This will be my first ever nuzlocke! Idk a thing for level caps so chances are I'll be doing this just based on my memory for X! That's a dangerous statement in itself. As of 9/1, I've begun! My current team is a Froakie, Litleo, and Pansear. I unfortunately lost my route 1 pidgey catch to a crit from a bunnelby.

9/1

Y Nuzlocke Vibes Only set I figured at this rate I’d never actually start the damn thing if I kept this up so I said “okay go you’re already up at 2 am your sleep schedule is shit anyways”

Rules: set mode Dupes clause and shiny clause are in None of mons from the previous X clear parties are allowed No releases (graveyard clause) No research (I didn’t keep memories from the last run or take good notes? Too bad!)

Banlist Blastoise Fennekin Chesnaught Bunnelby Talonflame Aegislash Meowstic Florges Granbull Aurorus Pangoro Hawlucha

I was considering the No healing items but then I remembered how bad victory road went so no thanks Gift mons only as a last resort If the run dies play regularly

Not even an hour in and I lost my first Pokémon to a crit from a bunnelby RIP Daisy Short lived.

Oh yeah, Shauna technically necromanced her What do I do witht that Nothing, no Amie yet bozo Cheater. I got a monkey.

Battle 1 Monkey survive this please:? Feels like the hardest part of this will be that i dont remember any of the X run and that I’m not sure when this monkey learns a fire move which I’ll need for later with the 1st gym If he lives then i won’t get charizard maybe? Lick seems to proc paralysis a lot

Oh yeah, names Froakie named Fabre, Pansear named Flint

Status lowering go! Leer, play nice! It really does feel like a lot of things i normally would’ve breezed through now need strategy like do i use this move knowing an opponent could set up on me? What if the status doesnt work?

Why does bunnelby get agility that early??? Burmy? Spamming protect? Doesn’t have other moves?!

Status moves go past protect? Today I learned and I killed it so there goes my route 3 encounter… I only have two mons.

Wait you can take the button accessory off?! Next thing you’re telling me is I can take the hat off too Nope. Let’s go skating!

Route 22 Bunnelby is on the ban list They changed how exp party switching works I think instead of partial exp it’s the full amount Nvm it’s always been that way Litleo…? Lotta fire types, feels like I’m with a mono fire team or something Scarlet!

???? Dunsparce on route 3? It has rollout?! Okay leaving now I’d like to have this teammate alive long enough to play amie Doing puzzles makes pokemon smarter how?!

This is a fascinating thing because usually people play nuzlocke for like emotional attachment and here I am like I need to max out the Amie bonus ASAP so my mons don’t die horribly/ exp bonus? Something like lefyba can turn info a threat when it runs confuse ray and comet punch

New rule Once I go to a gym I can’t leave it would be pretty anticlimactic to just buy more supplies Viola: this is going to my cringe comp

Surskit… Proc the paralysis and I’ll switch out Alright Infestation is quite dangerous… But everyone made it out okay and alive.

Route 4 Flabebe is on the ban list so Pkmn no 2 will be… a male combee…. Where’s the eviolite. Ahh, I need to be in shalour city… I’ll stop there for tonight.

Up next: The quest to Lumiose city

So clothes by location isn’t a thing you can look up Closest is Serebii showing images

Oh god the boy’s selection is nonexistent Lmao This explains why the used copy only had one outfit so much

The funniest part of XY to me is the fact that I’m still using old guides from a decade ago now to help myself in terms of everything but battle information Apparently i heard there is a run killer furfrou though The only things worth using for outfits are all things literally in Lumiose city that are all the most expensive and therefore like impossible to get for a nuzlocke unless I make this like a Lumiose city run where I spend the rest of the game just in lumiose

9/8

The road to lumiose

Went back to a store and said “all the stuff is the same” because last time I was here was also Sunday. lol. Today is training! Totally different from monotype running. Aiming for like… 20. Or like 15, idk.

Hardest part is figuring out like what’s overkill because I’m going at this blind past my previous run because that was months ago I don’t even remember who the second gym is Grant?

No, that’s fossils… Considering that I have both a fire monkey and pyroar and mono fire seems dumb so I might go with Bulbasaur.

Combee can farm encounters with sweet scent and honey gathering XY aren’t hard games… I’d get it if this was like withering X… Confusion and comet punch is dangrrous.

Kalos having like a screenshot feature outside of the photo guy might be useful because like why so many fountains and locations that would be wonderful photos but totally denied

Bit annoying how lumiose is so limited the first time in There’s fake lore to this story, and in this story, this new player character is lysandere’s son but neither of them know the family relationship since the guy is blonde

Diantha has gotta be the most like nothing character in terms of XY having nothing characters and like I’d love to know how she became friends with Lysandere and her full thoughts because like her philosophy opposes Lysandere for the sake of the narrative but like aside from the alien rumor she should’ve been like a pokestar cameo or something so at the very least we could see her being like balancing her life as both a champion and movie star People can be immortalized through things like movies and audio readings and books as long as everything is preserved. Also the proZD video really is the epitome of Lysandere, the music being like that doesn’t help either You could not get more blatantly evil if you tried in a pokemon game aside from Ghestis

And now it’s time to get to route 5 Should I use the gift lucario? Idk…it’s a nuzlocke. I feel like I should stick to my own catches. Crazy how i played through X the first time and went “the pop in for lumiose is pretty noticeable” but now that I’ve played Sword I’m like “it wasn’t actually that bad.”

Route 5: another Mon on the ban list Number 2! A horde of gulpin? I knocked out the entire horde with incinerate. Okay, no encounter. This seems to be the running trend here.

…does using sweet scent/honey get me nothing but hoards for this route? Okay so I might not count this one, let me try to do it without the hoards, if I knock it out though then it won’t count, alright? Getting bad luck, nothing but the ban list roster…

Combee emotes with all of its pieces… If I saw a shiny I’d have the shiny rule but I’ve never seen a shiny outside of stuff like catching tutorials or the period where I’ve got no poke balls because I’ve got no dex. Like a lot of runs of GSC GBA games have had me run into like shiny ratatta and caterpie. Oh, and that one save where I have a shiny onix now. I think that’s the only shiny I’ve ever gotten in a game that wasn’t the red gyarados or a random trade that was likely genned.

Okay we have a pokemon but furfrou is proving to be a test of patience.

I’ll come back next Sunday, maybe. Feels like that’s the way this has been going.

Current team: Flint (pansear), Fabre (Frograider), Sting (Combee), Scarlet (Litleo) New: Ceres (Ivysaur), Izzy (Furfrou)

This will be my first ever nuzlocke! Idk a thing for level caps so chances are I'll be doing this just based on my memory for X! That's a dangerous statement in itself. As of 9/1, I've begun! My current team is a Froakie, Litleo, and Pansear. I unfortunately lost my route 1 pidgey catch to a crit from a bunnelby.

This will be my first ever nuzlocke! Idk a thing for level caps so chances are I'll be doing this just based on my memory for X! That's a dangerous statement in itself. As of 9/1, I've begun! My current team is a Froakie, Litleo, and Pansear. I unfortunately lost my route 1 pidgey catch to a crit from a bunnelby.

XY is kind of a game that has most things done better by the games that follow, you can tell that this is GF's first attempt at a 3D pokemon game that wasn't just passed off as a spinoff to a different company . It's kind of like a sandwich where it's an alright sandwich, but you can get better sandwiches. It kind of pissed me off, but I'd go back and eat/play it again because it was a game that a lot of people did enjoy as their first outing. I had zero expectations for it and it didn't reach them, but that's on me for never backtracking because of the plot going "come on, this way, shoo, shoo."

it's not a bad game, it's just kind of the most pokemon game ever if that makes any sense. like it's just a pokemon game where most things it does are basically done in other games with better execution or refinement so outside of a few places and themes and areas there's not much to remember. i'd rather play a bad game and be like "hey remember that time that stupid thing happened" rather than my memories of X being completely blurry outside of that one period of time where i wanted to chuck my 3ds. Lumiose city can carry an entire game for ZA though, I can attest to that based on how packed the place is. Where most gen games have like some reason to like revisit towns or maybe a single NPC that’s a bit quirky I can’t think of any notable place in XY outside of Lumiose not counting the mushroom town and snowbelle. It kind of feels like a game with a checklist on things to do that is hampered by me not playing online with other people at release time so I’ll never have the full experience because pokemon is a game meant for friends and i am alone.

