Pokèmon X Final thoughts and ramblings.

Well With the defeat of the elite four behind me and my wonderful team of six taking a rest so I can take other types and attempt to catch them all in the game. I thought i would take this moment to now go over some of my thoughts about the game.

    Pokèmon:  I was absolutely over joyed about the number of older pokèmon available in this game. I still remember how happy i was to step in that grass patch for the first time and see pidgy of all creatures. After playing for as long as i have, and as old as i have gotten its nice to see some faces i know what to do with. That being said this did come with a trade off. There are not as many New Pokèmon to be seen, i think at last check only about 70. For someone who has taken to some pokèmon in  every generation it makes it hard for me to use new ones when there are more old school options then new ones. Also with the inclusion of Mega Evolution, it to me even seems like the game is also favoring the older gens too. Still the New pokèmon they added were not useless, and each one added their own little twitch. From Inkay to Fletchling and everything in between i think for the most part the new critters were interesting, and enjoyable to use, and now that the story part is over for me i plan on taking more of these new guys out for a spin to see what they are capable of.

Mega Evolution: I have used it, and i have seen what others have said about mega evolution, but i want to weigh in on this. Honestly i feel mega evolution is a bit of a cop out. yes its cool to see charizard and mewtwo take on new forms, but to give pokèmon like poor pinsar who for years needed another evolution a mega…a temp evolution is sort of taking the easy way out. Creating an evolution for him that has no real permanent effects on the creature. To me this seems like a guy thing…you know growing up that guys always needed a little boost to their toys because normal versions were not good enough. What is the word i am looking for mega…gimmick. Mega evolution feels very gimmicky to me, yes it changes the looks and increases the pokèmon’s strength and attack but in the end it is all very temporary. I think my biggest disappointment is this, if your going to have a mega Evolution that give a mega attack to go with it, but to have the same four moves as always to me was the nail in this gimmicks coffin.

Villains: I have gone over team flare in extent in previous posts, so i will not waste to much more time here. To me i was disappointed by Flare, compared to Plasma the gen before these guys were quite lame. beautification is not a valid reason to want to destroy the world, sorry. For once could the police actually help? really i haven’t seen any real active police officers in the game since team rocket, what did they all retire too?

Getting around: I must say i love the new addition of Roller blades, they are so much fun to play with, and the ability to do tricks on them just so much fun. I think i roller bladed the whole game i only used the bike a few times. This is a fun updated new feature to the game. There is also the addition of riding Pokèmon, which i must admit was a little deceptive when it was initially introduced though clips. I thought initially you could ride one of your own critters, but it turns out this is not the case at all. To be honest riding around on the Pokèmon the game provided was not all that much fun, and kind of slow.

Story: Well the story is geared to a younger audience, i really wish they would pull what you see what some modern kids films do and have story lines that younger and older players could enjoy. Honestly it gets to a point i just stop reading the story because it to be kind of boring. The part with the giant and his missing pokèmon i actually like that but again, i wasn’t that committed to story other wise.

New Type: I honestly don’t mind the fact they added Fairy to the game, or changed the typing of so many other Pokèmon out their. Lets face facts there are still way to many normal types out their, and anything that takes a few normals out is great news. Fairy also shakes things up a bit from the now stale type matching. It brings two ignored types and make them finally useful and its really nice to be able to go back and look at both Poison and Steel types and see them in a new light.

Mini Games: I actually grew quite fond of both Pokèmon Aime and the super training, to me it was a throw back to the old stadium days. In ways this gave me a chance to interact with my pokèmon for the first time in a long while in non combat settings. On top of that, the time you took making your pokèmon like you more paid off in game. i actually had an Eevee who was paralyzed cure itself because it loved me so much, and Lapras survived a hit that should have killed it for the same reason. This encourages players to actually use this feature and to be honest it is a mini game i will give ago, can’t tell you how many contests i have ignored over the years because i just don’t feel like dressing up my pokèmon in a hat.

Customzation: I liked the fact we can finally alter are avatar, but like most things there is need for growth here. for instance i wear glasses in real life, my little avatar has perfect 20/20 (Damn it). I also want to see more area appropriate outfits available for your character. Like if you are in an area covered and snow and ice, the outfit shop should not be carrying tank tops! I was cold just looking at my poor avatar. All and all this feature isn’t perfect but its nice to finally have and look forward to seeing it grow.

Overall: I liked X-Y it was a nice upgrade to game play. It went smoothly and quickly. I must say i sort of missed the the level grinding, and i found the Exp Share made leveling just a tad to easy. By the time i hit my second gym my team was already 7-10 levels above the gym leaders. Making a good chunk of my battles, to my advantage. It also made my team almost a hazard when catching new pokèmon, because they would often one show kill the guy we were facing, making the need for quick balls very needed. I find myself currently going back to these areas with Honedge with his false swipe to pick up the critters we missed in the game.

