Interesting how the starters still follow normally, honestly expected that opening scene where they follow you to be heavily scripted, now I wish you could play through the whole game with them normally, three pokemon following you all being able to keep up with the player without being sent back after being left behind by you walking sounds nice
Certain pokemon are fast enough to keep up with you easily. At first I thought it was based on Speed but Ceruledge kept up with me (Spe: 85) while Volcarona couldn't (Spe: 100). However, something pretty cool is some pokemon like Espathra are fast enough to keep up with you while mounted!
This'll be the one and only time I reference Undertale, but it has genuine vibes of a "hostile" playthrough in that game. A formerly lively world that is now eerily silent, characters that normally persist through the game missing, few to no random enemy encounters left.
With the teleportation glitch it's very easy to leave the tutorial and just start wandering through the region. The Gyms, Bases and Titans aren't available unfortunately, but you can get an incredibly overleveled team that will steamroll everything (if they actually listen to you)
@@marcosrodriguez607 if I remember correctly, when you reach Los Platos, to the upper left there is some terrain where you can catch Pokemon and go a little bit uphill. There is a part where you can see some Pokemon but can't reach them because of a gap in the road, luckily some of them are very close to the edge so if you manage to lock on to one you can throw a PokeBall to teleport across the gap and start a fight
The pokemon there are level 20-24 tho, so be ready to run from the battle. After that, you can pretty much just keep going forward to wherever you feel like
The game won't let you skip stuff to do with the story, one has to cheat if they want to skip, unless someone discovers how to (most likely the speedrunners)
I wonder what happens if you cheat your way into the academy and get a gift Pokémon without getting a starter first, would that not allow you to get a starter, would it softlock/crash, or would it not be able to work
They should add a functionality where if you get into a battle (either with another trainer or a wild Pokemon) before choosing you can battle with all three starters, I mean it makes sense since they're following you anyway. Then, at the end of the battle, another character finds you and brings you back to where you're supposed to be to choose.
So without a starter everyone ignores you, see? Only a pokémon is something worth lol Also Area Zero isn't there bc its not called it, it will call in when you pick a starter, the starters are a hidden console that activates all other scripts. We devs call that a system cube or more familier simply a Death cube
It is possible to cover the majority of Paldea without the first upgrade to Koraidon/Meraidon... It's just more tedious... And even though the game says gym badges let you catch higher level Pokémon, you can catch Pokémon much higher leveled, or as I did, I just level drinded my team, as Pokémon you raise yourself, will actually obey regardless of the number of your badges.
we had in every game and every gen so far a solution to prevent a game crash when battling without pokemon. Like a placeholder or something, but somehow they managed to do it worse than ever since red and blue and just crash the game in gen 9. i cant believe it tbh.
"But somehow they managed to do it worse than ever"...dude, bro, mate, pal, this won't be encountered in a normal gameplay, it doesn't matter, it doesn't have anything of importance, there is no reason to care about it other than "noo we can't use cheats to be able to battle with no Pokemon:(( how could gamefreak not let us do this"
Uh... No, there definitely wasn't a "solution to prevent a crash". The early systems were just not sophisticated enough TO crash -- they would just process junk data and keep running undefined behavior. Crashes are the way modern software AVOIDS doing that. The "placeholder" was there to deal with corrupted save files, not to deal with impossible gameplay situations. The 3DS games might not have crashed even though the system supports crashing, but that doesn't mean it was intentional. It just means that the way those games were built happened to not do anything that would break the game before the white-out check fired. And in fact, SV isn't crashing here. Softlocks are the result of code that's waiting on something to happen that never will happen.
This just makes me realize how primitively the game is coded. During normal gameplay you get some of that (seeing the game lock character movement, spawn an egg in, tilt the camera, start the cutscene, then gives the same options as when you catch a Pokemon, then unlocking free access again), but this is on another level.
As a game dev myself... This isn't primitive. This is normal. It would be stupid to put a check in every system that assumes you have Pokemon with you when that's only possible right at the beginning of the game, so it's only necessary to add checks to the features that are available before you get a starter, and to the features that might make it possible to have an empty team. Why make things more complicated than that? The devs have more important stuff to do.
