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Well then, here's your 'Bizarre News Story of the Week™'. In a clip posted connected Twitter via the latest occurrence of the Kit and Krysta podcast, the ex-Nintendo employees received a question from 1 of their Patreon supporters connected whether they had ever played a 'Nuzlocke run' of Pokémon.

This prompted the brace to recount a communicative successful which they pitched an thought to The Pokémon Company to play a Nuzlocke tally connected an occurrence of 'Nintendo Minute'. Apparently, their proposition was not lone promptly unopen down, but they allegedly came adjacent to being fired, with The Pokémon Company stating that the Nuzlocke Challenge is "on the aforesaid level arsenic a hack oregon ROM".

Naturally, this bombshell mightiness travel arsenic a spot of a daze to those acquainted with the Nuzlocke Challenge. For the uninitiated, it is simply a self-imposed acceptable of assemblage rules that indispensable beryllium abided by erstwhile playing Pokémon. The 2 basal rules see releasing immoderate Pokémon that faints during battle, arsenic it indispensable beryllium considered "dead", and that the subordinate indispensable only drawback the archetypal Pokémon they travel crossed wrong each area. There are a plethora of further rules that astir players besides abide by, and you tin work astir them each connected the Nuzlocke Challenge Bulbapedia page.

Regardless of your familiarity with the Nuzlocke Challenge, our little overview should marque it wide that it's not connected the aforesaid level arsenic hacking oregon ROMs; it is simply a acceptable of self-imposed restrictions that instrumentality spot wrong the halfway parameters of the game. Indeed, Kit and Krysta were intelligibly shocked by the absorption from The Pokémon Company and highlighted its unpredictability successful regards to assemblage suggestions.

Since the merchandise of the clip, Serebii webmaster Joe Merrick stated that helium had contacted The Pokémon Company regarding the claim, who confirmed that players are escaped to play Pokémon games successful whichever mode they spot fit, truthful agelong arsenic it remains wrong the confines of the crippled itself, stating “we bash not person immoderate issues with fans/creators playing the games with Nuzlocke rules”.

While there's nary uncertainty that Kit and Krysta's communicative is true, we fishy that determination whitethorn person been immoderate miscommunication regarding the explanation of hacks and ROMs and their narration (or deficiency thereof) to the Nuzlocke Challenge. It's imaginable that portion The Pokémon Company has nary contented with the Nuzlocke Challenge successful itself, it possibly wasn't keen connected the situation being showcased via an authoritative transmission specified arsenic Nintendo Minute. Regardless, Kit and Krysta look to person taken the contention successful their stride, posting an amusing tweet yesterday evening:

What bash you marque of Kit and Krysta's claims? Are you a instrumentality of the Nuzlocke Challenge? Let america cognize successful the comments below.

[source youtube.com, via twitter.com]