Pokemon X and Y: 10 Years Later with Danny from Retro Wars, Saitama's Video Game Bookstore

[00:00:00] Welcome to Tokyo Game Life, a Tokyo-based video game podcast focusing on Nintendo and

[00:00:13] gaming culture in Japan's capital.

[00:00:16] Your host Mono here to bring you a slice of gaming life from Tokyo.

[00:00:20] We are closing in on the 10 year anniversary of Pokemon X and Y so I brought on a special

[00:00:25] guest Danny from the Retro Wars podcast to travel with me back to Kalos.

[00:00:30] The game's history, its ups and downs, the fascinating legacy, the best Pokemon all will

[00:00:35] be covered as we return to Game Freaks' first foray into 3D.

[00:00:40] For the feature, we're heading outside of Tokyo to the neighboring site of our prefecture

[00:00:44] to check out Suzu Mei publishing antique book club, a store dedicated to selling video game

[00:00:48] books.

[00:00:49] I'll tell you about my trip and what to look out for when buying video game books in Japan.

[00:00:54] And as always, wrap up with a bit of news including a lot of Nintendo collaborations right

[00:00:58] here in Japan.

[00:00:59] Let's get into Pokemon X and Y's 10 year anniversary with Danny from the Retro Wars podcast.

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[00:01:15] Today in the game section we are celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Pokemon X and Y.

[00:01:20] Since October 12, 2013, it heralded the start of Generation 6 of Pokemon and was a major

[00:01:26] milestone in the franchise as a transition to fully 3D graphics.

[00:01:30] Joining me to dig into everything about this landmark title from Game Freak is a special

[00:01:34] guest so guest please introduce yourself.

[00:01:43] Thanks for joining me.

[00:01:44] Before we get into X and Y what's your history with the Pokemon franchise in general?

[00:01:49] I am a gen winner.

[00:01:51] That's what you were describing me as.

[00:01:53] I have been there since day dot ever since the Pokemon franchise came out.

[00:01:58] I got Pokemon Blue.

[00:01:59] I've still got my original copies of Pokemon Blue, Red and Yellow.

[00:02:03] Still have them to this day.

[00:02:05] Any time a Pokemon game comes out, I have bought them and at one stage I was one of the

[00:02:11] best in the UK at Pokemon officially.

[00:02:14] Officially one of the best in the UK.

[00:02:16] Alright well let's start at the beginning for X and Y January 8th, 2013.

[00:02:21] Nintendo held a special Pokemon Direct before they were called Pokemon Presents and it was

[00:02:26] hosted by the late great Satoru Iwata.

[00:02:29] It announced Pokemon X and Y foreign into no 3DS.

[00:02:32] Development started in 2010 and it was the last Pokemon game directed by Junichi Masuda.

[00:02:37] They showed off some gameplay, they showed off the starters, legendaries and the release date.

[00:02:42] It would come out worldwide in October.

[00:02:45] Though to be fair some countries were excluded but Japan, US, Europe and Australia all had

[00:02:50] the same date.

[00:02:51] Before this it would take months or even years before a Pokemon game would leave Japan.

[00:02:56] What was your reaction to hearing that Pokemon would have a worldwide release?

[00:03:01] It was interesting that it was going to happen because if you go back to even Generation

[00:03:05] 1.

[00:03:06] So when Generation 1 came out we were all getting excited for it and it was like wow what's

[00:03:10] this?

[00:03:11] This is Pokemon never even seen it before and even in the first episode of the anime Hoho

[00:03:16] we were like what the fudge is that?

[00:03:18] However for those who didn't know Japan were basically already about to hit Gen 2.

[00:03:23] We were like what?

[00:03:24] We were what?

[00:03:25] What's Gen 2 so we were so far behind the trend and it remained that way for so long and

[00:03:31] finally I think they realized okay, this console this where we are now with the 3DS

[00:03:37] we are at a stage now where this is worldwide.

[00:03:40] This can't be left alone, it has to come out day-to-day and also for the fact that the

[00:03:45] internet had got a lot better.

[00:03:48] Spoilers were going to be out in seconds so I don't think they wanted people to be spoiled

[00:03:53] hence why I think they will know it needs to come out now worldwide which I was so happy

[00:03:57] with, I was so happy it was a worldwide release.

[00:04:00] Brilliant.

[00:04:01] Yeah this is definitely around the time when Nintendo kind of shifted to other games having

[00:04:05] a worldwide release and I do remember the days of going to seribi.net when a Pokemon

[00:04:10] game came out in Japan and it would just be random info and like these weird transliterations

[00:04:15] of their names from Japanese so have it day-and-date as Japan was a really big deal that I think

[00:04:23] a lot of youngsters don't realize they take you for granted now.

[00:04:27] I look back at Seribi now and think of all the work that the guy runs at Joe has to do

[00:04:31] like a net Joe.

[00:04:32] Awesome.

[00:04:33] I met him there at a competition and I was like I just shook his hand away do you know

[00:04:38] what mate?

[00:04:39] I know you never met but thank you for everything you've done.

[00:04:42] I don't think he probably does realize but all the work he does and oh my how he does

[00:04:47] it I don't know.

[00:04:48] He's literally the Pokemon man, it's crazy.

[00:04:52] So Pokemon X and Y it was the first Pokemon RPG developed by Game Freak to use full 3D

[00:04:57] models as opposed to the sprite based look of the past games.

[00:05:00] What did you think about the transition of the actual Pokemon models from sprites to 3D

[00:05:05] models?

[00:05:06] Oh I thought two things.

[00:05:08] Okay so at first I was happy because I'm like okay great Nintendo need to go down this

[00:05:14] or Game Freak need to go down this route it's been so long to fact that way you know on

[00:05:18] the 3DS was still using the 4D and now we can get 8D or whatever direction it was like

[00:05:23] fantastic we needed that so so long and to see all our Pokemon now full 3D fantastic it's

[00:05:28] great it's like I've got Pokemon Colosseum or Pokemon Stadium in my hand it looks that

[00:05:34] good but at the same time I thought to myself oh well that's the case we're never getting

[00:05:39] Pokemon Stadium again I'll wait for that that's dead and I was like I like Pokemon Stadium

[00:05:44] so it was a bittersweet pill really.

