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| pokepal148:
Current Players: Pokepal148 (just cleared the second gym) Steefasaurous (just started) Pokémon Black and White is the first attempt by Gamefreak to really shake up the Pokémon series. With a newfound focus on a fairly strong narrative themed around conflict, and a new region based on New York City populated almost exclusively by the roster of 156 new Pokémon along with several other changes to the core Pokémon formula these games have plenty to set themselves apart from other games in the series. It may not have made as many drastic changes as Sun and Moon did but I strongly believe that Pokémon Black and White are the most ambitious games in the series since Pokémon Red and Blue. The problem is that a lot of that ambition either didn't go far enough as far as changing the Series's formula goes or simply falls flat on it's face. This results in some of the most divisive games in the Pokémon series, and in my opinion some of the best. I hope to see some of you take on this journey with me. My desire to see some kind of discussion of these games led to me going through with this whole forumwide playthrough idea (which is why I kind of rigged it so they'd be the first one). If you want to play along just post in the thread that you're playing along and I'll add you to the list. One thing: if you get stuck with something post about it in the thread. Try to avoid going to an FAQ or something. The days of beating games by trading secrets on the playground may be long since over but let's try to recreate them right here and now. Besides, I'm way more charming than some FAQ. |
| pokepal148:
Oh nice, I got Autumn for the current season. I know the season depends on the date on your DS/3DS and it changes at the end of the month but I don't know if it will be autumn for everyone who starts this game or if everyone will get different seasons even if they have the date set the same as me. Anyways I started out with Tepig. Last I checked Tepig and Oshawatt can't walk on walls and Snivy doesn't even have footprints to leave behind so I have no idea what happened to my room. ;) |
| Order.RSS:
All right I'll join on this, I'm pretty sure I can borrow one of these games. Are Black/White 1&2 very different, or are Black2/White2 the 'better' versions like Yellow/Emerald? I think I'll try going in blind with some Nuzlocke ruleset for myself to make it a bit more interesting. Anyone got a good theme to base the names for my team around? I might go for hiphop artists/rappers, unless someone has a better suggestion? EDIT: Never mind I'm already sold on this idea, it's gonna be great. |
| pokepal148:
Black 2 and White 2 are this bizarre romhack sequel thing to Black and White. They're excellent but they're completely different games that don't share much with the originals. Oh and the button combination to reset your save is up, select, and B at the title screen. Fair warning, this game has some really mean moments as far as nuzlocking is concerned. Anyways, I believe pokemon Black and White are the first games in the series to just let you be able to catch Pokémon the first time you enter a route. Before this you usually had to run some errand before they give you your pokeballs. |
| ClexYoshi:
as I said in discord, I've already been playing BW2 just for grins, and Pokepal is absolutely right so far on a lot of things. it does make me sad to play and see how many features are just broken or destitute from the death of Nintendo WFC. Playing this has reminded me of so many small QoL changes that Black and White made that got dropped like a bad habit for X and Y and had me angry at the time of playing that game. little things like very smartly placed Doctor/Nurse trainers that offer your trainer their services to refresh your team without having to take a trek back to town if you are able to best them, or BW's own abolishment of the HM involving making them strictly for optional goodies rather than roadblocks for the main path. this left Gym badges to strictly be the obedience threshold for non-OT pokemon. Dungeon design is brilliant non-linear affairs sometimes that will only give you a peek at some of it's goodies, as dungeon and route layouts can end up changing with the new seasonal system, along with the wild pokemon table and such. Some of the gyms are the most brilliant things that they ever had in the series. I still hold and maintain that Cilan/Chili/Cress of Striaton Gym is one of the most brilliant opening gyms to a pokemon game ever, and offers a tight set of tutorialization opportunities WITHOUT doing things like feeding the player free pokemon or new exp share or such. Some of my favorite pokemon designs overall belong to the 5th gen alumni. as a matter of fact, I feel I should point out at this point that since my BW2 run is pretty casual and such, I decided I wanted an alternative starter and Pokegen'd myself a larvesta, because I thought it'd be amusing to have a starter that has no chance to evolve until well into the post-game of my journey. also, Volcarona has rapidly become one of my favorite pokemon. Pokegen will also be used if I need a trade evo or want to mess around with a pokemon that has it's dream world ability, such as Shed Skin Scrafty. I'm currently at Nimbasa city. I remember in BW1 that some pretty important character development for Bianca happens at Nimbasa, and that struck me as being something bold and WAY Different for a pokemon game to be doing at the time. |
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