@@goldegreen i gave examples that you'd see during normal gameplay and talked about how the game is coded in general. We got to see that through the cheats, but the cheats aren't what make the game bad.
@@codahighland ah, i didn't just mean the checks and such. There's various mechanics that work in weird ways and coding that doesn't look the best. The egg hatching or evolution sequence looks unpolished and a bit like a work in progress. And some places won't let you enter from certain area's (for example: getting on the school terrain from the back will place you in front of the school instead of from where you tried to enter), which results in teleportation. Spawning pokemon in the world is also a mess. Pokemon tend to spawn a certain distance away from you, which isn't very far to begin with. But if you're moving around, it often spawns the pokemon in on top of you. And a lot of the time, they spawn into the walls as well. Area zero, several caves and various tunnels are most common offenders. And you yourself can get stuck in the wall, prompting the game to teleport you to a safe location after a minute or so. I've had that happen once after running into a Pokemon in a cave that spawned on top of me. The fact that your character always jumps backwards when encountering a Pokemon caused me to get stuck in the wall. The fact that they have the game teleport you out of the wall when getting stuck there is just a bandaid solution. It doesn't fix the core issue of how people or pokemon get stuck in the wall. Collision for characters seems to not work half the time (most commonly with npcs), especially during battles. So when I say primitive, i mean that some mechanics work with bandaid solutions and that some mechanics are just unfinished or unpolished. I just couldn't find the right word for it at the time. But you can't tell me that glitching into walls, collision not being properly active a lot of the time or sequence breaking without cheats is normal.
huh, so gamefreak actually did plan all these triggers for story stuff. and yall say gamefreak is lazy. they know what theyre doing, they just didnt have the time.
It would have been cool if the game let you do this and get some unique pokemon as a starter like the psuedo legendary or something but that's too much for game freak
IIRC, we can only entered into Area Zero through jumping into the top if we complete the game. Otherwise, it will always send us to Paldea instead Area Zero.
Well yeah, of course, but the video shows that a lot of other scripts aren't enabled, so it was a reasonable question to wonder if that particular script wasn't active.
I don't think you understand what "softlock" means. Softlock stands in contrast to the conventional term for when a game (or other application) locks up. Screen freezes, no inputs recognized. The software must be closed (usually a forced exit from an external management program, or by turning the whole device off and on [or utilizing a reset if it has such function). The things you're calling "softlocks" are just lock ups. Softlocks are when you cannot progress in the game, but can still interact with it. Pikasprey has a wonderful series about "escaping" things people think are soft locks (and for all practical purposes *are* softlocks, as his escapes tend to require an expectation of years or decades to escape).
I saw a similar video like this but for Sword and Shield, and those games really don't like it if you skip getting a Pokémon. It actually crashed most of the time. Given the reputation of these games, the fact that the worst that can happen is a softlock is honestly a miracle.
Appears anything involving your party crashes the game, fascinating, no missingno. or DPbox for modern games, eh? (or the mystery Bublasaur from gen 6)
Ah, I thought you found one of the legit glitches in the game and went through a wall or something to cross the map but Gamefreak I guess wouldn't allow it.
Gift Flying Pikachu from the pre-order? If you visit the poke center you should be able to get online from one of the PCs. Unless online is locked until after you select a starter. I thought on playthrough it was unlocked at the first poke center.
Somebody is going to hack the game and allow us to run around with more than one pokémon, or allow us to have all three starters, and they all three follow us all the time.
That's not quite accurate. If that were it, the game would crash, not softlock. Instead, I'm guessing that it's waiting for the model to load, but it never will.
@@dorugoramon0518 It really isn't the consumers' fault. You can be in charge of an incredibly popular IP and still have some bloody integrity and pride in what your company makes as upper management
What If you Cheating into Academy and do the language Lessons to get the free perrserker or Cheat any Pokemon into your Team, does that let you do some Things?
The starters: man it's taking this kid a really long time to pick between us...
They like them all so much they couldn’t decide
Lol cute
Lol
@@ameo666 your not tho
@@StazEnjoysAss Wtf 😐
My main takeaway from this video is that we could have 3 pokemon following us all the time, but Game Freak won't allow it.
you can have pokemon follow you btw
@@iretireyoutubeforever I think they meant they want 3 Pokemon following all the time, but they know they can have 1.
