Haha awesome!
I got 7 badges too, am now after Zekrom.
I started with the otter. How cool is that? An otter pokemon!
It's pretty good too as a special sweeper.
The others I got are:
Darmanitan - cool fire pokemon, with MASSIVE atk stat
Excadrill - mole ground pokemon/steel, pretty damn impressive atk as well
Sawsbuck - a grass/normal type deer, whose antlers change per season.
It's pretty funny.
The Gyms are pretty cool, though they are far too easy IMO.
The entire game is. Feckin' hell, you get shitloads of balls and items and exp shares and shit for free. I haven't bought a single healing item/pokeball in the entire game! And all my pokemon are already well over lv 45. In Johto I used to do the league on lv 35!
I enjoy the 3v3 battles, have only had two sofar.
Zebstrika looks pretty cool indeed.
The plot is so contradictory to me. I mean.. You want to liberate pokemon from people. And how do you do that? By stealing other people's pokemon with your own.
Makes NO sense. The rivals are okay though the girl is a complete pussy. They're both easy to defeat, but I enjoy the conversations.
True, there's WAY too many similarities with old game pokemon. Let's see what I can list it. My god, typing it out it seems mostly in original pokedex order too.
patrat = rattata
watchog = raticate
pidove = pidgey
tranquill = pidgeotto
unfeasant = pidgeot(but MUCH shittier looking)
Roggenrola = geodude
boldore = graveler
gigalith = golem(They even evolve when traded!)
Woobat = Zubat
Swoobat = golbat
audino = chansey
Timburr = machop
Gurdurr = machoke
Conkeldurr = machamp(same with golem wannabe, evolves when traded)
tympole = poliwag
palpitoed = poliwhirl
seismitoed = poliwrath
Sewaddle = caterpie
venipede = weedle
Cottonee = hoppip
purrloin = that same shitty 4th gen cat I can't remember the name of, that is ofcourse a copy of Meowth(but then dark type)
liepard = evolution of said shitty 4th gen cat, purugly?
the list goes ON and on.