[00:05:46] Yes a bit of a background on these models they are created by creatures with the intention

[00:05:51] of them being future proof meaning that they could be imported into future games and not

[00:05:56] just XY for example Sun and Moon Pokemon go and let's go uses these same models for

[00:06:02] example.

[00:06:03] So does that in the field?

[00:06:04] Yes definitely they've been using it for yeah over a decade now it's kind of hard to

[00:06:08] think about but creatures also made a special development branch called Pokemon CG Studio

[00:06:14] specifically to handle their creation to me this is one of the while moments of the game

[00:06:18] much like Pokemon Stadium like you said there is a novelty in seeing these sprites rendered

[00:06:23] in full 3D some Pokemon really stand out after making the transition like Spinda he stumbles

[00:06:28] around in kind of a funny way and a lot of the flying Pokemon are mid flight.

[00:06:33] Yeah one 3D model that really sticks out for me is love disc because I never thought of it

[00:06:38] being so thick but again part of the fun is seeing the Pokemon in 3D and then you learn

[00:06:45] something new about them were there any specific 3D models that stood out for you?

[00:06:50] Oh look seeing the big 3 was always great to see charizard blast within Venusaur for me.

[00:06:56] I think seeing Pokemon like Gaurados fully actually like wow that's what it's like in the

[00:07:00] anime that looks absolutely cool that looks absolutely amazing.

[00:07:04] I think really I was taken aback by the mega evolutions because they were all brand new like

[00:07:10] we've seen you know Venusaur charizard blast toys we've seen on Pokemon Stadium Colosseum

[00:07:14] etc but to now see all these new ones come out I was like okay seeing them flying consistent

[00:07:20] as like oh this looks so good. My little mind couldn't take it that how good some of these

[00:07:27] Pokemon looking 3D like mega agron oh god just outrageously good like sickening good.

[00:07:35] Yeah a major calling card of Pokemon x and y is the introduction of mega evolutions

[00:07:40] usable once per battle these transform specific Pokemon into super forms giving them a stat boost

[00:07:45] and sometimes changing their typing or abilities for example charizard x went from fire flying to

[00:07:51] fire dragon what did you think about the introduction of mega Pokemon game changing absolutely

[00:07:58] game changing I it they basically I think they looked at Digimon and often gone right time

[00:08:03] to really steal the Digimon trend I said no we're gonna pinch that completely it was like no it's

[00:08:08] our idea you didn't know not you did you manage to tell our idea to line but it changed the VGCC

[00:08:15] and dramatically because competitively you you doubles that's how it's been for a long time right

[00:08:21] and some of these Pokemon it basically allows some Pokemon who you'd never ever play ever

[00:08:27] becoming literally staples okay so pincer god mega pincer was incredible but you're never

[00:08:33] gonna use that in double battles you just won'ts but then you've got Pokemon or the main ones

[00:08:38] you'd want to use were mega more wild that saw usage what okay you never thought you'd see that

[00:08:44] before then you've got Pokemon mega locario you'd never thought you'd see that maybe not maybe

[00:08:49] locario but the one that got the most usage and above anyone was Kangas Khan yes oh my god

[00:08:56] mega Kangas Khan was broken I don't know how much broken you really knew it was but that thing had

[00:09:02] to get nerfed when it gone through generation seven there was so powerful they had to nerf it

[00:09:09] yeah mega evolution really distort the trend of okay this gen will have a temporary battle gimmick

[00:09:14] that gives your Pokemon crazy powers which we didn't see before and after this we got Z moves

[00:09:19] then gigantic max then terror types so xy it really is the start of modern Pokemon games in a way

[00:09:25] yeah out of all the things I listed I definitely think mega Pokemon is the most fun

[00:09:30] it has a much more distinct impact on battles for example mega Venusaur gives it a completely

[00:09:37] new ability that prevents fire and ice attacks from being super effective so this completely forces

[00:09:42] the opponent to change their strategy they can no longer just use an ice attack on Venusaur to

[00:09:47] knock it out it's way more cerebral and if your opponent has multiple Pokemon that can turn into

[00:09:53] mega Pokemon well which one is it going to be you need to stay on your toes but sometimes though

[00:09:59] just because it's mega doesn't make it better and so a Pokemon like Venusaur you mentioned yes

[00:10:06] it can become mega Venusaur however competitively you'd rather keep it as Venusaur because it has

[00:10:14] the ability carofil which on the sunlight it gains double its speed and then who has automatic

[00:10:20] sun when they come out mega charizard why so those two teams together were incredible

[00:10:25] garados you would never use mega garados never never never it was water dark and its move

[00:10:32] was mold breaker which was terrible so you lose the intimidate although some of them had it

[00:10:38] doesn't necessarily mean better and therefore that was quite interesting because it basically means

[00:10:43] that okay just because you've got it doesn't mean you can you should use it it's an option but

[00:10:49] it's not always going to be the go-to and I love that I really did yeah especially like you said before

[00:10:55] charizard and Venusaur if you have them both on your team the opponent might not know exactly which

[00:11:00] one is the mega Pokemon I'm sure if they battle that combo time and time again they probably figured

[00:11:05] it out but there is some sort of mind games with it I remember my team on x and y I use Venusaur

[00:11:11] I use hair across and maybe some other Pokemon that could mega evolve so it was kind of like oh

[00:11:17] trying to trick my opponent a bit they don't know which one I'm going to toss out and even

[00:11:21] which one has mega Pokemon abilities and a lot of the designs they look really crazy maybe too

[00:11:28] crazy but I think they did a great job in conveying what could be the next step for these fully evolved

[00:11:33] Pokemon but admittedly it was pretty broken not all Pokemon were created equally mega king is con

[00:11:40] like you said before and also I feel mega gingar was also very very powerful yes and we definitely

[00:11:47] got way too many especially when omega ruby and alpha sapphire came out but I thought it was

[00:11:51] really fun and created battle gimmick oh I love wake up mega ruby and alpha sapphire when that

[00:11:57] came out I was like please just give me more mega please give me more mega and oh my god they did

[00:12:02] and when it's so slow but I was getting a mega it's like oh please go call me see we looks like

[00:12:07] I was like oh he looks poo but everybody else like again some of them were just incredible to

[00:12:11] see mega salamansters became amazing mega ray quasi is my favorite looking Pokemon of all time it's

[00:12:19] just oh put that in the shiny form in black it's just heaven heaven on earth and I was quite sad to

