Pokémon X&Y COVERAGE Day 1: We have the game

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One of our staff members, Sammydodger, has now received his copy of Pokémon X! This is the beginning of our coverage of the game. We’re compiling our own experiences, along with information from 4chan, Reddit, and a large chunk from Serebii’s early explorations. This post will be updated constantly with information and images 🙂

Region Information

Towns

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  • Vaniville Town
  • Aquacorde Town
  • Santalune City
  • Lumiose City
  • Camphrier Town
  • Cyllage City
  • Ambrette Town
  • Geosenge Town
  • Shalour City
  • Courmaline City
  • Laverre City
  • Dendemille Town
  • Anistar City
  • Couriway Town
  • Snowbelle City
  • Kloude City

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Locations

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  • Santalune Forest
  • Parfum Palace
  • Connecting Cave
  • Glittering Cave
  • Reflection Cave
  • Sea Spirit’s Den
  • Kalos Power Plant
  • Pokéball Factory
  • Lost Hotel
  • Frost Cavern
  • Terminus Cave
  • Pokémon Village
  • Victory Road
  • Chamber of Emptiness
  • Pokémon League
  • Flare Cafe
  • Team Flare HQ
  • Azure Bay
  • Battle Chateau
  • Battle Maison
  • Tower of Mastery

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Pokémon

Abilities

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  • Proteon: Changes the user’s type to match the last attack used
  • Competitive: Raises a user’s Special Attack when one of their stats is lowered
  • Pixilate: Turns Normal-type attacks into Fairy-type attacks

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Battles

Mechanics

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  • Inverse Battles: In these battles the type-chart is inversed

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New Attacks

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  • Dazzling Gleam: (TM99)
  • Play Nice: Lowers opponent’s attack by one stage

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Game Features

Gyms

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  • Bug Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 30 will obey you without question.
  • Cliff Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 40 will obey you without question.
  • Rumble Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 50 will obey you without question.
  • Plant Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 60 will obey you without question.
  • Voltage Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 70 will obey you without question.
  • Fairy Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 80 will obey you without question.
  • Psychic Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 90 will obey you without question.
  • Iceberg Badge – All Pokémon will obey you without question.

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Pokémon-Amie

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3 Mini Games

  • Berry Picker – Pick berries and give them to your Pokémon before they lose patience. The more you do the better rating you get. Things speed up as the timer counts down. Difficulties – Easy, Medium, Hard, Unlimited (3 Lives).
  • Head It – Head strings of wool as they fall from the sky, timing is everything. The more you hit without missing the greater the combo (but the faster they come!). Aim for a highscore. Difficulties – Easy, Medium, Hard, Unlimited (3 Lives).
  • Tile Puzzle – Old traditional slide puzzle, try and reorganize it.

Other people’s Pokémon visit your amie home and can give you gifts.

You unlock Poképuffs and furniture for your amie home by playing the mini games and interacting with your Pokémon.

Make facial expressions and the Pokémon might notice!

Your other party Pokémon join in with the mini games too.

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Post-Game

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  • Friend Safari: Area in which you can capture Pokémon with their Hidden Abilities. Type of Pokémon appearing depends on registered friends and user selection

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Items

Held

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  • Ability Capsule: Allows to switch between the two normal abilities of a Pokémon. Costs 200BP
  • Assault Vest: Raises Special Defense, but prevents use of status moves
  • Safety Goggles: Prevents damage from weather and ‘Powder’ attacks
  • Weakness Policy: Raises the holder’s Attack and Special Attack when hit by a super-effective move.
  • Exp. Share: Received after the first gym, now affects all Pokémon in a trainer’s team

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Neat Little Details

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  • Player bends down when talking to youngsters.
  • You can turn your head side to side when sitting down on a bench.
  • Player blinks and stretches.
  • Nicknames are 12 letters not 10.
  • When trading in game you don’t need to get the Pokémon out of your PC as it will let you pick from there automatically.
  • If you character walks past a sign, for example, they will turn their head and face it. You can then press A to interact and read the sign.

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857 thoughts on “Pokémon X&Y COVERAGE Day 1: We have the game”

  1. So according to serebii.net pokedex, there is no metagross line in the games, thats bullshit, why would gamefreak excludes metagross????! Whyyyyyy????

