AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Yeah, it's like the first few gyms take FOREVER, then the last few happen all at once.

Just do what I did and get bloated on levels and cheddar from the Battle Chateau.

XY felt like after you beat Lysandre it kind of lost steam.

Welp, Korrina's down and I got the Mega Ring. Also thank Christ Helioptile can learn Surf.

I've got seven gym badges under my belt, and my current team is Delphox, Pangoro, Doublade, Florges, Heliolisk, and Dragalge. Just waiting to get that Dusk Stone and everybody will have evolved fully.

Also OH MY GOD TEAM FLARE IS SO FUCKING DUMB. JESUS.

"Oh hey I'm Lysandre, I'm the boss of Team Flare, I'm going to destroy all life in Kalos, but you'll never find my totally well-hidden secret base!"

I WONDER IF IT'S IN THE FUCKING CAFE THAT WAS ALREADY ESTABLISHED THAT YOU RUN. AND IT'S PAINTED RED. AND THERE'S A GODDAMN GRUNT JUST OUTSIDE.

OH WAIT NEVER MIND MY IDIOT RIVAL JUST TOLD ME TO GO THERE ANYWAY.

"Oh hey it's me Lysandre again, you'll never catch me, and by the way, one of my scientists has the elevator key!"

OH GOD I WONDER WHAT I HAVE TO DO NOW.

"Tee hee, I'm a Team Flare scientist, ooh, there are two warp panels, I'm gonna be all mysterious and try to make you wonder which one to take!"

Well, daisies, what a puzzle, maybe I should JUST FUCKING TRY THEM BOTH. OH SHIT. THAT REALLY REQUIRED EVERY OUNCE OF MY BRAIN POWER.

Jesus christ, how did these people ever get off the ground?

Don't even get me started on the stupid friends the game makes you travel with.

Can I please just have fun without being told exactly what to do, game? Please? Just once?

XY's plot was a giant fucking mess and easily win's the award for Worst in the series.

Somehow Winchesters sig made that post about 50 times more hilarious. (The one with the angry sniper playing guitar)

I actually really liked X and Y's plot

When I see talk about how X/Y or B/W had terrible plots, I like to remind people that Generation 1, 2, and 3 had barely any plot whatsoever, and gen 4 had only a little plot, they added a plot to keep the game more interesting, and I give them props for wanting to focus on a plot for the more matured trainers to have a jolly from, I'm personally one of the few that likes Gen 5's plot over X/Y's plot(allthough I love X/Y's plot for its own reasons, dat ending)

I think X/Y's plot was pretty weak in a lot of places, but it had some decent points here and there from what I recall. They certainly weren't the worst-written games to come out last year.

I'm not criticizing everything about X/Y's plot, the stuff about the Pokemon War is pretty interesting. It's just....god daisies....Team Flare is so stupid.

Also I just caught Yveltal and Lysandre killed himself with the ultimate weapon. Way to go, you fucking clod.

Edit: Also, the hand-holding in this game got pretty old after....hmm....yeah, the first time it happened.

Actually B/W's plot is my favorite and is overall the best put-together in the main series.

A lot of my AUGH for XY stems from the fact that there was so much wasted potential. There were a lot of really interesting themes and stories that were presented (AZ and what he did for example), but everything ended up being completely wasted on terrible characters and a terrible plot. Almost everyone was stupid and pointless (the rivals and Sycamore), the plot was difficult to keep track of, and it couldn't decide if we were supposed to take Team Flare seriously or not.

And honestly I felt like a lot of the themes, as interesting as they were, weren't really the sort that could be done appropriately in a Pokemon game, at least not yet. Discussion on war, genocide, resources, etc. aren't really the sort of thing the writers over at GameFreak have proven themselves to be adept at handling for a series that's supposed to be accessible to everyone, everywhere. They've been better at writing stories that focus on relationships, such as B/W and XY's post-game story with Looker, Emma, and Mimi. Dark, large-scale themes is where the writing often seems to fall apart.

idk I'm really tired right now and I tried to put my thoughts down as best as I could but I'll probably still regret this. XY just gets me so

FUCK THE INVERSE GUY DESTROYED ME.

I remember the days when I traversed that supoer long route east of Mauville.

Let me tell you, who needs a plot when you get to fight trainers and make your way out in the wild as a kid?

Still my favorite route too. I loved all the wildlife and little spots to check out, and the places to fish for Feebas. Hoo, so many good memories XD

the really stupid thing I saw about it was lysandre going full super villain in front of sycamore and him just being like "oh that's so ambitious" and I'm sitting there like "this guy is so obviously evil that I don't know if sycamore is just that dumb or if he's in denial"

I'd like to think it was the latter

That man is brutal. He's still fun to fight, though.