Series of Games Pokemon – One of the most specific in the industry. Her fans sacredly believe that this is the best that happened to humanity after the invention of the wheel. However, no less people who do not want to penetrate the aesthetics of Japanese animation find only a boring gameplay and a meaningless plot here. The reason for the next debate appeared after access to Nintendo 3DS Pokemon X And Pokemon Y. Two projects are, in essence, two versions of one game that differ only in a set of monsters.
On the other bell tower
In a uninitiated person, to put it mildly, bewilderment about everything that happens on the console screen. Two girls come to the main character – a child of kindergarten age and immediately involve him in a very strange enterprise: let’s go, they say, to walk around the world, measure with Pokemon! Mom gives the child a blessing and with a light heart lets it on all four sides.
What is happening next is surprising no less. The main character wanders through some forest, making his way through thick bushes, from which a huge turtle attacks him. After a couple of steps – again the bushes, from where the mutated canary crawls out. Three steps through – what would you think? – bushes with an ambush of an evil hamster. And it seems that the vegetation ends, the main character exhales calmly, but a tourist standing in a pose and pronounces something in the spirit of “when two coaches of Pokemon meets, they cannot help but measure Pokemon”. And sets a dinosaur on us.
Then it turns out that almost all the inhabitants in this world are Pokemon coaches, and fifty percent of its area is covered with ill -wishers. And everything would be fine, but the combat system does not cause particularly vivid emotions. In step-by-step mode, we choose one of the abilities that our pet will attack the enemy, get the reverse “plus” and repeat the procedure until someone has a green strip of health. Animization of movements in total takes a considerable amount of time. And since the space of the game world is replete with bushes and fanatical coaches of Pokemon, the prospect of passing becomes very joyless ..
Do not go to a foreign monastery
The real fan of the series will grin in the face of the author of such superficial judgments. Pokemon X and Y It was made in the best traditions of the series, the plot tie corresponds to the canons – it only gives the player to start the study of the huge and complete adventure of the world.
The developers have created a completely new Kalos area with their own architecture and culture, as a whole resembling the environment of the European nobility of the New Age: all kinds of palaces, paintings in pathos frames, residents in specific robes. Dialogs with NPC are spelled out very carefully: people are ready to provide us with interesting information, give an additional task or just give a useful item. All sorts of optional fun are waiting for every
corner – for example, our hero will allow us to remove their own advertising video, after which the inhabitants of which will begin to recognize him more often.
The advantages of the combat system are also visible for the connoisseur of the universe. It will not be possible to advance with one ward, albeit well “pumped”, you need to collect a universal detachment for all occasions, because, for example, water Pokemon will easily deal with fiery. This finds the charm of the game – in the creation of unique combinations of detachments, in the purposeful development of skills and the supply of pets with the most necessary objects and potions.
Megravolution
But the main source of joy is, of course, collecting Pokemon. “Gather them all” – probably the main life goal of the game fan. Some types of monsters are often found, others rarely. A huge number of mutated animals from the sixth generation live in the vastness of the world – they are responsible for the emergence of a new Fairy line in a difficult table of the interaction of elements.
Creatures jumping out of the bushes can be used not only as a source of experience – they are allowed to tame and make them part of their team. The only thing that is somewhat confuses is the lack of access to information about the combat characteristics of Pokemon during fights. It is very difficult to remember which types of creatures are most profitable in this situation. It is intuitive that you can guess that a fire blow will make a very painful the being of ice;but what will be the result if you attack the mental skill of a ghost Pokemon?
There are completely new air battles for the series, in which only winged individuals can participate. The “megaevolution” was also an interesting innovation. All pets, upon reaching a certain level, change their appearance, but some of them know how to do this during the fight, which affects their characteristics. Such an elite includes, for example, Charizard and Venusavr. In a new state, the animals will begin to apply increased damage, which can fundamentally change the course of the battle.
Pokemon gain experience, gain new skills, evolve and transform. All this happens before our eyes, and gradually begin to feel attachment and responsibility for your pets. Understanding that the monster you have naked significantly surpasses its relatives and distributes the “Crete” to the right and left out of love for its master, fills with pride.
By the way, to spend dozens and hundreds of battles in order to “pump” each member of his group, now there is no need. Our hero acquired an artifact, allowing to share the gained experience between all Pokemon – who did not even participate in battle. Therefore, on the plot path there will be no impassable places requiring an additional “pharma”.
A new Pokemon dress
The Nintendo 3DS platform has brought many new sensations and opportunities for fans of the series. Thanks to the lower screen, we can improve the individual Pokemon parameters, playing in peculiar mini-games: to break a pear or shoot into huge balloons. The same display is responsible for the social component of the project – it displays a list of your friends with whom you can interact. Send a proposal to exchange Pokemon or challenging a comrade is now not forbidden right during the passage of a single campaign. It is in network fights that your true skill and knowledge of all aspects of the combat system will manifest itself.
And of course, for fans the fact of the visual transformation of the project will become joyful. Yes, Pokemon X and Y – The first game made in 3D. Our pets are completely three -dimensional, perfectly drawn, and during the fights fighters stand out using the stereoscopic effect of the console. In this wonderful, worked out both graphically and substantial world passing, which can drag on for more than a hundred hours, flies out completely.
Pokemon games are a whole tradition within the industry, with established values and with its own quality criteria. And a new creation Game Freak – A real gift for fans of the series. However, even users unfamiliar with this universe X and y can captivate the entertaining world and a complex system of interaction of elements. We will ask you not to throw someone else’s garden with stones and not fall to cynical criticism.
Pros: big and interesting world;sixth generation of Pokemon;Convenient interface.
Cons: high entry threshold for beginners.