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Published on July 19, 2022 5:31:43 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YII7h6Z_eNI

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It’s not easy to find yourself in these situations, especially in newer games designed to be as unbreakable as possible, but it can happen. Last night, I watched yet another video about why Gen 2’s brilliance is still so unparalleled. As it turns out, apart from a few select scenarios so ridiculous that almost nobody on Earth could ever accidentally find themselves in them, there’s only one true way to break the game via soft-lock, and it’s so absolutely off the wall that I doubt most people could do it even if they consciously tried.

As I mentioned above, I watch a lot of Pokemon content on YouTube. My favourite Pokemon YouTuber by a long shot is Pikasprey, who has two separate channels - Pikasprey Blue is for walkthroughs, while Pikasprey Yellow is for one-shot, usually obscure experiments or deep dives. A couple of years ago, a video about soft-locking Gen 2 was published to Pikasprey Yellow, and to this day, it’s one of the most extraordinary looks at Pokemon design I’ve ever seen. You can check it out for yourself below.

There are more steps to take, but they’re so stupidly niche that I don’t think anybody could ever do all of them by accident. Anyway, once you’ve done all of the above, the game still isn’t technically broken. Essentially, your Caterpie cannot fight the Elite Four, nor can it get you back through Victory Road. You can’t catch any Pokemon, nor can you train against any wild ones. Having a Fishing Rod would have allowed you to train against Magikarp, but that’s impossible now too. Because Caterpie can’t learn Fly, you are effectively stuck here forever.

And yet, there are two ways you can still get out of this rut. The first is to manually save every time you take a step in Victory Road. This means that if you get into a battle, can’t escape, and faint, you can reset to the previous square and take a step again, giving you a new opportunity to either not get a wild encounter or successfully run away. I honestly don’t want to know how long this would take, but I would imagine you’d need to commit several days to just getting halfway.

But yeah, Gen 2 is unbreakable. Even when you do break it, you can fix it if you’re willing to wait, like, eight months, and play once a day for every single day just to pick and sell a berry. In an era where tons of games talk about how bugs are features and we often find ourselves encountering game-breaking obstacles that set us back hours and hours of progress, it’s wild to see that Pokemon Gen 2 put out a game that not a single person of the eight billion people on Earth could ever break by accident. In terms of pure design, nothing else even comes close to matching its brilliance.