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Pokemon ORAS - Maxie and Archie

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Finally... After 3000 years...!

I've been waiting for such a long time, it almost feels unreal to finally have this game in my hands. But it's been well worth it! 

I haven't finished the game yet, but after playing the Groudon climax yesterday I felt like drawing my two favourite "evil" guys in the whole franchise.
(Is it weird that I care more for them than even for Steven friggin' Stone? XD)

Anyway, let me share my thoughts:

Pro:
+ Hoenn looks marvellous on the 3DS!
+ Secret bases are better than ever!
+ Minor characters like Brendan/May, TM/TA admins or Wally are given a bigger role
+ Both you and your rival have a sound family and it FEELS like a family as well
+ There are countless background infos and funny trivia hidden in the game (especially in the sunken ship and the TM/TA hideout)
+ FLYING WITH LATIOS/LATIAS IS AWESOME
+ Game confirms the ages of several people (Prof. Birch, Mr Stone, Mr Briney, Steven, etc...)
+ The Hoenn News are amazing!
+ Interesting new characters
+ Underwater passages look LOVELY!
+ The whole mega evo crap wasn't that important to the storyline.
+ Awesome feature for finding Pokémon with cool moves etc.
+ The loony bin (aka the Trick House) is back!
+ Contests are actually enjoyable and fun this time and also have some cute cutscenes
+ The music remixes are fantastic! (All hail the trumpets)
+ The new music in the game is surprisingly awesome as well! 
+ A lot of ways to travel fast.
+ The Delta Episode is pretty interesting (even though a lot of things don't make any sense)
+ TM and TA actually behave like different groups now. (In RS they were mostly the same with slightly changed dialogues)
+ Game proved that Maxie is in fact the bigger dork of the two leaders!(Seriously, when I first defeated him, I was not prepared for this ridiculous Ace Attorney-like breakdown! I literally laughed for two minutes straight before I was even able to comprehend what I had just witnessed. XDDDDD)

Con:
- You have to take HM slaves with you EVERYWHERE! :iconfliptableplz:
- 7.8/10 "Too much water." - IGN XDD But seriously, I wouldn't even mind the long water routes that much if you could actually do more stuff there.
- Training is too easy, even if you don't use the Exp. Share or Amie (same problem as in XY)
- Catching Pokémon is WAY too easy (same problem as in XY)
- The remakes were based on the (storywise) flawed R/S and not on Emerald. (Even though I admit it would have been hard to make two versions of a game like this)
- Gymleaders and trainers have their crappy teams from RS and not the slightly better teams from E
- Where is Juan? ;A; (Also wtf Wallace?! X'DD)
- Where is the Battle Frontier? 


That's all I'm able to come up with right off the bat. :love:

So, what are your ORAS experiences? Feel free to share your thoughts with me! :love:
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Ashwolfie-2017's avatar
I absolutely love the ORAS 'evil' duo. Archie and Maxie are such fun characters!