Pokemon Black and White 2-Now with a sexy rival.

[Dredragon]

Yea, I loved the battle factory. And it got better with each generation because more pokemon to swap with, and more legendaries to try if you get to the farther parts of it. And Dome, I loved the battle dome. Pyramid was win too. Those were my fav three, and of course I went to the tower too. :P

[Secun]

Well, how else are you going to make ice?

I don't know, draw another map? Anything over just imposing a flat ice graphic over a map with an angled view.

[MrFry]

I don't know, draw another map? Anything over just imposing a flat ice graphic over a map with an angled view.

Then on that note you'd have people complaining about doing a map for the exact same region instead of using the previous map. So either way yaaaa..

I see nothing wrong with simply adding ice over it since it is the same place.

[Baklava]

Then on that note you'd have people complaining about doing a map for the exact same region instead of using the previous map. So either way yaaaa..

I see nothing wrong with simply adding ice over it since it is the same place.

Oh those fan bases!

[Kojo]

So that's why they have the poison and water gym leaders. The fire/water/grass one and the normal one's cities are covered in the ice. And I wish they somehow fixed the back sprites so they aren't as pixelated.

[AzureKite]

I'm still kinda disappointed at this. I really really hope they increase the difficulty of the battles. Black/White was pretty easy. I also agree, that the previous games felt very small on the maps. Give us another map to explore please!

[Justin]

I'm still kinda disappointed at this. I really really hope they increase the difficulty of the battles. Black/White was pretty easy. I also agree, that the previous games felt very small on the maps. Give us another map to explore please!

The only fight I found even remotely difficult in my playthrough of Black was against GHETSIS. God damn that guy was a douche bag with his "cheated" Hydreigon. It was a thrilling fight, and actually had me on my toes in worry about whether I was going to win or not. Hopefully there are more fights like that. I wasn't even underlevelled, either. He just had decent type matchups and his pokemon had very wide type-coverage with their moves.

[Scaeva]

Something I realized after playing SoulSilver again (got the stars of the Pokéathlon and Shiny Leaf), I really hope we can grow berries outside of the Dream World this time around. The berry pots worked fine, I don't know why they removed it...

[AzureKite]

The only fight I found even remotely difficult in my playthrough of Black was against GHETSIS. God damn that guy was a douche bag with his "cheated" Hydreigon. It was a thrilling fight, and actually had me on my toes in worry about whether I was going to win or not. Hopefully there are more fights like that. I wasn't even underlevelled, either. He just had decent type matchups and his pokemon had very wide type-coverage with their moves.

He wasn't really difficult for me. All my Pokemon were about 5 levels above his. Plus, I always carry an ice type, so Hydreigon got OHKO'd by an ice punch. Anyways, Heart Gold/Soul Silver had more content, and I feel every Pokemon game should have that much content at least.

Also, for once, I actually want some kind of organization to steal our Pokemon, and fight us with them. That would be fun and interesting I think. Also, after the battle you would get them back, or near the end of the game.

[Sarah]

I'm really bummed that this isn't a revisit to Hoenn.

[Kojo]

I'm still kinda disappointed at this. I really really hope they increase the difficulty of the battles. Black/White was pretty easy. I also agree, that the previous games felt very small on the maps. Give us another map to explore please!

Seriously. The game is too damn easy if I can beat a flying type gym leader using only a fighting type and not lose a single HP. The gym leaders need to have more than three Pokemon.

The only boss fights that were challenging/satisfying were the final N and Ghetsis fight.

[modular]

i actually thought the early postgame of b/w was fairly challenging, because everything immediately jumped in levels to 6x when the e5 were ~5x... and there was no way to beat e5 a 2nd time without massive grinding or going through the rest of the cities cuz they jumped to 7x.

up till then was a breeze though :/
the experience gain revamp didnt make overleveling a sweeper harder, it made it easier to keep the rest of your team closer in levels

[Dredragon]

I hate when it jumps like that, I don't always like grinding like that, especially in this version where you get less exp per level. Grinding to 100 is horrible. T-T

[Jamesie]

I'm really bummed that this isn't a revisit to Hoenn.

Yeah, with a name like "Black-2" I really expected going back to Hoenn.
/sarcasm

[Lozmaster]

Yeah, with a name like "Black-2" I really expected going back to Hoenn.
/sarcasm

Yeah, because it was totally dumb how anyone would expect a game that ends on the plotpoint "N has been seen in another faraway land" would be... in the exact same place as the first game. I'm all for staying the pineapple away from Hoenn because I hate that place, but it shouldn't have still been in Unova.

