Aside from that, what do we have to do after the story? Collect Mega Stones, attempt and Battle Maison and. The Looker episode, though fun while it lasted (for me at least), was very short and didn't lead to much. The post-game however is where people seem to have the most problems. It does what a Pokémon story needs to and had some pretty cool cutscenes that made use of the new 3D graphics. XY's story is decent enough (for a Pokémon game, mind you). This is a problem with the games that I can agree with more than the first. I think it seems to be a trend in modern gaming that if a game isn't frustratingly difficult it's not worth playing, when Pokémon games have never been about that. It's certainly a nice bonus, but I don't see it to be essential. Challenge is not something I expect from a Pokémon game, and is definitely not why I bought and continue to buy them. Personally, the only Pokémon games that I found to have any sort of challenge were White, White 2 and more recently, Ultra Moon. However, I will say that this never really caused issues for me. The Exp Share (if you choose to use it) is a fast-track way to becoming grossly over-levelled, and combining this with the Pokémon Amie bonuses can make your team nigh unstoppable very quickly. It is true that XY are some of the easiest games in the series, and that is saying something, since Pokémon has never exactly been known for its challenging gameplay. But after finishing USUM a couple of months ago, I thought 'why not' and put my X cartridge back in to see if the games deserve the hate they so frequently receive.įirst off, I'd like to address what I've seen to be the most common complaints with the games: Back then I enjoyed it, being a lot younger than I am now, and seeing all of the negative opinions people had for it growing up kind of put me off revisiting it. I had only played through the game once before, way back when it first launched in 2013. I don't hate X (The version I played) but it certainly had problems. I can definitely see where people are coming from when they dislike these games.

They're pretty much 'the popular thing to hate', sort of like the generation 5 Pokédex, although many people have warmed to that over the years. It's pretty widely agreed upon in the Pokémon community that X and Y are some of the worst mainline games in the series. Also this is gonna be a long post, sorry. If you think that X and Y are irredeemably bad there's no problem with that. After evolving into Greninja at level 36 it gains Dark as its secondary type but still suffers from learning awkward moves such as the gimmicky Water Shuriken.DISCLAIMER: This is just my opinion. Water Pulse will be your go to move throughout the beginning of the game, with its STAB bonus and potential to confuse the opponent, it's a great attack all round. Unfortunately, Froakie's line doesn't naturally learn as many good moves as Fennekin's, meaning that for the beginning of the game you'll be relying on a few select attacks.

Hit hard and hit fast, that's Froakie's motto. To make up for this, the frog Pokémon is blessed with absurdly high speed to ensure that it should almost always get the first attack in. However, unlike Fennekin and its evolutions, Froakie's line suffers from abysmal defence and can be rolled over rather quickly if it gets hit by a super effective attack. In essence, it plays out much like the Fennekin line, in that it relies on strong attacking power to end fights quickly. Rather appropriately, Froakie fulfils the role of rogue, or finesse fighter, in our cycle of starter Pokémon.

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