How to Ruin Cycling Road in Pokemon Red/Blue

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

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.

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!"

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."

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

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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.".

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. 😂

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

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.

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

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

Pikasprey getting more evil with each video

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

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.

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.