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The Challenge: Complete the game using a group of Pokémon that represent the classes in the original Final Fantasy. Having played the game not only at launch, but numerous times since doing a variety of different challenge runs, I felt as though I needed something new, something fresh for this go around. As the final forms of the starters are directly based on various RPG archetypes, and as I have a love of the Final Fantasy franchise, I decided that a marriage of the two wo

The Challenge: Complete the game using only Poison type Pokémon. As I had attempted to play through this game on numerous occasions, I decided the best way to compel myself to see it through to the end was to have some sort of challenge. The idea of doing a Nuzlocke was almost entirely out of the question as the mechanics in the game took away pretty much all incentive to do so. There are no truly random encounters, thus it would be easy to pick and choose what I got. Not be

The Challenge: Complete the game as a Nuzlocke challenge using only Fire type Pokémon. Pokémon games, especially newer ones, are notoriously easy. Since Game Freak seems to have no plans to change that, and since people love playing and replaying these games, fans have come up with a myriad of ways in which to boost the difficulty themselves. The most prolific of these self imposed challenge runs is the Nuzlocke challenge, which itself has such a fascinating history that I p

The Challenge: Complete a playthrough on Classic mode with unit classes chosen at random. Having played through three of the four story routes present in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, completing Verdant Wind, Azure Moon, and most recently Crimson Flower for my previous article, I decided it was only fitting to switch things up a bit as I tackled the fourth and final story route. Having been introduced to the series by 2012's Fire Emblem: Awakening, I had become accustomed to t