulations, you made it! ... ... now what?"

@PhAyzoN

15 күн бұрын

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

@DrakeNightwing

15 күн бұрын

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

@DanielHarveyDyer

15 күн бұрын

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

@rooislangwtf

15 күн бұрын

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

@faerylnhiikira1053

15 күн бұрын

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

i love how creative this is in that this time it’s an overworld task instead of a battle task

Gimme three steps, gimme three steps mister 🎶 Gimme three steps on Cycling Road 🎶

@ArloMathis

3 күн бұрын

Thank you for actually matching the meter and stressed syllables.

I like how I managed to catch onto the method of escape before snorlax was even revealed as "literally just a wall". Just don't walk 4 steps, it's that simple. On Cycling Road. Which is a slope.

Somehow this feels even more devious than a battle setup

Pikasprey has basically turned into Pokémon Jigsaw

For added comedy value, it could also know Rest, which would heal the poison but only in a battle that you're the going to automatically lose.

@andrewwolfe9353

8 күн бұрын

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

In a world of multiple content creators trying to optimize pokemon to be beaten under incredibly difficult and obtuse conditions, just be an asprey and embrace screwing up as bad as possible.

I feel like pikasprey has been doing those "pokemon escape room" romhacks without romhacking for years lol

Ride up Cycling Road. It’s already a ruined experience.

@vanesslifeygo

14 күн бұрын

it just isn't the same after the first time

Oh this is hype! I’ve been rewatching the soft lockpicking videos and suddenly, a new upload! Awesome!

Fellow internet users, welcome back to a great corner of the internet.

these videos bring me so much joy. people can say “but this would never happen in normal play, so why does it matter?” all they like. the point is that it can happen at all. i find the construction of these setups to be intensely and endlessly fascinating. they’re such an earnest way to express love for games that came out decades ago.

@norbyn6537

12 күн бұрын

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

@blarg2429

12 күн бұрын

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

Pokemon save file: *exists* Pikasprey: "I'm gonna rough ya up!"

This feels like a throwback to when you had 3 challenges to beat regarding magikarp and the only one you couldn't beat was the one on cinnabar island

Honestly, its amazing how people find this stuff over the years... 😅

As soon as you launched into that final glitch explanation my face twisted into a mask of pure horror

When you made that twitter post I didn't know you'd release the video that quickly

I love how the second best time it took to finish cycling road isn't even that much shorter than the first best time

Honestly this is one of the first Pokemon channel ive watched and the most long lasting, its not repetitive or boring content and its not saturated, i have still and will continue looking forward to these videos ty pikasprey

8:42 "there is nothing else you can do, except delete the save and start over" Well you can wait for the volcano to erupt??

@chaosvolt

15 күн бұрын

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

@th3bear01

14 күн бұрын

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

@chaosvolt

14 күн бұрын

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

There might be an infinite number of different universes but something tells me we wouldn't have to look very long to find the one in which Pikasprey is real-life Jigsaw :D

We're not in another video about ruining Pokemon. We're in... another video.

I like this a lot, it’s more of a minigame than a puzzle

Have been rewatching your videos again lately so this was impeccable timing!

This may be one of the shorter escapes on the channel, but it sure does manage to be annoying despite that.

This one was legitimately difficult for me to connect the dots on until you explained them. I have no idea how you just... come up with this maniacal malarkey on your own.

@abdillahahmad7025

15 күн бұрын

It's called experience

@Laezar1

15 күн бұрын

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

The face I made when the puzzle pieces started coming together in my brain.. you evil, evil genius. The awkwardness of having to press the start button with your other thumb is a tasty cherry on top.

Awesome concept. The most unique video in what is already one of the most unique Pokémon series on KZread. Kudos!

this is the most convolutedly evil thing you've ever done

This guy still sounds like the English voice actor for Kusuo Saiki from The Disastrous life of Saiki K.

