Day 10 of being stuck behind this bush, the guy just keeps saying he is cool and has a girl friend, insane

There's another softlock in Diamond and Pearl. This softlock requires that you do not get any fishing rods during your playthrough. Then you need to have someone trade you a Finneon that knows Surf, then trade it to the hiker in the isolated house on Route 226. If you have no other Pokemon that know Surf, Fly, or Teleport, you're stuck there forever!

You can survive the Lyn mode soft lock by repeatedly rigging RNG using movement arrows until Natalie dodges everything for the duration of the map. It's tedious, but not impossible, because brigands aren't very accurate.

The FE7 can get more sad or laughable tbh. Sad because of the background changing and Lyn straight up becoming depressed, asking you if she can be alone for a while. The hilarious part? There’s an enemy in that chapter (hint: his mutton was poisoned) who Lyn can recruit-who happens to be the husband of the NPC you have to protect. If Lyn’s the only one alive and you’re on Normal mode (where the game forces you to do what it says) the NPC is essentially doomed because the game was trying to teach you how to recruit her husband. On Hard? It’s possible for the game over to trigger if the husband attacks his wife.

3:03 For anyone wondering, this softlock was patched on the GBA version, by editing the level layout slightly...

You end up losing your sanity over just one glitchy mistake

The soft lock at the end of golden sun was a heartbreaker

In the original Paper Mario, you can use Lakilester to clip out of bounds in the volcano and beat Chapter 5 again. The game will go to the next Chapter's Peach story, so you can use this to essentially beat chapters 6 and 7 without actually doing so. However, if you've already seen the Chapter 7 Peach cutscene, the game won't have any more to load. So you'll be promted to save, as usual, but then the file will be stuck looking at Bowser's Castle for eternity.

Wow... I didn't know about the Golden Fox being too slow of a machine. Thanks for clearing that up, honestly! This is the one instance where I can blame the game and be right about it lol

I have one from personal experience: You can softlock Oracle of Ages/Seasons by saving the game and reloading it after defeating the final boss, but before actually completing the game. The final boss won't respawn, and it won't let you finish as a result. I remember finding no way to fix my game of Ages, though I was young at the time.

In the 3DS remake of Bowser's Inside Story, you could lock up your save file, by perfoming an OOB glitch inside in one of the rooms of Peach's Castle, sometimes the game could warp Mario & Luigi inside the castle without defeating the Super Peach's Castle Of Fury boss. This bricks your save file if its saved on that room.

The minus world glitch isn't too bad of a softlock considering you get to it from 1-2 and not say 8-3

Never saw you do GS content. Thanks for bringing attention to the best RPG series out there.

In the Fire emblem example, it's not technically a soft lock. Even if you have Lynn drop her weapon. You only have to last a certain number of turns. That games RNG is based off a seed. You can know which numbers you'll get, emulator have a feature for it. You can find a seed where no one hits the green NPC or Lyn for a game over. It's a survive map so you'll win. The way to change the rng is by consuming the roll by moving the arrow, which way it rotates consumes 1 roll. Mounted units can usually consume more due to the higher movement.

You can softlock Mother 2 or Earthbound by going to Jeff's father's lab after using the spaceship the second time, but not having Poo in your party.

I think this is the first time a video surprised me with seeing bsnes-hd being used. So cool when you see your work has become someone's default for something. Thanks Interesting video as well. I'll look through the channel and probably subscribe.

I did the death loop thing unintentionally myself and yeah the only way to get out of it as far as I know is to delete the save file and start all over again

Here's a frustrating one. In Pokemon Sun & Moon, if you somehow manage to get out of bounds the game will refuse to open the menu to prevent you from saving yourself in a softlock. They had the foresight to ensure you couldn't save, and the means to detect being out of bounds, but didn't have the foresight to have it say "You appear to be stuck, do you want to warp to the Pokemon Center? Yes/No".

In Wind Waker you can do a careful jump onto a boat to avoid the first conversation with Tetra via the gossip stone. This makes the flag for which version of pirate ship is loaded not update so that when you go to get bombs from Niko, it loads you back to the early game version of the ship but with no way to progress.

