Pokemon OR/AS Impressions

[Conegamer]

Leadified said:

Slade6alpha said:

Also love the amount of legendaries and post game content. My biggest issue with teh game is too many HMs. Like seriously, I hate having to have two whole slots dedicated to HM slaves (Tropius and Tentacruel). You get this item later on (new content), which kills the need to ever use an HM. I just don't get why Nintendo is so hesistent to remove HMs and do what that item does instead. 

I wish they'd also include a higher difficulty, but that's not the biggest deal for me in the end. Overall, I'm enjoying the 3rd gen much more than what I remembered. 

Edit: What was your issue with the EXP share? 

About the Battle Frontier... 
I heard it's not included :(

Yeah HMs seem to be a bit of a problem. I skipped over Black and White so I was pleasantly suprised when they buffed TMs for X and Y, I wish they would do the similar change for HMs, in this case allowing you to overwrite them automatically since most of them are pretty terrible.

There's always Nuzlocke challenges at least, although I get a little too attached to my Pokemon xD.

What I don't really like about the EXP Share is my team always feels rather overpowered. I can see where they are coming from, it cuts down on grinding quite a bit. Personally I feel it removes a bit of the strategy of choosing which Pokemon to train or which to give the EXP share to to be ready for the next gym, but that's just me.

You can always turn off Exp Share, that's what I've done to keep the challenge really.

In general I'm enjoying it, the DexNav is neat and the AreaNav useful, the new sneak mechanic I'd say is pretty cool, and wonder trading six random Pokemon and doing an online battle is still immensely fun. Sure, I'm only a couple hours in but it's still fun!