The first reviews for Pokémon X&Y are being put online. We’ll be updating this post throughout the day to keep track of the games and what new reviews there are for you to read. Let’s get started!
Reviews
- Mashable: “‘Pokémon X’ and ‘Y’ Are Polished But Play It Too Safe”
- The much-anticipated 3DS addition to the Pokémon series will not disappoint fans of the franchise. 3D has been a long time coming, and I’m glad it turned out so well. While the battles are as fun as ever, I wish developers would had taken more risks with its structure and story. Still, whether you just want to casually battle friends or enter tournaments, Pokémon X and Y will give you enough to chew on for many, many hours of fun.
- IGN: “Pokemon X and Y Review: A Mega Evolution” (9/10)
- “Every so often, evolution takes a significant leap. Pokemon X and Y is smarter, better, and faster than its predecessors, but it’s the impressive online social features and fantastic new 3D look that make the latest game in the 15-year-old RPG series amazing. As long as you’re within the range of Wi-Fi, you’re never alone in Pokemon X and Y, and we finally have the tools to express ourselves over the course of this 35-hour adventure.”
- GameInformer: “Seeing Pokemon From a New Angle” (8.75/10)
- “Pokémon hasn’t made a concerted effort to step outside of its comfort zone ever since it first released in Japan in 1996 – and for good reason. It found its hook nearly 20 years ago and has held on firm for better and worse. In this way, changing things in Pokémon presents a certain degree of uncomfortable risk. X & Y offer no significant changes in direction to the Pokémon series, but this is the most drastic step the series has ever taken. “
- Digital Spy: “‘Pokemon X’ review (3DS): As engaging and addictive as ever”
- “Pokemon X and accompanying game Pokemon Y represent what is perhaps the biggest evolution of the Pokemon series since it debuted to a huge following in the mid-nineties.
Receiving a graphical overhaul, new ways to connect, customisation options and Mega Evolutions, not to mention a wealth of new Pokemon to catch, the games are packed with first-time features and fresh new ideas.At its core, however, Pokemon X doesn’t stray too far from the original ‘gotta catch ’em all’ concept that has made the series so addictive and engaging.”
- “Pokemon X and accompanying game Pokemon Y represent what is perhaps the biggest evolution of the Pokemon series since it debuted to a huge following in the mid-nineties.
Still waiting on the outright negative review!
Pokemon Bank
In other news, it has been confirmed that Pokemon Bank will be released in the US on December 27th, 2013 with a yearly fee of $4.99 ! You do get one free month of the service, however, and only need to start paying past the 30 day trial. It has also been shown that items do not transfer with the Pokemon.
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Featured Thread: Canada’s Largest Pokémon Gathering by Freeduck
7 more mothafuckin days :,(
“I can definitely confirm that Xerneas is pokemon number 715, meaning there are indeed only 70 new pokemon (excluding megas)”
– Zar
Wasn’t there some people pretending to be Zar? (Not sure) I hope that’s the case…
If it’s true… too bad… :/
We could have more legendaries past Xerneas, but I rather we had more regular pokémon.
I’m happy with what we have, at least I like them! 😀
even if this true which it still may not be the national dex could still open up to more new pkmn like in D/P/PT
thats what i said
I thought we are have more than 70…
Currently I believe we have 67, excluding megas.
69 + 15(17) Megas.
Well, we’ve still got the fairy/ground type mentioned in the Kotaku review, the trio, the “Z” legendary (or whatever the third of Xerneas and Yveltal’s trio turns out to be), plus any other legendaries/event pokemon
Also worth noting- No leaker has found Litleo, Pyroar or Noivern ingame yet, so the possibility that there’s still several unknown newbies out there that nobody has found is pretty strong. If nothing else, there’s definitely gonna be more than 70.
Fake zar.
Remember, on that website, people can impersonate anyone. Only take pictures as legit.
I hope so!
Usually I just look at the pics, but this called my attention.
All good. The best proof is the game in your hands, which is less than a week away now!
Can someone post a link of zar?
Don’t think he/she has a thread going on vp at the moment
I hate the idea of having three different Pokedex.
I like it, because its something new!
Why?