I remember being annoyed at the Golden Sun one, because I really thought I was only about halfway through the story, as I had just completed only the second lighthouse out of the four. And then I saved when I got returned to Lalivero because I had just gotten past a very difficult boss and wanted to take a break, not knowing that it was actually the final boss of the game, and that the story would be continued in a future game. Of course, there were still plenty of uncollected Djinn and unfinished sidequests that I could no longer access on that save file, with Lalivero now being my eternal prison there. (And yes, I played through the game again on another file and made sure to get everything, and kept a backup save just before the point of no return just in case.)

I've never seen that fire emblem screen before That's kinda depressing

As a kid, I soft-locked OoT when I was already at Ganon's castle... Performed the glitch where you equip an empty bottle near a fish / fairy / bug, press the catch button, immediately pause the game and map a different item to the bottle button. Link will now catch the bug or whatever and the filled bottle will overwrite the item in the spot you just assigned a different item to. I had deleted the Ocarina and still needed it for at least one more Triforce pedestal to play Zelda's Lullaby.

Thanks for acknowledging the Cavi Cape theme exists !

In Sticker Star, you can beat Big Cheep Cheep and get the boat before a certain Wiggler segment goes to the harbor. Doing this will prevent the cutscene needed to beat World 3 from happening, preventing you from beating the game

God that Origami king one... jeez I cant imagine how infuriating that would be.

5:46: The game: *text noises* KZfaq subtitles: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

I've heard of a glitch in Mario and Luigi Dream Team that could softlock your save. You need to perform an out of bounds glitch to get rid of Luigi, and if you enter a battle or cutscene afterwards, the game will wait for Luigi to come to Mario, but since he isn't being controlled anymore, the game will softlock. If you saved at any point while Luigi is gone, your save file is doomed.

Stryder7x's Paper Mario 64 videos: *Are we a joke to you?*

I found one the other day. If you somehow die during the opening mission in Starbound, you get warped to your ship as usual, but because you didn't complete the mission, the ship computer won't give you the starting mission to go planetside. This makes your teleporter, navigation, and storage inaccessible, softlocking you until you quit to the title screen and log back into the character.

Metroid Prime Echos had this room that if you started a puzzle and left the room, saved, and then came back to finish the puzzle, it would be permanently unsolvable and broken. I lost my save file because of this glitch

in the first game of ace attorney you can save even after you run out of attempts during a cross examination, making you always get a game over when you load

6:15 Super Mario Advance fixes this by adding a vase to reset the room.

Pretty sure (cause I did it myself) in paper Mario color splash, if you don’t open the suitcase on the train with the green rescue toads while the train is still moving, when it stops you cannot get back on, ever. Therefore you cant go to the next boss

Wasn’t there a softlock in Zelda Skyward Sword? Where you did the order of the three areas wrong? How about the guy who trades you his Magikarp for a Finneon? Or teleporting into Sootopolis after putting your Surf and Dive Pokémon in the daycare?

I thought that the entirety of Fire Emblem was one big softlock: just play poorly and get everyone killed, and it's now impossible to win pretty much any chapter, forcing you to redo the entire game.

Softlocks messed me up when i was younger, i lost all trust for RPGs or anything that wasn't straight forward For some reason i ran into many of them Resident Evil games where the most notorious cases, The first 5 Tomb Raider games had this issue often too if you happened to save at a bad spot I could swear i got softlocked in a couple of RPGs due to not wanting to grind I also had this issue with Fire Emblem games, worst part is that i didn't realize i was screwed until later, because i didn't knew how much you had to protect your units I just tought "if there is permadeath, there has to be a failsafe too right? they wouldn't just softlock me, right?" But no, the games just literally screwed you over because "permadeath realistic"

for the origami king softlock, i figured out a way to get back into the tunnel. all you need to do is close the game without saving, open it back up, and you'll be behind the toad that checks the card, so you can walk right in.

Let's not forget that one from twilight princess on the wii where you're permanently stuck in the cannon room if you save and reload at the wrong time

“Destroyed save file” = “Your adventure log has vanished!”

