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Pokemon X retrospective
12 years ago
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Since it is a thing I will comment on things that that I felt about playing Pokemon X
After beating the game a while ago and now breeding Charmanders hoping to get a shiny so I can test what the colors of Megazard X look like shiny I will say first that X is a worthy addition to the franchise and definitely my expectations were met and then some.
I love the graphics, the new place, the Super Training and Amie (now if we can combine Amie with Pokemon following you from HGSS it would be so perfect) the new Pokemon, moves, the changes to the metagame (yes including the nerf of the popular moves and no Hidden Power didn't get a nerf, it got a boost because normal people had to deal with the variable power, I can deal with the random type but random power put me off) and a bunch more stuff that I know I am missing.
That said I do wish to talk about places that it is deficient
To me the most disappointing part of XY is the music, it isn't bad at all but it wasn't as memorable as I'd like, not even the gym and elite 4 which usually had me excited kinda seemed a bit ho hum. The only music that I find memorable is the Bicycle theme, I feel that I should give the music another shot.
Another part that I found a bit lacking was the story and not because of the overall story, honestly playing Pokemon for story is like trying to eat a Whopper because it has lettuce and tomato, but because the characters seemed kinda flat and uninteresting. I was a bit annoyed at my group of friends and how painfully uninteresting they were (except my other sex counterpart, he was cool at least and so was the other girl but the other two I didn't like much). The gym leaders also didn't have as much life as they did in Gen V but I probably attribute that to the story as well.
Team Flare was a bit of a letdown since I thought their plans would be more complex than nuke everything from orbit and rebuild from the ashes of Kalos and that second part was dubious if it could even be fulfilled, I thought their desire of beauty would include some themes like eliminating the undesirables instead of just eliminating everyone and that involved the legendary Pokemon at some point (one thing that I will say is that I am a bit glad that the legends are downplayed this gen, I missed when legendaries were mysterious creatures you actually had to seek out instead of having to trip over one eventually and it got very bad in Gen V when even the Musketeer Trio just stood in front of you to challenge and capture them) but it is a lot better than Team Galactic's plan of erasing existence because you weren't loved enough as a child or something (really Team Galactic were the absolute worst team to date, I find it hard to find anything worse than emo threatens reality).
But I guess the worst character that comes to mind is AZ. I'll just say this out front... AZ is Princess Peach in terms of storyline. Sure you meet him outside but his greatest contribution to the plot was get captured to give the bad guys the key, you could've replaced him with a key and the story wouldn't have been affected one bit. Even his ending where he finds his friend was heart warming and full of feel but pointless to the storyline and it honestly begs the question what would an immortal human and Pokemon do now, honestly I was disappointed that they just disappear apparently after they reunite and no reason or warning or even find out HOW they disappear, they just vanish during the credits never to be seen again. At least with N going away you know he wants to look for answers after basically being told that he was a tool for global domination and you saw him take off in his dragon, that was satisfying. I do hope we get something more with AZ or that the Z version will fix that but as it stands I find AZ to be a wasted opportunity and it really hurts cause his concept was interesting but all he was was a damsel in the end, both that you need to rescue him and that you need to beat him in the end to see his friend again.
Also I think this gen has the most SURPRISE! trainer battles from your entire group of friends... even Prof. Sycamore is in on this and surprise challenges you. Gary Oak must step up his game if he wishes to keep the title of most annoying rival (although to be fair it is a group effort but when Prof. Sycamore is in on this I expect now that Prof. Oak will team up with Gary for a SURPRISE DP)
Anyway after my ramblings of questionable coherence I will post my end team
Benjamin the Delphox Level 77 (honestly this game is way too giving on the Exp, I barely did grinding except at the last part for reasons that I will tell you later)
Jade the Mienshao at Level 68 (She thinks the game is too easy)
Silica the Flygon at level 73 (my main Flyer and kick ass team mate)
Sophitia the Aurorus at level 76 (I said I will have an Aurorus and I meant it, gotta love the Icy Hyper Beams)
Okra the Venusaur at level 74 (Also my Mega Stone user although it wasn't needed as much)
Derek Grim the Hydreigon at level 67 (This one was a last minute addition because he basically swooped down from a tree already fully evolved so I had to capture and train him since how can I not take such an awesome dragon with me also the main reason for my last minute grind)
Honorable mention goes to Lapalace the Lapras who provided Waterfall support when no one else would.
