Probably several… there are quite a few that I was indecisive about the first time, you see. For most of them, there are good points and bad points – I believe I even had one or two positive things to say about Emolga. I think you can probably tell by reading the entries which ones I was sure about and which ones I could have gone either way on, but… hmm…
I may have been too soft on Liepard, Haxorus, Cinccino, Stoutland and maybe Emboar.
Conversely, I may have been too hard on Druddigon, Krookodile, Musharna, Stunfisk and the Musketeer quartet.
And then there’s Garbodor, whom I still haven’t changed my mind about, though I grudgingly concede that he may not have deserved quite the level of vitriol I hurled at him in ‘11 (dear gods, I can’t say ‘last year’ anymore when talking about my Unova reviews…).
I almost think it may have been a mistake to use the ‘final verdict’ structure, since it detracts attention a little from the fact that, again, there are good points and bad points (well, for most of them anyway). Heatmor, for instance, has a wonderfully mad design, but happens to be terrible at fighting. Conversely, I’m not going to deny that Conkeldurr is strong, but I still don’t think we needed Conkeldurr and Machamp, and I remain convinced that the clown nose thing is appallingly stupid. It also fails to highlight just how much worse, say, Maractus is than Klinklang or Cryogonal. If I review every Pokémon in X and Y (do I have a choice?) I might choose a somewhat different format.
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