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Playing Black and White made me feel like I was 8 and playing Crystal for the first time again.
I loved that it only had new pokemon for the main campaigh, and a lot of those new ones were really, really cool. Most of my favourites are from Unova.
Music was incredible.
Hilbert and Hilda are the most well-designed PBs in the series.
They tried to be more ambitious with their storytelling and character development, with varying degrees of success. I liked it, but I can see how others wouldn't. Being literally dragged through the story at every opportunity got annoying, but the story was interesting enough.
There's no denying that Unova was linear as fuck though. A lot of its locales were cool
BW2 is the pinnacle of the series in my opinion. Great mixture of old & new in the dex, loads of different shit to do outside the main campaign, neat story, addressed the linearity to an extent.