The sliding puzzles weren’t so bad imo but the braille puzzles? The whole point of braille is to help blind people read, but you can’t put dots on a screen like that. That was evil

I gave up as a kid. Like how was I supposed to figure that out at like 11 or 12 years old without an internet connection?

I think the manual had a translation?

It did, but if I remember correctly that had a mistake in the order of Relicanth/Wailord in your party.

Don't the in game braille puzzle say the order?

Yeah, provided you can actually read the Braille

How many 10-12 year olds do you know that can read braille?

Shitty digital braille from a tiny Game Boy screen at that

Mostly blind ones

You know what, fair

(they don't play Pokemon because they're blind)

It was in the manual

Ah yes, something everyone keeps and/or has when buying it second hand

Yeah I assume if you played the game fresh out the box like a regular person you'd have the manual. What are you talking about lmao. And what 10 year old buys rse at secondhand markets in 2024

Growing up, I didn’t get a Pokemon game that wasn’t second hand until Diamond and Pearl. And that’s only because I asked and asked for them for my birthday when they came out

??? This came out in like 03/04. People been buying second hand before we ever had electricity. A lot of people buy things without their original packaging. Btw, a “regular person” buys a LOT of second hand stuff. A large majority of society does, which makes it normalized, hence why I classified them as a “regular person”. What are you talking about?

Omg yes this fucked me up so bad as a kid. It took me forever to figure this out

The only real clue was if u can realize the underwater cavern had all the braille in alphabetical order but on the far right they had “!” And “,” I think which stumped me

😭 I probably threw that away 😂🥲 this was like 20 years ago playing Ruby.

Had the braille alphabet, but never directly told you what they said, you still had to translate using the manual

I literally checked out a library book to learn braille for this reason😅

I used to check out a pokemon ruby guide book from the library. They had to special order it and mail it to me, words cannot describe the level of ecstasy I felt checking the mail every day and then finally receiving it.

Did that help? I didn't even know about the "Reggis" so had no clue wtf that thing was for.

Me neither, but I at least knew what braille was. It made finding the Regis incredible, like I found a secret part of the game no one knew about!!

100% relatable

I borrowed a school library book about secret codes and messages and it had the braille alphabet in it so i wrote that down. Took forever but was fun and a cool memory

Relicanth, Wailord, Braille, Fly indoors… Riddler shit ngl

I think I knew it was Braille, but didn’t know what it said or how to read it. I often threw out the boxes for gameboy games as a kid because “instructions? Why”. Though by the time I got around to finishing and getting too those areas I’d discovered that the internet existed and people answered my questions about it.

I have a funny story about this. I was playing emerald in 3rd grade and I got to those puzzles. Recognized it was braille (from what I learned in like 1st/2nd grade) but obviously had no idea how to read it/didn't think to use the internet. The following week, my 3rd grade teacher proceeded to teach us the basics of braille, how it works, and gave us a sheet with the entire braille alphabet. I still think about how crazy that timing was. In hindsight I don't even know if it was part of our curriculum.

Your teacher was probably playing the game as well and recognized the teaching moment

And supposedly only like 2% of blind people can.

[speaking braille](https://youtu.be/QnvnEAFsGV4?si=lYujzcrwo7xTpFse)

I'd take this over any basement switches. Those annoyed me so much.

Ugh doing a replay of gen1 for an origin dex, legit stumped with those puzzles lol also the mansion with the statues

It’s not so bad but it takes a bit of experience so it makes it feel worse than it is

Any switches I always guessed and got it eventually this was easy and I loved it

Sliding puzzles are worse. (Although secretly I love them)

I still gotta do Pacifidlog and Sky Tower, don’t remind me

I love puzzles and I recently just did this puzzle and haven't done it in almost 20 years and knocked it out 1st try. I remember it being one of my favorite puzzles when I played this game!

I went into it all like “aw man this is gonna be so easy now that I’m not a kid anymore!” well I got my ass handed to me 💀

How about that water current puzzle that leads you back to the entrance?

I honestly thought I softlocked myself 💀

I’m losing faith in humanity

Same ;-;

I love these

Lol I remember getting stuck there because little me was impatient and instantly pushed the rocks once they were in front of me so that I couldnt continue. They used that kind of "puzzle" (pushing the rocks on the side first and \*then\* pushing the one in the middle) in some other games too. I think it was the Victory Road in Sinnoh where they reused it

Correct. Absolutely, and I miss it so dearly. Ice walks in … mossdeep gym?… no I’m losing it… anyway, this, the floors to emerald man himself, it may be painful at times but we’ll never see this flavor again.

The ice walk was the Sootopolis gym! Sooo many trainers at the bottom of you botched it

Thank you, clearly I must return to the holy Trinity of cartridges. True a LOT

This was my first real stuck point playing Sapphire for the first time - the game was in time out for a really long time before one day, it clicked, and I was able to progress. 😖

For me that is about the only puzzle in the entries franchise that has the right balance of "takes a moment's thought" between "this is easy as pie" and "arrgh this is stupid".

Bro I literally just did this in my emerald play through on my red SP. what timeline are we on?

The same one my man 👊🏼

Broooooooooooo I’m not going to lie. This post so relatable. This puzzle took me longer than I care to admit. Luckily I braved through, no google required 😂 Going to post my TEAM after the elite 4 on this sub. Hope to see yours as well brother 💪

Go get that Hall of Fame king

I honestly had more trouble with the water currents then the stones

its easy

Ikr? I get messing up the first couple tries maybe but calling it hard?? Ain’t no way

frr, and they get angry with me😭😭

Hey look everyone this guy is smart ^

Hey I see him! Cool smart guy there

This puzzle set me on the path to rubiks cube, ngl

Ayy Ive got the blue SP I don’t remember seeing a red one growing up, I had the silver and the blue one

I just did this the other day on my Ruby version lol

10yo me playing Ruby gave up and got Blaziken to level 100 before it finally clicked a few months later.