[Jamesie]

Yeah, because it was totally dumb how anyone would expect a game that ends on the plotpoint "N has been seen in another faraway land" would be... in the exact same place as the first game. I'm all for staying the pineapple away from Hoenn because I hate that place, but it shouldn't have still been in Unova.

Assumption that N is always relevant? Also, (supposedly) two-years has past. That's plenty of time for N to come back to Unova. There's even speculation that N's back and is going to be the champion of Unova. I mean, just by looking at the maps it's quite clear that some time has passed between B/W and B/W-2.

Yeah, with a name like "Black-2" I completely expected a completely brand new region.
/sarcasm

[Lozmaster]

Assumption that N is always relevant? Also, (supposedly) two-years has past. That's plenty of time for N to come back to Unova. There's even speculation that N's back and is going to be the champion of Unova. I mean, just by looking at the maps it's quite clear that some time has passed between B/W and B/W-2.

....

Two reasons really.
1)If N isn't relevant, nintendo are absolute morons. Clearly dropping him as doing something significant in another region, when the most interesting part of the plot of the first B/W was based on him.
2) Kyurem looks like he has absorbed Ns legendary on the corresponding game. Black had N catch Reshiram, and on Black 2 Kyurem has absorbed Reshiram. Vice versa for white. That shouts at me that N has something to do with the plot.

[Jamesie]

....

Two reasons really.
1)If N isn't relevant, nintendo are absolute morons. Clearly dropping him as doing something significant in another region, when the most interesting part of the plot of the first B/W was based on him.
2) Kyurem looks like he has absorbed Ns legendary on the corresponding game. Black had N catch Reshiram, and on Black 2 Kyurem has absorbed Reshiram. Vice versa for white. That shouts at me that N has something to do with the plot.

1) Personal opinion that Nintendo is moronic for not using N. Why'd they drop that N was off in some other land? Maybe to conclude his storyline? "Here you go guys, N left! He's done for now!"

2) Err.... I think that's too much speculation. :x We know virtually nothing about Kyurem and its story really and we are given virtually nothing about it. But even going off of the "Black Kyurem absorbed Zekrom" argument, N of course would have to do something with it as he summoned Zekrom. He may have played no direct role, but regardless he played an indirect role because he whipped Zekrom out.

[KhainiWest]

1) Personal opinion that Nintendo is moronic for not using N. Why'd they drop that N was off in some other land? Maybe to conclude his storyline? "Here you go guys, N left! He's done for now!"

2) Err.... I think that's too much speculation. :x We know virtually nothing about Kyurem and its story really and we are given virtually nothing about it. But even going off of the "Black Kyurem absorbed Zekrom" argument, N of course would have to do something with it as he summoned Zekrom. He may have played no direct role, but regardless he played an indirect role because he whipped Zekrom out.

The end was obviously and clearly a cliff hanger for the next plot. This game is going to be garbage.

[Jamesie]

The end was obviously and clearly a cliff hanger for the next plot. This game is going to be garbage.

No... the cliffhanger in B/W was N getting on Zekrom/Reshiram and flying off. "Where'd he go?" you're left thinking. At the end of the credits it addresses that he just flat-out left Unova. If anything it could be set up for a different generation game, however I doubt it. I wasn't left hanging at all when it said he was spotted in a foreign land with a Dragon. I was in fact left hanging when you see him leave his Castle and when you see him in the credits (prior to the "He's left Unova part). Even still, just because he was spotted in a different land circa two years ago doesn't mean he's gone off and died or eliminated from ever returning to any kind of Poké game. It's still entirely possible that he comes back. And then we don't even know anything about the game really. Yeah, we see Shizui and Homika as new gym leaders. We see a popsicled Unova. We see a new cast and new legendaries. That's about all we have right now. So I don't know why people are peaching up a storm when that's basically all we have.

Haven't we been saying every game is going to suck since forever now? People have been saying that since forever ago. People have said Generation III Pokés suck and now people are fine with them. People said Generation IV Pokés suck and now people don't care. People say that Generation V Pokés suck (only stat-wise for a lot of them) and I'd be willing to bet that Generation VI (if it makes it that far?) Pokés will "suck."