To enjoy this book, you either need a set purpose or absolutely no connection to the internet. I can tell you that after a year or so of console limitations, I hadn't caught up with the newest Pokemon games, nor did I know what the new Pokemon looked like or even were. Although it's behind the times, with X and Y featuring the latest of the "new" pokemon and with Alpha/Omega being the newest games overall, this book was still helpful in the process of getting acquainted with my newest pocket monsters. It really does a satisfactory job of showing the creativity of the game designers (or occasionally the opposite, but pleasantly enough, not often - Garbador, anyone?). A mitosis pokemon, a gothic-lolita themed pokemon, pokemon with ancient purposes...all of these designs, while obviously stock images, do the creatures justice. Still, that's just about all it does, as everything else can easily be pulled up on the internet, and with a lot more information to boot. I guess I can't complain as it was obviously created for children who don't play the game competitively, but when information like egg moves, the importance of personalities, IVs, EVs, and etc exists, well, knowing the moves that the monster can potentially learn (and it only lists the ones it can learn through leveling up, I noticed, and nothing on TMs; though I guess that would have been a bit too long) seems so much less important.

Still, it was enjoyable to look through, and made me excited to jump into the Pokemon universe once again. Which is what it's supposed to do, right? ( )

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