Pokèmon x reaction up to gym 2

Just after beating first Gym.

The gym leaders sister gives you exp. share. now there has been a change to the exp share from the games of olde. apparently now you don’t need to hold give it to a member of your party any more, now apparently all it needs to be is in the bag and your whole party now gets exp points after each battle of capture. How do i feel about this…well it throws me off a bit to be honest. i have always done even leveling. what do i mean by that, i mean getting every member of getting to a certain level then stopping them until the others members have caught up. so ideally heading into gym two everyone would be 25 or something like that. For me the new change to exp share isn’t that welcomed.

we continue to the next city and to some catching in a flower field where i run into my first fairy pokèmon Flabébé. I know this is a fairy and i am a girl…but yuk too girly for me..so ploped into the box.  I also ran the fire lion as well, but having my fire in blazikin and my new favorite fire so far fletchling, i find myself really growing fond of the little bird. anyways on to the next city where i met the professor of this game. As promised he is also giving you one of the original 3 starters, however first you have to battle them.  Bulbasaur and Squirtle are not an issue but charmander proves to be an issue because at this point of time i have no water…no ground to help out. somehow with Zigzagoon (bandit) falling to charmander my Pikachu (bolt) comes though for me. (i knew i loved that rat for a reason.)  Defeated the gleeful professor give me a choice of the three, my heart is still saying bulbasuar, but after the ass thumping charmander delivered it becomes apparent i have to have water in my team, so Squirtle is chosen and named power. since your team will be likely full at this point the game, like Black and white the game will give you an option to automatically shift a party member over the pc to make room for your new starter. I chose Pidgy (Flap) to be sent to the pc already knowing what this bird is capable of and profoundly curious to see what Fletchling (Fe) will grow into. You can take some time to explore the city with your spiffy new roller blades, but really there isn’t much to do, half of the city is currently blocked off due to a “Power outage”. Story wise nothing really exciting is going on, you see a potential glimmer of the new bad guy, i only think that because he has villain hair.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Moving on to route 5, you get to really play with your roller skates, jumping on bars and grinding down to pick up new items, there is an interesting change too. there are now two different colored lost item balls. Red for balls, meds and other random drops, yellow balls for tms and hms! Now that is a handy little upgrade if i do say so myself, its nice to know if the item will be worth your time and not a stupid voltorb! The grass area holds the goat, which is a grass type, since chespin now Quillian is still going strong i have no need fro two grass types. I also run into doduo and Plusle. (i hate plusle) the next town doesn’t have gym but does have a castle of some sort. it should be at this point i remind everyone the basic rules to rpgs.

1 save, and save often, you never know whats around the corner (Especially if stupid game stop doesn’t have your walk though ready for you when they…..(breathe))

2 talk to all npc, you never know what they will give you, or what they will tell you.

3 Save again

4 check bookshelves, trash cans trees random corners, you never know what you will find.

5 explore every corner of what ever building your in

6 SAVE!!!

ahem the guy in the castle alerts you to something on the road…oh boy. you leave the city and head out first on the lower grounds you find a berry farm which they just give you. i must say this was sort of missed in black and white. Berries have become necessary to game play as instant cures for paralysis, poison or sleep, in previous generations since there introduction in gen III they have become more necessary to the game, and sometimes a cheaper item to stock up the paralysis heal or awakening. Your given a pretty big farm and several pecca and oran berries to start off.  You can plant and water and even make compost out of three berries (A neat and helpful new feature.) however since i don’t have many berries at this time i plant my peccas and move on to this obstruction. What game what is it this time another tree? omg its Snorlax, before even the second gym there is a snorlax in the road!!!!!!!!!!! OMG YES. (before the second gym i have two of my permanent team members snorlax and combusken who will become blaziken soon enough!) Like eariler versions you need a pokè flute to wake my slumbering teddy bear. So you have to make a detour up route 6.  Go check out the tell grass you, will find the new double blade and the games psychic pokèmon. Not only that you will also run into sentret….yes i squeed again. its going to be a looooong game for me, i am not even at the second gym and so far i have seen half my my favorites, speaking of which guess who else shows up. Oddish, really game really…you need to increase my team slot from 6 to 8 because now its just not fair.