[00:12:27] meet me into generation six and we got the Z moves I was like oh it's boring I don't want to see

[00:12:32] moves I wanted I want them to change appearance someone to look cool comes look different so when

[00:12:37] they did it in fair of a generation eight I was loving it I was like yay the animax they all look

[00:12:41] different and I think I love it when they can change Pokemon's appearance I just think that is so

[00:12:46] cool I wish they'd do it every time now mega evolutions have been kind of phased out but maybe

[00:12:52] x-wise biggest contribution to the pokemon series as a whole are the fairy pokemon it was the first

[00:12:58] new type since golden silver and we haven't had a new type since no what's your feeling on fairy

[00:13:03] pokemon at first when they first did the scene they were again so overpowered because you had

[00:13:10] god of all hair was now it was a fairy types you had Sylveon who was the evy fairy the mega for

[00:13:18] this game or like the box uber was Yevaton Zernius Zernius was so broken so broken in competitive play

[00:13:27] like if it used its ability once and you didn't have anything to counter it you'd lost you just

[00:13:33] straight lost so I think it took a while for them to actually get the balance right because there

[00:13:38] wasn't enough poison types to really go against right although there was the mega gengar gengar

[00:13:45] still in trouble for some of its other abilities and it just it took a while for them to get that

[00:13:49] balance right but I love the fact they brought a new typing I'm still surprised they've not brought

[00:13:53] another new typing but maybe they think you know we've got to the stage now 18 types that's

[00:13:58] probably enough otherwise it's gonna be too chaotic and maybe that they brought in the fairy type

[00:14:05] can I just put them balancing things to give dark types and other weakness you know and give

[00:14:10] fighting types and other weakness just balance it out a little bit and yeah I think should it ever

[00:14:15] change no I think we've got enough types now I think you've you pretty much covered everything I don't

[00:14:20] know what they would do so increase it further yeah it felt like they were implemented kind of

[00:14:25] as a counter to dragon pokemon which were really dominating the competitive scene especially in

[00:14:29] gen 5 there are just so many prominent dragon pokemon and by making fairy pokemon not only super

[00:14:35] effective against dragon pokemon but making them completely immune to dragon attacks definitely

[00:14:40] through a wrench into the era of dragon dominance and some pokemon were retconned to be fairy like jiggly

[00:14:46] and kalfari which makes sense because it has fairy in its name I really do love that there is

[00:14:52] basically a section for cute pink pokemon although not all of them are pink and I'm a huge fan of

[00:14:58] Sylveon both is design and using it in the game yeah and speaking of new pokemon this game has some

[00:15:05] infamously I suppose the number of new pokemon is quite low there are 72 new creatures with three

[00:15:11] of them being mythical so only 69 new pokemon in the main game what did you think about introducing

[00:15:17] such a low number of new pokemon in this generation I think they were going back again to generation one

[00:15:23] was like right okay what can we bring in you know the fact they were breaking mega evolution means

[00:15:27] they can heavily rely on Venus or charizard and blastoists you know you rely on your past to

[00:15:34] bring in a lot of people because we all know how the marketing can go quite well towards that

[00:15:38] I wasn't too fuss with having 71 pokemon I always think 100 is a good number yeah because you think

[00:15:45] you don't want to poison the world too much because if you have way too many but if you do basically

[00:15:50] what they did in generation five that was a huge shock for generation five because in that game

[00:15:56] it predominantly all of it when you poke them on right which was like what I'm not used to this

[00:16:03] so it was a big shot I think people are like okay we're doing a brand new system brand new technology

[00:16:09] it's gonna change the gameplay let's just let's just calm it down a little bit and I didn't mind

[00:16:13] that the ones they brought in some of them were absolute bangers some of them were fantastic so I was

[00:16:17] like yeah you can have that that's fine I think hearing that there was only 70 new pokemon at first

[00:16:22] it was kind of shocking ideally you know you want as many as possible and I think at least 100 new

[00:16:28] pokemon is ingrained in a lot of people they just want to pass that magic number but I do think

[00:16:33] this game marks the shift in game freaks design philosophy for the pokemon they made sure that every

[00:16:39] pokemon has a gimmick or some very notable characteristic either in terms of unique typing

[00:16:45] or new ability or signature move or form change there aren't really any filler pokemon there's

[00:16:51] nobody like lumineon or aloma molla or something because all the pokemon in gen 6 they have something

[00:16:59] going on yeah for example the villain you've got the gimmick of the wing pattern to be indifferent

[00:17:03] based on a variety of factors ages slash he only knows four moves but they all work in tandem

[00:17:09] with each other and many are exclusive to that pokemon in k and malamar are the only dark psychic

[00:17:15] type pokemon and you can see this design philosophy on focusing on uniqueness over quantity in the later

[00:17:21] generations as well yeah I really love the gen 6 pokemon I think many have incredible designs

[00:17:27] you've got your cool guys like graninja and talent flame you've got tarantrum which is a t-rex

[00:17:32] hallucia which is a lucha libre bird ghost pumpkins a shrimp whose claw is a rocket launcher

[00:17:38] what are your favorite gen 6 pokemon you mentioned taaransom oh my god i love taaransom i love t-rex

[00:17:44] i often get called the t-rex because i've got stompy little arms and stompy little legs considering

[00:17:48] them 6.3 i love silveon i think silveon i go wish tarantrum i go back to i wish that thing

[00:17:56] was more competitively viable because i absolutely love it some of them like was it oh goodre

[00:18:01] love goodre goodre is fantastic ages slash what a gimmick ages slash has yes love it

[00:18:09] graninja you can't go or graninja was so good literally as soon as i saw graninja i just started

[00:18:16] throwing money in intendo i was like take it take all my money now you have won because you've made

[00:18:22] a ninja pokemon and i want you but i think yeah i literally look at them and go right who don't

[00:18:27] want in my team tyran sum was definitely in there silveon was definitely in there graninja and

[00:18:31] goodre were in there who else did i pick i'll probably write you could always pick right you

[00:18:37] always have a right to and that's like can't because right is my favorite pokemon so always

[00:18:41] goes along with me second who else did i take with me probably was squirtle i imagine because you

[00:18:48] get given one so yeah i think it would have been squirtle would have been my extra one because

[00:18:52] it was that was my first ever starter yes it's probably those two came along with the ride

[00:18:57] yeah another cool thing about the game is that you do get the gen 1 pokemon as a gift