Maxing the friendship of 3 at a time feels way more convenient
@@iretireyoutubeforever you cannot have pokemon follow you all the time.
If you are too quick they go back to pokeball.
@@iretireyoutubeforever you cannot have pokemon follow you all the time.
If you are too quick they go back to pokeball.
Even when you cheat
The Starters still loyal and try to protect you
Interesting how the starters still follow normally, honestly expected that opening scene where they follow you to be heavily scripted, now I wish you could play through the whole game with them normally, three pokemon following you all being able to keep up with the player without being sent back after being left behind by you walking sounds nice
Agreed!!
Certain pokemon are fast enough to keep up with you easily. At first I thought it was based on Speed but Ceruledge kept up with me (Spe: 85) while Volcarona couldn't (Spe: 100). However, something pretty cool is some pokemon like Espathra are fast enough to keep up with you while mounted!
@@BushSage It surprised me just how FAST Ceruledge was, and the dude straight Naruto runs to keep up😭
three pokémon following you the entire game sounds like a complete mess
@@LexFerraro A fun complete mess
Nemona:no Pokemon? No stalking I mean watching from me
She will still battle you anyway
Meanwhile Koraidon stalks you so it can eat some food when you not notice lol
NEMONA IS NOT A STALKER SHE’S JUST NEURODIVERGENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@KUR0.KALAM1TY what does that mean
@@ASmarterThanAverageSeel Basically just she’s implied to either have autism or adhd
3:00 not seeing Nemona waiting there is actually like you're in an alternate timeline where she doesn't exist lol
This reminds me Super Mario 64 PUs speedrunning.
This'll be the one and only time I reference Undertale, but it has genuine vibes of a "hostile" playthrough in that game. A formerly lively world that is now eerily silent, characters that normally persist through the game missing, few to no random enemy encounters left.
I love it
@@Whitedolphinstar Pokemon Scarlet genocide route
@@Quario pokemon violent
Technically you are not leaving the town without a pokemon, but with three LOL
Who don't give a shiz about you
@@memnob4262calm down LOOZA.
3:12
Me: just watching the Quaxley run away like a mischievous toddler 😂
4:59 . it's kinda creepy to see "444" since it means like "666" for us but in Japan
With the teleportation glitch it's very easy to leave the tutorial and just start wandering through the region. The Gyms, Bases and Titans aren't available unfortunately, but you can get an incredibly overleveled team that will steamroll everything (if they actually listen to you)
How?
@@marcosrodriguez607 if I remember correctly, when you reach Los Platos, to the upper left there is some terrain where you can catch Pokemon and go a little bit uphill. There is a part where you can see some Pokemon but can't reach them because of a gap in the road, luckily some of them are very close to the edge so if you manage to lock on to one you can throw a PokeBall to teleport across the gap and start a fight
The pokemon there are level 20-24 tho, so be ready to run from the battle. After that, you can pretty much just keep going forward to wherever you feel like
Since you're not supposed to be there yet, you will start finding late game items like Ultra Balls so you can try catching some overleveled pokemon
So far, I've walked like 2/3 of the map, managed to get an overleveled team, even managed to catch a lv 41 pokemon
"How to ditch that psycho stalker nemona and live your life" should be the title.
its like leaving the cave in skyrim without getting your hands untied
Lesson learned, never leave without starter when you go out
Should've listened to professor oak
You can't tell me what to do because I don't know how to read
But now you have all 3
It's dangerous to go alone...take this fancy duck!
Music still a bop even if the game freezes
Aww man why is THIS the top comment spoilers!
@@EarthBound_Fan wdym??
I'm surprised you even had to use cheats given how...uniquely this game is programmed
Graphical performance has nothing to do with event code flags...
@@ghost_3lliot633 You probably know by now. But performance is far from being this game's only issue.
@@avasam06 Indeed. It sucks in many aspects. But the event code flags are actually pretty well done, keeping the story linear.
The game won't let you skip stuff to do with the story, one has to cheat if they want to skip, unless someone discovers how to (most likely the speedrunners)
Wonder what happens if you somehow get the gift Meowth from Hassel
It's from Salvatore, and the game just goes back to normal.
