All the new Megas being revealed in pre-release material is quite disappointing. Like, I feel that they could have SERIOUSLY used a theme like that for X and Y's gym leader battle instead of having reject F-Zero GX/Wipeout music. I will say that the Battle theme for Zinnia is REALLY good, though. Don't tell me that asking for such arrangements is unreasonable, because one need only look at the World Tournament from Black 2/White 2 to see that they will re-arrange music from every generation without hesitation. Particular disappointments include Route 113, the Aqua/Magma leader fight theme, and the lack of arrangements for the various legendary pokemon shoehorned in. Yeah, it's a better soundtrack than X and Y, but I feel X and Y probably have the weakest soundtrack of any Pokemon game. the trumpets feel more muted and reserved. I was expecting much the same for OR/AS, but. Heart Gold/Soul Silver took a really bombastic and manic approach to it's music, going so completely all out to make all the tunes epic and awesome. I personally feel the soundtrack is lazy after giving it a listen. Why then, can we not send those new stones, have access to Kyogre, Groudon, or Rayquaza's new moves, or put Cosplay Pikachu's models back into X and Y? what if I like having a customized trainer? what if I like level grinding in Battle Resturants? This absolutley baffles me, especially considering Mega Latios and Mega Latias' models are buried inside X and Y's code! isn't it absurd that you can't have Mega Diancie in X and Y? This bullet point alone is the reason I chose to watch LPs and read Serebii instead of shelling out for the Pokemon Tax. There's a number of Mega Stones that must be sent from X and Y to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire for those old Mega pokemon to be available in the new versions. The fact that this Engine is pretty much the same thing makes it especially appaling that they couldn't be bothered to take that extra step and give Pokemon X and Y one more patch to bring last year's releases some peerity with these releases. This game still chugs terribly if 3D is engaged, and 3D is limited, just as in X and Y. The crippling lack of updates to the engine. the improvements to lightningrod and the Light ball that came in 5th gen would be GREAT with some of these moves if they were permanent editions to Pikachu's movepool, but they aren't. Cosplay Pikachu on the whole is disappointing, just as Surfing Pikachu's lack of transfer-ability. Cosplay Pikachu absolutely breaks the Pokemon Contest system in the exact same way that early game Latios/Latias and the EXP share breaks the single player experience. Really wish we would have gotten something crazy like Boomburst or Play Rough tutor. While the proliferation of Electroweb as a new entry hazard is quite awesome (Because we needed another reason to run Rotom-W), this has been the least enticing set of Move Tutor Moves since their inception in Generation 3, which is a real shame. Move Tutors are in in spite of the lack of a battle frontier, but there is exactly one move it offers over move tutors in previous generations, particularly Black 2/White 2.
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