>>58247636>It has in recent years been depleted of that and now the main focus is the challengeI wouldn't say "In Recent years", In fact i'd say it happened fairly quickly on the slide of "OG Nuzlocke" to present day, and the issue was streamers accelerated it, and obviously they don't want a personal story, they want to spam "content", plus with how Encounters are A LOT of Nuzlockes can end up similar anyway because, particularly in older games, there is overlap between mons on routes that often have higher encounter rate anyway and then the Nuzlocker just actively overgrind to be "safe" cause the don't wanna lose their Iron Man run/Carry Mon.
The only good Nuzlocke story was the first one anyway.
Solo Runs can be neat, but only in the perspective of a larger project that actively compares shit and even then it can be samey if the majority of mons have the same cheese tactic (OH BOY, I LOVE BADGE BOOST!) but there is some mons that perform better then people think or have weirdass non-intuitive tactics on the table at some point.