There's a saying I have seem to come up with. "You can only milk an idea so many times before someone decides to try out something new with it". Pokemon Let's Play comics are simple. Adding a challenge makes it interesting, but when so many people decide to do it, you will soon be having Deja Vu. So what happens? What makes Apocalypse Johto so different? Aside from the setting, the comic doesn't even feel like a Nuzlocke Comic at all.
The setting for Apocalypse Johto is simply the Apocalypse. Pretty much all the Pokemon are now attacking people with lethal force. Remind you of anything? Similarity aside, the comic shows what happens to all the towns and people once all hell breaks loose. Some change for the better while others... well... you get the picture. It interprets the events of the HG/SS games in a different light, more different then how other HG/SS Nuzlocke Comics go.
Our main character isn't some nice goody-goody two shoes or some swanking dude like most other Nuzlocke comics, but rather a bitter woman who has lost her town and is trying to find a way to stop the attacks, fighting those who stand in her way. And she can be very scary at times, with her decaying beauty not helping the case. It's a very nice contrast to other Nuzlocke protagonists.
As for the system, the Nuzlocke system, while it does start off with some sort of establishment as one might expect (the rules, the stats that show up whenever a new Pokemon is caught) it soon stops and becomes a story in of itself. There are times where I forgot that I was reading a Nuzlocke comic. It makes the comic more like a comic, and not just another Nuzlocke comic with an added gimmick.
Personally, Apocalypse Johto is a good Nuzlocke comic. I wouldn't actually recommend it as your first one. Do what I did and ease yourself into the Nuzlocke Comics first before reading this. The difference from this comic compared to others will be staggering and will only make the comic that much more enjoyable.
Damn is all I can say... But then again...
There's a saying I have seem to come up with. "You can only milk an idea so many times before someone decides to try out something new with it". Pokemon Let's Play comics are simple. Adding a challenge makes it interesting, but when so many people decide to do it, you will soon be having Deja Vu. So what happens? What makes Apocalypse Johto so different? Aside from the setting, the comic doesn't even feel like a Nuzlocke Comic at all.
The setting for Apocalypse Johto is simply the Apocalypse. Pretty much all the Pokemon are now attacking people with lethal force. Remind you of anything? Similarity aside, the comic shows what happens to all the towns and people once all hell breaks loose. Some change for the better while others... well... you get the picture. It interprets the events of the HG/SS games in a different light, more different then how other HG/SS Nuzlocke Comics go.
Our main character isn't some nice goody-goody two shoes or some swanking dude like most other Nuzlocke comics, but rather a bitter woman who has lost her town and is trying to find a way to stop the attacks, fighting those who stand in her way. And she can be very scary at times, with her decaying beauty not helping the case. It's a very nice contrast to other Nuzlocke protagonists.
As for the system, the Nuzlocke system, while it does start off with some sort of establishment as one might expect (the rules, the stats that show up whenever a new Pokemon is caught) it soon stops and becomes a story in of itself. There are times where I forgot that I was reading a Nuzlocke comic. It makes the comic more like a comic, and not just another Nuzlocke comic with an added gimmick.
Personally, Apocalypse Johto is a good Nuzlocke comic. I wouldn't actually recommend it as your first one. Do what I did and ease yourself into the Nuzlocke Comics first before reading this. The difference from this comic compared to others will be staggering and will only make the comic that much more enjoyable.