This is a pokemon game that is like a 3/5 or maybe like a 5/10 where you go… yep… that’s a pokemon game. It gets a C on a scale that would be like, F to A. I think of that moment I got really mad and then I go “eh.” I really did say I wanted to enjoy it but outside of the opening period where I was like “wow, new adventure!” I had nothing. And that’s probably the best way to describe my first X playthrough. I’m gonna go play Pokémon sword now. Y nuzlocke after that so maybe in like September.

I still cannot wrap my head around being invested in watching something as formulaic as the Pokémon anime as it aired based on my memories because in the end isn’t it always the same thing of ash and some of his friends going on an adventure, team rocket shows up, rinse and repeat? For years, decades even? Like wouldn’t the arguments just circle around “I like ash because he did some stuff and won some badges, too bad he lost the league though” that was literally every generation until alola but people say that one doesn’t count since it just opened and then journeys happened and when he won the show writers immediately gave him the boot. There's a very easy reason why I'm bouncing off so easily, and it's because the target audience probably did miss episodes but could easily catch Up because this show is so a commercial for children to the point that every episode can be in a bubble. This also extends to the main cast too because it’s like, Ash is adventurous, Brock will get an equivalent of some guy who handles the living situation, there is also a girl. None of the girls ever do anything aside from contests or some kind of contest equivalent like, we’ve never had a battling girl aside from Iris and even then people hated her because she was like “ash you’re a kid!

Masamitsu Hidaka, one of the anime directors, said that he was switching up the girls and taking the game girl designs because "boys need a new piece of eye candy to look at every once in a while." I don’t like that statement.

I am NOT rewatching all of the show, best you’d get from me is indigo to Johto, Sinnoh, and maybe Alola. Movies are fine though. The DP loss is still so hilarious though imagine almost winning and the writers go like “he’s getting too competent, bring out the GameShark”. Like even the narrator’s usually able to recap what was missed an episode before with “someone is doing something, Pokemon.” This is probably because I ended up getting into the digimon anime after DPP instead of watching BW after I watched a few episodes and went “nah,” and there with other shows I was like “wow! cool!” They switch up the protags and mascots and there’s like, actual narratives beyond just “gym badge!” (I could be misremembering a ton of the anime though but like, I never got the vibes there were many stakes outside of the movies or a handful of episodes that remembered there were teams outside of rocket.)

It's not that I don't like Ash, but he's a character I cannot muster any kind of feelings for in either direction. I liked him when I watched him, but the last time I paid attention to Ash’s adventures I was a child. He was there as a constant until he wasn't. He’s like a guy you’d see in school who was in the sports team like “hey bro” and he was always super enthusiastic but he’d never actually get a good shot in during actually important games. They couldn't outright replace Ash because of Pikachu but you know how many Pikachu clones there are? They could’ve baton passed Ash a long time ago and just had him making mini cameos. Which is kind of what happened to certain game protags anyways. There are mini cameos of protagonists within movies like you can spot Ethan, Brendan, and Lucas battling during some opening sequences plus another design of Gold was in an OVA but they called him… Jimmy. Why though. And like, I’m not a person who automatically goes “games better, origins better, Special/Adventures better, red da best, ash is trash” because I don’t have the time or energy to muster an opinion over something like that. I’m the type who is more on the “I think Ash and Red would be friends” train.

I think an anime like this could work with more episodes that are focused on characters other than the main character who’s personality has slowly whittled away and focus more on making people be actual people who can solve their problems and develop without the need for the MC. Plus that means they can show off more Pokémon rather than the main cast’s Pokémon and whatever the character of the day has. Pokémon and a lot of anime in general could do with more anthology type of stories. How much can an episode be carried without Ash? That’s kind of what they do for the movies during the alola era, I’ve heard. This is more of a protagonist centric thing though, like how every episode of a cartoon usually has to have the title character solve the problem because… you know, they're the main character. Kinda like the same problem I’ve been having with Steven Universe. I'm just trying to watch XY because I was told that "this is the good one!" but so far its an endless journey where every episode is created to watch ash on his journey doing the exact same thing over and over of like training... and adventures... and stuff... because blud is trapped in a time loop. There is no other explanation. I found the watch order for XY by the way. rather than try and go for all of it, I'm segmenting it based on the watch order, so now here's what I did this session.

Mega Evolution Act I XY27-35 XY Movie 1

I got told that there’s overview specials but I’m not doing that.

Mega Evolution Act 1: What if pokemon had big fucking mega evolution kaiju fights Hell yeah This owns Why did they make this random ace trainer NPC a plot important character I like her absol having a little glam necklace She just has a glam earring Mega evolutions are like magical transformations This is so cool They have little speeches for their mega evolution powers too?!

I'm over here now like having a wide smile because this looks so cool despite being the exact same stuff They really did cook with Mega Evolutions to be honest, I'm now here like "Charizard is so cool" Pokemon origins is cool Oh man, that kid looks like a chespin Gijinka I'm remembering like bits of the plot based on when I was on tumblr, I think this Alan guy gets the kid's pokemon in a coma or maybe the kid, i don't remember. it's been years. I'm hearing blast burn and dragon claw and it's giving me secondhand flashbacks is it gonna be like this the whole time lol Henshin! Oh, this is a journey of Alain learning to be nice and kind instead of only wanting to be the strong-- DID HE JUST EAT A POKEMON PELLET What is wrong with this guy Why is she NAMED after the pokemon They're really out here with murals of lucario and shit for mega evolution

Is Sycamore like Alan's dad or something Awww, that psyduck just rubbed his leg against him and that guy had zero reaction Come on, I hope he has a moe moment where it turns out he's got a cute habit HE DOES he's petting the garchomp under the neck! He's petting the Charmander! Hey it's me lysanderoth, don't mind the sinister ass music, just do ya thang

So is every single mega stone user just dressed up as an eccentric or just as an NPC That's because his scarf is meant to resemble the mega charizard's flames This guy looks like he's from a different franchise Out here with the Mega Umbrella and shit

They have sakuga scenes for fighting a Flabebe I like how now she's just following him and there's nothing he can actually do about it Alan has acquired a friend. He doesn't have a choice. Is her only character trait being a klutz? "I want to try your unofficial menu" then he flashes his mega ring like this is some kind of secret mega evolution fight club . First rule, don't talk about it. Regardless of type, the bond will overcome reason. They foreshadowed blast burn.
Mega Evolution was the anthology type of story I was thinking about this entire time. Like mini OVA series featuring one character cast for a few episodes rather than a season

The thing about Pokémon journeys is that while most seasons tend to have ash in a particular region doing his own thing and the games stuff gets like glued in like how in advanced he went to kanto for FRLG and in Sinnoh Lyra showed up and for Kalos we had that one guy with the mega Sceptile but for Galar Pokémon journeys said “nah, ash is going globetrotting because our focus is actually Pokémon go” and like the region that focused the least on the pokedex anime wise is now playing second fiddle to completing the pokedex and like I’m fighting just to get the energy to watch XY.

I know this wouldn’t happen with earlier seasons. Or maybe horizons I didn’t get very far with watching Liko’s Journey but like so far having an active driving plot of “what’s going on with the pendant and the turtle” is effective enough even though I probably would’ve also enjoyed liko school slice of life goofs.

Maybe this is another classic case of “you would’ve gotten it more if you watched it as it aired rather than already knowing the ending”

a lot of the postgame stuff is reliant on me actually beating the rival in that fight so what i need to do is find a nice place to train and grind up to my 60s because even if i went to the e4 now everyone is in mid 30s at best minus benson. It's been between training and grabbing ribbons in town. I like anistar city’s memory girl and the character having a little cold breath. I changed to a colder outfit for that spot. Mamoswines the precursor to ride pokemon . Huh??? There’s a whole optional dungeon I missed?! This is a dirty hotel. Flying press looks absurd, I’m glad I brought hawlucha on the team. Mizu evolved after I finished fighting that punk. She grew up so quick, I still remember her being all small when I got her and how enthusiastic she was in Amie as wartortle

There’s klefki here??? They’re barring me from entry based on my clothes?! It’s based on my skating skills?! I gotta go find Randos in Lumiose?! forgot about TMs but let’s load em up I got sidetracked by random stuff I skipped and like outside of me revisiting them there’s no need for some extra stuff right?

