Last time I wrote any progress on my Kalos Region adventure was my love for Snowbelle City's theme music. Well with a heavy heart I finally found the courage to continue on to the Victory Road and the Pokemon League.
The Victory Road in its entirety felt lacking particularly in exploration. While the design and makeup of the penultimate leg of the main game is definitely brighter and more challenging in terms of trainer battles, it felt shorter and less maze-like than the Victory Roads of the previous generations.
The Pokemon League was, in more ways than one, a whole lot grander than previous generations. Game Freak outdid itself with the magnificent design and another revamp of the conventional League championship. They let us challenge the Elite Four, each with four pokemons, in the order that we choose allowing the player to arrange the pokemon on the right order. While that made challenging the elite four a step easier, it's the type of Pokemons the four has that made them less challenging and less dynamic than their counterparts from other regions.
The types of the Elite Four are Water, Fire, Steel and Dragon.
I first challenged the Blazing Chamber powering through Malva's pokemon using only my Blastoise. Next was the lustrous armored Wikstrom which was more challenging than Malva. In his chamber, I used Blastoise, Delphox and Lucario to power through the knight. Next was against Dragon-type specialist, Drasna.
Now one big perk of having a Pokemon X copy instead of Y is that the legendary you capture is a Fairy-type, the type that strikes fear in the spines of Dragon-types. Now I'd of course have Xerneas as my opening Pokemon in my battle with Drasna but that was a terrible decision as the first pokemon in line has several moves that are type-advantage against Fairy-types. After getting through the first pokemon, getting through the other three only took at least one Moonblasts each.
The last that I challenged was Siebold, a water specialist. Now it's already a given that for every strong and story-relevant water trainer, a Gyarados is sure to be in their team. Sure enough there was a Gyarados and a strong one as well.
My only hope against the water types was my Meowstic's Thunderbolt which was apparently thwarted on the first battle. Thankfully I had my Lucario which powered through via Mega Evolution.
Then came the battle with the Champion, Diantha.
Like all the champions from previous generations, the champion does not specialize in any type so it's a thrill ride until the end.
I already had trouble with Diantha's Hawlucha besting my Talonflame and Meowstic. As I defeated Hawlucha, a torrent of stronger Pokemons came in the form of Tyrantrum, Aurorus and Gourgeist. When Tyrantrum came out and only three Pokemons on my party, I figured that was it and I'll just battle for the experience. Never mind if I get defeated. However, with only a mega-evolved Lucario and two Close Combats later, I found myself on even grounds against Diantha, Three of mine vs. Three of her's. My Lucario retired after a series of Close Combats by the time he went against Gourgeist. The last two remaining on my party was Blastoise and Xerneas. I let Blastoise handle Gourgeist despite the type disadvantage and matched Xerneas with Diantha's Goodra and Gardevoir.
There was no problem in defeating Goodra as he was a dragon type. The hardest part was against the mega-evolved Gardevoir. Fairy-type vs. Fairy-type. A series of Horn Drill later, though I finally defeated the champion.
It was another glorious part in my Pokemon journey that's part of history! But it didn't end there. There was a grand parade back at Lumiose honoring the Five Heroes and new Champion of Kalos! But when all seem to be a happy end, another greater and happier ending came to light. AZ challenges the player to a battle. While it wasn't a challenging battle as in the League, there's that heavy emotions flowing as you battle this great old man who suffered enough in his past. That one last battle relevant to the main game gave the whole game another step in greatness!
Pokemon X was a whole new experience indeed and there's still lots of new things to discover post-game. One could only wonder just what Game Freak is going to cook up for their next geneation or their next game in the franchise.
Pokemon X is one of the best games that I've played, and I mean BEST. One that I could say worthy of joining the ranks of Zelda's Ocarina of Time.
Hall of Fame:
Holt (Delphox) - Lv. 62
Sherry (Blastoise) - Lv. 70
Xerneas - Lv. 59
Luca (Lucario) - Lv. 58 (close combat dem champion!!)
Essere (Meowstic) - Lv. 62
Chirp (Talonflame) - Lv. 46
I'm on my way to discover new post-game goodies. I got another starter Pokemon this time from Shauna. She game me a Chespin and I traded her my Sylveon. I know it's not a waste because if I have to trade a pokemon away even to just an NPC, someone as special a friend as Shauna deserves a pokemon I spent a lot of time with
Quick Review:
Pokemon X is a complete revamp of the Pokemon all of us are familiar and grew up with. It's basically the same core mechanics but in a whole different experience in its entirety. Not only did Game Freak took the game's design and new mechanics to a whole new mountain peak, the story was also miles deeper than their previous games. Romance, comedy, drama, action, suspense, the story of Pokemon X was meaningful in a lot of ways and it's likely to stay with us for the rest of our lives.