And well I think that is it, now to go back and breed some Charmanders
After beating the game a while ago and now breeding Charmanders hoping to get a shiny so I can test what the colors of Megazard X look like shiny I will say first that X is a worthy addition to the franchise and definitely my expectations were met and then some.
I love the graphics, the new place, the Super Training and Amie (now if we can combine Amie with Pokemon following you from HGSS it would be so perfect) the new Pokemon, moves, the changes to the metagame (yes including the nerf of the popular moves and no Hidden Power didn't get a nerf, it got a boost because normal people had to deal with the variable power, I can deal with the random type but random power put me off) and a bunch more stuff that I know I am missing.
That said I do wish to talk about places that it is deficient
To me the most disappointing part of XY is the music, it isn't bad at all but it wasn't as memorable as I'd like, not even the gym and elite 4 which usually had me excited kinda seemed a bit ho hum. The only music that I find memorable is the Bicycle theme, I feel that I should give the music another shot.
Another part that I found a bit lacking was the story and not because of the overall story, honestly playing Pokemon for story is like trying to eat a Whopper because it has lettuce and tomato, but because the characters seemed kinda flat and uninteresting. I was a bit annoyed at my group of friends and how painfully uninteresting they were (except my other sex counterpart, he was cool at least and so was the other girl but the other two I didn't like much). The gym leaders also didn't have as much life as they did in Gen V but I probably attribute that to the story as well.
Team Flare was a bit of a letdown since I thought their plans would be more complex than nuke everything from orbit and rebuild from the ashes of Kalos and that second part was dubious if it could even be fulfilled, I thought their desire of beauty would include some themes like eliminating the undesirables instead of just eliminating everyone and that involved the legendary Pokemon at some point (one thing that I will say is that I am a bit glad that the legends are downplayed this gen, I missed when legendaries were mysterious creatures you actually had to seek out instead of having to trip over one eventually and it got very bad in Gen V when even the Musketeer Trio just stood in front of you to challenge and capture them) but it is a lot better than Team Galactic's plan of erasing existence because you weren't loved enough as a child or something (really Team Galactic were the absolute worst team to date, I find it hard to find anything worse than emo threatens reality).
But I guess the worst character that comes to mind is AZ. I'll just say this out front... AZ is Princess Peach in terms of storyline. Sure you meet him outside but his greatest contribution to the plot was get captured to give the bad guys the key, you could've replaced him with a key and the story wouldn't have been affected one bit. Even his ending where he finds his friend was heart warming and full of feel but pointless to the storyline and it honestly begs the question what would an immortal human and Pokemon do now, honestly I was disappointed that they just disappear apparently after they reunite and no reason or warning or even find out HOW they disappear, they just vanish during the credits never to be seen again. At least with N going away you know he wants to look for answers after basically being told that he was a tool for global domination and you saw him take off in his dragon, that was satisfying. I do hope we get something more with AZ or that the Z version will fix that but as it stands I find AZ to be a wasted opportunity and it really hurts cause his concept was interesting but all he was was a damsel in the end, both that you need to rescue him and that you need to beat him in the end to see his friend again.
Also I think this gen has the most SURPRISE! trainer battles from your entire group of friends... even Prof. Sycamore is in on this and surprise challenges you. Gary Oak must step up his game if he wishes to keep the title of most annoying rival (although to be fair it is a group effort but when Prof. Sycamore is in on this I expect now that Prof. Oak will team up with Gary for a SURPRISE DP)
Anyway after my ramblings of questionable coherence I will post my end team
Benjamin the Delphox Level 77 (honestly this game is way too giving on the Exp, I barely did grinding except at the last part for reasons that I will tell you later)
Jade the Mienshao at Level 68 (She thinks the game is too easy)
Silica the Flygon at level 73 (my main Flyer and kick ass team mate)
Sophitia the Aurorus at level 76 (I said I will have an Aurorus and I meant it, gotta love the Icy Hyper Beams)
Okra the Venusaur at level 74 (Also my Mega Stone user although it wasn't needed as much)
Derek Grim the Hydreigon at level 67 (This one was a last minute addition because he basically swooped down from a tree already fully evolved so I had to capture and train him since how can I not take such an awesome dragon with me also the main reason for my last minute grind)
Honorable mention goes to Lapalace the Lapras who provided Waterfall support when no one else would.
And well I think that is it, now to go back and breed some Charmanders