Anyways I wonder how much of XY I’m missing out on from never doing the wonder trading stuff. Or being online in general when it was that time period of no one knowing what was in the game before. The corocoro scans and stuff. It’s a lot better to not use fly so I can actually check these places instead of breezing past like I did during my playthrough. I thought a route said bruh way but it was brun way. I only have one dark type so guess to get Xiaoyu to evolve I’ll use literal darkness because I have Yveltal from that probably haunted Y cartridge. Back trying to navigate the huge ass circle of Lumiose and I missed a whole route (route 16) in my first run. It’s so fascinating because I have zero recognition of any of Lumiose or it’s exits. It’s a maze to me all the time.

Battle mansion rematches. watching the anime in one sitting sounds like sisyphus it's more bearable to me if i treat every ash as a separate ash since sometimes when I play I have an episode in the BG.

I vividly remember the GS space world leaks and how everyone kind of lost their mind over the “new” pokemon and maps. I should go back to just making small pokemon drawings again, it was fun. Thinking about it, it’s kinda crazy how spaceworld leaked twice in different forms plus we got the Diamond and Pearl beta leaks and then there was supposed to be a translation of the first SW demo and then total radio silence. I haven’t checked on team spaceworld in a while so that projects probably dead. Why is this in the Postgame journal? Well, I was working on other stuff too... My life doesn't revolve around pokemon 24/7, even if my website seems very heavily centered on it. I've got other hobbies.

Cleared 7.20 I’m figuring my postgame experience is being punished for never straying off the path as I slowly glacially grind in the battle chateau because I don’t know any other places to train since I never had a reason to go off rails because there was backtracking in the game but I never felt any kind of large incentive unlike in other games based on memory alone. Maybe I’m biased, too harsh since this is GF’s first 3D game and the team was partially split doing BW2 apparently… Kanto has the aides that will give you upgrades at least since I’m playing through kanto and the HMs outside of cut are basically things you need to go out of your way to get with both catching Pokémon and actually finding the aides. Johto has daily events and phone calls and the day night system incentivizes you to plat at different times. Other reigons do their thing, i do not recall right now since im writing this segment at like 2 am, With Kalos though…. The only thing I ever felt like backtracking to was towns to buy clothes. That’s the only thing I backtracked for, honestly… the fashion in this game is pretty good, if you’re playing as a girl, which is pretty much a trend for every gen until gen 9 goes “YOU GET 4 OUTFITS AND TWO ARE SCHOOL UNIFORMS ” I didn’t know there was an entire hotel dungeon I missed until I randomly found it by looking for trainers to fight against.

It’s mostly an on rails experience and now that I’m off the rails and trying to make my own path I realize that I kind of… recall absolutely nothing about Kalos outside of maybe Lumiose, and snowbelle, and that one city with the mushroom tower (Lavarre?). Anistar city had the big diamond thing I thought was related to Diancie but its not. The towns aren’t really doing much. You could say that for a lot of reigons and towns, but I think a game I beat a few months ago should have something slightly more memorable to me. Maybe I’m being unfair though. What other towns do I remember off the top of my head ignoring Kanto? There’s pacildflog with that mirage island guy, there’s rustboro, castelia city, nuvema town, accumula town has the piano girl, there’s the train town with the flute girl, can’t forget about violet city and the bellsprout tower, Ecutreak city’s two towers, goldenrod city, virbank city’s warehouses, snowpoint city… Floroma towns big flower field. Okay, so maybe I’m remembering the music more than the towns and cities themselves memory wise. To be honest, I recall not much of alola either based on memory alone but that was like…8 years ago. I feel myself pruning up.

I never got why XY had a photo feature that was dropped in Sun/Moon. They brought it back in Ultra but I haven’t played that one. The more I look between ultra and OG sumo it really did disillusion me at the age of 16 when I thought we’d be getting stars and instead the third version game was split into two games and I was like “man… is this what it’s like to feel disappointed by a game?” So that’s kinda what made me lose interest even before gen 8. I’m not gonna complain about the exp share because imagining a mid game grind where I have to do every Pokémon individually instead of an even divide would kill me more than this entire process already has been going. battle chateau has some miserable npcs that will be like "what happiness is there in life other than money" now that i've got the postgame team i'm here like "what is fairy type weak to again" The guide i found said to get lucky eggs but where do you get them from the game aside from friend safari chanseys, which I don't have. I think there’s a site set up with friend safaris like a generator because there was one for mystery dungeon codes too…? thankfully there are still 10 year oldgamefaqs guide that tell me its in a hotel i got another daily ribbon too turns out i already had the egg

Alert Ribbon - Ambrette Town - Monday Shock Ribbon - Camphrier Town - Tuesday Downcast Ribbon - Geosenge Town - Wednesday Careless Ribbon - Coumarine City - Thursday Relax Ribbon - Couriway Town - Friday Snooze Ribbon - Cyllage City - Saturday Smile Ribbon - Courmarine City - Sunday

visiting geosenge post hole is so weird like there's zero interest aside from saying "oh yeah that happened, pretty weird, huh." i got the eevee trade triggered but i don't recall ever speaking to this maid in the hotel does it just randomly trigger? well i lost to wikstrom and that larper knight took ALL my money thankfully in the chateau there's a trainer with audino so i got some exp i'd probably have more fun with random wonder trading but until pretendo is set up it'll never work This place is weird. Why are there like. Robot maids.

Kalos is a game of style to me but not much substance. That is because I’m playing a 10 year old game without one of the largest features of it being the online community. I can enter an NPC’s house and maybe two pieces of furniture will have flavor text and I’ll bump into the rest. What I’ve seen of the XY anime so far sometimes does have the opposite effect where I would want to stay in towns to help out these random people instead of seeing Ash do it I’ve always said that pokemon has needed side quests of some sort to keep you around in a town instead of just passing it by with the NPCs that have “quirky” flavor text or maybe more NPCs that talk about current events instead of being like random tutorial dialogue like with the random lumiose cafes I went into. It might be a me thing though, i parsed through earthbound dialogue just fine so far.

Lumiose having a d pad camera is like a personal attack on my eyes because it blurs on the bike every time I turn, Aggghhhhh what is this resident evil ass shot camera I can’t SEE The taxi helps a lot. The gogoat shuttle as well since I can actually think. Why can’t the camera be like that for all of lumiose zoomed out. So Alexa from the press can just auto teleport you in the city That’s the third way I’ve learned this city has a faster way to get by They call me the resturaunt 1 turn wonder because I keep fucking up the food orders

Tbh after not using it the entire game it’s quite distracting to have the big button that’s like “CAUSE APOCALYPSE” sitting casually below the screen My thoughts on Mega Evolutions after an entire game of not playing with one is that it feels like it makes an already casual game more easy because I managed to scrape by the OG game even with a self imposed rule of not buying healing items (items on the ground were fair game though). Maybe if it needed to be recharged or something instead of being an easy press to win button The factor of “am I doing it wrong” only to be led gently by the hand by a random forum post that has the solution because the community was built years ago of people like me struggling is like some kind of thing you’d see in a novel but nope, it’s just people talking about meta game grinding in Pokémon.

Okay I’m gonna send out a writ Damn The silver writ is kinda busted I could’ve grinded way faster if I had used that thing versus the resturaunts Things to keep in mind for Y nuzlocke If I finish up the E4 rematch then I'll go fight calem and the looker bureau will be it's own book ends post until the Y nuzlocke.