[00:19:01] but who was your starter for x and y oh it was i was graninja it's definitely was so down

[00:19:08] i've been water every single generation apart from sun and moon i'll always go water

[00:19:15] we haven't touched on calos yet the setting of the game this is the first pokemon game to be set

[00:19:19] in quote unquote europe as calos is heavily inspired by france some landmarks include lumio city

[00:19:25] which is the hub city that can be fully explored in 3d and not just with a specific fixed camera

[00:19:31] there's a lot of places inspired by french history so you've got a lot of castles and palaces

[00:19:36] there's a very luxury type of feel to it and there's plenty of caves and looks to find as well

[00:19:41] what do you think of calos as a region loved it i thought calos was great it was a big big step for

[00:19:47] the fact yet it was based in france and it was a fully 3d pokemon game so the pressure to get this

[00:19:54] right was absolutely immense but i thought they did it really well i can know you people can say oh

[00:19:59] is this the best that game free can do i don't really care about that i you know i'm not

[00:20:04] call me an apologist because a lot of people in the pokemon community may say that they could do

[00:20:07] better but do you know what i had such a fun time going through calos i like the places i could

[00:20:12] go see i love the iful tower-esque in lumio city i love dola i thought the environments were

[00:20:19] good fun and you know it basically do i think omega red and alpha sapphire better yes in the sense

[00:20:25] of like i still prefer their environments but again they'd had it as a second time to play with the

[00:20:30] engine but i thought this for a first attempt of all this is a great great starter i thought it's

[00:20:36] a great go not not the characters but i like the world i really enjoyed the world it was good

[00:20:42] it does kind of mimic you know a bit in that traversal is basically kind of a big circle

[00:20:47] once you get to lumio city there are different paths you can go to but you will visually run into a

[00:20:52] dead end but it has a bit more freedom than you'd expect but compared to you know i think calos

[00:20:57] is much more diverse in terms of biomes and the aesthetic design is a bit more cohesive though

[00:21:02] i'm not sure why the snowy area is at the bottom i think you've got to put that at the top that's

[00:21:07] just how people's minds work you want to say let's not have a mind f i agree with hot definitely

[00:21:13] and the roots have a lot of alternate paths and there's a ton of useful things to find when exploring

[00:21:17] for example there's a house you can find that have inverse battles another new feature where all

[00:21:22] the type of advantages are opposite of each other and these fun little side things you can discover

[00:21:27] in the overworld make calos really exciting to explore and i think calos maybe has the best gyms

[00:21:33] in the series it really was the last game to have traditional gyms

[00:21:38] and they did a great job in making each one seem creative the bug gym has you bouncing on spiderwebs

[00:21:43] there's a rock climbing gym where you need to ascend a mountain one gym is a quiz show another one

[00:21:50] is a dollhouse and you warp between the rooms i think a lot of people kind of got tired of the gym

[00:21:55] formula which is why game for you get straight away from it in these past few games and the idea

[00:22:01] of entering a building and doing a mini dungeon has kind of been deemphasized but i think jim six does

[00:22:06] a great job in showing how gyms can be interesting and why they were a staple for so long see i love gyms

[00:22:13] i have love gyms and i will literally go to like a gladiator arena and fight everyone who disagrees

[00:22:19] i i think they should stay like yes let's be honest what they did next they went to sun and moon

[00:22:24] oh go get the ingredients because i want to make some food oh like this is your show so i'm going

[00:22:30] to be very nice but if this was my show i'd be effing and blinded all day long

[00:22:35] i should ridiculous make me some food no poo i don't want to make i want to go a gym battle i love

[00:22:42] my gyms like and then you got in skull and violet are you gonna do a bit of a challenge i know

[00:22:47] it's not a scuba and sword and shield you and scull and violet they did the same thing you're

[00:22:51] going to do little challenges no give me a gym at all i want is a gym i don't want you to test

[00:22:57] the limits of your hardware i just want a traditional gym just give me that is that so much to ask for

[00:23:02] like it's literally putting on a comfy pair of shoes walking into the water gym and going right

[00:23:07] i know i'm getting here not this go do a side quest thing that's gonna you know a you play

[00:23:13] salt scarlet and violet it's gonna make the Nintendo switch suddenly have a heart attack because

[00:23:17] you can't process everything on the screen at once just give me a gym and i'm happy is that too much

[00:23:22] to ask for really i understand why they kind of moved away from it because like you said before

[00:23:27] their trials and sun and moon on paper they seem you know quite different and you have the

[00:23:32] cool idea of one battles which is kind of unique but i think you know the window dressing around

[00:23:37] as not as exciting as doing a gym which is kind of like a small mini dungeon yeah i don't i get

[00:23:44] the token part token bottles are a good idea add them in just put them in along with side of gym

[00:23:49] bottle like oh you face three trainers now you've got to face it now you've got to do it i would be

[00:23:54] up for that just add it in be great but no they've got to ruin everything another element i've got

[00:24:00] to touch on is the pss the player search system this is the main gadget for the game and through here

[00:24:06] you can access the gts battle spot and new features i wonder trade where you can trade for a random

[00:24:11] pokemon and opowers which give boost to other players you can also see which of your friends are

[00:24:17] online and there are passerby's which are other people online who are in the same area as you

[00:24:23] displayed on the bottom screen how did you feel about the pss i thought it was a good opportunity to

[00:24:28] play around with the you know the online systems i didn't use any of the opowers that wasn't my

[00:24:33] thing mind game again i need to trade with somebody okay we can easily get this set up i need to

[00:24:38] want to play a battle with somebody okay we can easily get this set up i loved it like i've looked

[00:24:43] when ever since generation four where you've been able to play online into the people this has been

[00:24:47] that important thing for me i like matchmaking playing online it's got to be well it's got to be

[00:24:52] and you know it's not perfect but it's decent i didn't mind it i thought i can still get matches

[00:24:58] i can and for me it's being able to trade with other people and getting it done properly that is the

[00:25:03] thing yes we had like the online trading system where it's like i want to i want to peek at you

[00:25:09] okay what you want for i want to mute you too yeah okay that's not happening but i didn't really

[00:25:15] get involved in that i was involved in chat rooms and stuff where you could actually get and

[00:25:19] organize the trade properly and it works so well and that's how i eventually started you know

[00:25:24] getting to know people more in the competitive scene fruit through actually having the chat

