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Did you do the Looker quests?

There's an empty house in Lumiose with Looker the detective (From Gen V) who gives you a bunch of missions to complete, some people said they're even more fun than the main story.

I completed Looker's quests fairly quickly, and while they were enjoyable, they were also only completable once. After all the quests have been completed, you're still faced with only the options of the Pokemon league, Battle Chateau, daily rival battle, and possibly restaurants for post-game battles.

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The Good:

Overall, the game was excellent. A good transition into 3D, being able to customize your character, and a region with a wide variety of pokemon. I suppose there could have been more newer ones, but I felt that each new Pokemon was unique, and no one was really there for filler like in BW. Additionally, each area was unique, with places like the fossil tunnel, reflecting cave, Lumiose City, and the Pokemon Leauge really standing out. No two routes seemed exactly the same, each place had something unique to it to make it memorable.

PSS has worked out rather well, with the improvements of the GTS allowing you to type in the name of a pokemon you haven't seen to search for, and a semi-filtering device to allow me to bypass the endless 'Want Xerneas/Yveltal, offering Level 2 Caterpie' traders. Wonder trade is superb, especially for giving away cast-offs from breeding; pokemon that aren't the best they could be, but still semi-decent nonetheless. O-Powers work much better than BW's Pass powers, and the pedometer recording your steps to recharge it has me taking my 3DS with me any time I'm leaving the house.

Pokemon-amie was a wonderful edition, despite the difficulty of facial recognition, and super training was a fun new way to EV, and also a great introduction to the EV system for newer players, without making it overly complicated. You want your pokemon to be the very best? You could do your normal grinding training.. OR you could put it through some specialized SUPER training!

New CB breeding mechanics? Super easy, love it, everyone should do it! :laugh:

The Bad:

The largest complain I have is Post-game... There's nothing to do. I mean, yeah, you can go to their Battle Maison, but after two games of just one battle frontier facility (BW&BW2), I find myself sighing and wishing I had something a little more unique than just 'Battle Trainer, earn BP, buy TM/CB item.' I already did that in Unova, where's the cool facilities where I wander around in the dark avoiding trainers, or test my luck by picking curtains? Perhaps they might be saving the full Battle Frontier for Z, but it still leaves me wanting.

Post game battles; You either go to the Chateau, raise your rank, and eventually you get to kill Earls with level 25 pokemon, and occasionally run into a gym leader/elite 4 member/champion, or you grind on the pokemon league, who still have the same teams as your first time beating them, meaning you really have to cycle through it to get some decent leveling at the higher levels. The 4 restaurants in Lumiose city could count for post-game battles... But if you don't try and win in the number of turns specified, your dessert reward goes down... And since I have to pay an obscene amount just to get into the higher level restaurants, I usually find that even using amulet coin and max O power, I'm only around breaking even whenever I try my luck.

Otherwise, baring the random 'One Pokemon at level 35ish' trainers you encounter in Lumiose city, I haven't found anyone else to battle... Which is a major pain because unlike previous games, there is actually something to spend your money on post-game... Clothing! Just like pokemon, I feel the need to 'collect them all', but clothing is super-expensive, and can clean out your wallet faster than a Linoone with Covet. So, while grinding wasn't really required during initial playthrough, it becomes a real drag post-game, with there simply being a lack of higher level trainers to grind against.

The other problem I had was the region was full of empty spots. There were tons of watery areas where you couldn't fish or surf, train stations that don't go anywhere, power plants you can't enter, and a huge number of 'cafes' that simply had nothing in them, especially in Lumiose city. Sure, you might find a TM in one or two, and maybe even a roller skate trick.. But a large number of the npcs were just filler; people who have flavorful text but are otherwise useless. Not to mention the 4 empty alleys.. A woman standing in front of one wonders out loud what sort of evil hides down there, but they're just large empty areas. Additionally, the cafes that dot the other towns, which you pay to get in and can then view a pokemon for your pokedex; those cafes have a limited number of pokemon you can see.. After you've seen all they have to offer, the attendant will warn you before you pay that there's nothing else they can offer you. At least he was kind enough to stop me from wasting my money...

Final Thoughts:

So, overall, excellent game, but really lacking in the post-game. Unless you're interested in getting a long win-streak at the stationary-subway, erm, I mean Battle Maison, or want to try the new-and-easy competitive breeding, X&Y doesn't offer much else to do... And if you plan to level up those 5 IV competitive mons, I hope you like 4 Pokemon-in-a-party Pokemon League battles, because that's mostly what you're going to be doing.

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X and Y/OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire / Re: Friend Codes
« on: October 23, 2013, 21:37 »
Yo, my FC is 0146 - 9232 - 7292, and as Richard said, I give out Mankey, Pancham, Hariyama.

'Cuz, you know.. When you think of Utack, you think of beating things up with Fighting types  ;D

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Forum Games / Re: Rate the avatar of the person above you!
« on: October 21, 2013, 01:59 »
Very cool wing transition there, and a nice sprite! 9/10

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Forum Games / Re: Rate the avatar of the person above you!
« on: September 06, 2013, 01:41 »
Very cute de-vamp, 8/10

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Forum Games / Re: Favourite part of the above posters profile.
« on: September 06, 2013, 01:41 »
The little personal text you have there is quite amusing

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You! You were the one who rolled around in my chocolate pudding!

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X and Y/OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire / Re: More news tomorrow!
« on: September 05, 2013, 02:41 »
Concerning Pokemon Bank, Joeno's hit all the major points, but it is worth it to note that a 'Free-Trial' is a marketing technique. Humans tend to have a difficult time giving up something they possess, even if the item doesn't have much value, or they would gain more by giving up the item than by holding onto it.

So, the free trial method introduces prospective customers to a product, and then once you've become accustom to it, you're more willing to pay for the product to avoid losing the product. It's gonna be hard to completely give up transferring your Pokemon, even more so if your introduced to the Bank for a short period of time.

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X and Y/OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire / Re: New Mega Evolutions
« on: August 09, 2013, 04:08 »
Three words.

Mega.

Yan.

Mega.

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X and Y/OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire / Re: Glow Punch?
« on: August 08, 2013, 06:59 »
Can we drop this line of conversation about Fennekin being part fighting type?  Yall realize that nintendo are fairly receptive to their fans and wouldn't attempt to troll us with a fourth one in a row right?

An advertisement showed it using what appears to be a fighting type move. I'd say that's a decent reason to have Fighting Type speculation. As for trolling, they've not only given us an ice cream pokemon, but also a Cotton Candy Pokemon... I wouldn't put it past them to make another Fire/Fighting just for the heck of it.

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Random Randomness / Re: Favorite Dessert
« on: August 07, 2013, 01:18 »
Gobi! ..Oh, wait..

I like Chocolate Ice Cream myself... And cheesecake. Mmm, cheesecake...

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I'd be rockin the ground types, that I would.

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Tournaments / Re: Clear Skies 5th Gen OU
« on: July 26, 2013, 19:31 »
Well, you know how the saying goes, 'You win one, you lose two'

...Yeah, I'm out XD

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Tournaments / Re: Clear Skies 5th Gen OU
« on: July 17, 2013, 04:18 »
I'm available on Wednesday, July 17th, around 11:00pm GMT time if you want Spriter?

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Tournaments / Re: Clear Skies 5th Gen OU
« on: July 14, 2013, 06:47 »
Sure, I'll give it a shot, sign me up!

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