The region had pretty diverse environments to explore which looked great with the excellent graphics, not to mention that I felt this game also offered a bit more variety in battles due to adding a lot of smaller features such as sky battles, horde battles, changing the exp share, pokemon amie, the new fairy type (which also helps balance in the metagame a bit) and of course the new pokemon and moves in the game (which by the way while not as many new Pokemon were introduced as in previous generations I thought they were all great and this is the one generation where I haven't found a single Pokemon I disliked). Safe to say this game kept me addicted throughout and if you're a fan of playing Pokemon competitively then this is definitely the definitive Pokemon game to do so. Which also brings me to super training a nice addition for those looking to get into the metagame which offers an alternative to train up your pokemons evs (if you don't know what that is I suggest googling it and thank me later) through minigames which while not as effective as simply battling Pokemon can be more fun and offer some variety but why gamefreak can't just show the evs somewhere on the stat screen of each Pokemon I'll never know. I also thought that the new mega evolutions were a great addition and added a bit of a spin on old Pokemon (but seriously I can't think of charizard x being made for any other reason then fanservice). However I do find it kind of strange that their supposed to be related to the bond between a Pokemon and a trainer yet anyone with a mega ring will be able to mega evolve a Pokemon. Seems like it should've been based on the happiness of the Pokemon or something like that but they didn't do it because players would think it would be too tedious to level up a pokemons happiness just to get it to mega evolve, got a little off topic but there but just something I thought about.