>>28331692I'm just going to go ahead and be the minority and say that X/Y renewed my interest in Pokemon. I loved the areas, I loved the music, and there legitimately isn't a single new Pokemon that I disliked out of that region. (Megas are a different story. Mega Electrike is shit.) If you haven't played a game since B/W1, it might be worth it just to dip your toes back in and catch some of your old favorites that you've never had a chance to use before. I actually really appreciated that I could use guys like Jolteon and Gardevoir for the first time, without feeling guilty that I'm passing up too many new Pokemon. Plus the whole game being in 3D added a fresh change on an aging formula.
While the count of new Pokemon is low, they're spread out even enough that you'll always be seeing new faces in every route you're in. I actually raised up probably a dozen Pokemon throughout the course of the game, because I kept running into new guys that I couldn't help but train up. Like I mentioned earlier, you can just straight up find Eevee chilling in the wild by the 3rd gym. I really can't stress enough how much fun it was to see so many Pokemon crammed together in 3D. X/Y is probably the only game I could run through dozens of times just because of the sheer amount of Pokemon they bunch together on each route, you have so many options that it's almost overwhelming!
Where it begins to unravel is the mediocre story, and the piss poor difficulty. The difficulty thing can be partially remedied by just turning off the EXP All as soon as you get it, but honestly, ORAS suffers from the same issues. ORAS' story was delivered far better, but at the sacrifice of some small, yet quality details that you would certainly miss if you were as big a fan of Hoenn as I was. Both games have almost no postgame.
In summary, X/Y is about the journey, not the destination. If you're the type of guy who can have fun taking your time and enjoy raising multiple teams, XY is for you.
