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I'm sure a good number of you have played pokemon, but have you guys done a Nuzlocke runthrough?  Nuzlocke is pokemon with a twist, in an effort to make the game more difficult. 

The main rule of Nuzlocke dictates that you must release a pokemon if it faints, simulating it "dying".  Other rules involve a requirement to nickname all pokemon one captures (in order to increase attachment and loss if a pokemon faints), only capturing the first pokemon encountered in each patch of grass or area of capture, and a rule preventing the player from purchasing any item from marts or other vendors.  As you can imagine, this makes each game heart wrenching and difficult, quite a step up from the usual pokemon playthrough.

Try it out if you get bored.  It's not for the faint of heart.

I'm currently playing a Nuzlocke file of Sapphire.  My Shedninja just died after 5 gyms of honest work.  May he rest in peace.

Yeah, I tried something similar with a couple of my brothers. I think the gameplay rules were the same, but after each gym we had PvP matches. The winner was allowed to switch any of their pokemon with one of the loser's, which basically led to begging and bribery from whoever lost.

After one particularly terrible loss, one of my younger brothers wouldn't talk to my older brother all day except to scream abuse.

Since I'm getting both OR and AS for Christmas because my grandma spoils me, I'll be doing a Nuzlocke of OR after I beat AS. Maybe not immediately after, but at some point I hope to try it.

I was planning on Treecko because I like Sceptile's Mega and I already have Torchic with the Blazikenite from the event in XY (although I'm sure you can buy the stones, like for the Kanto starters). In AS I was going to use Mudkip for similar reasons (and not because i liek mudkipz. shush.)

Now that I think about it, I remember my original reasoning for wanting to use Treecko. I didn't want to use a starter that had a type advantage over Team Magma, so Mudkip was out of the running, and I already explained why I wasn't going to use Torchic... I guess I'm just looking for trouble. Hopefully this doesn't come back to bit me too hard.

Yeah, but I wasn't looking to disadvantage myself any further and frankly i like blaziken the best overall.  Blaziken was the first pokemon i leveled to 100, but the file i had it on was erased by one of my siblings.  I still get mad about it sometimes...