my XY Mini Review
my XY First Impressions!
Time: 19 Hours | Badges: 4 | Dex Seen: 324 | Own 249 | Gender: ♀
Well folks, I just wanted to quicky share my thoughts and feelings on X and Y, while I take a breather from the game!
XY is one for the fans! GameFreak really listened to the community on this one, especially those of us who've been here since gen1. Fans wanted a 4th evolution, but we didnt want to turn our Charazard into another disregarded middle evolutions. Charazard wouldnt be Nintendo's 2009 and IGN's 2012 highest rated pokemon, if Blarzillad was a thing. and GameFreak really did this a cleverly careful way to appease to an advancing pokemon universe, but not to offset nostalgic oldschool players.
Japan not getting an edge on us for the first time in Nintendo history was a marvel of how much they put into this game! and despite a few leaks, Nintendo did a great job keeping what to expect air-tight. Everyone went into this game on their own, with no guides to follow, no tutorials, no information on the internet, nothing! Wow that makes it soo amazing!!
Level playing field for everyone! Not just a world-wide simultaneous release, but the only way to transfer past gen pokemon is through the cloud storage, which Nintendo wont be launching until almost 2 months in! This means for the first time since Ruby and Sapphire, the thousands of hours your friends accumulated across the 14 past games isnt applied here. Which as someone whos returning to pokemon after having not played seriously since FRLG, makes the game
soo much more enjoyable. Go take a look at the GTS, search for a lv 100, there arent any! the day BW2 launched, there were more lv100 pokemon from BW2 than you could even look at in a day, nothing could be more discouraging. I finally feel like my grinding matters!
Some final thoughts, I feel like AC New Leaf tested the water for some XY features. I love the character customization, and cant wait to see what i can do with it. For the first time in years I feel like I love pokemon again, and it feels like the time i put in matters. The only things I would have liked to have seen would be some sort of customization, like your room in GSC/HGSS and your hidden base in RSE. I also would have liked pokemon following you to have carried over from HGSS, though now these features have the possibility of being added in later on via DLC.
thanks for listening to my mini first impressions, I just wanted to express my feelings for the game, i did try to make it to the point! happy XYing!!