Alright, so I've had the deets on this game for about a year to a year and a half thanks to my good friend Serebii.net. Now that it's available for pre-order and just about everyone who isn't a total dork knows about it, I wanna know your opinions on this sequal to Black/White. I mean, it's a friggin' sequal! Not a third, feature packed addition to a generation, but a sequal! Never been done in Pokemon game history.
Well, you're some character from two years after the events of the first B/W. Some characters you met in the first B/W are supposed to have undergone some "changes." Also, Red, Lance, Steven, and some others are making a cameo later in the game to battle.
It's more difficult and the task of grinding again. It's a lot more fun and exciting I think. The music is way better, backgrounds, animations, all that. Battles are improving, puzzles are somewhat interest and weird in a way. I've beaten the game but cannot continue any farther because I have the Japanese Version. I'll be getting White when it comes out in English. (I have Black and White but just played Black for the sake of it.) I didn't really need any help except the puzzle part... brought me down since I couldn't solve it, after a week later, searched online and gotten help, finally gotten past it.
The PWT is simply just too exciting... and extreme difficult as well after you beat Unova Leaders... Like that Flygon taking out my whole team with Earthquake, or the Arcanine who simply 1 hits me with his strongest fire attack... or Fighting types simply tanking my hits. But in all, it's all good.
My friend told me there's like this killer ninetails on the battle subway once you finish the game. I'm still working on part one on an emulator since I can't afford an actual copy at the moment. Can't wait for when I can, though.
The style of the monsters and especially their names were beyond good and evil e.g. "Lampent" .. IT WAS A GODDAMN LAMP! 90% of the new pokemons are everything but not innovative and have the most stupid names ever. They're not "monsters" anymore. They're living furniture.
And how dare you changing the point of view in Pokemon .. I just can't accept that .. >_< That's a rather personal opinion, but I don't want to see anything else then this birds eye view while walking with my character. Instead of putting so much effort into the graphics they could have focused on the most important part .. The pokemon.
Well, have fun fighting vs Trubbish, a bag of rubbish, and Vanillite, some icecream with vanille-flavour.
I still love playing the old pokemon games, but Black&White wasn't able to live up to my expectations. You might think different about it.
About the sequel:
Hell yeah, it'd be fun to play in the same world you spent so many hours in again. It's like continueing the story which makes everything more lively. It kind of goes on. If it wasn't for B&W I might have bought it, but right now I don't I'll get to play another new pokemon game again. I'll just stick with the older one, they're still awesome.
I fully agree that many of the new Pokemon lack originality. The creators were like, "Uh...uh...need a new Pokemon and quick." -Looks around- "Okay, a chandelier, a candle, an icecream cone. Yeah...those are all great ideas." -Gets Ken Sugimori on the sketches-. Really, once the actual creator stepped down from most everything except approving designs they should have stopped. I still liked R/S/E and D/P/Pt and even B/W (for the story really, and 'cause I have a Pokemon addiction). Original Gold and Emerald are my favorites, still.
I still don't hesitate to say that I love Pokemon (Seeing the other persons face is amazing. People around me know that I'm a bit deviant pertaining to my surroundings, which actually isn't bad).
I've had a great time over many years with Pokemon but I guess everything has to end sometimes. They're overdoing it right now. Of course there are people for whom B&W is the first edition or they might like the new graphical style (which can be addicting, but not in my case). It just didn't flash me like the other versions did. D/P/Pt did it neither, but it wasn't that bad.
Well, I'll just go and play Minigames with Pokemon Stadium, travel around in the City and Forests next to my beloved Pikachu with Pokemon Channel, improve my photography skills with Pokemon Snap or I'll duel myself with Brock and Misty once again.
You just can't pay for the feeling that you experience in doing these things
Same. D/P/Pt didn't really do much for me with the graphic enhancements, making things more 3-D like. Ig didn't do much for me for the gameplay, though it was a decent generation. B/W is the same, I do like the story so far though...and N. =3
My favorites still remain to be Gold and Emerald to this day.