How would i stack X-Y up to the other gens…well i find this question to be unfair at this point. Graphically wise, X-y are light years ahead of the others. Story wise, i found Blacks story line to be great, but i still think Gold and silver are the best because you can venture into Johto and Kanto. The music since Black has greatly improved and frankly on occasion i would turn the tv or music down to listen to the game. Would i recommend this game, absolutely, are they are things i would tweak, of course but nobody or no game is perfect. That is what keeps games coming out though, always trying to improve upon the others.  If you have not picked up your copy or X-Y what are you waiting for.

Gen III: Ok Lets now address something else this game brought up , There are a Lot of hints in this game about a Hoenn, quite a few NPC talked about it, either pokèmon, or game play aspects from gen III. Ok Gen Three was not perfect, not my a long shot but it was still and enjoyable series and introduce one of my favorite HM moves Dive. I absolutely flipped when i saw dive return in black i was so happy. It has been Nintendo’s pattern the last few years which each new generation of handhelds they re release an older generation. With the gba, Fire Red and Leaf Green Was released, the updated versions of Red and blue, with some features from yellow. (Still waiting for a re-release of yellow!) With the DS game Soul Silver and Heart Gold. So to me it will be natural with the 3ds the newest handheld that Gen three gets and update and maybe they will fix some of those issues. i would love to see to See Sapphire and Ruby come back, and you better believe i will be one of the first in line to buy Sapphire. Some of my favorite dragons game out of this gen, and berries.

So what are all of your thoughts on X-Y? Are you excited about the prospect of a Sapphire and Ruby returning to the 3ds?

Yes i know i have more top 6’s to do but i think next month i will switch gears a bit an focus on another game series, i haven’t decided which one yet. Let me know what you think of this or any other blog i have done in the comments down below, or in the contact form included.

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Pokèmon x reaction though gyms 5 and 6

This is why i buy walkthoughs, i apparently walked right by a free Lapras, i very quickly back track and pick up my by far hands down favorite pokèmon. To my even greater joy its a girl lapras, who i name Sea Venture. Sea Venture bumps Blastoise out of the team, i am sorry hun you maybe going mega, but you just can’t match the bond i have with my Lapras.

Now back to the desert where i run into Gibile Trapinch and Dugtrio, Something weird happens though. Dugtrio has in the past always been a favorite, but i wasn’t all that excited to see it. Maybe because i have run into so many old favorites so far, and i really want to try new old pokèmon. other then Lapras at this point my team is built on pokèmon i haven’t gotten a chance to use before. I finally leave Fe behind now,  for Gibile. i have never used this dragon and i have  used trapinch in the past. i named Gibile Salrama…i don’t know why i just put letters together and that is what i came up with. i then head to the power plant remembering that previous gens is packed with electric pokèmon. Not full of electric pokèmon, instead filled with team flare. (ug, useless motive ppl…i demand team plasma again.)  i put flare out, turn on the power and head back to Lumiose city.

Random Tangent: Let me stop here for a second and address the bug going around. My game was not effected, but be aware there is a bug out their. i would honestly if you run into this bug return your game immediately for a new one.  The day i picked up my guide someone in front of me was returning the game for the very reason.

With the power back on its time to explore the city more, and i find more cafè’s …um joy. I learn pretty quickly that my up coming gym is going to be an electric gym…oh crap. Ok Sea Venture and Doplar (crobat) take a break in the box, while my newly caught dugtrio and Trapinch join my team temporarily to get though the gym. Dugtrio like always comes though in a pinch, but do does lucaio (Kain) and newly joined team member Salrama. Inkay (Bloop) is also with me growing up with Chip.

Random Tangent: I named Inkay bloop because it reminded me of the mario squid, which according to my friend is actually called bloober, but up until he told me yesterday i thought it was blooper. This thing by far has the weirdest way to evolve ever! you 3ds has to be upside down the the critter has to be at level 30.

Anyways my little Squad does the job and dugtrio and trapinch return to the box for Dopler and Sea Venture. After having another trainer battle and bloop evolving i realize even though its typing is interesting, it is just not doing the damage i would hope for. I return her to the box and retrieve my Gardevior, (Merlin) for the next stage of my journey. i teach Merlin and Sea Venture thunder bolt the prize for beating Gym 5. I always teach Lapras Thunderbolt…sort of my little surprise for water pokèmon. returning Merlin to my team turns out to be a smart move on my part with magical leaf we make quick work of the Quagsire’s in the way. I run into this generations newest dragon pokèmon goomy, and a little sadden by its dex entry. The weakest Dragon pokèmon, Really game that isn’t all that nice.

I then move on to gym 6, which is a fairy gym, To be honest I was a little intimidated by this gym, seeing how this is a brand new type i don’t really have a handle on the type strength and weaknesses. I do know enough to leave Salrama safely in a box to protect it bringing blaziken with me instead.  Doplar takes a staring role in eliminating the foes in my path, this makes the Forth gym she has been with me with, The rock, Fighting, Grass and now Fairy gym. I think Little Doplar has earned herself a spot in my elite four team. Blaziken also makes a strong showing in this gym, not surprising for my favorite starter.

