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3rd Gen The Regi Puzzle

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    In R/S/E, and their remakes, in order to capture the three legendary golems(?), you needed to do a series of puzzles. The puzzles differ a tiny bit between R/S and E, and same for OR/AS (I think). I'm not going to go into detail about the puzzles here. Back in the day, the answers to the puzzles were actually in the R/S/E instruction manuals, but of course, nowadays, you can just look the answers up.

    Did you bother with the Regi Puzzles? What did you think of this method to obtain these Pokemon? Would you like to see legendary puzzles like this return in the future? And were you lucky enough to have the R/S/E instruction manuals to be able to read the braille in the rooms?
     
    Ohoo this one... I was about... 5(?) when I first obtained these in Ruby. Since I barely understood English at the time, my father had found a walkthrough online, printed it and whenever I got stuck, I'd ask dad to look in the walkthrough and tell me what to do.
    I had a Pokemon Advanced sticker album (that's how I became aware of their existence) and was confused as to where can I get the Regis. Asked dad if walkthrough had anything on them; the rest was smooth sailing.
     
    I appreciated the difficulty to get them since, you know, they are legendaries. never bothered to get them though haha
     
    It's very unique how you have to utilize Braille to get them, and definitely a surprise considering the generation prior made its own alphabet for some similar puzzles (the Unown). Over time the series has established a sort of "written gibberish" for anything and everything that appears in the game outside of text boxes, likely to make things easier for localizers who now don't need to worry about redrawing assets to match the game cart's language. There's also the added benefit of this sort of "language continuity" added to the overall worldbuilding.

    But then you have the Regis, who hide behind messages chiseled in Braille, a real-world language. It raises more questions than answers--what else in the Pokémon world is rooted in our own? Why did these ancient people use Braille, a written language for the visually impaired? Why is Braille only used for the Regis but has nothing to do with Groudon, Kyogre, or Rayquaza? It's fascinating, and I wish we could discover just a little bit more about the ancient Hoenn people because of it.
     
    I did this two to three weeks ago in Omega Ruby. Didn't take long cause google/youtube are your friends.
    As for the original Ruby/Sapphire, I was very unaware of the Regis at the time so I never bothered. I have a rotting Emerald cartridge so i'm wondering if it's the same in Emerald.
     
    i appreciate this sidequest a lot. it actually makes them feel legendary. they're not handed to you by any means and you have to dive deeper into getting them. it's also really cool to decipher the braille to get their backstory, which i always found fascinating. for the method you get them alone, it makes the regi trio my favorite. it's just so unique and i enjoy making the effort for it honestly. i have it all memorized now so some of the charm is gone, but i'll never forget dedicating my summer to solving that mystery as a kid. ...i fucked up and ko'ed all three of them bc i didn't think to save before fighting them, but it was still awesome.
     
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