I remember on wwe svr 09 you could make an unwinnable match. But this was due to the creaters actually allowing you to turn of pins submissions and ko at the same time. Also sometimes when you let the cpus play against each other theyll sometimes repeat the same controls. One time they they got unto the good ole wwe lock up and after they would release each other redulting in a tie they would lock up and the cycle would continue. Or the animation where they run into each other the cpu would constantly run into each other causing repeatedly.

There’s another softlock in paper Mario 64: This softlock occurs if you have overflowing key items, and you pick up another item, where the game tells you to throw away an item, if you combine this with a chest with a key item in it and open the chest on the same frame as picking up a key item, both the item menu and chest will open at the same time, since there is already a menu to throw an item, and we pick up another item from a chest, the game tries to pull up the same menu, but because the game doesn’t know what to do, the game locks up at the item menu and soft locking the game as well, forcing a reset

Can we appreciate the fact that he softlocked himself a lot of times just for this video?

Well, now I know why my Origami King save file from before was unbeatable 💀💀💀

Sad Lyn is funnier than it should be.

I remember evolving my torchic on emerald and birch get surprised i didnt know It was too dangerous on 1st gen

5:53 Evolution of Fire Emblem game over plz

3:16 Oh yeah, of course

Wow. No mention of Tombs and Treasures, the GOD of softlocks... T&T was an interesting hybrid RPG/point-and-click puzzle-adventure for the oldschool NES. Ok, not really - the encounters were fixed, only winnable when you were ready to progress to the area they guard, and low in number. But it was still a much more expansive game than your average P&C game. There are many areas where the game can permanently trap you without the courtesy of a game over screen. My memory's hazy but there was this one maze area where, in another (connected) area, you had to open a door via a switch to leave yourself a means of escape. Back in the maze area, you'd eventually wind up in this trap room where the doors seal shut. Unless you already HAD the earlier door opened, arriving in this room would provide you with no possible means of escape. In the same area where you open the maze-trap-room-door, there's a little metallic stick holding up some gear-like mechanism. You need this item, but removing it causes the gears to spin and a door to seal shut. Permanently. Without having obtained the contents of the room, you're screwed (but may wander around for a while before realizing it). I loosely recall something similar to the maze area happening near the end of the game. Not having a certain item in your inventory left you trapped in a room with a number of interactable things. Makes it SEEM like there's something you're supposed to do, but it turns out you're screwed. I remember getting caught by this one and not realizing my predicament for a while... But by far, my favorite, is the area with the jaguar statue as this puzzle can trap you in several ways. One method screwing you right from the start of the game, even! The first area we explore is some high priest's tomb. A secret passage reveals a room with TONS of items to obtain. Among them, there's a rod with a strange hole in the middle and a bowl with a strange needle standing up in the middle. Combining the two items will yield a compass. Aha! (Btw, this is where you screwed up. Sorry!) The compass is used later on and somewhat mandatory (although I think guesswork could get you through if you were persistent enough). The jaguar room, later on, contains a jaguar statue. The idea behind it is simple: blow the Horn to wake up the jaguar statue. It will be there during certain time periods only (and you get a free turn to bail before it pounces on you if you run into it). While it's gone, however, there's a crack in the wall behind it and attempting to investigate reveals a key. Only, the crack is too small, so you need to use the rod (from our compass) as the tip is magnetized and can be used to pull the ferromagnetic key out. With that done, you blow the horn and the jaguar re-petrifies. I think you get some blue gem from the jaguar statue afterwards (memory's fuzzy on how this item is obtained). Ok. So we can "join" two items, how do we un-join them and get the rod back? ...Yeah. You can see where this is going. Once joined, the bar and the bowl are stuck for good. There's no getting the key. Because of something that seemed so intuitive all the way back at the start of the game. WAIT, WE'RE NOT DONE! Blowing the horn before getting the key will ALSO trap you as the jaguar cannot be un-petrified again. Which may happen if you don't know what you're doing, run into the (unpetrified) jaguar, and decide to defend yourself. NOT DONE WITH THIS ROOM YET! ...Unfortunately I forgot the third thing. But it involved that blue gem. Maybe you're supposed to get it while the jaguar is unpetrified from another statue in the room? One way or another, the Horn can dick you over again with this. The gem is a vital item to completing the game and losing access to it renders the game unwinnable. There may be more but I now realize I have a god damned screenfull of text written. I'm switching back to my old brand of coffee. -_-

