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.
<3 PJ
Featured Thread: Canada’s Largest Pokémon Gathering by Freeduck
So i read somewhere that dunsparce and sableye and eevee don’t have room after them for unreleased evo’s but I find it fishy they’re not getting new evos despite all the hype around them. (by eevee i mean besides the 8 we already know) … thoughts? perhaps there will be some in the national pokedex ….
Or they get Mega Evolutions? Sableye is a counterpart to Mawile, and it got one.
Remember last January when we were all speculating what “your bond will be stronger than ever before” meant? It feels like 9 months ago now :,)
Does anyone know if burgmite has any space after it to evolve?
Idk but I am pretty sure it will. It seems really incomplete to me.
I think it will be a 3 stager
Looks like a 3 stager, I bet it’ll be real defensive!
Hope it evol line just like
Roggenrola
Boldore
Gigalith
?-Time: How many new Pokemon and mega Pokemon we got so far?
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3047/u09b.png
There you go. Add Bergmite to it
http://i.imgur.com/VedV1VR.jpg
And thats what we have so far.
Do we have a confirmed type for Bergmite yet? Guessing it’s at least part Ice?
Yeah there was a dex entry for it too on Smogon’s forums that put it as pure Ice.
E: here!
http://i.imgur.com/hepBB7e.jpg
Super, thanks. Now let’s hope it evolves!
Total Pokemon: 77
New Pokemon: 61
Mega pokemon: 16
Mr. Mime is Psychic/Fairy now. I did not see that coming.
WHAT?!?
i feel like there will be tonnes of these “fairy surprises”
last time they added a type there were only 150 pokemon to add it to
GUYS AT THIS VERY MOMENT WITH ALL THE LEAKS AS EVIDENCE WE HAVE PASSED 70 NEW POKEMON WOOOOOOOOT
I knew that 70 rumor was hogwash
I hope it is, 70 is hardly any.
Thank Goomy (yes I have now replaced Arceus with Goomy as my Pokemon God).
Goomy our lord and Savior
Holy Goomy, save our souls! or else…WATER SHURIKEN!
All hail the lord Goomy! He died for our Dragon types in the battle of Fairies!
why there is hype for goomy?! it’s pretty weak desing, GF show they can made pokemons like that even better, this gen looks like mix of pokemons with monsters from mario games -_-
Stahp Goomy is great.
In yo face to the troll that was saying there was only 70 pokemon aha
It may be more than 85, one of the reviewers said she found at least three new creatures per every place she was visiting, maybe they’ll be around 100 new pokés
Let’s go past 100!!!
A review I saw said that Kalos has fewer native Pokemon than Johto.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Well, let’s at least get to 98.
well in one review the guy said there are some awesome legends in it but didn’t say how many there were….. so we prob will get 100-130
new fairy tiype make every pokemon fiary GF logic xD
*fairy*
tnx 😛
gym leaders polygon posted review
they gave it 9.5
link? please
http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/4/4800980/Pokemon-x-and-pokemon-y-review
thx
… Why do they have that fake art of the starters on their review?
I know … it makes me wonder if they even played the gamed.
“The result is not only the best Pokemon game I’ve ever played, but one of the best portable role-playing games ever created.”
Wow. Quite the accolade.
there is voicechat omg
what?
with pss there is voicechat
I thought u said volcecheat
Ok so reality check. Who is your favorite fairy type? Mine’s Spritzee
I guess Swirlix is my favorite Fairy at the moment
Still holding out for a Land Sprite
Any fairy with competitive stat.
i’m really liking the keychain thing. but depending what type flabebe’s evolution is (because apparently it gains a type) i might like it better.
Agreed! I’m wrestling between Floette and the key ring.
so far, mine is aromatisse, it looks quite sassy hahahaha
Oh that reminds me that my Youngest brother wants a Floette
Flabébé all the way!
Even though i hate legendaries, Xerneas. And that rock/fairy is good too.
IGN gave it a 9 http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/04/pokemon-x-and-y-review
wow new gameplay
where?
this might be a bit blurry image but for me this design is far better than delphox and really matches braxien http://valhallaxy.tumblr.com/image/63072162302
srry, its fake. I would have loved for this to be the real delphox
there’s a video showing delphox animation, so I sadly have to say this is fake 🙁
I don’t like this one at all. Its just a bigger version of braixen…
Originally Posted by Dawg(neogaf)
Welp, can finally reveal it guys. I have been playing Pokemon Y all along!
*dramatic squirrel moment*
The thing I wanted to share earlier: there is a random person from Hoenn
talking about his region. He said it’s a nice region etc etc, but the
final thing he said was very interesting:
“You will see it in due time”
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=688723&page=170
HURRN CONFURMED
YEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYESSSSSSSSSS
OH YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
YESSSSSS!!!!!
Dude. Don’t play with my heart.
This could mean a hoenn remake but it could also mean . . well you remember the game is 1.7 gigabytes.
What if there’s no hoenn remakes, BUT instead, there will be Hoenn Sequels?
Indeed
It’s possible. And Mega Blaziken is a hint…
Gen3 remake confirmed.
not nessicarily
Might be a nice glossy sequel instead of a remake. I’d love to see how Hoenn has changed over the past decade.
I’ve been thinking it should be a sequel too. Especially after BW2.
A sequel would be the best.