The E4 Matchup and Postgame (Cleared 7.20) Did an e4 rematch with malva, chandelure doesn’t have levitate So funny how she was related to Flare and just never came up in the main game and its locked to postgame only They have new lore? Like Drasna’s from Sinnoh. I don’t recall fairy type matchups at all so I’m struggling with guesswork on a pair of keys and the solution for half the battles was “use surf lol” The strategy was really just mega evolve to toss out pokemon I struggled with because my team had no matchups You don’t know how to be champion without using full restore! Imagine if the elite four had their own Megas Like siebold with gyarados which did nothing but spam dragon dance and freak me out Flying press lets the camera be a bit wonky Big fan of the shiny glittering throne but the game makes you auto walk onto the podium if you get too close lol How broken is mega evolution? My mega blastoise managed to take out 4 of diantha’s pokemon at level 62 at yellow health before getting taken down by the goodra

I did it, reclears done Okay now I can do the looker bureau and uh, stuff. Maybe with a mix of this rematch team and the old one? This was the pokemon game that they ever released fully worldwide all at once and I feel like the credits best exemplify what they did want to do by having different lyrics in different languages A lot of games reliant on a global scale phenomena are hard to go back to without that community feeling

Amie is probably the best feature because people have been wanting to be able to play with and feed their pokemon for years But when you pet the sword its eye just widens like 👁️ and I did not like that. The little parts like how pokemon will turn around to give you eye contact if you have their affection leveled high enough in Amie Some of the absurd animation effects for some moves and then others look weak Close combat couldn’t be abstract? Considering other spinoffs though they (3D models) could stand to be more unique instead of like… floaty balloony for some pokemon. Some are fine, others aren’t, colors look a bit desaturated on others, and the lack of sprite art means that pokemon have been stuck in the same position outside of interactions in Amie.

Looker Bureau

I would play an entire pokemon game based on doing like detective type activities (not detective pikachu) if it was in the vein of like regular pokemon instead of the plot part being shoved into the last 2 missions It’s compelling because its the story of a girl wanting to help out with finances and instead being involved with the remnants of an evil team… where I want to learn more about this huge city and how the people and pokemon live in it especially now that the girl’s a superhero protecting the town where her detective dad couldn’t. Good plot. Malamar is one of those pokemon I’m always going to think is something it’s not. (Water type.) Legend Hunting I really don’t like that swooping pokemon bypass repels. The funniest way to end a postgame run by sheer accident because my pokemon loved me too much so they killed the legendaries of the postgame. What about Articuno- That’s it. Run’s over! I don’t know a thing about competitive so I’m not doing the battle mansion!

XY Chronicles (The Anime) They’re out here trying to make the first gym look cool and it’s literally nothing to me. I feel like pokemon works best where it’s not super dramatic all the time, like, i know im dating myself by saying that I liked the indigo league for being quirky. The XY anime is background noise to me than anything in seriously engaged with minus Eureka because she is a ball of sunshine. Serena is in this interesting state of limbo where I know nothing about her minus the shipping. The first reaction of Satoshi and this handkerchief is no reaction at all which is uh. Fascinating. I’m now at 20 episodes in so here’s my updates. Is every episode in XY high stakes or something why is Kalos full of crime. I’m a person who only had VHS tapes of the indigo league and the movie as a child and those fundamentally molded me into a person who likes the older seasons more and I’m struggling to find a good reason to watch through the Pokémon anime of all anime when I know there’s better ones out there. I watch the episodes and then I completely forget what I saw Out of the episodes I think I like 14 the most for being somewhat goofy and also emotional with the espurr, 13 as well for the kid who was afraid of Pokémon. I like 16, eureka episodes are good. The town that was like 3 houses in the game is an entire mountain in the anime of houses. Episode 20 introduces grant and his personality trait is that he just loves walls.

Mega Evolution 1 has begun getting advertised so I guess I should watch them concurrently instead of in one sitting? Corn plate moment, but I noticed that the title card shows which character’s getting a focus on the episode. Ash is focused on training instead of doing funny videos with the friends which is a trend for his character in XY being BORING. I want a rival for him that's just HATING him the entire time because then I could feel some kind of emotion. No it’s funnier when everyone in Kanto just wanted to beat him up and were jerks and mean but now we have coolness and shonen I guess. This show is just full of yes men for him. Somehow this episode about pokemon promo videos ended up being a big moment for Serena where she was like “I’ll protect my starter” when Fennekin could’ve just…. Like…. Walked around the puddle. Maybe I’m overthinking.

(Referring to Greninja and BLAST BURN) Knowing that they made the show's theme so dramatic and used it as an opening theme and insert theme and in the battle only for that shit to happen was insane I can’t imagine what it was like watching it happen live. That lame ass frog. This is an anti binge watching show that I feel would probably be better if I just used a filler guide to get to the “good stuff” but that defeats the entire purpose if I just do it like that. So when should I watch the movie and mega evolution special anyways IDK... This show was not made to be watched for amusement, this is a show you put on for a child to go like “wow, pikachu!” And then you go do something else while the colors spin all around. I might go back to watching the indigo league just to see if there’s that much of a difference.

I’ve heard of slow burn but this is stupid absurd. There’s something about this one that I’d probably have enjoyed more if I watched it as it aired but I didn’t do now I’m watching it and considering using a filler guide because it’s way too formulaic and quite frankly knowing that the conclusion to all of this “hype“ buildup is “BLAST BURN” kind of makes sitting through these early episodes feel lesser. I don’t care in particular for any of the characters so far and power scaling and shipping are my least favorite activities on the planet. It’s probably my nostalgia saying that I’d enjoy marathoning the older seasons more and I don’t even mean Indigo League, I mean Diamond and Pearl since those were the last ones I really watched before dropping it during Unova. Also the fact that I’ve got so many other shows to watch and this one is like…actively making me want to watch other shows instead of watching it. Maybe it’s like a slow burn like how I’ve been watching through Naruto… I feel like trying to make things so serious for every episode does nothing to me. Why a competent team rocket always showing up? It's not like anyone's ever going to actually get hurt.

I livetweeted the entire experience as I felt my goodwill for the game dry out and get to a point where I couldn’t even take coherent notes. What a baffling swerve. it was approximately around 5 hours ago today that I beat pokemon X and began writing out my final posts for the first chunk of the XY chronicles, in which I played through pokemon X and Y in order to find out the best parts of it. as of janurary to march, it took me around 30 hours to clear pokemon X with my additional rule of no purchased healing items and Kalos pokemon only. This meant my only sources of healing were through the pokemon center, the friends showing up at random times, and random items I found on the ground. These were the end results as it was my first time playing X because it was the one game I missed not counting Johto.

This was my half baked rant to a friend which was how I felt after playing for 4 hours consecutively from Clemont’s Gym into the Team Flare subplot to abruptly be dumped back to the 8th gym. There were good ideas here, absolutely none of it managed to stick in any cohesive way to me. Their entire mega evolution gimmick hasn’t been seen aside from one fight because I didn’t use the gimmick. There are random trainers who have more difficulty than the actual bosses. I ended up being severely overleveled for everything because of the exp share and then team flare decided to be properly scaled according to my level and I still wiped them because no one in this region has more than one pokemon on average. The friends add nothing to the story outside of Shauna and Calem who has driven me crazy by deciding to bring a psychic type as his lead when majority of the flare fights I had to do with him had dark types. I’m having strong opinions on this because this is the one pokemon game I’ve never experienced at base launch outside of HGSS and I feel some sort of indescribable emotion towards how completely by the numbers the game is and also that there was no Z to correct it. The emotion is frustration.

I arbitrarily added in the no purchasing healing items rule because I was saving up to buy clothes and severely regretted it for the elite four lineup and victory road. Well, I’d like to take back what I said for the 4th-7th gym and X being easy as a whole because I got smoked 5 times in the elite four without healing. Victory road needs to be studied under a microscope because if the entire game had setups like those I could erase the last entry about difficulty. I dont think I’ve experienced the emotional drops I had when steadily seeing my pokemon grow more powerful and that I could’ve had the entire run die had I not risked everything throwing out Talonflame to get diantha’s gardevoir out because it was ko’ing everything I threw at it. I also brought in the starter from the Y save, as a last minute addition to the league. Because there’s a chance that Y Delphox was literally there on the cartridge for a decade since the game’s save was from launch. I had to do it. Sorry Diggersby, maybe for the postgame run I’ll let you be the shining star.

