Pokemon X And Y's Incredible Farming Sim That Nobody Talks About
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Today's Pokemon deepdive has us exploring the beautiful views of Pokemon X and Y. There are so many things to do and see and explore off the beaten path, and so today we're gonna explore one of my favorites. X and Y's Berry Fields are a quiet, game unique feature that took the simple concept of berry items from previous games and turned them into their own complete, farming sim minigame. But at the same time, this complexity was relatively well hidden under a veil of mysticism by the game itself- and all the years later, the feature seems all but forgotten. Let's see if we can change that with some gen 6 content. I can't wait for Legends ZA!
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I wish there was a mark for pokemon found in the berry trees
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I feel like there are a lot of aspects of X and Y that go unnoticed and unappreciated. The way you can work jobs at hotels in Lumiose, and use berries to create different drinks in another store in the city are two really cool mechanics I never see talked about.
People love to give XY shit for being too easy and the story not making sense like that isn’t pretty much every Pokémon game once you’re an adult
To me, it’s because people accentuate their attention more on the bad, and ignore all the good. I get sick of that fast, and it makes me think that I should never have gotten into Pokémon. But screw those people! I like Pokémon, and I am proud to like Pokémon! And I won’t take “quit” for an answer!!
Sorry. Bad memories.
i used to be a big x and y hater, never really liked it and heavily blamed it for the downfall in quality for pokemon, but after playing all of the series in a row just for fun, I noticed all this detail's and aspects that I never noticed as a child, it's definitely the start of the hand holding and over leveling, but it's far from the worst generation, there's a lot of heart and novel ideas here, I'm a x and y enjoyer now
@@Connowot387 I know why people do that.
It gets attention and attention = money
@@NEET_201 at least you could still turn the exp share off. Bet we all wish we could have that back huh.
The best part about the older Pokemon games are the physical guide books that you can buy for them. I bought one for x and y and that's how I was able to figure out the Barry mechanic even before the online documentation
Not even for older games. Sun and moon even has a guide book
@@MustacheDLuffy crazy to think that those came out 8 years ago. Time sure flies.
@@Missingno0479 kinda funny it took them this long not to do it
reading "older Pokemon games" and "x and y" in the same comment sent me a little bit jfc
You're so right. ORAS had the same systems running in the background for he most part and it really adds another dimension to all the things you can do that aren't battling, and it was it's own gameplay loop that took more of an animal crossing type of mentality.
Secret Bases, gatherinng berries, and Shiny fishing, horde battling for EV's, all were a solid pass-times to keep me playing all day long.
Only gripe: Battle Mason is a miss, because the newest Battle Frontier is Gen IV - that is, no 3D Pokemon game has it unfortunatedly.
So, ORAS was the remake of Gen III, you know, the generation premiered the Battle Frontier!
.. sorry for the rant hahaha
Kalos really is the most screwed over region... It has so many cool concepts and mechanics that just never get addressed ever again, and everyone forgets about it. Its one of my favorite regions. I'm really hoping Legends: Z-A does Kalos the justice it deserves.
the sad thing is, that I don’t really have hope for new games because of Sword and Shield, Scarlett and Violet and the remake of gen4. These games ruined many things for me. I hope the games get better in the future with longer development times
@@DH-iv1utgamefreak has no incentive to improve since more investment wont result in more sales. People that would buy pokemon still buy it regardless of quality
@@DH-iv1ut I'm hopeful because of the time they spend for this new game. I feel like they heard us and decided to do something about it
That’s the tragedy, wasting good ideas in a bad game. XY does not deserve them.
And it’s already been confirmed by NoA that ZA won’t be set in Kaols, just Lumose City.
@@DH-iv1ut I feel optimistic about Legends: Z-A given how fun Legends: Arceus was. Not only that, but it's the same team that did SwSh's DLC, widely considered the best parts of SwSh. Combine that with Arceus selling at BDSP levels when it was expected to do Mystery Dungeon numbers, and the higher-ups would be idiots to not give Z-A more attention.
One thing they could have done that would have given players a little more incentive to engage with this mechanic is go a little more in-depth with the pokemon who raid your plants.
Imagine if starting at tier 2 berries you had a small chance for a more desirable bug pokemon like Larvesta or Scyther. A chance that would increase at tier 3, which would also start to introduce hidden abilities to all the pokemon in the pool.
