Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang, the 2 erstwhile hosts of Nintendo Minute who besides antecedently worked for galore years astatine Nintendo PR, person fixed penetration into The Pokemon Company’s views connected nuzlocke. Apparently, it’s thing that’s looked upon precise negatively.

Ellis revealed during the latest occurrence of the Kit & Krysta Podcast that for an occurrence of Nintendo Minute, an thought was pitched to effort a nuzlocke run. Unfortunately, the connection was instantly changeable down.

Ellis said:

“Well, we person a large communicative to archer astir this wherever we thought that this would beryllium a amusive thought for a Nintendo Minute video, truthful we pitched it to The Pokemon Company and said, ‘Hey, we would similar to bash a nuzlocke run, what bash you think?’ ‘Here’s what we think’ – bam! So they said, ‘We see this to beryllium connected the aforesaid level arsenic utilizing hacking’ – ROM hacks.

Excuse me? This is conscionable the benignant of playing a crippled that everybody tin bargain – there’s nary hacking, you’re conscionable playing the game. That was genuinely 1 of the much like, ‘wait what?’ responses.”

Yang added that “there were a batch of creators that played nuzlocke-style of Pokemon that got similar erased from their creator program.”

Nuzlocke challenges person been astir with the Pokemon bid for a importantly agelong time. These are self-imposed rules players enactment connected themselves to summation the trouble of the games. There is nary hacking oregon outer changing of the code.