I wonder what happens if you cheat your way into the academy and get a gift Pokémon without getting a starter first, would that not allow you to get a starter, would it softlock/crash, or would it not be able to work
Theroretically there is the gift Pikachu but there is no way to acess mystery gift :(
Starters: *how dare you ignore us*
0:25 When the three new Pokémons chase you, "Hey! Where in the world are you going!? You need to pick one of us to travel"
Trainer: "Go away!!"
Our starters went in hyperspeed.
"We need to talk about parallel universes"
I now wish to be followed by my whole team no matter how fast I go 😂 see a wigglytuff sprinting for its life
Can Ditto transform into The Starmobile?
No
@@Shosholegbt Does it just fail, or does it turn into a normal Revavroom?
@@codahighland it just fails some guy tried it out
It's nice how the starters stuck with you the whole time.
If there is a silver lining, it's that the 3 starters went on a grand adventure with some child who wandered off the beaten path.
Kirodon: chilling *see trainer with crepe* it go time
There needs to be a game where the main character is some kind of mystical martial artist, and can actually fight alongside their pokemon.
Does Mystery Dungeon count? :P
Imagine if MissingNo. was in this game
It is, it’s located in the game’s files.
@@generalsynnacle23 what is it? A shiny Pikachu probably
Its the game
They should add a functionality where if you get into a battle (either with another trainer or a wild Pokemon) before choosing you can battle with all three starters, I mean it makes sense since they're following you anyway. Then, at the end of the battle, another character finds you and brings you back to where you're supposed to be to choose.
This title is just nostalgia inducing
Poketips Mike ;-;
Too bad there's no 3d version of the ? thing you send out in Gen 3 when you don't have Pokemon.
You should try the league interview in this state. Very curious if there is different dialogue for not owning a single pokemon lol
Most inquisitive inquisition
good ol game freak
at least they knew we would do this eventually
So without a starter everyone ignores you, see? Only a pokémon is something worth lol
Also Area Zero isn't there bc its not called it, it will call in when you pick a starter, the starters are a hidden console that activates all other scripts. We devs call that a system cube or more familier simply a Death cube
If don't have a Pokémon the word does not exist
Awwww that's cute the starter pokemon follow you!
This could have been may had she not chosen any Hoenn Starter in the anime, lol.
They are so cute when following!
Interesting how the berries had an "You have no Pokémon" option programmed for but not the TM's
You can pick up berries before you get a starter
@@ES8995 That makes sense
Intresting a long wandering. Why have a pokemon since a very calm wandering.😉😉😉.
It is possible to cover the majority of Paldea without the first upgrade to Koraidon/Meraidon... It's just more tedious... And even though the game says gym badges let you catch higher level Pokémon, you can catch Pokémon much higher leveled, or as I did, I just level drinded my team, as Pokémon you raise yourself, will actually obey regardless of the number of your badges.
3:13 quaxly is like FRICK THIS I'M OUTTA HERE
*Inserts Undertale genocide message* "but nobody came"
we had in every game and every gen so far a solution to prevent a game crash when battling without pokemon. Like a placeholder or something, but somehow they managed to do it worse than ever since red and blue and just crash the game in gen 9. i cant believe it tbh.
I mean this isn't normal gameplay though lol
What a stupid comment lmao
You mean the missing no that would absolutely break the save file instead of safely crashing it?
"But somehow they managed to do it worse than ever"...dude, bro, mate, pal, this won't be encountered in a normal gameplay, it doesn't matter, it doesn't have anything of importance, there is no reason to care about it other than "noo we can't use cheats to be able to battle with no Pokemon:(( how could gamefreak not let us do this"
Uh... No, there definitely wasn't a "solution to prevent a crash". The early systems were just not sophisticated enough TO crash -- they would just process junk data and keep running undefined behavior. Crashes are the way modern software AVOIDS doing that. The "placeholder" was there to deal with corrupted save files, not to deal with impossible gameplay situations.
The 3DS games might not have crashed even though the system supports crashing, but that doesn't mean it was intentional. It just means that the way those games were built happened to not do anything that would break the game before the white-out check fired.
And in fact, SV isn't crashing here. Softlocks are the result of code that's waiting on something to happen that never will happen.
