Okay, so I know I said there’d be an Alan Wake review a ways back, but…
Well, we’ve both been busy. Tom’s been finishing up shit for his course, and in between exams I’ve been doing my Nuzlocke run of POKMANZ YELLOW PIKAJEW EDITION. Let me explain…
What’s a Nuzlocke run?
A Nuzlocke run is basically where you play pokémon (or if you’re MenK, whatever you damn please) with certain restrictions. The basic rules are as follows:
1) Only catch the first (usually non-duplicate) pokémon in each area and nothing else. If it dies, too bad, next area.
2) If a pokémon faints, it’s dead and can’t be used again.
3) (OPTIONAL) Nickname everything.
Why play yellow?
Well, I actually started my first run way back in april on Heart Gold, but frankly scrapped the idea as soon as I got to the first gym. You see, as all real men pick Chikorita for the sheer nails-ness it adds to the game, in the remakes Falkner tends to spam roost a lot, so I pretty much got turbo-raped. So, I went back to a simpler time. MUCH simpler.
But why not choose a game with abilities?
No. Abilities are gen 3 propaganda shitspawn that have no place in civilised society.
Why do we care about whatever it is you said you’re doing?
Generally, you record your progress in some way, either as video, as a story, or by drawing a comic. I’m doing it as a comic because I’m badass and that’s how I roll. I’ve been posting the comic on the Nuzlocke forums for a couple of weeks now, and to make up for doing nothing at all I’ll be posting it here too. So, if you want to read a badly drawn comic where a grown man becomes unnaturally attached to imaginary wonder pets, look no further. They’ll be posted here, on their own subdomain.
