Pokemon Generation 6 is Coming!!!

So it was announced via live stream that Pokemon generation 6 will becoming to us all (for the first time ever) in October this year.  Initially I was excited about hearing of this announcement as so I watched the English version on the guardian.co.uk. After roughly 8 minutes of anticipation and the history of the pokemon games it was finally announced that Pokemon X and Y will be released towards the end of this year.

Watching the trailer I noticed some immediate differences between this up-and-coming title and its predecessors. First of all 'X' and 'Y' will be on the 3DS and there appears to be a lot of graphical changes to the gameplay, especially with the pokemon battles, in this new instalment  With the increased power of the 3DS compared to its previous formats, pokemon battles now appear to have a more animated feel, actually moving when attacking and dodging, similar to Pokemon Colosseum. With that said however, the trailer shows that this generation of Pokemon seem to have a more cartoonish feel to it which may put some people off.

Another addition with the 3D element is actually whilst you are roaming around. It appears that the player will have more of a eye-level view of the pokemon world when you travel across the routes, through the towns and cities, caves and across the oceans which I personally believe will immerse the gamer even more. Saying this, and from speaking to other people who told me where to find the announcement, as a group we feel that it is a big change to Pokemon and some feel that it could be losing its identity. For 15 years (17 if you're from Japan) Pokemon has had roughly the same birds-eye-view that we have grown up with although obviously there has been some graphic updates which was definitely necessary to help grow to be the phenomenon that it is. With the introduction of a fully 3D environment and player some people may find that nostalgia may get in the way when trying to determine whether or not it will actually be a good game or ,if they believe, Gamefreak and Nintendo are just trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of the pokemon franchise. Anyway enough of that, onto the starters.

It was revealed in the announcement what the three  starter Pokemon will be; Chespin (grass-type), Froakie (water-type) and Fennekin (fire-type). From first glance I have to say that I'm not impressed  with Chespin. Nothing about it shouts grass type to me other than its little green crown. saying this however, I am kind of excited to see what it involves to, probably (and hopefully) into something that looks epic. Although my feeling about Chespin isn't great at the moment, I do however like the other 2 starters. Froakie is your typical water type pokemon which GameFreak usually do well for each generation. Fennekin looks impressive already as a starter making me want to know what the fire-fox involves into at later stages of the game. These aren't the only new pokemon that were revealed in the trailer however, we get legendaries.

Towards the end of the trailer we get a brief glimpse at the two each showing symbolises with their respective games. the bird in the shape of the 'Y' and the many antlers on the blue deer represent the 'X' for its game. From the brief glimpse we got the legends, in my mind, look pretty impressive. Personally I think think that they are the best looking ones in a long time (excluding the black/white kyurem of course). These Pokemon will probably be an essential in any trainers team when facing the new Elite 4.

This concludes my little piece on the new Pokemon announcement. Hopefully it will be as good as Black 2 and White 2 that was only released last year. What do you think? Drop a comment below and express your thoughts.

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Pokemon and Digimon, the same thing?

So no one can argue that Pokemon has one of the biggest fan bases of all time whether you are a fan of the Anime, Manga, games or just everything, you would expect that Pokemon would be classed as one of the best things ever, which in my opinion it is. However you cannot count Digimon out . Yes. the fan base is a lot smaller than that of Pokemon and the series isn't still going but please just take a moment to realise how awesome it truly was.

Starters 
To start with I'm going to look at the similarities and differences of Pokemon and Digimon when it comes to the starter partners that each character in both series has. With both Pokemon and Digimon you get a starter whether it's Ash's Pikachu or Tai's Agumon, everybody in both series has one. The difference is that in Pokemon you have the option to collect more Pokemon and add them to your team (which most people do) where as in Digimon you stick with your digital monster throughout and you both remain loyal to each other. Although both seem to be loyal to their trainers/friends, Digimon seem to be more determined in protecting their partners from any incoming danger, defending their human counterpart willingly compared to Pokemon who are made to be battled.

Evolution
Whether Pokemon evolve into something awesome such as Magikarp to Gyarados or Feebas to Milotic the evolution in pokemon is effectively always better for the trainer.  Also the permanent change ensures that the trainers pokemon is the best it can be (not including EV training). The difference with Digimon is that the effects aren't permanent and they return to their original state after battle. 
Another difference between the two series is the amount of evolutions Pokemon or Digimon can have. Discounting Eevee, Pokemon have a maximum of three stages of evolution. An example of this is Bulbasaur evolves into Ivysaur and Ivysaur evolves into Venasaur. This is not the case however since Digimon can have a number of evolutions along with the digi-egg evolutions as well. The picture below will show you all of the possible stages of Agumon.


Attacks
When attacking an opponent, Pokemon can have a variety of moves (limited to 4 moves in the game) at their disposal in order to beat their rival where as Digimon appear to be limited to one, maybe two, moves per evolution. Although they have very little variety in the offence that they use, Digimon appear not to suffer from type disadvantages where as Pokemon do. So an example of this is if a Gyrados used thunder against Gabumon, it would do now more damage than if it used Hydro Pump which would put Digimon at an advantage if the two series went to war (which would be awesome :3)

So as you can see from reading this blog is that Pokemon and Digimon are definitely not the same thing, even if one or two have similar looking monsters in their arsenal they are totally different which makes it more enjoyable for fan of either series or especially both.

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The Ultimate Question in Pokemon

Which starter should I choose? At the moment I've just started playing Pokemon Soul Silver and faced with the very tough decision of which started to choose. If I choose Chikorita it is only really  effective against a couple of gym leader Pokemon let alone the whole Gym leaders team. The first two gym leaders, Falkner and Bugsy there is a disadvantage for the grass type starter as it is has a weakness to flying type pokemon and grass attacks aren't very effective against bug type Pokemon. The grass type pokemon is also not effective against the steel type pokemon of Jasmine ( the 6th Gym leader)

Next there is Cyndaquil. Effective against Bugsy, Jasmine and Pryce's Piloswine. The only real disadvantage that the fire starter has against the gym leaders is Pryce's Seel and Dewgong as well as Claire's dragon team. But seeing as these are the 7th and 8th Gym leaders it is likely that I will have a decent electric type pokemon to help me through.

Finally there is Totodile. The little water type pokemon which eventually evolves into Feraligatr, the best looking starter evolution out of all 5 generations (well on par with Charizard). Totodile will struggle against the 2nd,  7 th and 8 th gym leaders and maybe Jasmine the 6 th Gym leader as well. Although Jasmine is a steel gym leader she does have to Magnemites which are bound to electric moves which will be super effective against Totodile.

So these are my concerns, really not sure what to go with so please help me choose!!! comment below if you have your choice and maybe be awesome and subscribe? :D