A player might not feel incentivized to engage with the berry growing mechanic if the best they can hope to get out of it are some niche berries and a Volbeat. But how might they act if they knew that interacting with and understanding the mechanic was their path to getting a Moxie Heracross? I think that would capture some attention.
I think the design choice to have set encounter based on berry color was a step up from the likes of Sinnoh's honey trees. Tho, they could have given each color a common & rare encounter, with the rare encounter becoming more likely with higher tier berries, like you suggested.
Perhaps there could have been special "infested" berry bushes that had a horde encounter? The horde could include the regular Pokémon along with a rare Pokémon, like there could be a Larvesta among a horde of Spewpa. Horde encounters were already a good way to find shinies & hidden abilities.
Or it could be based on a harder to make mulch
I could see bugs being in the trees and rodents and bird Pokémon eating the berries in the trees
I spent A LOT of time with Y. Definitely my favorite berry farming system. And a nice stretch of road outside to hatch eggs from the Day Care. AND the Battle Chateau was on that road.
Likewise I caught onto it early! Especially how using certain moves during battle around a berry tree in a specific route resulted in a bounty at the end of the encounter. It was very nice air cutter surf etc I really missed the mechanic in sun an moon
That area had most of my play time in x and y 😂
in my most recent playthrough of X i only planted berries at first to get a nuzlocke encounter from the trees and got a mutation without knowing it was possible. after that i got obsessed and made it a side mission to get every single berry and it was so much fun
X and Y had so many small things to do on the side. I've often heard other games in the series praised for similar reasons, but I was surprised at how I'd never heard praise for Kalos when it has such great side context.
Kalos doesn’t deserve to be praised.
I’m gonna need about a dozen more videos on all of XY’s underappreciated yet extremely cool features
Perfect for my third play through of Gen 6, X for the first time after twice on Y
I didn't have a 3DS until 2018, and whenever I played my friend's copy of Y, I only ever messed with Pokemon Amie and that's it.
The idea of a Pokemon game having this in-depth of a mechanic that feels less like a minigame and more like an entire side game. This is CRAZY cool.
I really should replay this game.
I loved berry farming in XY, and at the time I assumed that was going to be a mechanic in every subsequent game... :c
XY had a lot of things i thought would become staples in future generations that just got completely abandoned, it's very sad
Because not many people engaged that deeply with the Berry farming mechanic, I was able to always trade the Pokémon to random people around the world with a rare Berry.
So even if they don't love my 4 IV Chinchou, they might appreciate the Liechi Berry I sent with it.
Ah, the days when IVs mattered
Finally! I never see people mention the berry farm in x and y.
I loved it! Finally talking about it!!
Finally!
this was my favorite feature of XY as a kid and im really happy to see you covering it! it sucks how game greak outright refuses to bring back new mechanics like these, I'd love to see it make a return
Yup i was soooo irritated when I found out you could do this in sun and moon
I’ve wanted someone to talk about this for a while now. I liked the hybrid berry mechanics because you could get the friendship EV reducing berries so easily
Its so unique and barely anyone remembers the fact that you could hybrid berries into existance.
I didnt know it existed until I saw a guide.
Using certain moves on certain terrains to obtain rare items is such an amazing feature too.
For me, Gen 6 were the best gen during its time.
It would have been cool if the hybrid berries combined aspect of the parents
In terms of berries sure but I guess but in terms of content it’s easily a toss up between black2 an white2 an heartgold soulsilver followed by emerald for me. Those were complete games was a story an things to do after. They don’t make em like that no more. Gen 6 was cool they had the soaring mechanic in omega ruby that was cool.
Just after gen 5? No the f it wasn’t. It was a terrible game back then and it’s still a terrible game now (even more so since it’s the one I blame for Dexit, pokemon should never have gone 3d).
hoping this farming mechanics is in Pokemon Legends Z-A! Arceus already had farming in the game, they have to take it to the next level like in XY!
Depends if the farmlands are in Lumose city or not.
@@c0mpu73rguy not that deep, it’s just a patch of land it can be anywhere
Where as the farming in Arceus? There's just the people in jubilife and that's it
I really loved the Berry farming game. I didn't have a DS, so coming to the 3DS with Y and finding this was really fun and kept me back in pokemon.
2:31 "With the move to the 3DS, there seemed to be a new focus for the 'everything else' you could do in a world like this." Unfortunately, the life span of this focus was equal to the lifespan of the 3DS, and was forgotten upon moving to the Switch.
