I FINALLY Played Pokémon Black and White

I still have the copies I bought all the way back at release. I have Black; White; Black 2; White and they’re in pristine condition. I must go back to playing them eventually. I miss Pokémon. Haven’t played it since 2013-2014 ish

Unova means a lot to me and I’m happy people are experiencing it even if it’s many years later. It goes to show how peak it is that despite Gen 5 being over 12 years old that people can still see all the amazing things they have to offer! I had a few things I disagree with but there are other comments that mention em so I don’t feel the need to lawl 😂
Great video man!

So much of the black and white games is the post game and all the challenges and puzzles. Like someone else said you need to run through the E4 again for hall of fame

Great Video. N is the rival.
And as for graphics, that's a can of worms. It was panned because it was not 3D.
Even though most people today say its the best looking one lol.

Found my way here cause I just picked up Black for the first time. Doing a SR for shiny starter😢. Hopefully you can do a review on Soul Silver or Heart Gold sometime!

The hall of fame isnt before the credits because you become champion in the post game

I dont think you beat the game, cause if you didnt beat the alder you didnt become the champion. There is also some story left after you beat N for the final time. If you didnt explore after the first time you "beat" the champion, then you didnt get the full gen 5 experience, also make sure to check umbrella town's houses in the summer time.

The older generations are the best, the pixel art and effort they put into this games , shining pearl/diamond and scarlet/violent are the biggest let down ever. On a console that dwarfs the DS yet the games are absolutely atrocious and lazy

“within reason” shows hoenn 😂

So did you defeat Ingo in the battle subway boss battle? Also there’s a few other surprises in BW that you may not have seen yet for example the shaking grass for a rare Pokemon

You’re telling me you played sinnoh (4th gen’s region) ONLY through the remakes? Well, long story short, the remakes suck, go play the originals and I recommend playing platinum since it’s the best one out of the three (like emerald for ruby and sapphire)

Have you played the Mystery Dungeon games much?

This game was absolutely mind-blowing to me when I played this back in 2011, and it's still great today. It was sad to see them get so much blacklash, and I'm happy to see that they're generally looked back on fondly now. Though, I think a lot of that comes from people seeing how awful the newer games are and realizing that Gen 5 did so much to push the franchise forward.

Gotta play post game m8, missing out on the other half

The rivals get further developed in BW2. For that reason and many others, you should definitely check out the sequels. They do a lot to add to the first games

can i play these on pc

My first ever pokemon game was white 2. As a kid I got a used soul silver for my birthday a little while after white 2, I emulated fire red on my tablet, and experienced gens 6 and 7 as they came out so I missed on black/white as well. About a year ago I borrowed my brothers copy of pokemon black and played through it blind and holy shit!!!! That game is peak. I’m honestly glad I waited until I was older so I could really appreciate how good that game is

Wow amazing video man

In black 2 my favorite pokemon was easily krookodile. That mf carried me.

I'd argue that the gen 5 rivals are the best in the series.

Honestly, I'm not super fond of the first 4 rivals. Gen 1/2 were pretty generic assholes, without much depth or interest. Gen 3s rivals are pretty bland, and gen 4s is annoying as hell.

But gen 5 gives you 3 very interesting rivals.

Cheren and bianca both believe they want to be strong trainers, but haven't really thought through what that means to them.

For Bianca, she wants to become more independent and capable, and believes she'll accomplish that by being a strong trainer. But she realizes that battling isn't something she actually wants for herself, and instead reassesses, and is able to realize herself as a pokemon researcher instead.

Cheren believes he should be a strong trainer, but hasn't worked out why. Hes repeatedly confronted throughout the game with people asking why he wants power, and what he'll do when he has it, and at first he doesn't even seem to understand the question. His story is a very well done deconstruction of the players own role in the story, as we need to find answers to the same questions.

Then theres N, who pulls double duty as both evil team boss and rival. He similarly grapples with his place in the world, being groomed his whole life by gehtsis to fulfill a role he's not sure the meaning of.

Honestly, so much better than anything seen before or since

Gen 5 is so underrated. The story is beautiful, along with the scenery, the characters are well written, N is hot, and the pokemon are gorgeous especially Meloetta and Reshiram. Like omfg 😭 ❤ dont forget the music too omfg I live for the music

Gen 5 was amazing back when they came out, and even now they are amazing. Some of the best story telling in Pokémon imo.

Why you dont paint your tooth white ?

I quite liked Bianca and Cheren and how they grew, yes it's very subtle, but I really like it. The fact the Bianca had to come to terms with the fact not everyone is cut out to being the champion or super strong like you and Cheren are in the games, and going on a Pokémon journey isn't just about becoming champion but a stepping stone to find your interests in the Pokémon world. I also really liked Alder and Cheren's interactions where Cheren had to realize that being the champion isn't just about being the strongest, but caring about all of the people and Pokémon in the region as well. Underrated rivals in my opinion.

I disagree about the rivals. cheren in particular serves a thematic perspective on people's relationship with pokémon as trainers that is challenged throughout the story. maybe not anything groundbreaking but he and bianca both have true character arcs, which is more than can be said for any rival in the series. they aren't my favorites either, but I wouldn't say they're forgettable

Imagine BDSP being you're only experience of Gen 4. Please play Platinum or download Luminescent Platinum for BDSP.

