{"id":2300,"date":"2020-11-27T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2020-09-25T21:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T03:22:47","slug":"video-game-pokemon-x-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/27\/video-game-pokemon-x-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Pok\u00e9mon X (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/8\/85\/PokemonXBoxart.jpg\/220px-PokemonXBoxart.jpg\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon X\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\">Pok\u00e9mon X<br>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2013<br>\nRating: E<br>\nTime Played: 36.37 hours<\/p>\n<p>When I finally bought a 3DS, one of the games I had missed (that I quickly rectified) was <em>Pok\u00e9mon X<\/em>. I appreciated all the legendary Pok\u00e9mon given out as part of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Generation 1 games. Still, I didn\u2019t get around to playing through this game until after <em>Pok\u00e9mon Sun<\/em> came out. For the first game in the series to be fully 3D, I certainly enjoyed the look and polish of it, even if the stereoscopic abilities of the 3DS weren\u2019t used as much as they should have been. After all, with everything rendered with 3D visuals, I want the full game to use the ability of the hardware to display in 3D.<\/p>\n<p>After playing the much more difficult Generation 5 games, I did enjoy how much easier they made <em>Pok\u00e9mon X<\/em>. Granted, they kind of overdid it with the sharp drop in difficulty. Still, I also think they were trying to regain the younger audience to the franchise after people like me grew up and grew out of it (although, obviously not entirely out of it). Plus, I liked the new Mega Evolution mechanic in this game and was sorely disappointed when most of the items used for Mega Evolution were locked in the post-game.<\/p>\n<p>I forgave a lot when playing this game, just by the very nature of its stunning visuals. Even if it was easy, it was gorgeous to look at. Unfortunately, partly because it was so easy, I found no reason to stick around for the post-game. Even if I could have eventually found the Mega Evolution stones and caught Mewtwo, I read through what to do to accomplish this, and it seemed like such a hassle\u2014especially when I had other games to play.<\/p>\n<p>A fantastic jump into 3D at the cost of difficulty, I give <em>Pok\u00e9mon X<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\"><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BMW-the-Critic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BMW-the-Critic.jpg 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BMW-the-Critic-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BMW-the-Critic-768x292.jpg 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BMW-the-Critic-640x244.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon X Year: 2013 Rating: E Time Played: 36.37 hours When I finally bought a 3DS, one of the games I had missed (that I quickly rectified) was Pok\u00e9mon X. I appreciated all the legendary Pok\u00e9mon given out as part of the 20th anniversary of the Generation 1 games. Still, I didn\u2019t get around to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1900],"tags":[121,2237,2543,2186,2382,1867,2540,2541,8,906,2542],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-video-game","tag-121","tag-3ds","tag-generation-vi","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-3ds","tag-pokemon","tag-pokemon-x","tag-pokemon-y","tag-review","tag-video-game","tag-x-and-y"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}