I mean, the 3DS is far from dead. It's just that the life support is in the hands of the still-active community and not Nintendo.
I never even knew this feature was so complex! I don’t think I ever actually utilized it on my playthrough of the Gen 6 games. Now I wanna play X and Y just so I can try this out! I love how much your content has opened my eyes to how much the games have to offer that I didn’t know the full extent of or just was unaware of in its entirety!
i am so distracted by the shuckle teapot in the juice shoppe, it's so cute
I love that you make videos about stuff in Pokémon Games that is "side stuff" like Berry Farming, the bug contest and contests ❤❤
I'm not the only one who thinks this feature was underrated! X and Y's berry farming was on another level and I respect the hell out of it.
XY have always been shat on for the low hanging fruit, people never realize how much depth they have. I love XY.
Well, it's because the game is so trivially easy that there's no point in engaging with any of these mechanics.
@@franslair2199 every Pokémon game is easy if you have a high school education bro
@@franslair2199 After replaying some of the previous games like Platinum and Soul Silver, just turn off exp share and it's the same level of difficulty. Pokemon was never really that hard to begin with.
@@ewwitscullen9132 Why do pokemon x/y fans have the need to shit on every other game in the series to bring it it down to that level? It reeks of desperation.
@@gavinyeet5821 Even turning off exp share (and obviously you're intended to have it on, considering later games just force it on you) doesn't change the fact that you will significantly outlevel the game and smash through it due to your exclusive access to mega evolution and all important trainers having at most four pokemon to your six.
I always just assumed I would either find the rest of the berries playing the game or simply transfer the missing ones up from previous gens. I did engage in the Berry Farm, but only for it's basic, berry growing purposes. Coming from previous gens where you're basically forced to plant berries all over the region, one centralized berry growing location is all I'd ever ask for. Lol.
Just so you know, transferring berries from previous gens to Gen 6 is not possible. As of Gen 5 Pokemon were no longer allowed to hold items while being transferred. The only other way to get the rarer berries in Gen 6 is in ORAS's Super Secret Bases, from Secret Pals who have the "Gather Berries" skill.
Ah, I guess I forgot about that. I wasn't into competitive at that time, so ultimately, having all the berries wasn't of the greatest concern to me. Lol.
I only used this to grind leppa berries and I had no idea it was so complex. I always assumed it was your typical berry growing mechanic
This game had so many extra features, and could have been a fabulously complete Pokemon experience. No game deserves a second visit more than Kalos. 2025 can't come soon enough.
I remember getting really into berry farming in XY. I never got deep into the mechanics of mutations or mulch or juice, but XY were the only games I’ve ever bothered to plant berries and check on them every single day I played, and I had fun just randomly making berry mutations.
The only reason I didn't plant berries more in the older Pokemon games was all the unnecessary text. Do I really need to know that the soil is "loamy"?
I do.
If you want to be a pro
XY are my favourite games and I've been playing since Gen 1
All the silly little things charmed me so much. Pokémon Amie
Juice making
Jobs at Lumiose
The skates
The field objects in battles
I could go on all day
But I just searched up the combos and did it like that lmao
I feel like a pokemon farming game might be really fun. Maybe a sort of stardew valley meets pokemon sort of deal-grow berry crops, raise pokemon that produce food or are eddible or produce something like wool, silk or fertilizer, occasionally head into the local cave to harvest some zubat guano for fertilizer, crossbreed berries, etc. Probably something lightweight enough for a mobile game. Could even select different farm locations for different sorts of livestock pokemon, like a prarie farm for normal types like tauros and miltank, a farm in a location like falarbor for fire types like blaziken, a terrace farm with rice paddies you can breed fish pokemon inside, etc. Maybe an artificial cave for mushroom like grass types.
Man, I keep forgetting things about X & Y. Thank you for reminding me of this!
I didn’t know this was an area in XY. If you’re required to go there, I definitely don’t remember it lol
I used to play a lot of Harvest Moon when i was younger along side Pokemon Ruby and aways wounder why they never made a Pokemon Farming game?there is a lot of potential here....
I became a berry farmer in Y because my “the end of the game is nigh” sense was tingling so I did that and a bunch of things in order to prolong what I found to be an unexpectedly short game.
Was interesting for making supplemental income but it wish there were more mutation combos.
Also, Arthur imagine spot transition music? I wasn’t aware we were still in the 90s.
If only oras had these berry fields. but then again, I'm glad oras stayed true to the original berry plots.