The subtitles during the FE7 Game Over... It makes me cry ;-;

I remember finding a softlock in Super Mario Land 2 in a cave level you can be stuck like in the Yoshi's game

Wasn't watching Nintendo Unity for a long time. Glad I'm back.

since f7 rng can be manipulated pretty easily (it just requires you to mess around with the movement cursor after selecting a unit) and the bandits don't have 100% chance to hit natalie or lyn it is technically possible to do some softlock picking and beat the chapter.

Not a Nintendo soft lock but harvest moon tree of tranquility was infamous for the glitch where you couldn’t marry Calvin because your whole game would crash every time you tried to view his cutscene leading to that area of the game being forever inaccessible

No idea about the Lalivero thing in Golden Sun, and a glitch at the epilogue that won't let you see the credits (and to make matters worst, banning you from getting the code for The Lost Age)

But if you're already in the epilogue, why would you have any reason to leave? Any additional side quests you didn't complete would be moot by that point.

I have a habit of trying to evolve my starter as soon as I get it when I play Pokémon games, especially when I play red/blue or firered/leafgreen. I always evolve before I get to Viridian City. When I played Red/Green, I softlocked myself. In that game, you always have a pokedex only you cannot access it until Oak gives it to you. Oak will never give you a pokedex if you have more than 1 pokemon registered to it and by evolving your starter, you now have 2. I was honestly amazed that I found a game breaking bug that fastm

How do you guys actually record these? They are so high quality that it's so pleasing to watch.

There are 2 softlocks in Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess One where you save after the bridge is teleported away (before going off to purify the twilight on the Lanaryu region as Wolf Link) and another where if you save in the Cannon room of Kakariko Village (before having it transported to be used to get into the Sky Temple)

0:06, also works if you go into the third pipe without loading the text, but if you go into the second pipe instead, you go to world 5

For the fire emblem 7, it's technically not impossible but you need some God tier luck.

The Golden Fox fun fact is hilarious as hell

Bring back memories when some how my brother got me stuck in-between some barrels in golden sun and I got so far

It's been almost 20 years so I don't remember all the details, but I got stuck somewhere in Eternal Darkness for the GameCube. I saved the game with almost zero health near a corridor where monster attacked and killed me immediately. There was no one else to go and I couldn't get any progress from there.

Thank goodness I stumbled upon this video, specifically for The Origami King. I don’t have the game just yet, but I’m so glad that Nintendo patched that glitch out. What about one of the Toads in the game? Is that glitch still present or is it gone? I don’t have a clue unless I get around and play the game for myself. Either way, I’m taking a massive “L” for this one. Ouch.

What is the song at 4:14. I swear I've heard it elsewhere and I've never played golden sun

I actually just recently played golden sun for the first time, and I locked myself in the epilouge because I wasn't aware I just beat the final boss and that there was a second game (still haven't gotten part 2 yet)

"The Golden Fox can't win on Deathwind 1 against Master CPUs" Heck, even the Blue Falcon and Wild Goose will struggle. There's a reason why every world record for that game is set with the Fire Stingray.

Ugh that softlock on Yoshi's Island is so frustrating! I got it as a kid and even now remember to never jump up to that platform. Why Baby Mario can't break the material is beyond me.

This is why you keep at least 4 allies alive.

I think I actually did the yoshis island one as a kid and got so frustrated cause I thought I was bad at the game

3:38 most you have to go out of your way for but this one is inevitable. I found out the hard way 😭

What happens you might ask? Simple. You lose your mental will to live after all of the pain and endurance you had to go through.

