I dunno about evolved. I don't think I would've picked this out as the best pokemon game. I haven't actually finished it yet but I've played through a lot.
The game mechanics are pretty much the same but adding seasons really seems like overkill. They take weeks to apply and I'm thinking a lot of people will be over the game by then.
I disagree the storyline is worth playing for. It does make a nice change with Team Plasma actually having a decent agenda but again it sucks that the pokemon game is completely linear. I would've probably joined Plasma but no matter how much you agree with them you are always forced to fight them. Some of the later stuff that you refer to I am not familiar with so I'll pass on commenting on that.
Honestly I found the two 'friends' to be even worse than the rivals from before. So much of the game was made up of scripted sequences that, with the entire story being linear, it didn't even feel like a game any more. In the previous games you had very little scripting and it felt like you were actually exploring the world. In B&W what you do is extremely rigid and even the areas between cities are pretty much straight paths.
If you can get the original pokemon after you complete the game then that is good because I've been very unsure about their decision to remove the previous pokemon. It might make it seem like a totally new game but it also leads to a lack of variety in what people have and really removes a lot of the connection it might otherwise have to the previous games.
The graphics aren't too bad but changing to 3D did not benefit the series at all. At times the camera angles make things blocky and the whole bridge sequence was obviously just them showing off as it served no purpose at all. That said I did like how you could now move along curves, particularly in the large city which introduced real crowds and buildings.
I've thought very little of the new pokemon since the 2nd generation and this one hasn't done much to improve that. There are a number of cute and cool ones but they are really showing a strain in the creativity department. Some of the pokemon designs are completely ridiculous and others are so pathetically generic that you could translate them as is from the pokemon world without them even seeming out of place.
It's not an overall bad game and has made a couple of improvements, particularly in the battling department, but I don't think it's nearly as good as it could have been.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
I dunno about evolved. I don't think I would've picked this out as the best pokemon game. I haven't actually finished it yet but I've played through a lot.
The game mechanics are pretty much the same but adding seasons really seems like overkill. They take weeks to apply and I'm thinking a lot of people will be over the game by then.
I disagree the storyline is worth playing for. It does make a nice change with Team Plasma actually having a decent agenda but again it sucks that the pokemon game is completely linear. I would've probably joined Plasma but no matter how much you agree with them you are always forced to fight them. Some of the later stuff that you refer to I am not familiar with so I'll pass on commenting on that.
Honestly I found the two 'friends' to be even worse than the rivals from before. So much of the game was made up of scripted sequences that, with the entire story being linear, it didn't even feel like a game any more. In the previous games you had very little scripting and it felt like you were actually exploring the world. In B&W what you do is extremely rigid and even the areas between cities are pretty much straight paths.
If you can get the original pokemon after you complete the game then that is good because I've been very unsure about their decision to remove the previous pokemon. It might make it seem like a totally new game but it also leads to a lack of variety in what people have and really removes a lot of the connection it might otherwise have to the previous games.
The graphics aren't too bad but changing to 3D did not benefit the series at all. At times the camera angles make things blocky and the whole bridge sequence was obviously just them showing off as it served no purpose at all. That said I did like how you could now move along curves, particularly in the large city which introduced real crowds and buildings.
I've thought very little of the new pokemon since the 2nd generation and this one hasn't done much to improve that. There are a number of cute and cool ones but they are really showing a strain in the creativity department. Some of the pokemon designs are completely ridiculous and others are so pathetically generic that you could translate them as is from the pokemon world without them even seeming out of place.
It's not an overall bad game and has made a couple of improvements, particularly in the battling department, but I don't think it's nearly as good as it could have been.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~