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i never get into that much because of how tribal the fanbase is over every generation, but this is only game in the series i've ever put down on launch day. noting that i got into the series during gen 2 post-launch, and skipped let's go altogether, so that game + the 1st two gens i didn't actually play at launch. even still, i blew through crystal and blue and clearly they were enough to get me hooked for the future, nothing ever took me out of it like b2w2.
>world, plot, and characters feel squandered for pokemon's first ever full blown sequel, i feel it's set too recently after the original gen 5 games to feel like a warranted adventure, yet set too far after it to feel like it's picking up where they left off
>the map & gym flow of bw1 is awesome and gets thrown out of the window just to be different
>like the other anon said, the route distribution alternates between being the most dire thing you've ever seen and being amateur fangame levels of bloat. riolu being available in like the third route has always felt off.
>the first pokemon game to be truly weighed down by lengthy unskippable sequences, which really does a number as it's also the game in the series I find visually the ugliest
stopped playing for like a week halfway through. just bores me to no end and feels like everything is mismatched. people herald this as the end of the classics, but to me it's always been the beginning of the end, i've never had less hope in the series' future than when i first played white 2. i've come around on them quite a bit since then and have replayed them in full several times, but it doesn't change how i felt in the moment.
