Actually mad how I ended up loving this, always had a complicated relationship with the 5th gen of Pokémon. I played Black when it was first released, don't even think I played past the first two gyms because I hated everything about it, look, story etc..
I gave Black another chance recently and was quite pleasantly surprised, especially story-wise it's a pretty awesome game and while not one of my favourite Pokémon games, still so much better than I first thought.
Went on to play Black 2 and was so disappointed again. Nothing really held my interest, I didn't care much for the opening area, the farm etc.. then I came to Pokéwood and the fashion show gym and kept thinking that lots of the very modern elements felt a bit forced and I didn't really care about it much.
So I usually keep playing a Pokémon game to satisfy my completionism and so I did, reluctantly, but I paused it for a long time when I got to Chargestone Cave. Picked it up again months later and from there on I slowly grew to love the game. I changed my team so that it would only include gen 5 Pokémon (I initially planned to use several Eevee forms), and had a lot of fun with the new Pokémon that I still wasn't too familiar with after only playing Black once.
Well, the rest of the main game was already pretty cool but I think the point where I just thought that it was absolutely incredible was when I got to the Black Tower, spent hours on that challenge and adored it, and a lot of the other post-game stuff is cool as well.
So yeah, difficult relationship with the generation but it all turned out well. Almost got a bit emotional exploring the first routes in the end of the game, and I'm not sure why I didn't like it at first.
My team was pretty spontaneous, I sometimes put some effort into planning it but here I just took a few Pokémon I encountered on the way, so I ended up with Serperior, Eelektross, Zoroark, Chandelure and Krookodile (sixth spot was for HM slaves).
I gave Black another chance recently and was quite pleasantly surprised, especially story-wise it's a pretty awesome game and while not one of my favourite Pokémon games, still so much better than I first thought.
Went on to play Black 2 and was so disappointed again. Nothing really held my interest, I didn't care much for the opening area, the farm etc.. then I came to Pokéwood and the fashion show gym and kept thinking that lots of the very modern elements felt a bit forced and I didn't really care about it much.
So I usually keep playing a Pokémon game to satisfy my completionism and so I did, reluctantly, but I paused it for a long time when I got to Chargestone Cave. Picked it up again months later and from there on I slowly grew to love the game. I changed my team so that it would only include gen 5 Pokémon (I initially planned to use several Eevee forms), and had a lot of fun with the new Pokémon that I still wasn't too familiar with after only playing Black once.
Well, the rest of the main game was already pretty cool but I think the point where I just thought that it was absolutely incredible was when I got to the Black Tower, spent hours on that challenge and adored it, and a lot of the other post-game stuff is cool as well.
So yeah, difficult relationship with the generation but it all turned out well. Almost got a bit emotional exploring the first routes in the end of the game, and I'm not sure why I didn't like it at first.
My team was pretty spontaneous, I sometimes put some effort into planning it but here I just took a few Pokémon I encountered on the way, so I ended up with Serperior, Eelektross, Zoroark, Chandelure and Krookodile (sixth spot was for HM slaves).