I prefer having them in one list so it wouldn’t be a chore finding the Pokemon.
why it would be hard to find and group over 646 pokemon wouldnt it
I don’t know. I prefer having it in one list.
That’s why they give you a national dex
Haha right.
but this way you get 300+ in one region!!
450*
Yes could someone please give a link to Zar?
http://archive.foolz.us/vp/search/username/Zar/
alot of these evos don’t feel complete
if u dont see edited i fixed it
Especially Helioptile… and Litleo needs an evo before Pyroar…
Yea but remeber it can be D/P/P where there new pokemon during the national dex
But why would they wait on a Pokémon that’s new? I understand old ones, like Nosepass and Togepi…
because they know leakers who get the game before anyone so they did that to make us rage!
Maybe to save them for a Pokemon Z or something..like how they did in Platinum for no reason
https://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/vp/image/1380/98/1380986712104.jpg
so dark and spooky
What a tease.. ~_~
Just waiting for Mega Infernape to be confirmed…
josh is having troubles evolving skrelp any ideas on how to evolve it its dex entry says “it hides from foes while storing up energy for evolution”
so it doesn’t evolve at 37 then?
nope.
I heard it evolves when leveled up in acid rain, and that Clauncher evolves when leveled up in rain.
Whhaaa?
Sulphur dioxide baby
Aren’t rain and acid rain the same things?
No. Acid rain is caused from air pollution and acid rain can damage things
acid rain seems very unlikely.
maybe level it up without battling with the exp all?
hmm give the dex entry that does make sense.
Mabye it evolve by stuffing it into ur box
How did Clawitzer evolve? Is it a similar method to that or would you have to do the complete opposite to it? Trade Evolution? An item like the Sachet for Aromatisese?
Just throwing some ideas out there.
zar said it was a level up at 37 but it didnt work for skrelp.
I heard it only evolved at 37 because it leveled up on rain.
i thought that was what was rumored for sligoom to evolve?
mabye claucher had something
maybe it needs to know Camouflage while level up at level 37+
it had camouflage when he caught it so thats not it.
Did it know it at Lv.37?
it still did i believe josh was loving the move.
oh ok then
so claucher doesn’t evolve its just something he did caused it
Hmmmmm maybe it evolves in the rain like Clauncher. Some version differences evolve the same way.
if you trade it with the clauncher? just saying ;p
but wouldnt zar have had the skrelp evolution if it was that way?
i know, thats why i said just saying.
but zar doesnt have it he got clauncher’s
maybe it evolves by diving( if thats a HM)
Level 37 like clauncher?
no that didnt work.
Turn the 3ds at a 48 degree angle whilst it is raining with a dragon type in the third slot of your party. All the while chanting “evolve baby evolve” into the 3ds mic
10/10 method confirmed! Would evolve again.
what if nintendo planned the leaks to happen the whole time 😀
I heard that Goodra is Dragon/Fairy, is this true?
Goodra Reminds me of cheese some reason
no real conformation on it. it could still be dragon dragon/water/poison/or fairy.
it can be anything lol
even light/sound?
Does Inkay really evolve while the 3DS is turned upside-down?
Yep
thats cool so we can inkay evolve at level 1
Well PWM rumors said when it is the thirties. I think…
lol im sure there’s a set level in which you can start trying it.
I heard 27
Zar states that X and Y only have 70 new Pokes. True?
Fake Zar
Ah.
If that rumour gets confirmed, you will definitely know very quickly
Hi Dicie 🙂 I lowered attack
It’s gotta be untrue. We’ve got 67 confirmed so far, and we’ve not seen:
The ground/fairy mentioned in the Kotaku review
The legendary trio
The third of the Xerneas/Yveltal trio
any other legendary/event pokémon (there’s 9 after Palkia in the national ‘dex, so there could be a few)
Also worth remembering that no leaker has found a litleo, pyroar or noivern ingame yet. If we haven’t even found some of the Pokémon we know about for sure, it’s a safe bet there’s a few out there we know nothing about yet. So definitely more than 70, no question.
no one found litleo? i thought it was early game.