Now onto the castle where you have to pay 1,000 pokè dollers to get in. I almost turned away but no, there is a pokè flute in there and i have to get it! you have to run around and chase another lost pokèmon. (Again, seems like i have to catch a lost pokèmon every game, haven’t these people heard of leashes?) Catch the pokèmon, get the flute, mock the idiot who lost the Pokèmon then run to get your snorlax. Just like previous versions Snorlax wakes out grump, that’s ok we have a goal to catch him. I used my newly found ultra ball on him and named him Slam. Slam replaces the now fully evolved Linoone which like any good starting normal has outlives his usefulness but that’s for getting me this far bandit!

                                         

I ran into my first horde too, a herd of psyducks (um…joy?)  thank god for pikachu (i am remembering why i loved him so much.) initial thoughts, one level is significant less then my current teams. (who is hanging a around 22 except for my new snorlax) two i would hope if you see a horde you can put out two or three pokèmon to help you out…but noooo. Ok guess we have to do this the hard way. My basic strategy is the only strategy to take one out at a time. Since i want to catch the female psyduck i take out all the male ones first leaving the female one to quick attack and catch.

I also want to talk a bit about the mini games now, you now get poke amie which is three little mini games you can play with the pokèmon you have in your team. i must say to me this is a throw back to stadium and a way of game freak acknowledging why we want stadium back so much, so now not only do we get the graphics but the mini games we used to love.

Battle Chateau: this is a good place to level up your new snorlax check out the battle Chateau, and there you have a i guess duel battle with your neighbor. then you get to head to the caves, joy caves named for zubats, maybe i will find a geodu…opps sped though it to quickly rats. finally after a little bit more travel (Gosh this a long road to the second badge i finally hit my goal city. but wait there is still more. come on game some of me team are hovering around level 27, this is a danger zone for me knowing in three levels my guys will stop listing to me unless i get that badge. so i make a choice, Fe, chip and combuskin into the PC for now, i will retrieve them later for the gym, i withdraw skiddow (after looking online and finding out this is a rock gym) Honedge (slice) and Zubat (Dopler) Now i know i haven’t posted my top 6 poison up yet, but don’t be surprised to see zubat i am actually a big fan of his despite how many times he pops up. i then stop the game for the day…sorry game i have to work.

A day later: I look again into my team and also decide that bolt shouldn’t be there so i plop him in the PC and put chip back in and hope. i head to glittering gave for my fossil, i am going in knowing i am after amaura, only because i have been a brontosaurs fan since i was little. I have my first sky battle as well with zubat, lol. i love zubat but i don’t think either of use were expecting her to be my first sky battle.  Anyways in yes another cave, which i will say this the cave experience has changed. i now feel like i am in my Lord of the rings game half expecting an orc to jump out, however instead of a orc i get an onix. (OK i like onix but were the heck is my geodude!) i then get a good look at team flare, out to make the world more beautiful no matter what the cost.  ok side bar

Sidebar rant: Really game that the big bads motivation!!!! black i must say so far has had the best villain story line ever. whether its right or even moral to keep a pokèmon in a ball, and the following game you give me wanna be runway models? heck even pearl and diamonds villains blew up a lake! This team Flare has a lot to live up to and so far i am very unimpressed….making the world beautiful (Sighs in disgust)

Back to story line you defeat the (Shudders) villains for the game and collect your choice of fossils and thanks to some of the pre game publishing i know its the sail fossil i want. Heading back to town you turn in the fossil to get you pokèmon, since at the moment i don’t have much use for amaura i box it and head to the gym.  now there is even more battling and a dowsing machine that you pick up along the way, but its incidental.  I also back tracked a little bit to route 4 to pick up ralts (Merlin) because i was having a hard time finding a girl one. I will be intrested in seeing the changes to ralts now that it is part fairy…this is a fairy i can get behind!

The Gym: this one is a rock climbing one, taking full advantage of the new designs. anyways because i didn’t change out my team before the gym leader i have to restart the game and return Dopler, slice and my goat back to the box, and change back out for fe, Combuskin and Bolt. Heading into this gym i have Power (wartortle level 29) Chip ( Quilladin 29) Fe (fletchinder 26) Bolt ( pikachu 26) Slam (Snorlax 25) and Combusken 27. Honestly combusken owns this gym taking out both the leaders pokèmon in no time flat, leaving qulliadin and warturtle on the leaders guardians.

there is a big gap in the time you take on gym leader 1 and gym leader 2, leading to me to believe that the elite four are probably going to be around the 60-70 when i get ready to take them on.

Anyways due to my work scheduled my playing time will be halved, thus a good gamer Women chooses to make a living first over her game, knowing that money equals food and games. Anyways that is it for now, next up will be one of my top 6’s i think Poison is due out next. Until next time happy gaming.

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