Re:Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning
by bgirard on Friday October 13, 2023 @11:27PM
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Vaguely remembering from having played the game 25 years ago, I think you can maybe release all pokemons with cut and be locked?
Re:Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning
by dragontamer on Saturday October 14, 2023 @04:58AM
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HM moves like cut cannot be deleted, and if released those Pokemon immediately return if the game detects they're the last one
You can't get softlocked by releasing an HM move Pokemon.
Re:Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning
by themoonisachees on Saturday October 14, 2023 @06:18AM
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It's a tad harder than that. "Common" softlocks generally put you in the elite 4 rooms, with 1 pokemon that is underleveled and knows splash, with all others released. These elite 4 rooms are generally the only rooms that you can enter but not leave (except by beating the trainer or losing), and then you create additionnal constraint to prevent a combat loss from freeing you, like purposefully not picking up a lot of optional items that would make it easier to bounce back.
Re:Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning
by korla on Saturday October 14, 2023 @02:49AM
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You are correct, there are ways to do so. There are also soft-locks which are states which are just incredibly hard to get out of (heat death of the universe type scenarios some times). Pikasprey yellow is one youtuber who chronicles things in that area.
But I think the commenter above meant that Pokémon was a game which was possible to complete in a twitch plays style because it doesn't result in game over like an FPS or platform we would for example.
As I recall, there are several ways you can lock yourself out of being able to complete the game (releasing unique pokemons, primarily), so there was a good deal of trepidation & danger when it came to some critical moments and when the trolls got the upper hand.