If it was a straight remake, it would completely screw up what continuity is even in these games, because they have REFERENCED the region and the events of RSE in the later games, in particular, BW2.
Hoenn is my favourite region….so YESSS!!!!
HRRN CONFURMED!!!!!111!!!
So psyched to replay the game that got me into pokemon!
I wish there was a picture that showed proof. However, I’m so happy about this leak, that I immediately believe it.
In some articles it says that past characters come back again. maybe referring to characters from sinnoh and hoenn then?
does anyone know the order of the fIrst 4-5 gyms so far?
Bug, Rock, Fighting, Grass and Electric, not 100% on the last two tho
I can confirm 4th to be Grass and 5th to be Electric.
kay thinks, i just wanted a head start to plan my team
6th is Fairy and 8th is Ice. 7th is assumed to be Psychic but I think it’s Poision.
do we know the genders of the gym leaders yet?
1st: Viola, female
2nd: Grant, male
3rd: Korrina, female
4th: Unknown
5th: Clemont, male
6th – 8th: Unknown
wait, does this mean that trainer battles are skippable, and you talk to someone when you want to battle them?
i fucking hope not
No, we’ve seen the one guy streaming the game being seen and being challenged by trainers.
okay, good
The IGN review video confirmed triple battles return.
That IGN gameplay footage is a troll….in english EXCEPT Oorotto which remains in Japanese hahhaha
Aww and I really wanted to see it’s English name 🙁
At least now we know its being recognised…. i think they must plan on officially revealing it soon if they wanted to keep it’s english name a secret.
so the ign review gave us a handful of details:
– lucario gets a new move called power punch
– azurill is now normal fairy … not much of a surprise
– we can heal pokes before they enter battle
This basically means the Azurill line is more of a Fairy line than a Water line now XD
Hey guys, where could I find the latest leaks?
http://m.imgur.com/a/7aohL
All of Josh’s leaks so far but doesn’t cover everything.
I still don’t get why the Marill family is fairy type.
.Azurill=Beach ball.
.Marill=aqua mouse.
.Azumarill=aqua rabbit.
Probably because marill really sucked and could use the boost
Cause Marill is a forgotten favorite that they wanted to see more action with? Plus the whole cute thing
Marill’s like a Water-type Dedenne…
So if it’ o.k for Dedenne to be a Fairy-type, I guess it’s o.k for Marill too.
“There are small improvements to note here though, like the ability to restore pokemon before they’re switched into battle.”
This is amazing!
What? Never been a fan of item usage in battles.. takes away from the strategy of fights. But the Launcher was interesting at least.. I say we keep getting stuff, even if we don’t use it.
I agree with you. But I think this new feature will be very useful in-game, since we won’t have to sacrifice a Pokémon to heal another anymore!
Another review at Hobbyconsolas, a Spanish magazine. 94/100 and lots of videos!
http://www.hobbyconsolas.com/reviews/analisis-pokemon-x-e-para-3ds-57716
Wow, just watched the first video on the page and HOLY CRAP THESE GAMES ARE BEAUTIFUL. Also LOL at how short Rt. 1 is!
at first I thought ”why did you show me this I can’t read it, but then I watched the amazing gameplay …………. wow
I can translate to english, I’m bilingual xD hahahaha
This is amazing. The graphics are beautiful the music is amazing just everything is fantastic. Only 1 week!!!!!
Those videos have made me hungry and now I need MOAR ;__; Such luscious visuals and the music is awesome too…but I am gonna get lost in Lumiose city lol
O god I know.. and especially in that one cave where you can basically only see in front of you. :O Well that’s what it looked like anyway
Yes!! Bit scary-looking, reminds me of how In Yellow I went through rock tunnel without the use of Flash. 11 year old me was pretty dumb o.O
Seriously, when the player bumped into something, I was totally nervous and I was shock as he bumped into it. lol. Its effective! 😀
I always did that too! I refused to teach my pokemon flash so I would just stumble around till I found my way out haha. Why couldn’t they just make a flashlight as a key item instead of having to waste a move? Good thing it isn’t an hm anymore
This says over 100 new pokemon in the text.
http://www.hobbyconsolas.com/sites/default/files/users/David%20Mart%C3%ADnez/00016.png
Visual confirmation these zangoose/seviper horde battles do happen. Poor seviper.
First a wild double battle where they work together
Now this?
Whats next a horde of durant and Heatmor?
Actually, the stuff we’ve heard says they actually TURN on seviper and kill it.
OMG! This is pretty disturbing! o.O
I’d kill all zangoose first then seviper with one shot.
They don‘t KILL seviper … this isn‘t that nuzlock or w/e sh*t … they atack seviper, seviper faints, and then they leave it alone.
why don’t zangoose and serviper like each other?
Lore. That, and mongoose are known for being snake killers.
oh ok
The gameplay videos are simply beautiful!
Not spoiler-much, but interestingly enough, it seems we battle Xerneas in the wild.. as in the grass.. as in a route?
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19265gn3af78kjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg
That’s a trainer battle.
That’s a pre-release image…
From maybe like 4-5 months ago?
I find the surrounding in the grass battle very misleading. It seems like we are always right at the edge of a forest and an endless plain… which i’m sure will not be the case in the overworld.
so it has the same message as teravol/turboblaze
SOOOO CUTE! ♡♥♡ http://i.imgur.com/CQ51cCBh.jpg