General

I've been playing Pokémon Y and I'm still on my first run since the release, as I'm taking it all slow.

Personally, I feel that the game play is a bit faster than the other games, but it could just be me.

Sadly, I had to stop for a bit as I've been searching for a paper I had of Pokémon that I would like to EV/IV train and I can barely remember what Natures I wanted for each of them.

The game's been fun though and I'm hoping to see some huge downloadable contents after the release of Pokémon Bank.

Here's my Friend Code, but I won't really be on until the release of Bravely Default. XD

Friend Code: 0919-9924-4570.

I have yet to reach the Friend Safari part, so I won't be of much help for folks.

Pokemon Bank is live... but only for Japan, Europe, Australia and New Zealand so far.

Ive added your Friend Code Mine is 0404-6611-4133

PokeBank is now available for North Americans!! I've already been using it, it was out February 5th here.

A new legendary Pokemon, Diancie (Rock/Fairy) is due to be released soon. It's said to be a sudden transformation of Carbink, hence the many similarities. It will also star along with Yveltal (and possibly Xerneas) in the new movie 'The Cocoon of Destruction & Diancie'.





Also if you want to see what over 50,000 people playing a game of Pokemon Red/Blue together is like, have a look here:

twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

Basically everyone gets to type in something out of a/b/up/down/left/right/start/select into the chat, and a bot inputs it into the game. I think they've managed to get into Celadon City after a few days. Also they keep selecting the Helix Fossil for some reason which is making people a little nuts and start worshipping it.

This being one of the results: askhelixfossil.com/

Whether they'll be able to make it to the end of the game given various ledges and screwing up Strength-moving boulder puzzles remains to be seen.

Yup, and over 70,000 people are playing now. They're on Cinnabar Island at this time of writing with 7 of the badges so far. Also Pidgeot is Bird Jesus, the Helix Fossil has been revived and Lord Helix the Omanyte is in his rightful place in the party, and the Dome Fossil's representative within the party was Flareon the False Prophet, showing Flareon still can't get a break any time, anywhere.

Also an anarchy vs democracy mode was added which works by votes on it's own. Anarchy works as originally planned by listening to all inputs, democracy means the game will only listen to moves chosen by the majority of players in an attempt to make it through some of the mazes without screwing up horribly with ease. They also managed to release 12 Pokemon in one recent day, it being known as Bloody Sunday.

An article on it: joystiq.com/2014/02/22/twitch-plays-pokemon-its-history-highlights-and-bird-jesus/

And a document that archives the current progress: sites.google.com/site/twitchplayspokemonstatus/

Two updates from Serebii; one for a promotion where you can get a free download of Pokemon X or Y in the US in March, and another noting the conclusion of online services for Pokemon DS and Wii games in May.


(actually if you haven't registered your 3DS/2DS already, you probably wouldn't need to buy a new one, just get one of the games and register)

More news about a Boutique Discount Coupon that's about to run out:

Also Twitch Plays Pokemon has concluded it's stream.

digitalspy.com.au/gaming/news/a554787/twitch-plays-pokemon-completes-pokemon-red-after-16-days.html


Final battles also shown here:

Actually X and Y make you to pick one of the original three starter Pokemon (Bulbasaur/Charmander/Squirtle) shortly after beating the first gym which is a nice touch, so if one hates the new Pokemon you could just replace your new starter with one of the original trio lol.



Santalune Forest is pretty much identical in Pokemon content (Weedle/Caterpie/Pikachu/etc), placing (comes before the first gym) and design to Viridian Forest on purpose, probably for that reason too, as well as Pidgey, Psyduck and Farfetch'd showing up in the near vicinity too, with Abra, Doduo, Oddish and Snorlax showing up not long after. Could probably easily go through the game with a team made of Gen 1 Pokemon overall. There's plenty scattered throughout the game.