I think the 3DS era games are underrated
LEDYBA ON THE THUMBNAIL LET'S GOOOOOOO
The overall features like these berry mechanics as well as others were so well done in X&Y. I didn't play the games for the story this time. Instead it was a new era to see all Pokémon in 3D, explore a beautiful region based on my neighbor country (greetings from Germany 👋🏻) and therefore almost felt like home. And there's no denial that X&Y gave us many content (already between the 1st and 2nd gym alone), alongside a great soundtrack, the PSS and its mini-games, the biggest city out of all regions so far and various battle facilities like the castle on Route 7.
Alongside Hoenn, Unova and Alola, Kalos is the region that I enjoy playing in the most because you can do so much stuff within the first 2-3 hours into the game. ❤
The achievement of getting perilous soup is severely undercut by the stat resetting punching bag
I’m replaying X at the moment and it is just so much more polished than the more recent games.
As for the berries, I wish X and Y had had contests. It would have fit in well with the region and given more uses to the berry farm.
I loved this mechanic so much that I wound up breeding way more berries than I could possibly ever need. Whenever I sent out a Pokemon on Wonder Trade or the GTS, I would let it hold one of the rarer berries as a little bonus gift for my trading partners.
People hate on x and y a lot. while it does have some problems mainly being the lack of difficulty, it has so many small details that give you so much to do during and after your playthrough. When I started my save file a few months ago, I only wanted to play it so I could get the context of pokemon legends ZA before if came out. So I was speeding through the game but missing out on these hidden little details. Ds games in general really honed the features that didn’t serve a purpose but were really fun.
yeah, i'm not as invested in the post-GBA games as the pre-ds ones, but i very much enjoy this part of X and Y.
I dont usually comment, but I loved this feature of X and Y. I was going through a bad bout of depression and invested a lot of time into this game to do and hunt for all the berries to get every mutation. X and Y were also my favorite games for breeding and shiny hunting. I really hope the new Legends game does Kalos justice. Great video Droomish.
Droomish: "Who doesn't love field work?!"
Trout "Grandpa" Walker: _"That's too damn bayad!"_
Outside of competitive, I’ve never liked anything berry related. If I had known my favorite region had such an in depth berry system, then my attitude to them would’ve changed years ago. Guess I now know what I’m doing after work.
wow i never even knew about this but im so grateful that you talked about it! it's always a shame when the barrier to entry of many pokemon features is high without the internet
I'd love to have a Pokemon game that's a combination berry farming sim and Nintendogs style Pokemon raising sim, with the Pokemon you raise being able to help you around your farm.
The berry farm was the only thing I did in kalos when I was a kid. I kid you not, I didn’t even beat all the gym leaders. Just farmed
Wow... what a great video! This was extra special for me as I'm trying to comb through X to experience everything I skipped as a noob when the games first released. The official print guide can't properly cover everything, so thorough videos like these are seriously important. That said, thanks for the seriously high-quality presentation here, we appreciate you!
X and Y were really underappreciated games! They were easily dismissed as 'too easy' and 'boring' but they introduced so many cool mechanics and are to this day one of my favorite games in the series! They were the first step in making the more technical, competitive parts of the series user-friendly, and I replayed them so, SO much just to mess around with Pokemon team set ups.
I remember the berry growing area and the mulch bin, but I didn't realize there was a hybridization mechanic! Either I never got a hybrid as a kid or I've just forgotten. XD I clearly forgot about there being Pokemon encounters in the berries, since I did enough berry farming that I'm sure I would have seen some. I was also into shiny chaining so I would think I'd have used that to shiny hunt.
The camphrier town theme is forever in my heart because of these damn berries
I forgot how involved this system was! I dozens or hundreds of every single berry. Loved the feeling of accomplishment I got every time I got a new berry mutation.
Someone else who agrees XY has the best berry mechanics!
From Ruby, my very first Pokemon game, I've always made the most out of the berry-growing mechanics. Well, at least I tried - I didn't really learn the inner workings of Hoenn's and Sinnoh's until well after the fact (and BDSP's doesn't seem to work exactly like DPP's? No Mulch? But it's not like ORAS's either so where did they pull it from? Did they really stealth-reprogram this feature in particular????), but for Kalos, I learned all about the hybrids. The weeding. The finding Pokemon. I enjoyed coming back to my farm whenever I played and seeing what I could do.
