Hello everyone, I present to you: the Nuzlocke Challenge.
for those who don't know what it inclides, it is Pokemon. Yeah, Pokemon. You see, one man decided that the gameplay got stale after a while, so he decided to place restrictions upon himself and make comics about his adventures through Pokemon Ruby and post them. He originally posted on 4chan and got an enthusiastic response. So he continued to play and make comics.
Now here is where you come in. Fire up the ol' DS or download a ROM to emulate and pick your favourite Pokemon game!
NUZLOCKE RULES:
1. Only catch the first Pokemon you encounter in each route/cave/whatever and nothing else. If you fail to catch it, too bad, continue onwards. Multiple levels of a cave (for example) are not new Routes unless it is a completely different part (Mt cornet north side/south side/spear pillar). Sea routes are fine.
2. If you Pokemon faints, consider it dead and release it.
That is right, you cannot choose what Pokemon you will get (except for first and any giveaways like Eevee in FireRed). You MUST release when they faint, you may take items off their "corpses".
This gaming method stuck an actual tune with me. I grabbed an Emerald ROM (as if I am going to grind on a DS) and am currently making my way through Emerald. The new Pokemon I am using (I would never chose a Wismur, Zigzagoon or a Taillow) are finding a new use. Their deaths are meaningful and I actually feel a slight sense of loss whenever I make a foolish mistake and they faint.
So I am going to be posting my little adventure here and I highly encourage others to do the same.
EDIT: Here is the comic link - http://www.nuzlocke.com/
for those who don't know what it inclides, it is Pokemon. Yeah, Pokemon. You see, one man decided that the gameplay got stale after a while, so he decided to place restrictions upon himself and make comics about his adventures through Pokemon Ruby and post them. He originally posted on 4chan and got an enthusiastic response. So he continued to play and make comics.
Now here is where you come in. Fire up the ol' DS or download a ROM to emulate and pick your favourite Pokemon game!
NUZLOCKE RULES:
1. Only catch the first Pokemon you encounter in each route/cave/whatever and nothing else. If you fail to catch it, too bad, continue onwards. Multiple levels of a cave (for example) are not new Routes unless it is a completely different part (Mt cornet north side/south side/spear pillar). Sea routes are fine.
2. If you Pokemon faints, consider it dead and release it.
That is right, you cannot choose what Pokemon you will get (except for first and any giveaways like Eevee in FireRed). You MUST release when they faint, you may take items off their "corpses".
This gaming method stuck an actual tune with me. I grabbed an Emerald ROM (as if I am going to grind on a DS) and am currently making my way through Emerald. The new Pokemon I am using (I would never chose a Wismur, Zigzagoon or a Taillow) are finding a new use. Their deaths are meaningful and I actually feel a slight sense of loss whenever I make a foolish mistake and they faint.
So I am going to be posting my little adventure here and I highly encourage others to do the same.
EDIT: Here is the comic link - http://www.nuzlocke.com/