I went around to replaying Pokemon X this past weekend. I have to honestly admit that the game isn't bad. The actual campaign is fine and you can tell a lot of work was put in the 3d world presentation of the game.

As for Team Flare, I honestly feel like if you talk to the NPCs, you get a more of an understanding with Team Flare's motivations just like you get the bigger picture in BW by talking to the NPCs and understanding how they see things.

XY's difficulty isn't hard, but I'd honestly say RGBY was the easiest game because you legit just have a Blastoise with Ice Beam and you win the entire game.

I think Gen 6 had a ton of features, and it introduced the PSS. Plus, in the 2 hours of XY, I got to actually explore without major roadblocks. In SM, I barely got my starter, and maybe barely have gotten to Ilima. The lack of handholding is suddenly refreshing.

Plus the XY rivals aren't even that bad. All of them are one dimensional, but they aren't hindrances as most people think. Want to know who they were at least better than? Hau.

I honestly had more fun playing XY more than SM and I would be completely satisfied with XY being the last installment in the franchise.