[00:25:29] off the game but then in a year we are to play on the game was the best way of doing it definitely

[00:25:33] increase my awareness into what's out there really i say this without hyperbole i think this is

[00:25:38] the best online system pokemon has ever had and they've just been taking massive steps back since

[00:25:44] you could clearly see which of your friends were online because they were displayed on the bottom

[00:25:48] screen and the fact that you could just click on another random person in the same area as you

[00:25:53] in order to trade in battle makes it feel like you're playing a pokemon mmo so i always say that x

[00:25:59] and y is a secret pokemon mmo i would often get random requests to battle which was just so exciting

[00:26:05] because it felt like they spotted me on the field yeah things like opowers which are passive buffs that

[00:26:11] just help people it's kind of ahead of its time in terms of asynchronous multiplayer i also love

[00:26:17] that you could just access the gts which has been stripped out of the main games now we could access

[00:26:21] it anywhere and i really feel like they should have built upon the pss instead of trying something

[00:26:27] completely new for the other generations and through the pss you could access super training did

[00:26:33] you mess with super training at all i'm trying to think no i don't think i played around with super

[00:26:39] training because i think there were other ways to do it and i went oh that was it no i did it

[00:26:44] through mass because they had like basically you could find five pokemon at once yes the horde

[00:26:50] battle yeah that's how i did it that's how you ev train properly baby you do it through that not

[00:26:55] through super training yet do it through that yeah super training was technically slower than

[00:27:01] horde battles or the quote unquote normal weight to ev train but it did give people who haven't really

[00:27:07] messed with competitive pokemon kind of a different way or more accessible way the manage evs and

[00:27:13] things like that so listeners if you don't know what super training was it's basically an alternative

[00:27:18] way to ev train outside of normal pokemon battles it made it much more manageable to grind for

[00:27:24] specific evs and there were a lot of items that you could earn in the training mode to help adjust

[00:27:29] your pokemon stats i think the mini games are pretty fun and the items you got like one that just

[00:27:34] completely cleared all your evs was really really useful very and it really helped me get into

[00:27:40] competitive battling this generation and there are some other useful tools to help people get into

[00:27:45] more serious comp battling like destiny not being able to transfer your ivs to baby pokemon

[00:27:52] is still way too annoying complicated to make a real competitive team for me even today but the

[00:27:57] new additions really helped a lot yeah i think when it comes to competitive training they were trying

[00:28:02] to work out and better get better systems to make this process smoother and a lot there's

[00:28:11] there's basically a continuing online debate about whether you should basically clone pokemon or

[00:28:16] gen them or make them yourself i'm kind of now swayed to allowing somebody to gen pokemon for me

[00:28:23] because i don't have the time anymore because i am literally a family man with a full-time job

[00:28:29] and there is absolutely no chance i have the time to be doing all that and when it because

[00:28:32] statistically it will give you no numerical advantage at all it gives you nothing but it was still a

[00:28:39] long process back then to try and ev train something from start to finish because yes you have to do

[00:28:45] all the breeding and then when you get the one you want then you need to start going and put it

[00:28:49] through its paces and oh it took so long oh the amount of hours i used to spend the amount of

[00:28:56] grinding i used to do literally pull my poor deep hat on my consoles and no chances of i have

[00:29:03] they really didn't some other small stuff there's horde battles which we mentioned before where you

[00:29:07] can fight five pokemon at once and it was quite awesome even though it made your 3ds run at maybe

[00:29:12] five frames per second and there were sky battles that could only be fought with flying pokemon

[00:29:17] yeah gen six also introduced trainer customization for the first time which was a major addition

[00:29:22] and i do think you probably have more customizable options in gen six compared to scarlet and violet

[00:29:29] yeah there's friend safari which replaces the safari zone here each of your registered friends on

[00:29:35] your 3ds unlock a special mini safari zone based on their friend code so for example friend a gives

[00:29:42] you a water type zone where you can catch rare pokemon you normally wouldn't find elsewhere

[00:29:47] even sometimes the gen one starters so you can catch a war total which is pretty mind blowing

[00:29:52] yeah and there's also pokemon ami where you can pet your pokemon and again this is taking

[00:29:58] advantage of those beautiful 3d models is there anything we missed or anything that stands out for

[00:30:04] you when you think of pokemon x and y look i i have a lot of time for this game and at the time of

[00:30:13] playing it i love this a lot more than generation five it really has taken me to go back to

[00:30:18] generation five and kind of sit down with it and really have a heart to heart few whiskies with it

[00:30:24] but this generation the amount of hours i spent on it it took a while for me to get the stop

[00:30:29] this being my favorite game for a while until omega ruby and alpha safari came out where i really felt

[00:30:34] they kind of perfected the system and i thought that was the best 3ds game on the system for all those

[00:30:41] games but look getting to see my pokemon that you know in the really in 3d models was so good playing

[00:30:49] double battles in 3d it was so good that's one of those feelings like you know you know this is a

[00:30:55] bit special this does take that box to finally seeing a 3d pokemon game thank you very much game

[00:31:02] free the game reviewed very well it has an 87 on metacritic which no pokemon game since has topped

[00:31:08] however i do think it is viewed a bit negatively amongst the online pokemon fandom why do you think

[00:31:13] a lot of people turned on the game despite the early strong impression there's the pokemon community

[00:31:18] can never be happy look i've argued to death with so many people and there's always the common

[00:31:23] argument is that game free cal x amount of money which i get they should give us a better product

[00:31:29] which i get but maybe i don't maybe i don't look for the same hizers other people do

[00:31:36] i see that this game is a basically a chess game with rock paper scissors and so i know what

[00:31:43] i should beat what we should be aiming for we're not i have to like final fantasy square enix graphics

[00:31:47] we don't need that it's irrelevant and honestly you can never please you can never please the pokemon

[00:31:55] community it's just it is one of the most i'm going to get hate for this it's one of the most

[00:32:01] doing up there are nice people i'm it is very clear if you're listening to this and you're saying

[00:32:05] i'm not this you're not toxic that's not you then but i swear to god there are so much toxic people

[00:32:10] who play this game and literally pull everything down so what is enjoy it if you're a nice person

[00:32:17] enjoy the game but people just think it should be better it should be this it should be that remember

[00:32:23] this game is always geared towards children i know there is adults who play this game i know that

