I don't enjoy team building in this game very much. I see no one mention on how you get all the good tms super late which can leave some of your pokemon lacking some incredibly crucial moves until very late game or even postgame. Like magnemite in this game, bro only gets like spark or electro ball until level 46 where he finally gets discharge. Which means little bro doesn't get good special electric stab until like late game which sucks balls. Pokemon like flygon don't even get eq or dragon claw super late so unless you want to spam bulldoze for most the game you're kinda fucked. Don't get me started on pansear. I love the little guy but using him in his actual home game is like the worse gaming experience ever because the flamethrower tm is super late and bro ONLY gets flame burst as stab. Flash cannon tm is also super late so if you thought you were going to use good steel stab on a pokemon like Lucario then fuck you, you're stuck with a worse move like iron tail for like the entire game. Maybe I was just using the wrong pokemon but while I was doing hardcore nuzlockes of this game everytime I looked at my box I just found all my pokemon I wanted to use to just not get good stab until super late which is a problem I never run into with Platinum or Emerald. It makes me almost prefer the old method of tms breaking because at least I could get tms of good moves for my mons even if I had to spend a few hours to get them. Also not to mention that a few unovan pokemon are ass purely because they have shit base stats and don't evolve until like level 60 for some god awful reason. Using the static braviary was fun at least, that's always a highlight of every b2w2 nuzlocke or playthrough I do. I always name my bird pokemon failure in honor of a staraptor I used once. He was awesome I should replay platinum sometime. Also PWT way lamer than battle frontier, why would I want nostalgia for kanto, johto, or sinnoh when I can play kanto, johto, or sinnoh on the same system. You don't even get 6v6 fights with the returning trainers besides Cynthia it's lame as hell.

Reviewed on Mar 19, 2023


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1 year ago

Also as a sidenote, I don't get why people always say "This is the last time gf ever tried with Pokemon" when USUM exists. Sure people don't like alola but the game had a fair amount of effort into it, the writing was enjoyable if a bit much and all the new pokemon were super cute/cool and awesome to use. Not to mention the game can be somewhat challenging much like B2W2 is. While I feel somewhat mixed on usum because it can fall into the problems I had with b2w2 (though pokemon bank can mitigate it even if I consider that cheating) in all honesty y'all gotta stop acting like Gamefreak just made this game and then never tried again because they did their efforts just fell flat more than it did with the 2d pokemon gens.