Pokémon Company does not hate Nuzlocke runs claim insiders
The Pokémon community is abuzz with conflicting statements regarding the legitimacy of self-imposed Nuzlocke runs.
Nintendo is well known for being so protective of its properties that it will strike down non-profit fan games without a second thought.
The Pokémon Company is, unsurprisingly, equally as intolerant of fan hacks of its Pokémon games. However, it’s recently been claimed that it also has a strong aversion for Nuzlocke runs.
For anyone unfamiliar with the term, a Nuzlocke run is a self-imposed challenge popular amongst the Pokémon community. While the rules can differ from player to player, the one constant is that if a pokémon faints, it’s considered dead and can no longer be used.
This isn’t something that requires you to hack your game or anything; anyone can attempt a Nuzlocke run with any Pokémon game.
Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang, who used to host the Nintendo Minute show on Nitnendo’s YouTube channel, were asked during their ownKit & Krysta podcast if they had ever attempted a Nuzlocke themselves.
The two proceeded to recount the time they pitched the idea of doing one for Nintendo Minute and, apparently, The Pokémon Company was vehemently against it, to the point where Ellis and Yang felt they nearly got in trouble for it.
Ellis explains, ‘They said ‘we consider this to be on the same level as using… ROM hacks.’ I was like, excuse me? This is just a style of playing a game that everybody can buy, there’s no hacking.’
Yang went on to say that members of the company’s creator programme were erased from it purely because they had played Nuzlocke runs.
These allegations quickly took off and became loud enough for others to approach The Pokémon Company for a formal statement on the matter.
While it hasn’t issued one at
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