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Catherine Lewis

The hardest Pokemon challenge isn't a Nuzlocke, it's playing one of the RPGs in a language you don't speak with an absurd list of rules and exercising every time you mess up

Rowlet looking stressed in the Pokemon anime.

There are many, many different ways to play through the Pokemon games, ranging from absurdly hard to straight-up ridiculous, but one player may have found the perfect middle ground with one of the strangest but most difficult challenge runs I've ever seen.

Content creator Smallant recently posted a video showcasing his run of Pokemon Ultra Sun, which was littered with rules suggested by his Twitch chat to make his time in the RPG a living hell. The first suggestion was implemented before even stepping foot into the world – changing the game's language to German. Smallant doesn't speak German, and given that he'd never played through Ultra Sun before, it meant he had to constantly guess what he was supposed to be doing, where he was going, and what his moves were. And no, he wasn't allowed to Google anything.

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