Oh wow I got an ad about new episodes of Pokémon on Nickelodeon, now I’m totally in the mood

in duck life 4 on swimming training if you go down then get back up on the exact edge of a platform then jump instantly then you go up to the sky.

Anakin was the only human to win Death Wind with Golden Fox.

There was a dead end in Halo Reach where I'd be sent back to a checkpoint to an inescapable death. Thus the loop would continue forever, so I had to restart the level. Thank goodness it didn't require me to erase all my progress and start at the very beginning. (Edit: I think it was a grenade so there was no way out.)

In gen 3 pokemon, make it all the way to sootopolis, use the pokemon center, make one pokemon that can learn surf only know other HMs (excluding fly), then release everything else that can learn surf or fly. The only way out is to have both a fishing rod and a way to get a pokeball

luckily the only two sidequests in Golden Sun are Crossbones Isle and Lunpa so it's not too bad of a softlock, esp since you can complete the game without doing either of these without much repercussion iirc

Ah man what's that music during the transition screens between example softlocks? I'm very sure I've heard it before

4:26 This happened on my very first playthrough of FE 7(I was 14) And played through the game like normal...until I realized this game had permadeath(I didn't read the instructions), I had softlocked myself and had to start over.

*difficult* supposed to be the key right here. RIP for those players who tested these.

Not too long ago, I accidently got myself stuck in the last dungeon of Final Fantasy Adventure. Apparently, if you don't have enough keys left in your inventory, you can't get to the end. You can't go back to town either since it's a no turn back point. Thus, you're stuck. That pissed me off to the point i just turned to game genie to finish this game off.

You can softlock FF7 by saving at the mako reactor when the bomb timer reaches 0. Now everytime you start the game, the bomb explodes and now there's a game over!

I see Golden Sun I click.

I think the funniest part about being stuck in level -1 limbo is that you are punished with an eternity of water levels with bloopers.

"Dormannu, I've come to bargain."

first one felt like a creepypasta

fire emblem one seems RNG heavy but possible to escape

People have beaten death wind on master with the golden fox, but it's incredibly difficult.

4:39 RIP Wil 🥺

Ah, the SMB minus world. Back long before the internet it was just an urban legend. I heard all sorts of ways to get there, my favorite being jumping completely over the flag pole in 1-1 and going into the pipe to 1-2.

What is the music in the transitions. Because I know it. And because I can't think of what it is, its driving me insane Edit: It is: The Wind is Blowing at Cavi Cape from Bowsers inside story.

Technically FE7 does have a way to break forced movement and I have used it before. Though I believe it is a glitch and not intentional, as it never formally teaches you how to do it. So you can probably beat that chapter with only Lyn, if you're very knowledgeable about the game and playing on easy for some reason.

imagine hearing that in 1-2 you can skip to other worlds by going above the pipe, but you accidentally crouch jump backwards and you see another pipe and think "huh that must be it" and then softlocking your game

Wait... Can we be softlock in Golden Sun??? Just only saving after the final boss fight??? If so, I can't even play The Lost Age 😭 (if it comes out on Switch Virtual Console)

Surprised you didn't cover the softlock near the end of Metroid Fusion, I actually got stuck in it and never finished the game because of it

It remembers to me that I softlocked my Golden Sun 2 party just before getting the 2nd group, because of me saving on a island after opening a chest, and get blocked on a little patch of earth in the village, with no escape. The only solution was to restart the entire game 😭😭 it was so hurting at that time 😭😭 so many hours lost 😭😭

I saw a miss on the npc in the fe one so unless there's an enemy that can't miss and that you can't stop that's technically possible and not a real softlock but goodluck getting that much rng.

Fun fact: In a cheated playthrough of fire red, I completed the national Dex using a code before I even received it from Oak. Doing so made Lorelei leave her post at the indigo plateau, and an attendant will block the path informing you that Lorelei is away. You can never find her again at this point, even at her house in the sevii islands, and now the game is locked up to the elite four first round, and can no longer be completed and the save must be restarted.

I don't understand why it is possible to do solflock in fire emblem if the mission to protect natalie, if lyn stays in front of him he could kill all the enemies right?