X+Y= Pokemon

Well after all the excitement of the Nintendo direct a few days ago I thought it was time to talk a bit about Pokemon X and Pokemon Y.

 

Well after a surprise announcement by the president of Nintendo, Mr Iwata no less, the Pokemon community was shocked to see new generation of Pokemon games; Pokemon X and Pokemon Y. I was surprised to see these games being announced so soon as it only seems like 5 minuets since Black and White 2. Anyways...

The whole game seems to be set in a new region that includes Pokemon from all other generations and as we all know new regions need new starters.

 

Being a trainer that nearly always goes for the water Pokemon I was anxious to see this generations water starter. I was greeted by Froakie, a little blue frog who seems up for anything and rearing to go. We also saw Fennekin the fire starter, a feisty little fox strutting proudly onto our screens. and the grass starter Dewatt, what thats not a Dewatt? oh sorry its Chespin a cute little (Ive said little like 3 times now) otter? rabbit? squirrel? with a big smile and an awesome taste in headgear.

I'm not gonna lie I was not overwhelmed by this generations starters but after care full consideration I think I might venture into the realms of the Grass types to start this adventure off for me.

 

By far the biggest addition to the game will be the enhanced graphics and the new 3D layout of the world. The whole game is no longer made up of a 2d scrolling world with some 3D enhancements oh no! we are blessed with the entire world in glorious 3D with characters to match (Lets face it our little, 4 times now, trainer sprites didn't look quite right in the fully 3D Castelia City). The battle modes have been upgraded too with full camera sweeping and animations for each Pokemon.

 

We don't know much about the game right now but we have been introduced to the legendary Pokemon. The X mascot is a stag with huge multi coloured antlers that when face from the front looks like an X (how creative!), and the Y mascot is a kind of sky dragon that resembles a Y when its wings are fully straited. presumably the 3rd game in this gen will be Z as XYZ make up the three dimensions distance height and depth (quite cool how the X stag can run across distances and the Y dragon can fly, what will the Z mascot do I wonder?)

 

On the whole I think I will get this game but Nintendo are going to have to whip out some more original Pokemon to get me really exited, and what happened to the talk of Sapphire and ruby remakes? Oh well I'm still looking forward to what Nintendo will do with the new 3D layout and how they will utilise the 3DS' features to enhance the game.

For the first time the game is set for release in Japan, Europe, America and Australia in October 2013 so the whole world will be able to get their hands on the game at once!

for those of you who haven't seen the trailer take a look:

Leave your thoughts and comments below and thanks for reading!