The average backloggd (or indeed online gaming sites in general) user must have been born 2003/2004 and played WB/W2B2 as their first pokemon game when they were 9 years old - I accept no other reason why this game is so highly regarded online. I could physically feel my life force being sucked away by this game.

Enough has been said about the new 156 pokemon and the problems that come from this setup isn't unique to this entry. The first 5 hours of (most) pokemon games suck, I am sick of seeing normal-types and fucking birds in my tall grass. Having said that, Lillipup ending up carrying me through this entire game with Tackle and Strength. By the end of the game, there are some interesting pokemon but I only saw them because they were on the final bosses team.

Pokemon stories suck ass, but so do a lot games' stories The problem here is that pokemon always finds a way to act like the story they are trying to tell is worthwhile. It isn't and it's a goddamn drag having to read all these repetive boring-ass textboxes.

Elite Four was a fun challenge, until I realised that the solution was to simply grind and get overlevelled. If you didn't want to do that, you could always go and catch some more suitable pokemon, but you would still be grinding these new 'mons to get them up to speed.