The game is unpolished, with some game crashing bugs (a first since some of the MISSINGNO. The good news is that the game is far better than Black and White 2 and even Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, but it’s not as good as RGBY, Gold/Silver/Crystal or Diamond/Pearl/Platinum. So I gave one copy (Pokémon Y) to Aileen (who will be reviewing it shortly), and I kept X to review. ![]() So of course Nintendo sent me two free copies of the game and asked me to review it. Still, I didn’t want to pick up Pokémon X/Y and be so utterly disappointed as I was with Black and White 2. Both were okay, and gave me my Pokémon fix, but were nothing incredible. Chunsoft put out a decent Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game this year (although the weakest in the series so far) and Pokemon Rumble U quickly became one of the Wii U games I have spent the most time with. Besides, I had other ways to get my Pokémon fix. I was called repeatedly during the naming aspect of this generation’s Pokémon – something which more than one staffer told me drove them nearly insane – to give suggestions towards the newest batch of toyetic cock fighting seizure monsters. I was told there would be a strong emphasis towards the original 151 (a movement both within the company and in Japan especially). I was told they slipped in one of the things I had pushed for over many years – getting some voice acting from the anime in the game. I was told Lucario would be available early on. ![]() Even when asked by friends back in the land of Pokémon, I said no. I had made it clear I wasn’t going to purchase it or review it. Thankfully Pokémon fans had Pokemon Conquest that year. For the first time in the ten year history of the site, a core Pokémon game wasn’t even mentioned in any of our year end top ten lists. Long time Pokémon fans considered it the worst in the franchise (check multiple polls) and even here at Diehard GameFAN, where we are unabashedly pro-Pokémon, there was nary a kind word about the game. I wasn’t the only one to have this problem with the game. My fears were proven right by Pokemon Black and White 2 which was a little more than a face lift and the throwing together of modes of play from older games in order to say, “It’s different” rather than give us something new. Every year, it’s mostly the same with a slight roster change and a TON of bugs that could have been fixed had they been given time to clean up the poorly coded engines. ![]() I wasn’t the only from Game Freak, TPC, Hal Labs and the like to leave because of this decision as we had all seen what happened when a yearly release schedule was forced on a franchise. I stopped picking up a Pokémon based paycheck because I was disappointed (and a little disgusted) by the forced mandate regarding a yearly turn based Pokémon game instead of letting the games come at their usual pace. I had no intention of picking up Pokémon X.
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