Let's Play! Pokemon Gaia Blind Nuzlocke

[lepton]

hey its me this is my first lets play on here lets see how long it takes before i give up! im doing regular nuzlocke rules.

Part 1

welcome to pokemon gaia! mascot is apparently , which is actually really cool. its a hack of firered.

General Kenobi. This is Professor Redwood, and hes apparently also an archaeologist - the Pokemon he shows us is , cool fossil theme

my name is lepton

hi mom

apparently i received a letter, this isnt weird at all.

I go grab the book from my room and - jesus thats an ominous name

thank you mom, thats actually really nice and they work indoors! ty rom hacks

We are from Celanto Town. what a wonderful tourist slogan we have here. on an unrelated note, i love the player sprite here

decided to go explore the town, here is the interesting things i found

apparently megas are in this game? thats extremely neat

thats also neat

now i went to the shrine that the letter told me to, presumably this is who sent the letter

apparently its an old family heirloom of hers, and being the wonderful girl i am i give it back out of the kindness of my heart. I wonder if this becomes important later in the story...

walking back into town im stopped by mom who realized that its actually dangerous to walk 100 feet out of town through a completely empty path and wants me to get a pokemon.

he wants our help with (unidentified task, i wonder what it could be) and the third guy leaves lmao

Sinnoh starters, i know who im going to pick :)

meet Cody the . hes Hasty nature and knows tackle and withdraw. hes a good boy

i get to name my rival (who picks Chimchar) and in a stroke of pure genius i named him Rival. we dont fight yet, surprisingly

Professor told us to meet him in his house in Archan town, so im headed there. no pokeballs yet so the nuzlocke has not started atm

here we are, definitely a fossil theme going on, theres even a tapestry of relicanth which i forgot to screenshot

professor gives me and Rival the dex, map, and pokeballs. the run has officially started! oh and he wants us to meet him at the end of Archan tunnel, and Rival is gonna fight us at the entrance

my encounter on the route between here and starter town. not great cause i already have Cody, but neat ig

this one is way more interesting, and I will definitely use Paul at least in the short term. (this route is a dead end atm)

lmao
time to fight Rival before entering the cave

well i trained Cody and Paul to level 7 before the fight to be safe, and it turns out I definitely didnt need to

heres the route to where the professor wants us to go, he wants us to investigate earthquakes which have apparently been increasing recently

new route means new encounter and this one is... less than stellar

cleared out the trainers.

while exploring i found this lady's weedle and she gave me a great item. I immediately gave it to Oran () and started to train him up as this is a great incentive to use him

wasnt too exciting or difficult, but i made it to the first gym town

well thats interesting, and another reason to use Oran

Did one last encounter before ending, and Henry will also be very useful against Fernando

Heres my team at the end of part 1! next time ill beat the gym probably idk

 

[Cobalt Empoleon]

Yay! Gaia’s a very fun hack. Its theming is excellent and it’s really well-structured. The only thing I found that holds it back is some weird trainer AI that prevents some moves from being used effectively, but that might actually help in a nuzlocke. Looking forward to seeing this continue!

 

[lepton]

here it is

Part 2

heres where we left off - in the town with the first gym, trying to find a secret entrance to the cave we came here from

found it, just need cut (im guessing i get from the 1st gym) - gonna explore everything i can before then, and clear out trainers to level

encounter, probably wont use it atm cause i have Paul

west is roadblocked

so is east

heres the gym - decided to check the first gym trainer to feel out where i should train to

decided to train to level 10 before the gym trainers.

cleared them out, not too bad

got Oran to 13 so he could learn a grass move with more than 20 power, should make the gym much easier

here we go!

he leads clefairy.

he uses rock smash, which only does 3, so i use this time to set up to +6 with growth

mega drain 2hkos, he uses his potion, and then sends out ralts

mega drain ohkos, time for his ace

mega drain 2hkos, we got the first badge without any deaths, poggers

he ran away crying without giving me the badge, we call this "pulling a Whitney"

thats no good - thats the area to the west that was roadblocked

its a spooky forest :eyes:

first things first though, new area means new encounter. i love pumpkaboo but i probably wont use it rn cause its my 3rd grass type

found him after clearing out some easy trainers

fred nandos dad gives me cut, time to access the """""secret""""" entrance

first i explored some optional cut trees and i got hidden power, taught it to Cody and thats decent coverage for now

story stuff, we have to head east to a town and theres a guy who can translate these runes, hes in a museum apparently

no longer roadblocked to the east, as expected

exploring - nothing can learn shock wave and idk what to give taunt to yet

made it to the city, the route/trainers were fairly painless

some guy was guarding the entrance to the museum

uh... yeah i bet he is
he ran off saying he needed to talk to his boss, he definitely works for the museum

heres my team at the end of part 2! no deaths so far, hopefully i can keep it up