 

For those keeping track the team i am working with at this moment is…

Doplar (Crobat)

Blaziken

Sea Venture (Lapras)

Merlin (Gardevoir)

Kain (Lucario)

Salrama (Gabite)

Sidelined:

Bolt: (pikachu)

Power (Blastoise)

Bloop (Malamar)

Slice (honedge)

Fe (Talonflame)

Chip (Chesnaught)

Slam (Snorlax)

Yeah i do notice that a my current team is all older pokèmon, but i would argue three are ones i have never used, or havn’t used in years, Lucario, and Gabite i have never used. Gardevoir and Crobat i have not used in years. Lapras and Blazikin are the only two ones i have consistantly used over the years and frankly if Lapras has a mega evolution blaze might go too.

walk though and gym 3 and 4 reaction

Well after the long hall to get to the 2nd gym, gyms 2, 3 and 4 are rather close to each other, which is nice. i now have a small group of pokèmon i seem to be rotating though which is a first for me. i usually pick 6 and stick with them for a while, but i have grown attach again to my zubat, and honedge. Gym three was a fighting gym, and its in this town do we get the secrets of mega evolution. they will talk at length about the stone and how there is only one ring to be given out, leaving you with a rival battle. Since my warturtle is now a blastoise this isn’t much of an issue for me, between blastoise and zubat we make quick work of the team.

Oh before i get to far ahead of myself there is a cave you have to get though, this one is a reflection cave, you will fine lots of psychics here including a personal favorite if unuseable little guy woobat (What can i say i like bats) Unfortanlty there is mr mime in here to….for the love of. i got swarmed twice by mime jrs. i think i cried a little inside. this is all good though because the next gym is a fighting gym and if you are not using a psychic or bird yet you might want to pick one up. For me i have Doplar, Fe and Merlin with me. (Golbat, Karlia and fletchinder) these three make quick work of this gym. in fact dopler almost soloed the whole gym leader battle. Blastoise (Power) Chesnaught (Chip) and Combuskin just sort of hung out and got xp, sadly combuskin did not make it to blazikin quite yet.

After the gym battle you are allowed to finally pick up the ring of power, to mega evolve and you are also given lucario. Now this is sort of a big deal for me, i have had lucarios in the past but because i have always had little use for fighting i generally place it into a box. but X-Y is a new chance to get to know old pokèmon all over again (This part of the reason snorlax has been sidelined a bit) I actually choose to box combuskin and keep lucario in the team, i want to see what all the buzz is about with this guy.

Now onto the the sea, you are given surf which i promply teach blastoise and oooo my god the surfing icon actually now changes to the pokèmon your surfing on!! a hem, i realize quickly this is not a good place for fe to be retreat and retrieve bolt my pikachu. We turn into torros miltank and slobro. (Crap miltank is still one tough cow.) after miltank levels two members of my team i manage to get her into a ball.  there is also a field you can ride skiddo around, much faster and a little bit more fun the ryhon. this actually reminds me of running around moria in lord of the rings online.

On to the next town, not sure but without the walkthough i need to know what gym i am up against, and now that i have a set of pokèmon i am rotating though i really not all that anxious to add more to my list. Still i should note i had a bunch of evolutions at once Karlia (Merlin) finished evolving into gardevior, and fe finished evolving into Talonflame. I am beginning to remember though why gardevior never sticks around with me, but i am willing to give it a few more levels before ditching it completely.

I picked up the new walkthough this afternoon, it is a nice hard cover but i am disappointed to not see a dex in it. that is what i was truly looking for. i am someone who will hover over her dex and study each pokèmon until i find the right fits for me. My favorite walk thoughs were though vs’s who interjected a little humor into each entry, sadly they are no longer around.  I will say this the walk though does clue me in on how some of the mini games work which is what i really needed help with.

Anyways the next gym is grass, i quickly box Power and Chip seeing how they will not help me at all in this gym. i withdraw Fe and and Combuskin. Dopler already has learned fly so as always is a menace to this gym. since electric and grass are sort of meh together Bolt stays on and Lucario named Kain gets to show off its stuff once more. I must say though going though the gym battling trainers i am a little frighten about how much and how many of these guys i remember, some i remember because of some past trauma they have inflicted on my teams.  Others because they have been difficult to defeats, others because i have used them. Still it comes in handy but i have to think at what cost does my pokèmon knowledge come, what have i forgotten as a result…wait do i know you people?  During the trainer clear out Doplar hit her final evolution of crobat. comments about the gym, while rope climbing seems like a fun idea, the whole idea of sliding down the rope just seems painful to me. i have had rope burn on my hands before, it sucks and seeing my avatar sliding down the rope in the grass gym made me cringe. hmm lets see the gym leader uses jumpluff, gogoat, whats the final finishing pokèmon for the gym leader. weepinbell. Really? look i like that family too but i can give you a mini list of better grass types. oh well combuskin have fun.  with the gym conquered funny hair contacts me and starts rambling about filth, yup that’s what i thought bad guys always have weird hair in this game. anyways that’s it for now. i have some studying to do now that i have my walk though, and some decisions to start making my elite four team, what will end up on the final team will though who come threw for me in tough battles and i am sure those are to come, with team flare around i am sure life is about to get harder.

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.