I love that they added a large supporting cast in this generation. Black and White had it right, where you had two friends at the beginning and each of you got a starter. However, the problem I am seeing with having such a large supporting cast at the beginning, with five total including the player character, is the starter distribution. Obviously you will get one, and your neighbor, the character who is the opposite gender player character as you, will get one, but, who else gets one? And what about the other two characteres? The way I see it, you and your neighbor will get one, and if I had to guess the character who compares their Pokedex with yours will get the other starter. But then, what of the other two? I'd guess that if this regions Proffesor is giving all 5 characters a Pokemon, one will be an Eevee, what with the new Fairy type eeveelution and all, and that the other character will have either some random Pokemon they got from the wild, or the Proffesor will give them a more rare and hard to obtain Pokemon. Or I could be wrong and all 4 other characters already have a Pokemon, since it has been revealed that the start is like the start of the 3re gen games, where you are the new kid moving into town. This is all speculation though.