Anyway. X/Y. Even though I didn't feel Black 2, I was still super-hyped for X/Y. And, for once, the hype was justified. I'd say this is my favourite Pokémon game, for a lot of reasons. A great selection of Pokémon, good online features, nice art style, the music (seriously...so good), and a lot of little reasons that all add up to the experience (I loved the France-inspired setting for example).
As for the bad things: there are frequent frame drops and slowdown throughout the game, in and out of battles. Putting on 3D makes it even worse. Gamefreak have never been technical wizards, and performance-wise this really could be a lot better. I like the graphics because of the artstyle, but technically, this game is a little undercooked.
Other than that, at times the menus and text feel very slow and old-fashioned, it's a minor issue for me, but I think things can be a lot more intuitive.
As for my team/play style: I picked Froakie as starter, and Charmander as second starter. My pre-Xerneas team consisted of Pancham, Gardevoir and Tyrunt. Towards the end of the game, Xerneas was my main, Greninja and Charizard as back up (I honestly overlevelled all three of them, making the game too easy), and I had a decent Doublade/Aegislash. That's the team I beat the Elite Four and Champion with.
This game has too many Pokémon I like. I wanted Mawile on my team, and did that damn glittering cave at least 40 times before I could catch one, but then realised I don't really need a steel/fairy type. Also, there are too many good water Pokémon. When available I always have Gyarados on my team, but now I didn't need him at all. I love Psyduck as well - again, not needed. I love the Clauncher/Clawitzer design, one of my favourite new Pokémon. Do I need him? No. I still went fishing for Claunchers and put them on Wonder Trade, heh. And, not a water Pokémon, but I evolved Fletchling into Talonflame and loved the design, but I really couldn't have 2 fire/flying 'mon on my team... seriously, too many good Pokémon. Bring back the crappy Pokémon from Black 2! (okay not really)
I mentioned Wonder Trade in passing, but really, I love that feature. Okay, a lot of times I got a Fletchling or Pikachu or Weedle, all level 5 or under, but I got some good stuff as well. And lots of Charmanders for some reason, hmm. But it's one of my favourite new features, it's very addicting.
I've played the game for about 85 hours in a little over two weeks - my 3DS stats tell me I played the game for about 10 hours in one day, so, uhh, yeah. I might have had a minor addiction. But I really had fun with it, even with the silly minigames. It's also the first Pokémon game I finish (I'm pretty horrible at finishing RPGs), so yeah. You can understand why I'd call this my favourite Pokémon game. And it's probably my game of the year as well.
Anyway, I only wanted to write a small review - I failed at that but I still want to share some pics and comment on them:
Awesome product placement.
Best Starter.
Best second starter. Called him Doomfire. One of two pokémons I actually gave a name (the other one was my Onix who I named Nixon)
"another think"?
I wasn't too sure about picking X over Y, but once Xerneas became part of my team, he became my main guy -- uh, thing. Awesome design and moveset.
How about this huh? All six starters (and a Bulbasaur with an indentity crisis - thanks wonder trade!)
As with every game, it has random creepy/funny comments from NPCs. I also loved the guy who was obsessed with shorts.
Right, that's all for now!
