"A Short Video" About Generation 5

very fun fact: the protagonists and rivals were originally planned to be 16, which makes them going off on a journey with pokemon make more sense with the region being based on the USA - it's kind of like a 16 year old getting their license/first car and being able to go out on their own! not sure why they were aged down at some point.

>click on 3-hour video essay >look inside >plot summary

Fun fact: The Bouffalant living sacred sword at 1:29:04 despite being at -4 defense isn't actually because of Bouffalant. Sacred sword actually ignores the stat changes of the opponent when calculating damage, which also includes the negative ones.

Incredibly short, I’m ashamed watched it all already.

5 years from now when the gen 7 version of this drops boutta go crazy

Y’know, with N talking to your Pokémon, having your Pokémon follow you outside of their Pokéball in these games would have been cool, because then could have had N actually looking at your Pokemon. Missed opportunity in my opinion. Although this way does say something about Pokéballs, that Pokémon can communicate through them. So it’s not like you’re completely sealing them away from the outside world.

A 3 hour video on Gen 5? Oh how you spoil me

Really great retrospective on Gen 5. It gave me a new way of viewing professor Juniper- she's significantly younger than previous professors and as a result she's way more hands on. She's different Tho I would like to mention BW2 is more focused on change. For example Hugh (aka Steve) had his perspective changed and challenged throughout in being able to accept that Team Plasma are no longer ALL bad and moves from trying to vilify all of Plasma to standing by the members who have grown. Meanwhile someone like Ghetsis is set in his ways, practically shackled and held back by them. And when that ideology crumbles and he's forced to face reality he falls apart mentally and we don't see him again afterwards.

personally, i never felt like i need to be leveled the same as gym leaders or trainers, being right under them I was strong enough by having a well balanced team and would level up in the actual battle as well, which made me completely surprised as to why you were grinding.

The shortest Gen 5 review out there. As someone whose favourite generation is 5, I really enjoyed this video, I really enjoyed re-experiencing Unova in the sequels and experiencing all of the features the game had when it came out brand new, like the Join Avenue was insane with online connectivity, but I am happy someone has finally said that the story of B/W 2 is simply not at the level of the original. Black and White were the games you went with for the crazy good story, and new Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 were what you played for the features and the Pokémon you were familiar with. But at least they toned down the Rival battles, added the best feature ever added to a Pokémon games - the automatic Repel refreshing. That said, my favourite part of the B/W2 story is the part where Ghetsis straight up tries to murder a kid... Kinda impressed they went that hard with his madness

Missed rent this month but at least I got my copy of Pokemon White 2!

“Realistically, you would grab the running shoes on your way out” well actually, realistically, being a person with legs I would just be able to run no matter what I was wearing, never understood why they felt the need to make running locked behind an item

Not calling Ghetsis’s theme a banger is a crime

As a "gen1'er" a while back I went and did a playthrough of all the games since I never played an of them, and funny enough when I hit gen 3 and 4 I wasn't having as much fun and started to think the first two games really were nostalgia but then I hit gen 5 and immediately thought again. Then I played the games after and though gen 6 wasn't horrible, the series started to go back down hill again. I'd say BW, BW2, and HG/SS are objectively the best games.

Gen 5 was HATED when it came out. I'm finally playing through them and they're fun for sure

Its crazy how gen 5 use to be so hated but is now looked on with love

gen 5 my beloved...

2:37:02 since you played the sequel first it makes sense, but I remember when i played them growing up, they had the memory link feature which showed more flashbacks and context to more directly tie them together which was really cool and only happened if you had save data from the prior game

Amazing! I also love the Undella Town surprise on "that house". And "that" scene in Black2/White2 when you reach old main character house... heartbreaking.

I like how these games teach kids how to think and that they should take as many different points of view as possible into consideration before formulating their own opinions, as to prevent being doctrinated