I wish there was some in-game way to figure out the hybrids, though. Like unless you just trial-and-error plant every berry next to every other berry, there's no way you'll find them all.
Everything else, though. So much more immersive while also not really being a burden to the player.
I completely forgot about this mechanic until you made this video, but I remember at the time being soooo deeply into it that I got every rare berry! I got a tons of replay value out of XY because of this, the Battle Chateau, Friend Safari, plus all the changes to breeding and battling including Pokeball inheritance and Super Training. All the new features added only to XY is really under appreciated now that I think about it.
Anyway, thanks for making this video!
tamagotchi mention has me booting up X&Y LOL. i always skipped over this area in the few playthroughs of gen 6 that i’d done. i loved berries in gens 3&4 so i have no idea why i never bothered in gen 6! this is so neat!
You definitely got me with that video. You usually do with your kind of videos, but that one was amazing. I spent hours upon hours on this Berry Field. I got every single berry with the help of Bulbapedia, and like you, searched everything else I could do with them; the Perilous Soup, because I needed to train a lot of Pokémons for my local scene and to beat every sister from the Battle Maison (which I did!); created every Mulch... It was an amazing side journey. I really spent countless days on Kalos. I think that's why my X game is the only Pokémon game that the clock counted up to 999:59... I did every single thing in this game! Loved the music, the Pokémons (despite being a few new ones), completed the Poké Dex for the first time in my life (I play since gen 1), but interestingly, the only thing that still today I never touched upon was the dressing mechanic. XD All my friends were talking about the clothes and I think I was the only one that chose the boy and stayed with the same clothes from the start of the game until today... LOL But I did everything I wanted. Got every trophy in the Maison, got every Berry, every Mulch, every Mega Stone, completed the Dex, got a lot of the shinies with the Friend Safari, Chain Fishing and specially Masuda Method (got all 3 Hoenn Starters for ORAS ^^), got some of the best Friend Safari available, and to finish it all, one friend of mine got those hacks and unlocked the 3 Pokés that are locked in the game -- Volcanion, Hoopa and Marshadow (with that, my game file is with 721 Dex registered and 999:59 with the game started the day the game came out in my region).
Thank you for making me remember all this before going to bed today, and sorry for the long text. It was a long journey in this amazing region. Tomorrow is another day of work. :)
I've been playing a lot of cobblemon recently and i had no idea that the berry breeding mechanic was actually inspired by Kalos!
Between dex completion, competitive, breeding, undella town's ruins, xy berries, and more, im beginning to think I need a notebook specifically for pokemon lol
I enjoyed collecting berries in gen 3 and gen 6 took it to a new level but I mainly used the farm to sell berries at the mart.
Man your videos are fucking fire, you’re a true fan, and you truly understand the core values and principles of Pokémon, the true value the series holds. Thank you for existing homie ❤
Wow, I've played through XY dozens of times and had no idea berry farming was like this
YES!!!! Twelve year old me spent SO MUCH TIME just trying to get a ton of all the types of berries. I like never used them, but it was so much fun to garden!!!
I didn't even know this was a thing. Granted, I haven't played XY in forever, but still. It's interesting to see how many obscure mechanics they implemented in this game.
Tbh i wish there’d be a stardew valley type of pokemon game, like imagine farming berries, raising/interacting pokemon rather than just focusing on battling
I had fun with it, and also basically never bought a healing item once I had the trees because the berries, the berries provided.
FINALLY
Pokemon content I care about
I don't understand why Game Freak has this obsession with packing every Pokemon game with needlessly-deep side mechanics disguised as shallow distractions, but I have to respect them for it.
I think have side mechanics and minigames are important to rpgs
I got so engrossed in this stuff back in like 2015, it was crazy addictive
I love XY so much, we need a proper remake!
When I was a kid I spent like 3 weeks getting 500 Oran berries because I thought that was funny
i remember trying to get all the berries one time when i was revisiting x! i actually had so much fun with the berries than it felt sad that i could never get that many berries again when i played platinum after that
I miss berry mechanics. Now in SV you just pick up random berries from the ground 😢
I def did not expect a (visual) Rachel Berry shoutout. Love it!
Pretty sure those farming mechanics has been implemented into Cobblemon 1.4 (I haven't tried the last update to check it).
