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I found an old copy of Black 2 in my brothers room that I never played. I played white 1 when I was a kid and hated it so I was curious to play Black 2 after seeing all the shilling on this board. I got to the 4th or 5th gym before getting absolutely bored to tears.
Pros:
>the gyms are fun and unique
>lots of different Pokémon
>high level curve so you are almost always underleveled making things more difficult
Cons:
>the sprites are ugly. Period. I genuinely prefer the soulless 3D models to this eye cancer
>apparently this was the Gen that started the anime VN style plots (non stop forced interactions, phone calls, character introduction, moeshit waifubait left and right, every other person looks like a tranny at comic con)
>off the last point, generally lacks a sense of adventure and discovery like Gen 6/7 because every step of the way you are accompanied by your anime TV show cast
>kanto pandering everywhere
>random environments, disjointed sense of place, doesn't feel like a cohesive region. (By the 3rd gym you should have a stacked party of extremely strong Pokémon with perfect coverage and typing)
>similar to the sprites, the soundtrack is half way between the good Pokémon soundtracks. It's not charming and catchy like the 8-bit tracks and it's not soaring and beautiful like the orchestral soundtracks of the 3D games, it's just halfway shitty sounding.
Overall Gen 5 has some nice ideas especially with the gyms but idk... you'd have to pay me to finish the game desu.