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  3. Does the game create extra data on the system’s SD card and if so how much and for what reason. And does playing the game on more than one system have any negative effects. (Ex. In previous games playing on a different system than the one originally played on caused all time-based events not to work for the rest of the day, and you could only use Wi-Fi with the original system you first used Wi-Fi with unless you reset your Wi-Fi info, FC, etc.)

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    • I really need to know this ASAP. I plan on getting the game at Nintendo World’s midnight release, but my XL is still stuck being fixed by Nintendo and may not get back to me in time, so I want to know if there will be any risks or guaranteed issues with starting on a different system and then continuing on my XL once it’s back from repairs.

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  7. I do have a question actually…a story question…mainly due to the rumors spreading across 4chan claiming that reviewers said the game’s story is light and funny in X while leakers were like ‘holy mother of god this is dark and evil’ in Y.

    I doubt reviewers immensely considering IGN claimed that Megas don’t have stat changes but I’m really hoping X doesn’t have a stupid story and Y does. Changes due to what Legendary you have are okay but to change the whole plot? I hope not, because Team Flare is the greatest team yet.

    (Note I stopped going on 4chan for a while now so Iunno if this was already debunked)

    Also how do you get different colors for Vivillon? And does it learn Fly? Again, I saw rumors spreading around for it but missed out on any proof.

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  10. -Player bends down when talking to youngsters.
    -You can turn your head side to side when sitting down on a bench.

    It’s the little things….

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  12. ‘I was just battling in the Battle Maison, as you do when you’re testing things.

    I was up against a Froakie and its ability activated. Its ability was Protean. I believe this is its Hidden Ability’ – Serebii

    Fitting for a Ninja frog

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  13. Do the opponents in the game ever use mega evolutions? Also, just curious if there have been any new additions to the mega evo list since Gardevoir/Gyarados/Abomasnow.

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  14. Random question, Is anyone else planning to ‘limit’ themselves to make the game a harder experience? I’m not sure what rules to set myself but I definitely want the game to be harder as the more challenging the better for me! XD Anyone got any good rules they’re going to use?

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    • Nah, I wanna plough through and get to the post game as fast as possible. If you’re looking for more challenge though, word is that turning off the EXP Share is the simplest way to get it…

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    • I plan on not using duplicate types. I don’t think it makes the game harder, but it makes it difficult for me to decide which Pokémon I want to use.

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    • Since the gym leaders will once again be limited to 3 Pokemon (Unfortunately), I will only use 3 Pokemon in my battles against them -_-

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    • I’m restricting myself to Dark Pokemon, which will make the battles especially with the Fairy Type Pokemon a bit dicey for me. I’m also going to put Battles on Set, so I have to waste a turn to switch out.

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    • I’d recommend you stay away from the EXP all and don’t over do it with items/levelling. Just play at a decent pace and you’ll feel the challenge of Kalos!

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    • In all my runs I always match each Trainer in # of Pokemon used (2 on 2, 5 on 5) and I don’t use Revives in the E4 or Gyms.

      For my second game (Y), I’ll catch only one Pokemon in each area and it has to be the first one I find. It’s like a semi-nuzlocke challenge, but without the permadeath.

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  15. The only news we got from Coro Coro is that there’ll be a Garchomp distribution. F*********************************!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Trainer Notice:
      Only Kanto/Johto/Hoenn/Sinnoh/Unova Trainer ID’s are valid.
      We no longer support ID’s from Orre or the Sevii Islands.
      Have a safe journey.

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  21. So if porygon-z had never existed, and they gave porygon 2 a mega, would the stone be called a porygon2ite? That’d be so weird! And if porygon-z had one would it be a porygon-zite? xD

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  23. I just had Phil the Photographer take a picture of me outside of Parfum Palace and I just kept clicking ‘A’ afterwards and I accidentally clicked on ‘No’, when asked to give a tip…

    Now I feel bad. XD

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  25. is the game being released at exactly the same time or will it just be when the time-zone you are in turns 12/10/13? a lot of people are saying the game comes out tomorrow, but here in the UK, we still have Friday and then Saturday morning, could somebody clarify this for me?

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    • It will be released the same DAY, not time. So when it turns midnight on Saturday, you’ll be able to buy it. However, in America it’ll still be Friday, so they’ll have to wait a few hours until it’s midnight for them.

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