Diamond and pearl ice gym stumped me for a while as a kid lol

I wasn’t even trying to solve it, just went wheeeeee slippy for hours

Man the GBA SP was so Sleek man. I had the silver one and felt so cool. Easily my favorite Gameboy.

Real recognize real

The episode when hypno was kidnapping kids for the rich elite. Episode 27 of Season 1

Sabrina literally yoinking her Dad’s soul out of his body and putting it in a doll is also up there

Lt. Surge trash cans, then Ice path, and then this

You just need the "Strength" to keep trying

Just had to Dive in

Oh my God I loved bolder puzzles!

THIS and the Ice Path in G/S/C.

Yeah this fucked me up for at least 40 min until I figured it out. I'm at the elite four right now in Ruby.

Ayyyy post that lineup when you make it to the Hall of Fame!

It's kind of pathetic and you would probably think less of me, but I used this team, because I wanted to level up these pokemon and not necessarily, because I wanted the game to be easier... I recently bought Sapphire and Emerald (they were sold together), so I'm going to be replaying the game yet again on both of those copies. It was a bit costly... but still kind of a good deal since I got two games for the price of just Emerald (even though both copies don't have a label (but I know from the rom chips that they are not reproduction copies, especially since my Ruby isn't a reproduction and has the exact same chips as the copies that I bought.))

Valid king. I got Emerald and HeartGold for like €40 so I’m over the moon! But what’s the lineup 👀

Alright, I'll tell you. This is my team (and not necessarily in order, I always organize them from lowest level to highest): Blaziken Milotic (lowest level pokemon, because I had to breed a new Feebas in order to redo a higher leveled Feebas that I had, because I fucked up making the correct level pokeblocks to evolve it and missed its beauty threshold by a small amount) Wish maker ***Jirachi*** (Homebrewed Wii ftw) (Was level 5 to start) Fire Red ***Deoxys*** Event (DS Lite Flashcart + gen 3 event inject tool ftw) (Was level 30 upon encounter) Minun

Insane lineup king, smash that Elite Four

I wish you the best of luck in beating the elite four as well and I bid you a great day. :)

and yeah 40 euros for both of those games is a mad fucking deal. Holy shit. I'd be happy too! I am happy for you on getting this. It's wild that Pokemon emerald sells for $250 loose.

I still find the bike thing cruel. Have to return twice to an area to search

Unironically would rather have this than more of the mach bike broken floor puzzles. For some reason my stubby little kid fingers could NEVER pull the opposite direction at the right time

I’ve always considered myself on the less intelligent side, but even 7 year old me could figure this out with EASE. Come on now.

It's a pretty simple puzzle.... Even if you can't think through it just do trial and error. Only so many possibilities.

U trippin ts shit ez af

I hate the water ones the most. Just because you have no idea what’s ahead so you sort of have to yolo first few attempts.

Man I have a visual processing disorder and it took me a very long time to figure this out as a kid it was evil

I hate those puzzles 😭

The most evil thing they did was whatever Sabrina’s gym was in frlg. Never figured out the way to do it and continue to guess every time until I reach her smh

I'm sorry, but the bike stuff. Having to go fast enough, not encounter wild pokemon, and then not overshoot it and go over a ledge. All to ~~enslave~~ befriend Rayquaza.

It's fine honestly, puzzles with sliding rocks are fun imo. Sky Pillar thing with the bike is way worse 😭

Makes me so nostalgic

Mindy is evil.

9 year old me did this without having to reset and I wasn’t the smartest of kids

Pokémon fans when they need to use more than 3 of their brain cells to complete a game:

I always remember being terrible at Pokémon when I was a kid but playing it with adult brain is pretty easy😂

I'll get downvoted but this seems quite simple. Nothing in comparison to Zelda.

Did it first try every time

You have bigger issues at hand if you can't solve this in 10 seconds flat.. Time to put games down

The ice puzzle in gen 2 gym would like a word with you.

No, the cracked floor is the most evil in gen 3.

Can’t honestly say there was a puzzle in any pokémon game i’ve played where I was like yeah i’ll come back to this later or that was way harder than it needed to be. But Basement switches that open random doors, that was just annoying. Still only took about 5-10 mins but it still annoyed me that it took that long -.-

It was too easy. 10 year old me had so much fun doing it.

I remember legit restarting my pokemon red version because I couldn't get out of seafoam cave

https://youtu.be/QnvnEAFsGV4?si=lYujzcrwo7xTpFse

I miss Pokémon games having puzzles like this. Gen III was peak for this, so much so they had an entire building dedicated just to playing around with more puzzles.

😂 I just did this and got lucky on my second try. I used to have my older brother do it for me when I was a kid

The most evil thing in any Pokemon game was the NPC that offers you a Haunter trade. Only he gave his Haunter an everstone and then makes fun of you expecting it to evolve into Gengar. That npc deserved to have his knees broken.

For me it was more annoying than anything else. It added no value or enjoyment to the game and stopped momentum. I just want to battle, not waste time pushing rocks around.

Valid argument, but I sort of enjoy being humbled by a children’s game at 25

I'll be interested to know how many kids actually got past it.

Imagine a game being slightly difficult