Yeah, I assumed that too, but there’s still no pics of it from any leakers. But of an odd one, considering it looked like the ponyta/zebstrika style early game ‘mon.
Were they both playing the same game? Could Helioptile and Litleo be exclusives (I doubt it, but you never know)?
If this ground/fairy pokemon is a legendary one. It’s a possibility.
imagined if eggs match the pokemon pallet like in the anime
maybe they will do that
i think so since tech is better on the 3ds then DS
Black eggs?
Great.
???
I think that would take the mystery out of what’s inside. I always like making tons of eggs, and forgetting what they are and trading them away to myself on another DS or someone else. I’ve gotten some nice surprises!
i always found it akward when a pokemon evolve in the odd numbers is that wired
is this real
Blurry
I think it isnt
well binacle was blurry and it was real
this is 2d though and its dex# was already taken by another pkmn
it has a shadow it look closely
the dex# makes this fake though.
it looks convincing
it also has a shadow
I don’t think it is, because the Dark symbol under thief is completely the wrong color, compare it to other Dark symbols we’ve seen which are more of a dark brown, not black like this.
Good point
like i said it has a shadow…. fakes never had the shadows that looked so real
Yes, but once again, we have a detail we can plainly see in the Dark Symbol, and it doesn’t match the official Dark Symbol’s we’ve been seeing, it’s entirely the wrong color.
im saying its real and if i dont see in-game its fake ok
It’s 99.999% fake…
and that shadow isnt very noticeable either and is very pixel like
Confirmed fake
by who?
pokedex.
so the pokedex talk to u lol
it told me a # a magical # then i saw that the spot was taken up by the sandile line.
oh ok
4chan thread, too many inconsistencies, what forceupdate said as well
I was just wondering – chime in with theories or ideas – if fighting a trainer who has a pokemon with a mega stone (who has not yet activated it), you use something like entrainment, skill swap, or gastro acid – will the target still get it’s “mega” ability if it then mega evolves?
Is there a new up to date pokedex with all leaked pokemon?
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6118/xbb7.png
thanks mate!
Any info on goodra’s female forme and Gourgeist’s other forme, aside from it’s ‘small size’ which is the form revealed thus far.
I don’t think so
Thanks 🙁
so far, my team is: Delphox, Florges, Gourgeist, Clawitzer, and Mawile (I’ll probably use others along the way, but these ones will probably be the ones who get recorded into the Hall of Fame)
Who is Gourgeist?
new Ghost/Grass pumpkin pokemon
Was its “Large Forme” ever revealed?
no as of right now its still unseen
I feel like this large forme should be the default…it just seems so strange.
I hope its other forme is way bigger than its small form, it looks too small to be a final evolution
Yeah, I am not very pleased with it right now. It kind of reminds me of a Hoohooligan from Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
I hope the formes are not just proportionate but larger or smaller. The designs better be completely different!
I could see this being our Cherrim.
Yeah, I thought of that as well. I mean, it’s design is cool and all right now, but when a certain effect takes place in battle, it could become a beast.
You have 2 fairy types. Not that it really matters that much just wanted to point it out incase you don’t like repeating types!
Florges is covering the Fairy types since apparently the Flabebe line focuses on Sp. Atk. sweeping, since we don’t know of any good Atk. based Fairy moves (and even if we do, Mawile would still have to be able to learn them), Mawile is going to be more Atk. oriented with Iron Head and Sucker Punch
I’ll use Delphox, Trevenant, Skrelp’s Evo, Heliolisk, and Goodra. I don’t know who my flying pokemon will be; I want a diverse team if new pokemon only, so I hope Hawlucha can learn fly!
http://instagram.com/p/fF1-QbKYRV/
D: What is that!?!
It is a pokemon fan website like this one it’s french though
Why is it called Pokémon Trash?
trubbish life story
Pokemon for wiiu?
totallly different sorry
That’s a bunch of trubbish.
Has it been confirmed that we will be able to use Play Coins in XY? I’ve got 300 saved up just for the possibility of being able to use them. x.x
O geez I never thought about that..I bet some clothes will cost play coins! :/
so far no but im intrested to see what they would do.
Well play coins were implemented into PRB and Dream Radar, so I wouldn’t doubt the possibility of them being usable.