Talonflame has shot up to being one of my favorite regional birds because of how much that bird carried me and the team to victory in those final fights. Fly on, brave bird. what are my thoughts as a whole on X and its plot? It’s got a strong opening but once you get to Clemont’s gym the pace and difficulty get somewhat wonky. If anything, I’d let you as the player fight Lysandere at the pokeball center and the power plant and then get dismissed when telling Sycamore and Diantha instead of the game deciding to throw three boss fights with him in a row. reading Special in between paints a different story on Kalos but I wouldn’t go that far. If anything, there’s actually a very notable and reasonable way to have the player philosophize on if lysandere is right and it’s all those rich people in the battle chateau who are kind of like. Emblematic of the resource Problem Lysandere was talking about. If you want the villain to seem reasonable then you’d need to give actual examples of the problem instead of the guy just worrying about a future issue. They try to solve this with supplementary material like evolutions going more into Lysander but at that point it’s too late.

I guess you can’t have a pokemon game that’s plot is about battling against systematic aristocracy though. I haven’t finished the anime so I have no clue what happens there and if any of my problems are addressed but I feel like it won’t be because I’m starting to suspect that I’m being japed on if the XY anime is good or is it “good” in a way where people are way too invested in seeing Ash Ketchum fufill some kind of power fantasy for them (the amount of Ash betrayal fics and/or shipping fics I’ve needed to filter out that increased during the XY era points to the latter. to say nothing of the initial reaction to Alola Ash.) That’s a future problem. (In reference to the player outfit Supercut) Funnily enough, the outfit that I took in Aquacorde town is the one that let me win the run.

Y Interlude: Bob and George Tax Day, April 15th

Here’s the rule set I’ll be doing when I do start playing the nuzlocke though. As a side note, I won’t be using my postgame Pokemon either once I finish that.
1. Banlist of Pokemon and Legendaries

All Starters minus Greninja, Charizard or Venusaur Talonflame, Diggersby, Meowstic, Aurorus, Florges, Granbull, Pangoro, Aegislash, Hawlucha Because these were the ones I used for this Run and the Postgame.

2. Dupes and Shiny Clause are In unless rule 4 applies 3. Not Hardcore, I’ll use Amie and Exp Share but No Switch Mode. I guess I’ll apply level cap too, idk. 4. I’ll use gift mons only if everyone else dies since the only forced one is the Kanto Starter

I note that my notion notes actually have different start and end dates on the edit so who knows how accurate this really is in the end… I have many opinions on that 4 hour romp I played through the game and a lot of them are uh. Very opinionated. In a kind of rambly incoherent way that isn’t my norm when I play a pokemon game.

Is Pokemon XY easy because of the exp share or is pokemon XY easy because everyone only has like 3 pokemon max. Angry Gojo Reaction Image

Korrina Run: Some of these places have the clothes change every day so I gotta check back always. Never stop the clothes grind. Look, Lucario! You want it, right? No. This is a Kalos only run. I don’t get why the skater girl is the one who has all this successor stuff anyways. What does the skating have to do with it? The only battle I’ve almost lost was a sky battle where everything they had was super effective to my fire Bird. There’s little shadows where the Pokémon swoop FYI.

An actual cave in Kalos! Great. How do I leave. I hate caves and I will break my purchase rule for repels because I hate caves that much. Missed opportunity to just have tierno double battle in the cave rather than just standing there wishing he could be better I don’t need a strat for the gym I have a level 40 talonflame For my X playthrough, I used no Megas because I’m using Kalos only Pokémon. Sort of antithetical to the game itself, but ya know, ya know. I got lost. Where is azure bay. How. There’s a house where there’s a guy who plays the sad theme from BW there I don’t think Calem even leveled his Pokémon in between the tower to now.

Ramos? I don’t get how this gym works. Rope? The New Pokemon Direct was very cool. New legends Kalos! I’ll continue playing the OG. 20 fucking tentacool. Holy shit. The game loves throwing random mons at you for promotional purposes, this would pretty much be one of the easiest games to do another gift run for which I might do when I get to the nuzlocke run It’s at this point I realize I have no clue what I’ve been up to aside from uh. This gym. The journal feature in Diamond and Pearl should’ve been a mainstay. I’m in a gym, so guess I keep going. Grass and he’s got leech seed? Oh no, scary… avalanche.

I can’t wait for the nuzlocke run where I take all of this back. I swear, it’ll probably be funny to take all of this back when I look back. They’re so quick to give the player the boot in these gyms, wasn’t this supposed to be a big deal? Idk. Now that I can fly you know the hunt for new clothes is back on again Thank god the map let’s me know which town has stores or not It might be too late for the whole original team plan, this teams decent enough to probably get me to the end of the game. I got the ampharosite. Pretty sure that’s the only mega stone I’ve found so far that wasn’t handed to me Where did this lapras come from on the camera, I didn’t take the one given to me

It’s an empty cave??? This random desert is full of dragons. Kill. Flares drip ugly as hell. Chespin kill this guy. No one really takes flare seriously minus the power plant guys, but like, that wasn’t slyph co. I don’t think I had to switch except when I was confused. Started live tweeting the experience too. Then came the hunt for Lumiose stylishness. I cheesed it with premiere ball purchases. I tweeted about it a bit and then when I was finally stylish enough my money depleted. It was gone. I finally had drip but at what cost

Ice soup. Bed making, room service, finding glasses all for like $6000 which is like. 60 USD if my yen conversion is right. Do you still get a bug when saving in Lumiose? I didn’t know so I saved outside of it just in case. I transferred everything up to bank, then decided to move everything Back into my moon save for the ultra sun run which will uh… maybe be a thing. IDK. I have zero priorities in between hacks or my main games. It’s been so long since the last update I had to recall what I was doing and where I was lol Outside of me just grinding in the battle mansion for money, there’s not really much reason to revisit any city minus seeing if they have different clothes but I keep screwing that up because I don’t play every day so Idk how the stock is changing. I feel like Cyllage having the bike is the most pointless addition because I have had no reason to use it.

Wait, what number are we on?

Oh, there’s Citron. His gimmick in the anime is alright. I haven’t really watched it recently because… 20 episodes in and it hasn’t hooked me. Maybe the pokemon anime isn’t really something i hold interest in because it’s so formulaic outside of the Kanto-Johto seasons. …i haven’t watched those in over a decade. I’ll consider it during the strategy guide run. I think an interesting part of the dev cycle for pokemon is that BW2 and XY are apparently happening at the same time which means that while kalos is facing a fashion crisis every other gym leader globally was at the world tournament like the exclusionism is as bad as when Kanto and Hoenn had radically different types of technology at the same time. The pokemon timeline is a nightmare and an entirely different discussion. Battle chateau is funny. I’m just over here beating up rich people for their money for clothes. This is like the tonal opposite of that trash run I did for emerald. This entire area is kind of like, all these rich people are here flaunting their money and calling themselves the chosen beautiful ones and here comes bumbleclown from nowhere to humiliate them. It’s such a tonal contrast especially since everyone in this place so far is a nepotism baby or a rich old fart who has zero clue what’s going on with pokemon and I’m the person who only has a mother who everyone knows for Rhyhorn racing and nothing else. Like, these people are definitely not training their pokemon. The only guy I support here is the guy who isn’t rich and just wants vengance. Hitting the rank of Countess, I now decide to go actually progress the plot in Lumiose instead of just robbing rich people. It’s at this point I realize that I might just be stuck with these pokemon as my permanent team because all the additions in Kalos are so boring I might as well challenge myself with this Kalos only team. Flare literally has a cafe here and no one questions it. I’m starting to think that some part of the XY manga was right in the are where nobody wants to poke the status quo so the crimes just happen wherever. I mean, I haven’t read volume 2 but from what I remember from the ending literally no one showed up at the parade in the OG release aside from the professor. It’s a quiz gym! Normally I’d probably want to switch to diggersby since it’s ground but uh. I don’t care. It’s who’s that pokemon. I’m beating up children again.

