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So, a little backstory of my gaming adventure, I started this game almost the day it came out (not sure why the file was started 6 days after it came out, I was sure I bought it the day it came out, but whatever!) from the first route I ended up spending literally (not figuratively!) over 100 hours doing nothing but wonder trading as I kept trying to catch pokemon who all had the correct nature and wanted to do something worthwhile with the ones I didn't want, but also because I thought wonder trading was absolutely the coolest feature pokemon had ever produced so I just kept trading and trading and before I knew it, I had spent over 100 hours before attempting my first gym!
I kept going through each route trying (for a ridiculous amount of time) to catch each pokemon with the correct nature (I already knew about IVs and breeding and such, but I wanted to start things off with at least the correct nature) and not even knowing about synchronize, nevermind not being far enough to catch any pokemon with the ability, you can imagine this took an insane amount of time. On top of that, every time I caught a pokemon with the correct nature I super trained each and every one one by one (not nearly far enough to do horde training yet) so that just added more time.
Well I got that habit down pretty well, until the day I finally came across route 7 where I could finally start breeding and that's when I went online and found out about synchronize, the Destiny Knot and Everstone, the berry fields and the Friend Safari. SO I went about from that day forward asking people on Pokecommunity to trade me berries and Friend Safari pokemon to which I would trade pokemon I bred myself and other things that I was able to get, and there were some truly awesome people on these boards that helped me out tremendously so thank you very very much! Not to mention saving absolutely every single pokemon from Wonder Trade I didn't already have and saved them for future breeding.
At that point however, after I started breeding, I realized it was going to take a very long time so I didn't want to get through the entire game and THEN start breeding everything, so instead used Serebii to find every single unobtainable and Friend Safari exclusive pokemon in the game and then just guessed where they would naturally be in Kalos based on other similar pokemon that are there naturally (and I did a pretty good job if I do say so myself, based on what moves my guesses had in common with the natural pokemon, as well as when ORAS came out, how pokemon I grouped together were grouped together in those games as well) and after I mapped out all the locations I wanted, I then continued on in my game.
Each route I came across I caught every single pokemon that could be caught in that route, traded my version exclusive for the other version exclusive where applicable thanks to the GTS, and then bred perfect versions (perfect IVs, Nature, ability, egg moves, etc) of every single pokemon from that route (including the unobtainables and Friend Safari pokemon) hatched them on said route (cause having them all hatched in Lumiose would be boring, so I hatched them where their natural habitat was) and EV trained them all and levelled them up to the correct level based on my location and level of next gym leader one by one (I did start horde training up to 5 at a time though as soon as I was able to find locations for all 6 stats) and then when I was finally done with one route, I moved onto the next and so on and on like that for the entire duration of the game.
One thing I did find was that I was routinely under levelled because I only levelled them up to the same level or slightly under of the next gym leader so the game as a whole I found to be not super challenging, but it wasn't so easy that it got boring or anything. It was just right I found.
So anyway, I did this same formula for the entire game and two years later, as of yesterday evening, I finally finished Pokemon X and Y! with all possible pokemon perfectly IV bred, with the exception of the fossil pokemon in Glittering Cave because those were not obtainable until AFTER the game was finished, but those are literally the ONLY pokemon I have left to get. Here is my trainer card to prove that it did take me this long, lol!
![[PokeCommunity.com] Finally finished after two and a half years!](https://postimg.org/image/kt6axjhlb/ "[PokeCommunity.com] Finally finished after two and a half years!")
And I only just today started the Battle Maison, and haven't even gotten to Lumiose to upgrade my mega ring, get the Pokeradar or even attempt the Looker missions, so there is still a lot for me to do yet.
Which brings me to the point of this long, long post. People complaining about the game being too short. Now, obviously as I proved, the game is literally as long as you want it to be, and me having every single perfectly bred pokemon (except for the fossils) all levelled up and ready for battle is a big time commitment and definitely adds to the playability of the game, but having done all that and finished the game, there is still plenty of post game stuff to do. And yes, after you do all that, there's nothing else to do, fair point, HOWEVER, in ORAS once you finish the Delta Emerald episode, there's nothign else to do. Once you beat the Battle Frontier, there's nothing else to do. No matter how much post game stuff there is to do, once you do it all, there's nothing else to do, so I don't get the complaints about there not being a lot of post game stuff in X and Y because no matter what, once you'd done everything, there's nothing else to do. There was enough stuff in X and Y to keep me occupied for literally 2 and a half years (Sadly, with very little time to revel in it though, since Sun and Moon will be out at Christmas, lol! I just hope to god there's not much difference in egg moves for existing pokemon so I don't have to rebreed everything all over again!) and I still have fossil pokemon to catch now, not to mention the mega stones and Battle MAision to, if for nothing else, to get the rest of the TMS. I finished ORAS in a few weeks I think and did literally everything possible in that time (except catching elgendaries because since a lot were day specific, took much more time to get) and I still went back to X and Y with the myriad of stuff to do.