I wonder what happens if you get all the coins to get the mon. Pokemon battles might work
You took inspiration from PokéTips, didn't you?
Pokemon: Transparent Glass
You're just a normal person running around the world
Can you give yourself a Pokémon without choosing a starter and see what happens then?
This just makes me realize how primitively the game is coded. During normal gameplay you get some of that (seeing the game lock character movement, spawn an egg in, tilt the camera, start the cutscene, then gives the same options as when you catch a Pokemon, then unlocking free access again), but this is on another level.
I mean it's a cheat. It is literally not supposed to happen. I don't know what you were expecting.
As a game dev myself... This isn't primitive. This is normal. It would be stupid to put a check in every system that assumes you have Pokemon with you when that's only possible right at the beginning of the game, so it's only necessary to add checks to the features that are available before you get a starter, and to the features that might make it possible to have an empty team. Why make things more complicated than that? The devs have more important stuff to do.
@@goldegreen i gave examples that you'd see during normal gameplay and talked about how the game is coded in general. We got to see that through the cheats, but the cheats aren't what make the game bad.
@@codahighland ah, i didn't just mean the checks and such. There's various mechanics that work in weird ways and coding that doesn't look the best. The egg hatching or evolution sequence looks unpolished and a bit like a work in progress. And some places won't let you enter from certain area's (for example: getting on the school terrain from the back will place you in front of the school instead of from where you tried to enter), which results in teleportation. Spawning pokemon in the world is also a mess. Pokemon tend to spawn a certain distance away from you, which isn't very far to begin with. But if you're moving around, it often spawns the pokemon in on top of you. And a lot of the time, they spawn into the walls as well. Area zero, several caves and various tunnels are most common offenders. And you yourself can get stuck in the wall, prompting the game to teleport you to a safe location after a minute or so. I've had that happen once after running into a Pokemon in a cave that spawned on top of me. The fact that your character always jumps backwards when encountering a Pokemon caused me to get stuck in the wall. The fact that they have the game teleport you out of the wall when getting stuck there is just a bandaid solution. It doesn't fix the core issue of how people or pokemon get stuck in the wall. Collision for characters seems to not work half the time (most commonly with npcs), especially during battles.
So when I say primitive, i mean that some mechanics work with bandaid solutions and that some mechanics are just unfinished or unpolished. I just couldn't find the right word for it at the time.
But you can't tell me that glitching into walls, collision not being properly active a lot of the time or sequence breaking without cheats is normal.
huh, so gamefreak actually did plan all these triggers for story stuff.
and yall say gamefreak is lazy.
they know what theyre doing, they just didnt have the time.
It's interesting there is a script for you not having a Pokemon out in battle with the boss fight but didn't use it for crash prevention
It would have been cool if the game let you do this and get some unique pokemon as a starter like the psuedo legendary or something but that's too much for game freak
It's based off event flagging like in most games. For the other flags to activate, the first one has to, it's a snowball effect.
pokemon fans when they break the game and instead of getting a OP legendary with egg moves and all that shit, they get a broken game
now reach as far as you can without owning any pokemon
Can you not get the gift meowth for completing lessons and see what happens when you have a Pokémon in your party
Now play with ten sunflora following you.
What if you give yourself a Pokémon that’s not a starter?
Works fine. Other comments have mentioned that the gift Meowth you get from Salvatore makes things start working.
Though I don't know if it means the starters keep following you...
Just me and my starter squad.
I don’t think you’d be able to battle Nemona though, since one of her Pokémon is decided by which starter you choose.
they can make 3 pokemon following us all the time but we can only sent out 1 pokemon
I can tell you are emulating because the framerate isn’t trash
IIRC, we can only entered into Area Zero through jumping into the top if we complete the game. Otherwise, it will always send us to Paldea instead Area Zero.
Well yeah, of course, but the video shows that a lot of other scripts aren't enabled, so it was a reasonable question to wonder if that particular script wasn't active.
The starters be like: we have ur ip adreess
The cave looks so empty 🤣 and look at the tree shadow right when the character is leaving the cave 😂 damn it's broken product
Funny vid with without starting a starter Pokémon nothing works yet it's funny this vid.