Well, clothes are bought with Pokedollars, so i don’t see what else they can be used for, maybe a game corner?
63 Unknown Pokemon left in dexes. We still have a chance to have new Pokemon.
Yeah, with 63 we could get quite a few!
all are emolga.
63 are fire/fighting lol
All are Dedenne.
shhh dont tell dicie
I hope so, we are low on poison, bug, and ground types
Lol, we have 1 ground type and it’s not even mono.
We also ghost type that is not part grass
or part steel
I found it very strange that we’re getting TWO evolutionary lines that have a typing as unique as ghost grass. This game is just full of surprises ….
Well in 3rd gen we got 2 grass/dark types and 2 water/dark types!
I am not loving the number of dark types either. 3, unless I am forgetting something
Or bugs! 🙁
Greninja, Pangoro, Inkay, Malamar, and Yveltal are all this gen’s dark types so far I believe, so that’s 5. Not great, but not an awful number.
Yep. Comparatively to some other types it’s much better off.
And there may supposedly be some kind of Dark Type bat, though I don’t know if anymore has been said on that or not, in the confirmed real/fake department.
yeah, I think the rumor was it was flying/dark, and eventually becomes flying/dragon in noivern. who knows at this point, though
oh yeah – forgot the legendary and the starter! ha ha. I guess most of them don’t seem “dark” enough to me. Bring on the ground and bug types, then!
The following list of Pokemon were introduced in Diamond and Pearl, but did not appear in the Regional Dex, and therefore, were technically “Post-game” Pokemon:
1. Rotom
2. Glisor
3. Probopass
4. Gallade
5. Lickilicky
6. Leafeon
7. Glaceon
8. Togekiss
9. Magnezone
10. Tangrowth
11. Yanmega
12. Rhyperior
13. Dusknoir
14. Porygon-Z
15. Electivire
16. Magmortar
17. Mamoswine
18. Froslass
So, there could be more new pokemon than in these regions.
All the more reason we could have more! 🙂
and oldie evos!
Seriously !!! this is the best news !! thank you !! I can still hold onto my hope for post-game dunsparce, eevee and sableye evos!
i said this five time already -_-
not trying to be mean i got serious dislikes for saying what he said so i got kinda angry sorry
these are all evolutions of older pokes.. except rotom which I find weird it was post game
How you know that 63 unknow pokemon in dexes?
Central 1
http://pastebin.com/0KYrEw8i
Coastal 12
http://pastebin.com/B6PyQy2Y
Mountain 50
pastebin.com/Cf7KCHDD
I see that means that they are only 450 pokemons catchable in the game?
Also the legendary pokemon appear in the Mountain Kalos or will be a National dex after the Elite 4?
Well, 450 at least in these Pokedexes before post game where we get the National Dex.
damm so we can actually catch em all now lol
Supposedly, something to the effect of every Pokemon being catchable in the game was stated by Masuda himself. Don’t ask for link, I don’t remember which of many interviews it was, I just know he said it.
explain it easier im kinda stupid today 😀
I remember too read that interview. He said that he wanted that new players has all the pokemon of the other gen in this game for make him learn better to play, or something like this.
I remember that old pokemon evolutions appeared in the National dex but no in the Sinnoh dex, in Pearl. Probably the old pokemon get evolutions like in the 4th gen. I read in a web that Swalot evolves in this gen but i think that is probably fake.
Hmm
122: Scolipede
123:
124: Smeargle
This is very confusing.
its probably the fairy ground
Smeargle pre-Evo confirmed?
it maybe so -_-
maybe it’s just carnivine. unless I missed it someplace else.
Yep, BST 100! :p
Probably Audino since Josh found one early in the game and that is the only blank spot left in central Kalos.
what is Audini?
audino pre lol
But if it were that then why wouldn’t Audino be after it? Also, can I have a pic/link??
im just Jking
Typo. I edited my post.
ok thank you!
Does anyone know Skrelp’s Evo’s English name?
Dragalge
what type
Retains its typing as far as I’ve heard.
thanks
Can I see a pic of skrelps evo plz????!!!
Where was it confirmed?