Pokemon X And Y's Incredible Farming Sim That Nobody Talks About

Pokemon X and Y are absolutely jam packed with content. 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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[lasercraft]

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.

[thekirbyguy]

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.

[garchompelago]

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.

[ewwitscullen]

XY have always been shat on for the low hanging fruit, people never realize how much depth they have. I love XY.

[LordGame]

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.

[wingbeltcreations]

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.

[peachykeen]

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.

[atonofspiders]

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.

[thatonedude]

Finally! I never see people mention the berry farm in x and y.

[McCnr]

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.

[bryanwharton]

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

[Typhlosion.]

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

[hibbs]

If only oras had these berry fields. but then again, I'm glad oras stayed true to the original berry plots.

[salviafiend]

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

[conorreedRC]

Droomish: "Who doesn't love field work?!"
Trout "Grandpa" Walker: _"That's too damn bayad!"_

[davidthomas]

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.

[C_Train]

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.

[Nameless_mixes]

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!

[radioactivechimp]

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"?

[Missingno]

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