[00:32:28] but it's still a child's game at the bare core roots of it i think we forget that sometimes it's

[00:32:34] okay to like a video game but people just want more out of game freaking want to bleed them like a stone

[00:32:39] i definitely think it's certainly underrated compared to the other games in the franchise many

[00:32:43] like to compare it to black and white but i do think x and y is better than black and white i know

[00:32:49] the opinion is in the minority but i think all the new features that we talked about are just much

[00:32:54] more engaging the black and white offered and a lot of people do harp on the story but again i don't

[00:33:00] really come to poke one for the story the bad guy is bad i care more about the world building and

[00:33:06] the atmosphere over the actual beat by beat plot and i do think the world building is pretty interesting

[00:33:11] because kalo says a region it's kind of modern but there's also a lot of like a renaissance era

[00:33:17] beautiful mansions there's castles there's a lot of history there so so a really cool mix of both

[00:33:23] modern and traditional type of settings i thought the story was good like you could see he was

[00:33:29] the bad guy from day to i don't think there was any big surprise there but he just goes from

[00:33:33] i'm literally i'm gonna broadcast tv stuff to i'm going to nuke the world i was like yeah third

[00:33:41] play new you get a good point go not mates it's like this stepped up a notch it's like wow you're

[00:33:48] previously like this little bad guy now we're just gonna go to destroy everything and

[00:33:53] those who say oh it's a bit you know underrated go play the original diamond and pearl games

[00:33:58] not platinum not platinum go play diamond and pearl their bare bones is anything

[00:34:04] like i played them recently my

[00:34:08] go play like they're even the remakes of them go play them and then you'll beg for x and y

[00:34:13] you really will because they are they have nothing they have so bare bones it's shocking

[00:34:18] do you think if the game got a z version a third version would it help alleviate some of the

[00:34:23] games criticisms 100% 100% and everyone was waiting for a c version for so long and the only reason

[00:34:32] i think they weren't doing a c version was because they had omega ruby now for sapphire in the background

[00:34:37] yeah that was the only reason made me think and they thought why bother you know making a c

[00:34:42] version of perfecting this well perfect everything in the next game and i was like yeah no qualms

[00:34:47] that i would have loved to see a z version i would have because obviously it keeps that little trend going

[00:34:52] but we black and white we didn't get black and white three or two point five or one point five we

[00:34:56] just got black and white two as our next one but i think sometimes we also need to remember these

[00:35:02] games come on are they gonna three-year cycle yeah so that's quite quick that that's that's fast

[00:35:09] sometimes i'm just like we need to just just slow it down a little bit because you want to

[00:35:14] basically let things cook a little bit and let the ideas go around and you don't want to rush it

[00:35:18] i do think maybe we are a few years away or maybe will happen right after this podcast episode

[00:35:23] of people being incredibly nostalgic for x and y and then reclaiming it in his place in the

[00:35:28] pokemon pantheon i love this game it's one of my favorite pokemon games and i don't think game

[00:35:33] freak has made a better game since at the time things like seeing the pokemon in 3d and the trainer

[00:35:40] customization felt like huge steps ahead and i do think kallos is a very fun place to explore

[00:35:45] and it's filled with great pokemon we didn't touch on this but i do believe it maybe still has

[00:35:50] the largest pokedex out of all the games and you could transfer pokemon that weren't catchable

[00:35:56] in the game via the pokemon bank which again was a crazy feature so you could just trade up a

[00:36:01] total dial from your old games and see it in 3d which was pretty wild if you're trying to get it

[00:36:07] from the group so the old games the red and blue red blue yellow gold silver crystal you couldn't

[00:36:14] transfer from there sorry boys you're all dead my original team are forever dead but if you went from

[00:36:21] Ruby sapphire emerald that was not fun that was not a fun process because believe you or me pokemon

[00:36:31] bank don't work with those games so you've got to go from them to diamond and pearl from diamond

[00:36:37] and pearl to black and white too i think it's a to say that we will eventually get a remake of x

[00:36:43] what would you like to see in a potential remake oh question do away with the triple battles not

[00:36:52] needed you don't need any of that look i always say when you make a pokemon make a hard mode and

[00:36:58] because pokemon are very statistically very easy to do and there hasn't really been a challenging

[00:37:02] what actually since scarlet and violet i found that difficult for vet but reasons i put on myself

[00:37:08] so there was a there's often modern modern games that people make their own version of rom hacks and

[00:37:13] there's one i played called radical red and it was a remake of the fire red games holy fudge

[00:37:19] that thing is so hard but so good at the same time i was like if you could give me that consistently

[00:37:26] in any pokemon game i would love it it would make actually every battle as tense as anything

[00:37:32] rather than put self restricted limit like my own limits on my own challenge i want to see

[00:37:38] the AI do it itself what else would have probably got probably more post battle stuff like i love

[00:37:44] the fact that you've got the different post game battles like you can try and get to 50 battles

[00:37:50] because that's really lacking in any pokemon games since you look at generation six you had

[00:37:55] the battle tree which was poo in generation seven you had the battle tower which was poo and i like

[00:38:01] the fact the subway systems we've had so generation six was the last one we ever did that was

[00:38:07] the last ones like he said it's generation seven was the battle tree sorry but generation six was

[00:38:11] the last time we have actually had a decent post game and i really think you know keep just flesh

[00:38:18] that out more flesh it out and i'd love it i just want more post game stuff it's all i ever want

[00:38:24] like harder battles and we don't get that in new games we really don't yeah definitely

[00:38:29] and i think we pretty much touched on everything relating to pokemon x and y so listeners i hope

[00:38:36] if you didn't like it before hopefully you have a new perspective of the game and if you do like

[00:38:41] it well hope maybe this will inspire you to pick up your 3ds and go through the game once again

[00:38:47] so Danny thanks for joining me where can people find you they could find me over on potbean or

[00:38:53] anywhere where you listen to any of your podcasts and just searching for retro wars and you'll find it

[00:38:59] it's going to be a picture of the old sonic logo with a sonnet with a mega mega mega drive or

[00:39:03] a genesis wherever you're from and a super Nintendo fighting and each week i will cover an old

[00:39:09] retro video game and if you've got kids you don't want them to hear it let's put it like that because

[00:39:14] it's a bit expletive but we have fun we have games and yeah it's a big it's a big mess it's not