It's always a treat when you upload soft lock picking content, great video man

This video is great because at a certain point you can figure out the softlock assuming you know about gen 1 glitches. What an annoyingly cruel route! Love it~

Bro I seriously always look forward to your videos. It amazes me what your brain cooks up every single time. Please keep going! 😂

Wow! I was watching lots of your older videos last night and hoping to see you upload again soon. This is great timing. Pokemon gets the most attention but I hope to see more of your variety content too :)

Havent seen u in a long time softlock boy. Glad to have u back in my feed

"Hello Red...I want to play a game...for years, your Pokemon have been your slaves. Endlessly fighting for your greed of becoming Champion. Tonight, *you* are the slave. Your Pokemon is your only lifeline from being stranded on an island. Will you keep it alive? Or let it die and doom yourself? The choice is yours..."

Welcome back! Excited for more Megaman videos!!!

Babe wake up, new Pikasprey Yellow video

Please never stop making these. Your creative cruelty always puts a smile on my face

Do you ever get tired of being called a genius? Great video as always! This has really got me thinking along these lines for gen 2 set up but with the solution involving an enemy trainer with the move Present. Say you save the game with one low HP poisoned pokemon nearby an enemy trainer with Present. You have to let the Delibird (or whatever) Present you back up to full HP while you splash or lob pokeballs to waste turns, then win the battle and still walk just far enough to a pokemon center with the higher HP you've been granted

Ooh, a dose of purgatory!

Pikasprey video = insta-click

Always a good day when theres a new upload from you

Pika keeps going out for milk and then returning after 3 months. Playing with my heart.

@KudaKeileon

15 күн бұрын

He streams several times a week on Twitch~

The man is back!!

I love how these escape conditions are becoming increasingly esoteric.

Your videos are some of my favorite content on YT.

man a new video its been years like its been a day . just kiddin good to see ya

0:16 I can't look at that NPC no more without thinking "SOMEONE HELP ME!" lol

Hell I'll raise you one more: Depositing all but a fainted Pokemon is possible in this game. The game only checks if your whole team is fainted at the same time it applies poison damage. So you could save every three steps all the way up Cycling Road if you wanted to do it that way. Oh, and as amusing as it was to use the invisible PC, you don't really need to. In RBY your Teleport location is only set when you heal with the nurse.

There's a full restore and a rare candy on cycling road that you could pick up to shorten your time, assuming your RNG was good enough to grab the rare candy it would give you ~20 more steps without needing to save and reload. The full restore is about a third of the way down the map, once you grab that you can just take a straight shot to fuchsia city without stopping, as long as you don't hit any trainers..

I like to imagine your selling these carts to second hand game shops and there just confused

I was having a poor day but this new pikasprey vid cheered me up thx!

*Laughs in large hands pressing b and start with two fingers from the same hand*

Hey pikasprey 👋 I'm so glad your still making content on older pokemon games. I love the old gen 1 and 2 pokemon games.

At least you are constantly saving your progress as you do this. Imagine if every time you messed up, you had to go all the way back to the start.

FINALLY YOU ARE BACK, ITS BEEN SO LONG!!

The most devious part of the setup is that it's still faster to escape it than it is to start a new game and get back there.

New Pikasprey lets goooo 💪💕

Been following you since 2017 and seeing you on Patterz’s channel recently made me giddy~

I love your videos thank you for making another for us to enjoy

ITS GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN PIKA!!!

I thank you from the bottom of my heart

THIS IS MY FAVORITE SERIES ON KZread

New Soft Lock Picking lets go!

I just wanna take a moment to appreciate that you've made a career of finding oddly specific ways to make one game series unplayable lmao

Creating these incredible traps makes me wonder if Pikasprey is a sadist for making them, or a masochist for playing them afterwards. Excellent work regardless. :D

Great video dude!

Quality stuff.....love these

I swear every time I think I've seen every Gen 1 SoftLock and/or near-impossible escape scenario Pikasprey seems to pull something new from under his sleeve.

This is one of my favorites. Nice job.

New speed run category unlocked

Honestly I wonder how going back to the nearest Pokemon center upon wiping out works in-universe, like is Red just so panicked when it happens that he just swims all the way back to Cinnabar Island without needing a Pokemon to surf?

@DanielHarveyDyer

15 күн бұрын

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

This needs to be a speed run category

I look forward to these videos! ❤

NEW PIKASPREY UPLOAD

I didn’t know any of the glitches in this video at all; you make use of the craziest things

Whenever one of these videos come out, I save it for bedtime because they put me in such a good mood.

Please never stop making videos thank you