You could just save scum this too, no one thought of this. I feel incredibly patronized by these baby gym questions, Blaine would never. Goddamn they actually got me with the monkeys Like anyone would actually be able to recognize the monkeys on their first go. It was panpour. Are you ready to take responsibility for your actions I saw him bring out emolga and I outright feared for my life that it would be like elesa’s shit ass emolga and I immediately switched to using avalanche and the fucker has volt switch I’m so stupid I could’ve just used rollout The static procced only after I already beat it

This is the point where in between I give up. I’m over here and Lysandere’s whole fit is a red flag. I’m starting to suspect that Sycamore is hopelessly pining and ignoring every single thing about Lysandere screaming that people are filth and the number of people and pokemon has to be cleansed. Get it together man. No Tierno, counting pokemon in the dex does not count as a battle. Man up. We’re going to the uhhh, scary house. Calem. buddy. Catch more pokemon. There has yet to be a moment where I’ve actually felt like, genuine fear that I could get wiped The only thing scary about the scary house was the guy who tried to charge us. Now we’re in mushroom town and the only thing to do here is be slightly worried about the fact that I have no reliable coverage for fairy types. No i don’t. Chesnaught Sweep. I don’t feel like I’m friends with these kids, it feels like I’m babysitting them. Can someone in this reigon please give me a reason to use more than one pokemon Finally, a double battle in this reigon where it’s just me—CALEM TELEPORTED IN

No notes! I just breezed past the snow town and the cave without any notes The most notable thing that happened was me evolving my pokemon because i was looking for repels and noted that the shiny stone corresponded Okay green guy, you’ve proven yourself to be somewhat notable. I am so frustrated with the rival in this game for having nothing going on Zero swag, only 4 mons, easily swept These gyms are becoming piss easy, I say, and then bunnelby is on the ground dead What the hell. That was the 7th gym??? The back half of X is infuriating me It’s very funny how the game just goes “uh, the plot. Is happening now.” And I’ve been so miffed by how no one has anything remotely decent that I didn’t even realize I’ve done nearly all the gyms within a time span of like 3 hours since I started at 11 and it’s 1 pm ish now. Everything else will be easy then some random ass drapion will take out half the team by itself by using evasion moves Let me tell you that I did not play pokemon X today with the intention of beating it all in one sitting, the plot kinda just stumbled in this direction where I was like “well, let’s see where this goes” And that’s how I felt from the 4th to 7th gym. Things semi look up once I get to victory road but I have uh. Barely any notes to show for it!

I’m kinda waffling on posting back to back.

Last time I posted about Pokespe in the chronicles was in Log 2, I only posted about volume 1. In this edition, I have finished all 6 volumes and the bonus chapter because it turns out that unlike the BW2 arc if the entire thing is finished in a reasonable timespan then there’s no reason to wait for years on end, wow. I’ll never get over the release dates for all the games causing the BW2 arc to be delayed for years by the way. It took 1728 days for Black to be free which was 4 years of waiting in real life time. Doesn’t matter unless I do a BW reading. Time for the Kalos Crew. It’s more image heavy and unfortunately I sure can’t post that about the manga because there’s a bunch of people twirling red flags in kalos and no one seems to actually be paying attention enough to realize things are getting out of hand aside from the kids. Teaming up with PC punks and a bill cameo, how neat! I like how it’s an actual plot point about Y’s mom being the rhyhorn racer and how she became a sky trainer to separate herself from that (even though sky battles are such an exclusive battle style) Grace broke out of jail with the key pokemon which is very cool, too bad it didn’t work. I don’t know what Viz called Y. Probably like… Yvonne or Yvette or something. X was Xavier, I think? I reread up to Volume 3 (the release schedule for this is so weird.) In this volume, team flare shows up again and then it turns out the news is hiding the attack on Vaniville town. Sidenote since these were separate pages on notion: (Did I really just keep rereading it for pacing purposes? That’s silly of me.) Last volume I reread was 2, where I recall Trevor being terrified of lysandere and grace leading all of vaniville town into trying to escape the flare base only to end up captured again. Thing is no one tried to help her when she escaped before. Idk if this volume was the one where shauna tried to use the honedge or not but moving onto volume 3 and 4 now. That was the plan and then once I hit the later chapters I was like “I’m doing it all in one go!”

This is really one hell of a crew in comparison to what happened to the BW side characters. Like the friend group is pulling their weight. X is pajama boy to me and he’s very neat. He just got a gengar who’s an attention hog. It feels like everyone’s actually more proactive here, well, Diantha is compared to whatever she did in the game. I still don’t get how skating is the big thing for the guru’s granddaughter but whatever. Mega evolution is the bond between the trainer and Pokémon, that’s said many times. So now X is getting a team of just mega Pokémon lol. Malva and diantha are fighting. See, in the game, malva shows up in a random cutscene after the poke ball factory and is an elite 4 member you meet after beating flare but this is actually covering that plot point way more about the fact that she’s a flare member who covers up the news. Oh no, Korrinas key stone got stolen. I’m assuming that’s bad. It is immensely bad. She got hospitalized. Some people don’t know of the Emma postgame thing and that’s a shame. I feel like it’s a good plot part of XY. I’m trying not to just be like wow this is so cool over and over again but I feel like everyone doing something is a lot different than just the player doing stuff but that’s the power of changing mediums I guess. I need to not post every panel… but I want to. Pokespe can be hit or miss with some of the later arcs once I moved on past the DPP arc but when it goes it goes hard and XY is night and day compared to the actual story I went through. Is it over the top, yes. Is it needlessly dramatic, yep. Are these children being put into way too many dangerous scenarios? Yes. And it’s kind of incredible. (I use the word incredible way too much in this.) There’s actual visible consequences to what happens because of the weapon firing off with Pinsir and Scyther. Like in the games they don’t let the player see. In the manga, they let you see. It’s at this point I end up just making a play by play and honestly, if it weren’t for the Blaine appearance this could be a great stand alone but you need to get the RGBY arcs to understand why Blaine is tied to mewtwo. Also it’s kind of great how Green is like in his 20s and still shows up wearing his cape. king behavior. I’m impressed because of how fast paced it is and how it’s a consistent story rather than shoving everything plot wise into the last minute. It’s a contrast.

I did this in a period where I just zoomed through this period of the game and wondered if my Pokémon were supposed to already be in their 30s. Game coverage exclusively. In game notes:

(I was complaining about the Kalos roster) I guess XY couldn’t have a big roster because of the fact they had to make every Pokémon in 3D and future proof that We’re doing super training since I can’t get that darn ball in the palace, the grass is in the way. How can you have a library with one book in it. Were Kalos and Unova in the war? Kalos Unova Alola war 3000 years ago? Too bad there’s no BW with megas to make it make sense. Apparently BW2 or it’s mega timeline equivalent takes place at the same time as XY. Oh? So I could walk on the rocks, I just thought they were decoration and went to the other cave. Cave= zubat

It was just a line?! I thought it would be longer and more annoying. The mom counter went up Rhyhorn rides are the prototype to pokerider. It’s a bit slow. Clunky, even. Sky battles are one of the battle gimmicks they had If glittering cave is also a straight line I’ll just be disappointed Boomer voice: it’s not granite cave that’s for sure. Is flash even in this game? It has the same camera thing as Lumiose where it’s a resident evil 3rd person camera What’s shadow claw doing here?! I just noticed there’s no random encounters aside from walking into the shadow circles at the start

Uh oh; team flare! It’s team flare, the most evil Pokémon team for being rich and also French. They’re a complete joke. Team flare is unfortunately very easy to make fun of like galactic and aqua/magma for their motivation being stupid.(up til I learned Aqua/magma was an exaggeration of an event in Japan that was about fishers versus people who lived in the area and wanted to artificially expand an island, but it’s still stupid in terms of Pokémon) In special and the anime, they’re somewhat competent, but I haven’t gotten to that point yet. I’ll spoil something I recall from special. Team flare was made up only of rich and selfish people so lysandere could wipe them all in one sweep. That is never said in game so it’s just like “why is this guy who dislikes greed and jerks making a team of only greedy people and jerks”

Back to the game. Ice is nice, so I took the sail fossil. Too bad amaura gets smacked by everything in the game due to having a 4X weakness, I have never used the dowsing machine/item finder in any game and I likely never will. Finally made it to Cyllege City. The music here is neat sounding. Clothes! Let’s go! Finally, I was starting to go crazy with only two outfits. There’s a cafe you can work at in game but I have yet to find it. Grant the sports guy. Idk how super training works . Ok, having a relicanth is pretty cool but like… how. Aren’t they supposed to be rare. How would a child climb the rock gym, can someone please get protection or something. I know absolutely nothing about grant aside from him being sports oriented. There’s a bit of setup but nothing a good rollout can’t handle. Grant using the two fossils you just got is a neat idea however fairy wind tyrunt. Okay so level 30 was kind of expected since the curve just went up to 40… How has this place not had an osha violation . Benson has become the designated HM friend. Will I be able to beat XY before twitch beats red? Nah, but it’s funny that I picked it up again as soon as they started doing it and now it’s like “I beat grant and they caught Missingno, I’m severely behind.” Gotten to the point where I’m like “it’s probably not a Kalos encounter at all huh.” 1 route only Pokémon runs are fun. Like nuzlockes without the dying aspect. The N route. Route 10: these stones are definitely graves . The funny cat is now a regular cat . Hawlucha is such a fun idea but why is it in Pokémon France. I never got that. Single flare grunt has evolved zubat and nothing else. Eevee is somewhere on route 10 which would be useful if I ever used these stones but I wont .