I'm playing this game right now and after seeing so much love for the game, I am truly disapointed so far, MOST (not all) pokemons designs are weird, trainers have all the same pokemons, gym leaders are forgetable ...

Tell me you don't read without saying you didn't read
"You could take Cherin and Bianca out of the game and nothing would change" 😂🤦

Black and White were a great soft reboot for the game even if people hated it for just using the gen5 150 list
it was a great experience overall with a decent story
i suggest also playing the remakes it will give both a BW nostalgia and a very great sequel
as for your gen4 experience being BDSP it is a decent game but felt lackluster as a remake, if you ever have the time platinum is a more definitive gen4 experience

Too bad you didn't play it back when it was very active and it had the companion Dream World website allowing you to put pokemon to sleep and play mini games to get some very good items and experience.

Love how dude played it for the first time and dunks on the rivals and doesn’t know some of the post game things.

I think it's funny because I have a vastly different opinion of the rivals in this game. This game did a great job with the rivals because the themes of their journeys is growing up through experience. The aged up characters to 14, means they are teenagers trying to find their way through life. For example, Cheren is an arrogant, but intelligent person who learning, but who thinks he knows everything, but as he travels and fights the MC, he realizes that what he knows is actually very little. He it builds up until the final battle in Victory Road, where he finally realizes that his mindset was flawed from the beginning and he should go back to the basics and try to relearn everything from a new perspective. This is capitalized on perfectly in the sequel where we see that Cheren's love of learning doesn't change, but his attitude toward it does and we find him as the teacher of the trainer school and also a gym leader, two positions where his love of learning can be shared with others!
Then you have Bianca, a ditzy girl that just wants to get out from under her father's watchful eye and explore the world. She has no goals, no purpose, she just wants to explore and learn new things, free from any restrictions. Bianca also loves to learn, but in a different way from Cheren. This excitement in Bianca builds up until Bianca I defeated by her dad in a pokemon battle and is forced to come home. But Bianca convinces her dad that while her journey was to get away from him, it was a lot of fun and she fell in love with Pokemon and learning about them in a new way. She ends up deciding that she doesn't want to be a pokemon trainer, after all, she was never any good at that anyway, but she loved learning about Pokemon. This leads her to think about becoming a pokemon professor, like Juniper, to continue to learn about Pokemon, just in a new way that excites her. In the sequel, we see her as an assistant to Juniper and a budding pokemon professor in her own right.
Both Cheren and Juniper had different ways of growing, but they both loved learning. They realized, through their experiences, that they loved learning, but for the wrong reasons, and when thinking about it, they realized why they loved learning and how best to continue doing so in the future. Honestly, their stories are honestly some of the best coming-of-age stories I've ever seen, and I'm quite saddened you missed it.

I never hated the elemental monkeys, and I chose Snivy too, so I got Panpour, which is arguably the best one, but it got outclassed real quick. By the time I reached Clay, it was already outclassed and I needed to find a new water type

Hope we get a remake

You haven’t truly experienced the 4th Gen until you’ve played platinum.

Gen 5 and 7 are my favorite gens and fav pokemon games i ever played! I hope we get a black and white remake one day🤞🏽

I agree with everything except for the Villain team. Everyone always overrates Team Plasma as "dark" and whatever but... The truth is that they are just your regular silly villain team. Doing silly things like hiding in a fridge, stealing pokemon or a bike because yes. And there's also Getsis, a leader that's bad because reasons and is telling everyone he's actually bad and just wants to rule the world everytime he meets someone. The game reveals it to the player since the very first town (for kids to know he's the evil one, do not think), repeating it again in the first city in case you missed it... And many other times through the game just for the sake of revealing it AGAIN as a kind of "plot twist" situation at the very end of the game :O

But yes, they're really dark and smart for the first time wahahaha

how dare you slander mienfoo line, uturn, regenerator high jumpkick, a monstrous glass canon

bw2 is much better

If you want to learn about Team Plasma, then try to play the sequel. It's good

What I haven't realized until very very recently is that even on the cover of black and white there is true no black and white. It's all just varying shades of gray. Just like in the games themselves

Before I get to deep into the video, I’ll say this game is a 10/10
Graphics
Gameplay
Aesthetic
Music
Story
Details
All 10/10
Only gripe is the linear map. The towns and cities are great, but not much exploration is available

The thing is, i with the exception of keldeo, landorus and gensect used every pokemon in the game for the run and none of them weren’t valuable and were all good and fun to use for me. So i’m really attached to this generation

Forgettable rivals? Don't know how that conclusion arrived in your head. Team Plasma being pretty Mid is also another point I really dont get.

You HAVE to play the sequels for more team plasma backstories

I like the design of the Protagonist of this series because they look a little older than past games which I appreciated because it felt like the series was gonna grow up...but that didn't last long...oh well

Forgettable rivals? Man those dialogues really went over yo head

The monkeys don't deserve the hate they get 😢