u/Dielilievomlunzersee

Hey all,

I have to say, I fell in love with this game, it kinda ruined other pokemon games for me because of the sheer endless fusion combinations...

So I played through it once (posted my HoF here haha) and decided to give nuzlock a try, to challenge me somehow.

I am totally new to nuzlocking, and I noticed that I am bad at it, not at the battles, at the discipline. I kept lying to myself, or half lying whatever you want to call it, inventing new rules on the fly and so on and so forth.

Since I am working as a developer, I was thinking to myself, why not hardcode these rules? This way, I am left with no choice but to obey the nuzlock rules.

So I built one for myself over the while, and it's grown big enough that I figured I'd offer it up in case anyone else is interested.

I am usally playing randomizer + fuse everything, so all my tweaks are kind of built around that.

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What it does (almost everything is optional and toggled right in the Options menu):

• Engine-enforced Hardcore Nuzlocke — whiteout = real game over, the save locks/deletes itself. No save-scumming your way out.
• Fusion-aware first-encounter rule — dupes clause, species clause, shiny clause all actually understand fusions
• Permadeath — fainted mons go to a "Cemetery" box and can't be healed. Revive Tokens (1–3 per badge) are the only way back.
• The usual hardcore stuff — no heal items in battle, no fleeing trainers, no wonder trade, fusion partner lock — each one toggleable
• Balance tweaks — Dragon Rage / Sonic Boom no longer one-shot your early team, halved wild encounter rate so routes aren't a slog, and more
• Companion QoL mini-mods — no wild Ditto, Game Corner prizes cost cash instead of endless coin-grinding, Oak's assistants count trainer wins instead of fusions
• One-click "Restart Run" that keeps all your settings

It's a personal hobby project, not polished, but it works and every file is commented.