Would I be getting spoiled though this?
No
@@AmazinLarry dude this video spoils so much
@@Contreth1313 just locations
I assume your phone catches you when you fall even if you skip receiving it?
@@luissuazo3684 yes but this video isn't dealing with situations you can do normally
I don't think you understand what "softlock" means. Softlock stands in contrast to the conventional term for when a game (or other application) locks up. Screen freezes, no inputs recognized. The software must be closed (usually a forced exit from an external management program, or by turning the whole device off and on [or utilizing a reset if it has such function).
The things you're calling "softlocks" are just lock ups.
Softlocks are when you cannot progress in the game, but can still interact with it. Pikasprey has a wonderful series about "escaping" things people think are soft locks (and for all practical purposes *are* softlocks, as his escapes tend to require an expectation of years or decades to escape).
This is working very well. That's unexpected
I saw a similar video like this but for Sword and Shield, and those games really don't like it if you skip getting a Pokémon. It actually crashed most of the time. Given the reputation of these games, the fact that the worst that can happen is a softlock is honestly a miracle.
Gamefreak seems to have worked hard with the check flags
@@mariotheundying only check flags😂
You litterly broken the pokemon multiverse
Appears anything involving your party crashes the game, fascinating, no missingno. or DPbox for modern games, eh? (or the mystery Bublasaur from gen 6)
i thought this was actually possible until you said teleportation cheat
Ah, I thought you found one of the legit glitches in the game and went through a wall or something to cross the map but Gamefreak I guess wouldn't allow it.
So its now just scarlet and violet?
No fear, balls full of testosterone, I am an independent and strong trainer that needs no Pokemon to success.
what happens if u get the gifted G-Meowth?
Thought about that too, but the language teacher is unlocked further into the gameplay
Gift Flying Pikachu from the pre-order? If you visit the poke center you should be able to get online from one of the PCs. Unless online is locked until after you select a starter. I thought on playthrough it was unlocked at the first poke center.
Somebody is going to hack the game and allow us to run around with more than one pokémon, or allow us to have all three starters, and they all three follow us all the time.
is there a way for you to import or recieve a gift pokemon from an NPC to see if you can use it in battle?
I know why healing pokemon softlocks the game because your lead Pokémon will be mentioned in the text but you have no Pokémon so it freezes.
That's not quite accurate. If that were it, the game would crash, not softlock. Instead, I'm guessing that it's waiting for the model to load, but it never will.
even the minimap is like 15 fps
bro is playing Pokemon Diet.
You should try going with just an egg
How do you do the teleportation cheat
Try a raid without a pokemon
Would it change if you ended up with a gift pokemon like galarian meowth or even mystery gift flying pikachu?
Wait what happened when you spoke to the trainer. You guys battle or it just froze
The next game is going to be incredibly buggy, TPC needs to sort out its bug problems ASAP
Unfortunately as long as people keep on throwing money at unfinished turds featuring pikachu, that wont happen.
@@dorugoramon0518 It really isn't the consumers' fault. You can be in charge of an incredibly popular IP and still have some bloody integrity and pride in what your company makes as upper management
what if you claim the free pikachu
How do you get that?
Oh wait, do you mean the pre-order pikachu?
You should try a union group and have your partner breed an egg for you to hrab and hatch
The portal feature is disabled before you finish the tutorial.
I used Psyduck as my starter.
Pokemon but we ARE these there's trainer
Did you even try and get pokeballs then do an encounter cuz it doesn't seem like you did
Fun fact: this is possible without mods
My Ace in pokemon scarlet playtrought is a starter
Well I mean u kinda took the starters
What if you wipe out in the Inlet Grotto at the Beggining of the game?
Entering a battle softlocks the game voiding just puts you back in a stationary point.
interesting
What If you Cheating into Academy and do the language Lessons to get the free perrserker or Cheat any Pokemon into your Team, does that let you do some Things?
They should got buggy award for buggy game.
Is this pc game or nitendo switch???
I have all 3 and shiny and more Pokémon
@@luissuazo3684 cap I bought them bro easy 10 dollars for 3 shiny and more
@@luissuazo3684 so I ain’t lier
Neat
you cant
What about raid dens?
Softlock