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[00:40:24] today's feature is about sezume publishing anti book club or sezume shupan koshobu in Japanese

[00:40:30] it doesn't seem to have an english name so the one i came up with is a fairly literal translation

[00:40:34] of the japanese one it's a bookstore located in koshigaya saitama what's koshigaya famous for

[00:40:41] at first i thought nothing but we could be as says they are famous for producing dada madals

[00:40:46] but when i went there it's not like they had a big dada madal at the train station

[00:40:50] it seemed like a fairly normal japanese suburb or bedroom community

[00:40:53] but hidden in this humble locale is sezume a bookstore dedicated to video game books

[00:40:59] they also tout that they sell books about arataka and majong but mostly video games

[00:41:05] it's a very small bookstore that's filled with hundreds maybe thousands not sure did

[00:41:09] count but it has rows and rows of video game books from the floor to the ceiling you'll find

[00:41:14] magazines novels non-fiction works comics and everything else you could possibly think of

[00:41:20] it also serves as the home base of sezume publishing a small indie publishing company focusing

[00:41:25] on video game books sadly i can't find a hola online about the origins of the place

[00:41:30] the twitter account for the store opened in 2019 and the publishing arms twitter is 2017

[00:41:35] most japanese impressions are from around 2020 so i can only assume that it opened up in the past few

[00:41:41] years despite being somewhat new it has a large and impressive collection of japanese books

[00:41:45] from the 80s to today it's run by kagi amada who i did speak to and i got his business card

[00:41:51] i was looking for it earlier but honestly i have no idea where it is please tell me

[00:41:56] i put it in one of my mini clear files it's about a 10 minute walk from sheen koshigaya station

[00:42:01] and it truly is kind of in the middle of nowhere the path up to the store is just streets and houses

[00:42:07] but you'll eventually see a sign that says Fuji shopping a shotengai or japanese shopping street

[00:42:13] this was not the luxurious bustling street you see in Tokyo it was really just a small collection

[00:42:18] of buildings with the makeshift roofed i didn't see anyone else there except for an old man

[00:42:22] who was running a small festival game shop he was asleep in a chair so i didn't bother him

[00:42:27] but the main event of course is susume the outside is pretty unspectacular but there's posters

[00:42:34] and other gaming books on display so you can't help but be drawn in once you're inside well it's

[00:42:39] really just one room most of the books are on the walls with a small section in the middle that showcases

[00:42:45] an exhibit they had video game dojinshi books or fan books as the exhibit on my visit many were

[00:42:52] black and white video game magazines made by fans which was a popular trend back in the 80s and 90s

[00:42:57] that's how game freak started believe it or not the shelves are broken up into their own little

[00:43:01] sections there's an area for video game magazines one for strategy guys one for fiction books

[00:43:07] and an area for nonfiction books etc and within these sections there are further demarcations

[00:43:12] such as categorizing the magazines by their name or berwatt generation they covered

[00:43:16] one section is dedicated to 32 big games for example if you're looking for something specific

[00:43:21] it's relatively easy to find though it's likely just faster to ask mister Yamada many of the books

[00:43:27] are in excellent condition even the magazines everyone is an plastic cover to help protect it from

[00:43:31] damages so a mag from 1995 looks like it could have been printed yesterday it's pretty incredible

[00:43:37] how specific a lot of these old magazines were falcom had their own magazine every console had one

[00:43:43] two like Sega Saturn and PC engine i love old japanese gaming magazines due to their incredible

[00:43:49] covers often featuring custom art marukatsu PC engine had their own cast of characters that would

[00:43:55] often appear on the cover dress like characters from whatever game they were featuring even if you

[00:44:00] can't read japanese they made for great display pieces i've always thought japanese magazines had

[00:44:05] incredibly creative layouts that are vibrant and engaging you want to own it as a piece of art

[00:44:10] and not just as a piece of journalism of course they have a lot of fi meet sui addition says well

[00:44:15] even going back to when it was called faimakam sushi even going back to when it was called faimakam

[00:44:20] sushi and the shop even has the very first issue of fa meet su on display it's about 130 dollars which

[00:44:28] is both super expensive for a magazine but also manageable if you're a hardcore collector it's not

[00:44:34] like this thing as a charizard card the guides also fall into this category many have a lot of custom

[00:44:40] unofficial art i picked up a Zelda one and super mario 64 guide and both their photo with handrawn maps

[00:44:45] comics strange renditions of enemies and just a lot of other fun things to discover in the books

[00:44:51] they sold these pretty cheaply back in the day but these were really packed to the brain with hand

[00:44:54] crafted content most of the fun visiting sezu may is discovery coming across things you had no idea

[00:45:00] that existed did you know there's a king of fighters 98 for komo manga i didn't i also took a

[00:45:06] picture of a small guide called cortigaw family computer da or this is the faimakam i showed it to my

[00:45:12] wife and she freaked out she said that she had it as a child so for japanese people this place

[00:45:17] lightly houses a ton of nostalgic items that are in excellent condition as someone who did not grow

[00:45:22] up in japan though it's really a treasure trove of gaming artifacts i never knew existed the vast

[00:45:27] majority of their stock is retro stuff but they also do have some more recent works especially in

[00:45:31] the art book section i really could just spend this entire segment listing off books i saw

[00:45:35] to be honest a lot of it is difficult to explain out of context and without pictures

[00:45:40] like keep on super strategy guide for sim city that features a real life statue of the mario statue

[00:45:45] from the game outside of books they do some other random items like video game vinyl records

[00:45:51] and a few rare video games too they had the multi screen mario brothers gaming watch

[00:45:55] and weirdly stone protectors for the suger femakam this is a game based off of a short lived american

[00:46:01] cartoon series you can buy it on steam for about ten dollars but what do you rather spend

[00:46:06] five hundred dollars to own a japanese box copy now the big question how are the prices

[00:46:13] to be honest they aren't the best around i looked up that zelda guide i bought in line to see

[00:46:17] how much it was going for and it was cheaper to get it online than in the shop but again you got

[00:46:23] to add in shipping and handling but i still think even with all the fees it was cheaper to buy it

[00:46:28] online but there is novelty in just seeing it with your own eyes and picking it up there

[00:46:33] there's really no shortage of vintage bookstores in japan book off of course and sudu gaya has a

[00:46:38] section for video game books but that stock is completely random and in terms of just sheer number