All in all, I am very very pleased with what they did with X and Y, and I'm sad that I finished just in time for a ton of new pokemon to show up rather than just taking a break from it because I was "done" with the game (as in finished and did everything that you could do, not giving it up) and honestly, I don't think there is anything more I would want from the game.
I kept going through each route trying (for a ridiculous amount of time) to catch each pokemon with the correct nature (I already knew about IVs and breeding and such, but I wanted to start things off with at least the correct nature) and not even knowing about synchronize, nevermind not being far enough to catch any pokemon with the ability, you can imagine this took an insane amount of time. On top of that, every time I caught a pokemon with the correct nature I super trained each and every one one by one (not nearly far enough to do horde training yet) so that just added more time.
Well I got that habit down pretty well, until the day I finally came across route 7 where I could finally start breeding and that's when I went online and found out about synchronize, the Destiny Knot and Everstone, the berry fields and the Friend Safari. SO I went about from that day forward asking people on Pokecommunity to trade me berries and Friend Safari pokemon to which I would trade pokemon I bred myself and other things that I was able to get, and there were some truly awesome people on these boards that helped me out tremendously so thank you very very much! Not to mention saving absolutely every single pokemon from Wonder Trade I didn't already have and saved them for future breeding.
At that point however, after I started breeding, I realized it was going to take a very long time so I didn't want to get through the entire game and THEN start breeding everything, so instead used Serebii to find every single unobtainable and Friend Safari exclusive pokemon in the game and then just guessed where they would naturally be in Kalos based on other similar pokemon that are there naturally (and I did a pretty good job if I do say so myself, based on what moves my guesses had in common with the natural pokemon, as well as when ORAS came out, how pokemon I grouped together were grouped together in those games as well) and after I mapped out all the locations I wanted, I then continued on in my game.
Each route I came across I caught every single pokemon that could be caught in that route, traded my version exclusive for the other version exclusive where applicable thanks to the GTS, and then bred perfect versions (perfect IVs, Nature, ability, egg moves, etc) of every single pokemon from that route (including the unobtainables and Friend Safari pokemon) hatched them on said route (cause having them all hatched in Lumiose would be boring, so I hatched them where their natural habitat was) and EV trained them all and levelled them up to the correct level based on my location and level of next gym leader one by one (I did start horde training up to 5 at a time though as soon as I was able to find locations for all 6 stats) and then when I was finally done with one route, I moved onto the next and so on and on like that for the entire duration of the game.
One thing I did find was that I was routinely under levelled because I only levelled them up to the same level or slightly under of the next gym leader so the game as a whole I found to be not super challenging, but it wasn't so easy that it got boring or anything. It was just right I found.
So anyway, I did this same formula for the entire game and two years later, as of yesterday evening, I finally finished Pokemon X and Y! with all possible pokemon perfectly IV bred, with the exception of the fossil pokemon in Glittering Cave because those were not obtainable until AFTER the game was finished, but those are literally the ONLY pokemon I have left to get. Here is my trainer card to prove that it did take me this long, lol!
And I only just today started the Battle Maison, and haven't even gotten to Lumiose to upgrade my mega ring, get the Pokeradar or even attempt the Looker missions, so there is still a lot for me to do yet.
Which brings me to the point of this long, long post. People complaining about the game being too short. Now, obviously as I proved, the game is literally as long as you want it to be, and me having every single perfectly bred pokemon (except for the fossils) all levelled up and ready for battle is a big time commitment and definitely adds to the playability of the game, but having done all that and finished the game, there is still plenty of post game stuff to do. And yes, after you do all that, there's nothing else to do, fair point, HOWEVER, in ORAS once you finish the Delta Emerald episode, there's nothign else to do. Once you beat the Battle Frontier, there's nothing else to do. No matter how much post game stuff there is to do, once you do it all, there's nothing else to do, so I don't get the complaints about there not being a lot of post game stuff in X and Y because no matter what, once you'd done everything, there's nothing else to do. There was enough stuff in X and Y to keep me occupied for literally 2 and a half years (Sadly, with very little time to revel in it though, since Sun and Moon will be out at Christmas, lol! I just hope to god there's not much difference in egg moves for existing pokemon so I don't have to rebreed everything all over again!) and I still have fossil pokemon to catch now, not to mention the mega stones and Battle MAision to, if for nothing else, to get the rest of the TMS. I finished ORAS in a few weeks I think and did literally everything possible in that time (except catching elgendaries because since a lot were day specific, took much more time to get) and I still went back to X and Y with the myriad of stuff to do.
All in all, I am very very pleased with what they did with X and Y, and I'm sad that I finished just in time for a ton of new pokemon to show up rather than just taking a break from it because I was "done" with the game (as in finished and did everything that you could do, not giving it up) and honestly, I don't think there is anything more I would want from the game.
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