XY had no idea what it was doing half of the time. There is no focus. There is no vision. There were multiple hours worth of game where you just walk one town from the next, doing nothing. You encounter team flare, and then they leave and nothing feels accomplished. You battle your "friends" twice, in the whole game. It's almost as if they were forgotten about.

All in all, the game doesn't have a cohesive flow or feel to it. It's like they had many different ideas and just put them together last minute. From a game design perspective its laughably amateurish and a brilliant highlighting of Gamefreak's rampant incompetence.