[00:46:43] of video game books so zumae easily tops any book off for sudu gaya you'd come across

[00:46:48] and i touched on it earlier but this bookstore does have a publishing branch they put out a book recently

[00:46:53] called introduction to video game books history you can probably guess what it's about it chronicles

[00:46:59] about three hundred books from 1984 to 2022 people who own it have said that it's worth checking out

[00:47:05] so if that sounds up your alley then it's probably not a bad pick up so is it worth a visit

[00:47:10] well it's just so far out of the way it's about an hour train ride from any spot in Tokyo

[00:47:15] and there's not a whole lot there except for this bookstore it would be much easier to recommend

[00:47:19] if it was an akihabata for example then it would be a must visit but if you are a hardcore fan

[00:47:25] of video game books or have something very specific you're looking for it might be worth

[00:47:29] contacting mr. yamaada to inquire about the availability in price though as a side note one

[00:47:35] other oddity of kushigaya is a restaurant called toybox diner this is a burger place filled with a

[00:47:40] ton of retro toys mostly from america it literally looks like a McDonald's from the 1980s it's got a

[00:47:47] ton of statues and signs i have no idea where they procure these items like do they import them

[00:47:53] i can't imagine them ever existing in japan but going to a weird fake mcdonalds and then checking

[00:47:58] out a video game bookstore that sums up what's great about a short excursion outside of Tokyo there's

[00:48:03] always something fun and unique to do well that's it for the feature now for the news

[00:48:08] there's quite a bit of news this week the biggest and saddest being that the online services for 3ds

[00:48:19] and we you will cease in april 2024 pokemon bank may not be affected though but you should probably

[00:48:26] move those guys over to home if you haven't done so already this is a pretty standard news item

[00:48:30] for dintindo not too long ago they cut up the ability to buy anything on their hardware and before

[00:48:35] that you couldn't add any money so it was only a matter of time before all online services ceased

[00:48:41] a lot of people are of course angry about this and there's always the issue of game preservation

[00:48:47] but we've been through the stance so many times that i can't really get angry about it

[00:48:50] 13 years of online play for the 3ds is a pretty good run if you want to quantify it like that

[00:48:55] i'm trying to think of what the big prominent 3ds will be titles that are very online heavy

[00:49:01] maybe super mario maker i know years ago they took away the ability to upload levels

[00:49:05] and even delisted it from the e shop but you can still play existing levels right

[00:49:09] it would be sad for all those levels to disappear you can download them to your game so if you're a

[00:49:14] hardcore mario maker Wii U fan i get on that i think i am most sad about something i talked about

[00:49:19] in the episode pokemon x and y's pss will no longer work it's like removing the monolisa from the

[00:49:27] louvre it does make you wonder when will they cut off online services for the switch it's got to

[00:49:32] happen eventually right are we talking in 2028 2030 it's pretty wild to think that something could

[00:49:38] be so successful have millions of people playing online at the same time and the one day it just drops

[00:49:44] to zero that's life i guess some good news nintendo is teasing wind up pigment toys these are smaller

[00:49:51] versions of classic creatures like bulborbs blow hogs and wally hops nizena tokyo has been posting

[00:49:56] videos on their twitter account and these things look absolutely amazing they move just like the

[00:50:01] creatures and up close to their rich with detail and have excellent paint jobs hopefully the real

[00:50:05] deal is just as good they announce the wind up toys that a few other new pigment items will launch

[00:50:10] at nintendo tokyo osaka and the newly opened nintendo kyoto on october 17th it's a single blind box

[00:50:17] item so what creature you get will be randomized but typically you can buy a set that guarantees all

[00:50:21] the variations honestly i might just get the whole set it reminds me a bit of the small fry toy

[00:50:27] that you pull back and it moves like a car nothing was more than ten dollars so i can see this

[00:50:31] hitting the same price point unless they are really really small either way i'm there keeping with

[00:50:36] an nintendo tokyo they will host pop-up shops around japan under the mario themed get the item

[00:50:41] campaign the whole campaign is really just mario standees and then there's a pop-up shop nothing

[00:50:46] too crazy i was hoping for some crazier collaborations or events to celebrate wonder but it's been

[00:50:51] fairly muted so far but if you're outside of tokyo these pop-up shops are a great way to grab

[00:50:56] some merch honestly i'm really starting to think that we need a second nintendo tokyo considering

[00:51:02] how popular the story is if you're more of a curbie guy family mart has you covered with a special

[00:51:07] curbie campaign that is running right now until october 16th why who knows it's weird that curbie

[00:51:14] has a bigger corn beany campaign than mario when mario has a game out in a few weeks the big ticket

[00:51:19] items are the curbie themed food there's a tomato bacon sandwich roll cake that shaped like the

[00:51:24] invincible lollipop pink apple bread and an apple jelly drink i got the drink which i highly recommend

[00:51:31] it's almost like diwai of it it comes in a big cup and you put in the sugar and some other powder

[00:51:36] to fizz up the liquid and turn it into jelly with cream on top it actually tasted pretty good for

[00:51:41] a convenient store jelly drink there's also a special curbie shaped e-shop card you can win a tumbler

[00:51:47] get some curbie wallpaper if you do a gps check in so if you like curbie it's definitely worth

[00:51:52] popping by your local family mart i did pass on the clear file though i have enough curbie themed

[00:51:57] ones yet another collaboration pronto will have a special pokemon campaign from october 12th

[00:52:03] the big drink item is sweet potato and chestnut with a peaked shoe and evie cookie on top

[00:52:08] it's a mix of brown and yellow so it does suit those pokemon and it's very auto me i'm not a big fan

[00:52:13] of these potato drinks though there's also a detective peaked shoe coffee with a detective peaked

[00:52:17] design on the phone and a lot of food including charizard spaghetti and a mimicu pancake with

[00:52:23] mimicu and peaked shoe stand on the pancake if you're not hungry and just want some merch

[00:52:28] there's a detective peaked shoe coffee cup detective peaked shoe branded coffee beans and pokemon aprons

[00:52:33] tumblers and tote bags this is a surprisingly big collaboration you don't only see these chain

[00:52:38] cafes like pronto or dotaour get these types of merch items so maybe this will be a new trend

[00:52:44] i'm all fourth though and to know needs to cross over with every aspect of my life

[00:52:48] i want to use a pickman atm machine okay i think we can end the episode now thanks as always for

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