>>50027765Elden Ring is designed around word of mouth in the internet age and has an ingame system to facilitate that.
If you were a kid with Ruby and Sapphire and didn't have any means to talk with someone with a guide or ask your parents to drop $20 on a guide you were fucked.
These old secrets were simply designed to sell guides to kids, that's it.
Until I got internet access the only pokémon that were missing from my pokédex were Nosepass and Feebas. Nosepass because I thought you could only find Geodudes when using Rock Smash, but I admit I could have tested that hypothesis more. Feebas was plain bullshit, I spent days exploring that route and trying to undestand what the fuck I was doing wrong, I even try the different water surfaces several times thinking that maybe it was just an extremely rare pokémon, but nothing.
I could solve the regi puzzle and find Rayquaza by simply exploring because I simply liked running around across the region, and I was a patient kid too, since I got 300 rocket launches in Sapphire because my friend told me Deoxys would appear that way, fuck him.
