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It wasn't really trauma but it was infuriating for sure. When I was a kid I played pearl all the way up to when you're supposed to go to snowpoint city. For some reason, the route right after Mt coronet was brutal and I was stuck in it for like a full month. I particularly remember hating the hippopotas some trainer had there, because I couldn't kill it with whatever shitty team I had back then.
The big pisser was that I went full retard when I finally arrived to the entrance to the lake, guarded by team galactic, and thought I was supposed to go in there. I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do, and I remember going throughout the entire route, getting stuck on the snow constantly, trying to find the entrance to snowpoint city. I ended up deleting my save file out of spite and crying. I told a friend I had at the time about how much bullshit that lake was and he said "You're supposed to go right into the town".
When I got back to that point (something which took far less time than you'd think since I pretty much just soloed with infernape everything but gyarados, which a luxary I got killed), I had absolutely no trouble with the zone, and felt like a complete fucking idiot.
Btw I'm not underaged because I played gen 4 when I was a kid, I became 18 about 2 months ago. I did browse /vp/ before that though :^)