>>35887177Gen 1 games were only "difficult" in that most of the pokemon sucked. Sabrina is a "difficult" trainer only by virtue that Psychics dominated everything. Whitney is "difficult" in that she forces you to go through several checks to even hit her assuming you don't have a geodude or machop to hit her with. In truth the games were actually very easy but if you didn't know what you were doing then the games became harder. Which is true of everything.
I guess you can say that puzzle solving is a thing that existed back then. Hey there's this sleeping Pokemon in the middle of the 2 roads that lead to the south. And everyone in Lavender claims there's a flute that wakes up sleeping Pokemon. Wonder what I will need for that? It's a "puzzle" that lets you pass if you remember what the Pokeflute does which is far and away better than "You can't go down this road because my dog won't stop sniffing this manhole." Guess it's time to go hunting for the trigger the game wants me to see so the kids will finally move his mutt.