I never did berries so this is the first time im learning about it
OMG i remember being like 16 and grinding out the berries and picking all the weeds like crazy in XY when it came out, we didnt know the full mechanics yet so we were just trying Our Best. i remember popping OFF when i got my first berry mutation lol. i grinded berries like crazy in ORAS too...what was i cooking. no idea why i was obsessed with berries in gen 6
I used to spend SO long in X just taking care of my berries
Oooh, it’s nice to see someone talk about this! I remember looking up on Serebii berry mutations to get the rare stat lowering ones lol.
Considering how little I remember about this feature, I think that I might have figured "Oh, it's just a big spot to plant berries" and completely ignored it since I don't use berries a whole lot anyway.
whenever I get access to berry farming, I'd normally use berries over status potions like leppa berries over ethers/elixirs because it's just a free renewable resource ^^
especially leppas as pp restoration can come in handy for things like SOS encounters or Pokeradar hunts to find shiny Pokemon where it involves knocking out Pokemon to create a chain
Trevenant with a Lum berry or a Sitrus berry was so much fun to use in Wi-Fi battles. I loved farming those two berries for both my Trevs. Lum for the Rest user and sitrus for the substitute user.
In my main X version I spent many hours doing Berry Gardens and eventually worked out mutations and where some of the rarer berries. I think there was a guy in the 2nd gym town had a rock resist Berry (I think) and was overjoyed even if I didn't have much use for it lol
I was kinda sad when it didn't come back in alola
i totally glossed over it on my first playthrough, didn't have a ton of reasons to grow berries back then. on my second full playthrough (i've done multiple attempts but ended up dropping it every time) a year or two ago, i realized you could get leppa berries and i LOVED abusing that in the games they appeared in. looked up a guide and immediately spent a couple hours (days due to time mechanics) building up an entire plot of leppa berries. realized after the first full farm i'd have more than i could ever need to finish the game so i just wrapped that up and moved on. i'm sure if i were into competitive i would have spent WEEKS working on it at that point.
Rachel berry oh my god
I'm really getting Cookie Clicker garden minigame flashbacks from this
this mechanic is so good, even cobblemon has it
Hunting for wild berries and farming are actually why I never finished X&Y - I just got so badly sidetracked that... yeah. I only ever went so far as to unlock the first area with the last-available color of berry trees in battle and just... farmed forever. (With a daily run of the Hotel Richissime jobs for clothes-shopping money on the side.)
I feel like there's a great opportunity for Legends Z-A to expand upon a system like this, like having Pokemon with water type moves water crops for you with some weak moves like Water Sport having a unique effect, even though I don't like it, Palworld did hit on the unique gameplay concept of combining collecting unique creatures with farming using the creature's unique abilities, imagine a Pokémon game where you have a home base and you can set your grass and water types to farm berries with your flying types acting as pest control, sending your ground and rock types to dig for resources, maybe a system similar to Pokejobs in Sword & Shield with NPCs requesting certain types of Pokemon to help them and after a while they come back with rewards (so kinda like Merc Missions in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, if you know you know)
Leppa berries were as far as I ever grew berries. Can't purchase on the go PP recovery.
I've been saying for years pokemon should make a full on farm sim game, and this is why. they already have all the pieces, many farm animals are already pokemon, eggs are a big thing, berries can absolutely work as the main crops or a side crop, now that swsh and SV introduced a bunch of food items, and cooking has been a big thing for a while now. it wouldn't take much at all to make a pokemon farm sim and it'd be so damn much fun.
May have peep a few videos beforehand but fully happy to be in the loop now. Excited and tuned in 😎
For anyone interested in this crossbreeding farming mechanic, Harvest Moon a Wonderful Life did it first!
we need more berry related mechanics in modern games like imagine if crabrawler had different evolutions based on the berries you fed it that'd be epic
I enjoyed farming for the berries, but I did not know about the Perilous Soup from the Juice Shop. I might have to look at my guide to see if I missed it, or if it's just the fact that it's been so long since I've played X & Y.
Thanks for posting a video about this topic! I really hope that we'll be able to, among other things, farm berries in Legends Z-A.
I really hope the new legends builds on the berry farming. Arceus had the “farming system” but it could be so much more interactive.
Thanks a bunch, Droomish. Now I have the motivation to replay Gen 6 again. I was looking for a good excuse!
When X came out, I remember I spending at least 200 hours hunting for and farming berries. My friends had already beaten it and I was too busy collecting my rare hybrid berries to go after the Elite Four. It was the most fun I had with the game
As I recall you spent hours just on that route before even moving on to the next bit of the game.