Did you know? Battle Chateau is pretty much the early game way to farm money. I need those clothes.

No major progress in this one notes wise compared to the next one so it doesn’t get a larger number. Anime and some game coverage, but not enough to warrant calling this 4. Maybe update 6 I’ll go back to reading special again since I made more progress, but with the actual updated chapters instead of the first run. Before I start complaining that the game feels too easy for up to the first badge, I go back to watching the anime for a bit, and this is definitely way out of date because the Pokémon TV project managed to overtake this.



Anime coverage So last time, ash caught a fletching, and I’m here eating this absolutely dubious curry While they have delicious pokemon food (wow, this was like a whole month ago of points, I really fell behind…) How do pokemon look like pikachu in this world like, is it that they evolve to look like the mascots or arceus just decided “let’s make a bunch of pokemon look like this one rat” The dub would not have the pokemon Amie theme playing here, I know that much It’s certainly one of those things that I could leave on as background noise because well, it’s literally a child’s commercial show. I’m not putting my full brain into this. Maybe spending my time on a glorified commercial is not a good way to spend my time when I could watch other shows, so maybe I should stick to only 2 episodes a day. none of the characters have interested me very much. How did ash lose when he has the type advantage? I literally beat this on my first try. Skill issue.

Game Coverage

forgot hordes existed. The biggest challenge I’ve had so far has been a horde of level 5 gulpin because they can all hit. You can go back to regular walking and running with D Pad? You can change Lumiose camera with D pad…? That’s uh. Interesting. Kinda quirky. I’ll change my outfit every save. So it’s back to the default fit since I’m not stylish enough. You do a little hop to switch back to running. Why do you only have one Pokémon, tierno. Corphish isn’t that impressive even if it has swords dance… of course, a guy who only has limited dance moves won’t work well Unless he gets like spinda with teeter dance baton pass or a Pokémon with dragon dance I’m not impressed. What’s the point of a skate park if no one uses it?

I’m not really team building as much as just getting as many XY mons for potential team building here Does trimming the dog change its type? No. It would be pretty interesting if it did though. Camphrier town has one hotel and one man manning the entire thing. Help him. So the castle is empty, apparently snorlax is an important kalosian figure, and Shauna is back. Mega evolution being the big thing is very funny in this run because 1. I have boxed squirtle and will do the same to lucario. 2. No kalos pokemon can mega evolve and im only using kalos pokemon for X. Y is a nuzlocke so it’s different. Also funny for them to make an entire castle and have nothing of worth in it. I went the wrong way and now im doing unpaid Berry labor.

Did you know? Zygarde never got a game but there’s data left over for Pokémon Z in sun and moon. Guess it took a vacation.

Feb 16th

I’ve been sitting on these notes for so long that they’re outdated and I’ve actually just gotten Grant’s badge, so im going to fix that currently. Something I failed to mention was the first battle for X. Well, it was kinda just a standard pokemon battle. Not much to say about it. I’m sure it must’ve been far crazier back then when the next thing was a leap from BW2 to this but my game before this was sun and moon. I’m not impressed, and that’s because I’m missing the context.

Current Game Notes: I’ve provided a list of questions alongside notes that will probably not be answered as I take observations from the starting town to the first badge town. I saw a meme about the rival and now this question keeps coming up. Is the rival a nepotism baby? Am I a nepotism baby? Are the friends just walking tutorials? I know how a Pokémon center works In red they just dumped your child ass into the game with a manual How do I make money for clothes shopping? The great mystery of Kalos. I need to know. I have to try everything. There’s a cafe but I can’t buy anything? I’m not 100% the Pokémon but I will the clothes if possible. Please learn a flying type move — me with this level 9 fletchling Like, peck would be good, I think.

Litleo would be the easy solution to a bug gym but it’s quite boring looking so I don’t want to use it. Imagine if Kalos had reigonal Pokémon divergences like alola added in Having no exp share at the start is weird The mom count went up again thanks to this random girl standing on route 22 A lot of these trainers already have like level 9 Pokémon, that’s a bit strange I suppose I guess the level curve goes down after? I’m beating up kids so I can get nice hats Is the store layout different for boys? Route 22 is right next to victory road. Bizarre. Skates or bikes?

Considering the skates never return… bikes. I’m being too judgemental of a low level common mon but bunnelby kind of sucks because it keeps getting outsped and dying whereas chespin and fletchling are thriving. However, I do need a third mon for Amie so it can stay for now. I went to Serebii and the boys selection of clothes is appalling, but thankfully that makes the purchasing 100% thing far easier on that side. So uh. I have no clue how to get money in the game. Future problem for future post gym me even though im playing semi- daily at snail’s pace. Eventually im just gonna have a free day and accidentally breeze through the entire game

And then I hit the first gym. I guess a bubble puzzle is pretty interesting but like… how do they get out? Chespin is literally weak to bug types and is doing a better job (in reference to bunnelby) Who is building all these fountains that you can’t even take photos of? I had to use my tablet to even attempt to capture the feeling of it, and that’s probably how I’m going to do the rest of the game too. Route 4’s maze thing seems interesting right up til you realize you don’t actually have to interact with anything in it aside from items Oh, hey, I heard the gate theme from that one project voltage video, cool.

Lumiose city sure is a city in 3D. It’s like Castelia but worse. Lumiose City Notes

So you can’t even turn the skates off… great. This is nauseatingly camera focused. I think for what was likely the first 3DS pokemon game for a lot of people it was a good move to have in all of these more familiar mons but at the same time it makes the game feel unremarkable because the whole early game feels like “you like Kanto and Johto, right? Please say yes.” How is there a blackout I see the lights on There’s barely any pokemon from the actual reigon I’m in so far. Also, no night themes. I need money for clothes but I’m not stylish enough. Sucks for me.

Did you know? I don’t have anything interesting for today but if Viola was in Gen 7 she probably would’ve had the insanely buffed leech life

Pokelog (XY) Log 2: A bit of everything Jan 4:

I had a lot more free time one day per the others this week so I kinda just went ham. Pokespe XY Arc, volume 1: Literally all you need to know how this is going to be a wild story is from the first 3 pages. Nowhere else in the pokemon games can you get a story about a depressed child shunning himself in fear of the paparazzi and getting his house blown up within a single chapter. Unlike the first three generations, gen 4 and onward is for the most part self contained with a smidgeon of cameos possibly added in later rereleases. This is probably one of the most standout pokemon stories in general and I know it because when I read this in a group years ago everyone lost their minds. Team flare is actively hunting down this child (X) and friends down for his mega equipment. I’m obviously trying to not read it all in one go and color my version of my XY playthrough but I’m keeping it in mind solely because it utilizes the friend group, which I think they all get dropped in the anime relatively quick, none of them are ash's companions minus Serena and I think I have words to say about her. Like, they clearly have a more notable goal solely because the mission is: Survive.

