Okay, so it's the last week before we get Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, the most highly anticipated pokmon games of all time. After a bit of drama earlier in the week, with someone getting their hands on the games early, it's suddenly hit that calm before the storm. It is now is taking ages to get here. Although, I'm curios about that guy getting the game early, if it's all bug free, and ready boxed and sent to stores, why are we still waiting for one more week to past!! Come on, Nintendo!!
However I know what you're thinking. How can I be this old and like pokemon. Firstly, age is just a stupid thing to bring into it. There's plenty of older people that play pokemon. Secondly, the game has a lot of strategy, and tactics to it too.
So let's start with the basics of the game. This world is a lot like our own world, except it has creatures known as pokemon living along side us. (Pokemon comes from the words "Pocket" and "Monster") Lots of pokemon exist in the wild, but now and again, Pokemon will befriend people, or people catch pokemon in devices called Pokeballs, and tame them.
Some people who befriend pokemon are trainers. These trainer use pokemon for battling (which actually seems barbaric thinking about it, but I'm sure the pokemon would easily refuse to battle if they wanted to.). To battle you need to understand some basic points about pokemon.
Firstly, there are roughly 695 different types of Pokemon, and these Pokemon are broken down into eighteen types. These types are Normal, Water, Ice, Fire, Grass, Electric, Ground, Rock, Steel, Bug, Flying, Fighting, Psychic, Dark, Ghost, Poison, Fairy, And finally, Dragon. These types are important to matches, because they usually dictate who's going to win. Battles are pretty much like huge games of Rock, Paper, Scissors. If your opponent has a rock, you need to use paper to win, pokemon is pretty much the same.
One of the easiest examples to use are Water, Fire, and Grass. Water is strong against Fires, but Weak to Grass (Grass soaks up water.), Fire is strong against Grass, but weak to water, and Grass is strong against Water, and weak to fire. However because pokemon has eighteen types, you can imagine it's a complicated ordeal. Thankfully, most of it is logical. Another example is Rock types break wings of flying types, flying types can dive bomb fighting types, and fighting types smash rocks types. Also, it make matters even more fun, some pokemon have two types instead of one. Giving more weaknesses, but also covering some weaknesses.
As pokemon learn how to battle, they gain experience, as you get more experience, you gain levels (like most RPG's, and likewise you'll gain more attacks), when some pokemon reach a certain level, or requirement (such as being happy, or given a certain item) they can change into a completely new pokemon, who'll be stronger and before. This is called "Evolution.". The stronger your pokemon are the better chance you have at winning, even if you have the weaker type pokemon!
Now to make our jobs even more fun, you can't carry more than SIX pokemon at a time. That's Six out of six hundred plus! Very difficult job, but to me that's one of the best part of any pokemon game. The fact I can switch between so many pokemon, and each pokemon battles differently, it can feel like a whole new game. Well, okay maybe not a whole new game, but it gives you a lot of options.
Each game is part of a generation. Each Generation adds new pokemon, a new part of the pokemon world, new lore, new bad guys (because what game isn't complete without an evil team taking over the world,), and general shenanigans. The basic story for each game is roughly the same. You start in the hometown, you get give a choice of starter pokemon (a grass type, a water type, or a fire type) from the regions professor (who will always be named after a tree!), you'll be asked to fill up a pokedex (a pokemon diary, that tells you all about the different pokemon as you see, and if you've caught them or not), you'll be told that you're a good trainer and should try out to became a pokmon champion trainer. To do that you need to visit eight towns and visit special pokemon gyms. Each gym is based one on of the many types of pokemon, and all gym members, and the gym leader will have only those types of pokemon. Once you have gained eight badges of proof of beating the gyms, you get to take on the Elite Four, who once again, specialize in one type of pokemon. Then you face the current champion, defeat the champion to win the game. During your travels, you'll defeat an evil team trying to rule the world, or ruin it completely. See legendary pokemon, which according to many people inside the game are fictional, and have a chance to catch them. You also have options to take part in numerous other side quests from beauty contests, to appearing in films.
One of the most unusual parts of the pokemon series is connectivity with other games, and players. You can trade pokemon with friends, or battle them to see which of you is better!
Of course, next week holds a new game coming out, a start to the sixth generation of pokemon games, they're adding quite a few new stuff. Of course new region and new pokemon are a give, but this is the first time since the second generation, that we are getting a new type. This is the Fairy type, which could also pass as a magic or fae type. They added this to balance out the type advantage and disavantages, and the idea behind it is extremely well thought out. We also now know that some pokemon can Mega evolve, which only last until the battle is going, then they'll go back to the previous form, which should add some interesting twists.
What other surprises are instore for us in pokemon, is something we have to wait and see. It nearly got spoiled on Tuesday, when someone got hold of the X game. They were posting photos of their playthrough, highlighting, and some interesting infomation. (Which I won't go into, but I'm happy to have seen the route map for the new region.) However I've decided apart from my starter pokemon (Fennekin, for the win!), I shall not decide on my team before hand, I'll try every new pokemon out as I find them.
But rest assured, next week Friday, when I have the game in my claws, Disgaea, GTA V, and every other game, is going on the back bench for a while....along with most of my social life, because everyone knows....I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was, to catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause. I will travel across the land, searching far and wide.....
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