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.

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

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.".

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."

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!"

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.

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

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 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.

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. 😂

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).

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

"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..."

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

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

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.

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

Somehow this feels even more devious than a battle setup

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.