>>46303449They are not. I'm not even a genwunner. I played the most recent games and I enjoyed them at varying levels (yes, even SwSh). But I couldn't bring myself to finish Black and White. The concept that it has a good "story" baffles me - story is not important for a Pokémon game and even if it was, BW story is just the generic JRPG story crammed into a Pokémon game. Very impressive for baby's first RPG, but nothing that impressive, really. The pokémon designs are mostly unpleasant, when not downright disgusting and I could barely find any Pokémon I'd like to catch. It is never challenging, the gym leaders are often weak and their designs are very "whatever" and the puzzles are dumb. The one thing I can say of positive about those games come from the main character designs (for the first time in years the male MC looked cool) and the soundtrack.
Black and White are far from the absolute worst games in the franchise, but it is also far from the masterwork you people on /vp/ make it seem like it is.