But as with any great games that sets it apart from the others, there are still flaws in Pokemon X that may be more or less depending on the one playing the game. The game's difficulty was, I can tell, less challenging than previous versions. While it was a whole lot enjoyable catching, discovering and fighting, I think that the player was given too much convenience in their journey that made it felt like it was shorter than the previous Pokemon games. Still it depends entirely on the player. But that is so in my case.
Story: 10/10
Gameplay: 9/10
Music: 10/10
Design: 10/10
Characters: 10/10
Difficulty: 7/10
The Victory Road in its entirety felt lacking particularly in exploration. While the design and makeup of the penultimate leg of the main game is definitely brighter and more challenging in terms of trainer battles, it felt shorter and less maze-like than the Victory Roads of the previous generations.
The types of the Elite Four are Water, Fire, Steel and Dragon.
I first challenged the Blazing Chamber powering through Malva's pokemon using only my Blastoise. Next was the lustrous armored Wikstrom which was more challenging than Malva. In his chamber, I used Blastoise, Delphox and Lucario to power through the knight. Next was against Dragon-type specialist, Drasna.
Now one big perk of having a Pokemon X copy instead of Y is that the legendary you capture is a Fairy-type, the type that strikes fear in the spines of Dragon-types. Now I'd of course have Xerneas as my opening Pokemon in my battle with Drasna but that was a terrible decision as the first pokemon in line has several moves that are type-advantage against Fairy-types. After getting through the first pokemon, getting through the other three only took at least one Moonblasts each.
The last that I challenged was Siebold, a water specialist. Now it's already a given that for every strong and story-relevant water trainer, a Gyarados is sure to be in their team. Sure enough there was a Gyarados and a strong one as well.
My only hope against the water types was my Meowstic's Thunderbolt which was apparently thwarted on the first battle. Thankfully I had my Lucario which powered through via Mega Evolution.
Then came the battle with the Champion, Diantha.
Like all the champions from previous generations, the champion does not specialize in any type so it's a thrill ride until the end.
I already had trouble with Diantha's Hawlucha besting my Talonflame and Meowstic. As I defeated Hawlucha, a torrent of stronger Pokemons came in the form of Tyrantrum, Aurorus and Gourgeist. When Tyrantrum came out and only three Pokemons on my party, I figured that was it and I'll just battle for the experience. Never mind if I get defeated. However, with only a mega-evolved Lucario and two Close Combats later, I found myself on even grounds against Diantha, Three of mine vs. Three of her's. My Lucario retired after a series of Close Combats by the time he went against Gourgeist. The last two remaining on my party was Blastoise and Xerneas. I let Blastoise handle Gourgeist despite the type disadvantage and matched Xerneas with Diantha's Goodra and Gardevoir.
There was no problem in defeating Goodra as he was a dragon type. The hardest part was against the mega-evolved Gardevoir. Fairy-type vs. Fairy-type. A series of Horn Drill later, though I finally defeated the champion.
Pokemon X was a whole new experience indeed and there's still lots of new things to discover post-game. One could only wonder just what Game Freak is going to cook up for their next geneation or their next game in the franchise.
Pokemon X is one of the best games that I've played, and I mean BEST. One that I could say worthy of joining the ranks of Zelda's Ocarina of Time.
Hall of Fame:
Holt (Delphox) - Lv. 62
Sherry (Blastoise) - Lv. 70
Xerneas - Lv. 59
Luca (Lucario) - Lv. 58 (close combat dem champion!!)
Essere (Meowstic) - Lv. 62
Chirp (Talonflame) - Lv. 46
Quick Review:
Pokemon X is a complete revamp of the Pokemon all of us are familiar and grew up with. It's basically the same core mechanics but in a whole different experience in its entirety. Not only did Game Freak took the game's design and new mechanics to a whole new mountain peak, the story was also miles deeper than their previous games. Romance, comedy, drama, action, suspense, the story of Pokemon X was meaningful in a lot of ways and it's likely to stay with us for the rest of our lives.
But as with any great games that sets it apart from the others, there are still flaws in Pokemon X that may be more or less depending on the one playing the game. The game's difficulty was, I can tell, less challenging than previous versions. While it was a whole lot enjoyable catching, discovering and fighting, I think that the player was given too much convenience in their journey that made it felt like it was shorter than the previous Pokemon games. Still it depends entirely on the player. But that is so in my case.
Story: 10/10
Gameplay: 9/10
Music: 10/10
Design: 10/10
Characters: 10/10
Difficulty: 7/10
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