Pokemon Anime, First 3 Episodes: I’m not sure how I’m structuring the anime still and I only did three episodes because the first two were released as a special. Anime Serena is a fascinating character solely because I haven’t seen anything out of her for years outside of a single scene in regards to her tripping during her contest thing and years of shipping discourse. I do not understand how completely fanatical people get on ships but this might be because I've never been attracted to anyone. Imagining watching the black white anime and this is the follow up and now this ash is the main ash and then we immediately follow up with sun and moon ash, I think people definitely blew up. The subs im using are very funny for deciding to not translate the pokemon names and leave them in Japanese. that’s called an aromatisse. Mega Blaziken is here already, huh. I’m looking into the list of Mega’s available while I watch the anime and going like “are any of these available that aren’t postgame exclusive” and the answer is no. You know, it’s so weird that Ash went with this reporter lady in the Black White Island season from what I remember and then she just leaves, like, I guess it’s better to go with kids. Ash is running around like a little tourist in France. I know for a fact that the dub would not have the actual XY opening theme in there. Oh, so Bonnie speaks in the third person, huh. Froakie is also here. For a first episode, it’s quite chaotic. i like how they made his first battle in Kalos a very exciting moment probably solely because of the horror of him losing to that Snivy in Unova.

My current thoughts are that the Pokemon anime past black/white was very reactive to the trends of the pokemon fanbase (this can extend to the entire franchise.). While one side likes some things more than the other, the original audience will always be prioritized. So, not to bring up new things in yet and mess up the rest of this look, but something to note for gen 7 is that yokai watch was also around during the gen 6 period. This is a surprise tool that will be brought up later. Team Rocket’s been at this for years for this pikachu, when will they stop (How can ash not know about mirror coat, it’s been years). Isn’t this plot moving too fast compared to the games??? Like, they’re already in prism tower… I guess I should probably play some more and find out. Is that Garchomp the same one that Alain used to hang out with?“Kizuna”, I know that word. It means bond. I like how Froakie went and pointed like “those MF’s are sus”. Why did team rocket just have the device on them. Normally they’re just goofy ahhh. Funny. I guess they keep their competence from Black/White (I wasn’t a fan of that.) XY is clearly taking a different tone from the others with the power of child endangerment turned to a maximum. Normally this is the climax of a movie, not 2 episodes into the season. Ash has no reaction to almost dying and had more of a reaction to Froakie throwing a bubble in its face

Back to the Games: So, the very first pokemon I ever see in the wild… its a pidgey. at the very least im glad they didn’t force a tutorial on me first thing. But… does route 2 have any kalos exclusives? Time to grind and see. I saw two! Santalune’s layout is literally just viridian. Now comes the problem of “what Pokémon will i catch that I won’t be allowed to use in my Y nuzlocke run?” Fletchling is very good, but I think it’s also the only flying type for Kalos. No, there is also… the victory road dragon There is also uh… the wrestling bird Maybe I should worry about that later.

This town (the one where you get the starter Pokemon) bothers me because it’s non conventional. They have a center, but they don’t have a PC. They sell balls and potions separately. There’s nothing to this place aside from that one quirk. I’m here thinking if I should buy potions or not because I need money to buy clothes later on lol Santalune forest has two things: Shauna is here to heal you, and the layout itself is viridian forest, and a song that loops for a good 20 seconds and then gets quiet afterwards. Moving on. I’d take a monkey but I’m not allowed to. I’m so sorry, monkey, I said kalos mons only and you are generation five so you must be deleted. Realizing an issue of “I can’t take all the mons from the very start of the game as my gen 6 team, can I…” Like, is scatterbug good? Probably not. Why is caterpie here too. There’s already three bug types. It’s kinda crazy Shauna is here just to be a pokemon center like I couldn’t just walk out or buy more potions. I could not use her but i don’t want to just ditch her

Wow, Pikachu is here. Bye. Shauna really is enthusiastic about helping me and apparently finding random stuff off the ground Calem ran up to me and went like “hey you want balls” and then Shauna asked about my mom again, so I will now add as a tally to people who only care about my characters cool mom. (We’re at like, 4.) Once again there are no kalos pokemon outside of the three I’ve already seen This distribution is woefully unbalanced as I look on serebii just to see that they really have a lot of very thing here a hack that only has kalos mons valuable would make this region very sparse.i stopped looking, but im already imagining there’s a route that has no kalos mons at all I remembered the yarn game from Amie when I played ORAS and I’ve still got it, I got like 300 point on my first run I’m unceremoniously stopping in route 3 because I’m beating up children for their money and 3 is where I will continue… well, not sequentially. It’d be a bit much to do only XY stuff like, every day. That’s excessive.

Did you Know? X is sometimes used in Japanese as Cross, such as in Project X Zone

December 23 Single-handedly probably the strangest purchase I’ve made this year in regards to games, a used copy of Pokémon Y from a game store. No, I don’t know why I did it. I couldn’t even get proper photos because my SD card ran out of room. The person who had the game only bought one outfit and proceeded to use it for the rest of the game. They didn’t beat it with their Kalos starter. It’s probably been in the store since 2014. Who were you, Hengel. Doesn’t matter now though, eventually I’ll delete this save.

Jan 3- Prelude to XY Pokelog: the XY chronicles At some point I lose track of the number on the XY log.

Chronicling all of Pokémon XY and it’s multimedia to see if anything was worthwhile out of the generational cycle as my big project of the year in regards to pokemon. Overview:

The Games: If I count both campaigns for X and Y it should take like 70 hours* (not including postgame *Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are not being counted for this as a heads up, this is XY exclusive content.)

The Manga Arc (Pokespe) 549-595: I know the manga is insane for the XY arc and a reread will also be wild

The… anime?: So I watched a part of it dubbed, decided not to, so I’m watching it subbed (please make official subs real TPCi or TV Tokyo or whoever is in charge of distribution. I cannot sit through the dub versions of the music unless it’s the 4Kids version I’m sorry I’m nostalgia biased but they can’t keep replacing route themes I cannot do that) Anime length: 140 episodes plus the four mega evolution specials plus the 3 movies is a lot of time to invest into this but whatever, I have free time

I wanted to do spinoffs but then I looked at what counted as gen 6 spinoffs.: I just went “wait, that’s too much work, and I really don’t want to play these spin-offs and juggle the other stuff too.” No Rumble World since thats just an F2P game (its so weird it outlived the mobile game which had gen 7).Super Mystery Dungeon (I might do this one, depends on how I feel/How fast I get certain things done) Detective Pikachu (I’m not doing that.) (Maybe I'll watch the movie if it comes to stream.)

Jan 12- 1st Update? Pokelog (XY) Log-1: Everyone wants to hang out with my cool mom:
I had this one saved from yesterday so I’m posting it today. Tomorrow I’ll post what I had for day 2 (which would’ve been today, but it’s tomorrow now.) The power of the 1st campaign, a copy of Pokémon X! (I wish there was a Z...) I literally bought Y but I kept getting put off by the guy whose save file was there like it was haunting the cartridge or something. I’d post a photo of my player character but the photo guy isn’t here yet. I don’t pay attention to YouTubers so I have no clue what the general consensus on XY is outside of my friend circle saying “it was okay.” Also, I was literally 12 years old when the games came out, so there’s no way I’m gonna remember what the hell I was up to a decade ago but it probably wasn’t pokemon X. It was likely Black 2, that one was pretty good. My father recalled that finding a 3DS was apparently difficult as shit back then and also expensive as hell. I’ll believe that. XY’s largest impacts were jumping Pokémon to 3D (with repercussions) and the fairy type (which has been pretty positive). The anime coverage of XY caused multiple people to lose their minds and I think it’s Ash ketchums fault, something about his greninja. I see it in my dreams sometimes. No one has anything to say about my character between the first town and the routes, everyone just wants to talk to my mom. She’s the famous one. Even this random girl wants to say hi to my mom. I’m like 70% guessing Shauna is an orphan because there’s only 3 houses in Vaniville town and two of them are reserved for the player character and the rival. Im in the town where I get the starters and I’m incredibly confused to it all. Why is there a turf war between the pokeball and potion mart. What happened. Where is Phil. When do I get to take photos. log 2 will hopefully have me less confused on it all.

Did you know: Pokemon XY’s plot was apparently supposed to be about alien invasions.