The first thing to address in Black and White is the big elephant in the room: no previous generation Pokemon are available until the postgame. All-New Pokémon Pokemon: Black and White Anime Series ( Source) Black and White do a lot of things well as well as a couple of things which make you scratch your head in confusion. The Unova games aren’t any different in this regard. But the fact of the matter is, all the mainline entries to the franchise have things I like and things that I don’t. I feel like the version that becomes the “sacred cow” of the franchise changes every couple of years. Typically, the Pokemon Nostalgia Cycle has the fandom celebrate one particular older version, with the version immediately coming after it being described as “when the series started to go wrong”. It offers a couple of features that are unique from version to version. The series has a core set of tropes which it doesn’t really deviate from. People joke about Pokemon basically being the same game repeatedly, but there is a grain of truth to that. It’s always hard talking about the different versions of Pokemon among the fandom. But, in any case, the original Unova games are a decade old. It could also be the fact, I still have ready access to them, thanks to the DS and 3DS having friendlier backwards compatibility than most Nintendo products tend to. In a lot of ways, they still feel brand new. Maybe it’s age creeping up on me, but it feels like these games didn’t come out that long ago.
It’s hard for me to believe, but Pokemon: Black and White have turned ten this year.
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