Pokémon Black 2 & White 2 are Perfect Sequels

Pokémon Black 2 & White 2 are the final games to cover for this Pokémon review marathon and the one set of games I missed out on when they were released. Me, missing out on a Pokémon game? Sounds weird, I know. Considered the best 2D Pokémon games of all time with Part 1, let's see what I didn't get to experience as a kid as we revisit Unova and finish where we left off!

Also Colress. Colress is here too I guess.

Music Used:
Interview - Pokemon Scarlet & Violet
Intro Screen - Pokemon BW2
Route 22 (Autumn) - Pokemon BW2
Professor Juniper - Pokemon BW2
Aspertia City - Pokemon BW2
Anville Town - Pokemon BW2
Nacrene City- Pokemon BW2
Route 19 & 20 (Spring) - Pokemon BW2
Virbank City - Pokemon BW2
Accumula City (Mixed) - Pokemon BW2
Reversal Mountain - Pokemon BW2
White Treehollow - Pokemon BW2
Nuvema Town - Pokemon BW2
The End - Pokemon BW2
END OF FILE - Mega Man X6

All reviews are based on my own experience and history with the games & franchises I cover. Please understand that in each review I cannot cover everything as I am not a completionist. I am just a dude who likes to play what he sees and enjoys what he likes. That is all.

Thank you all for watching & I love you all to 120! ~

#pokemon #brianycus #pokemonblack2white2

[Brianycus]

And that's a wrap on Pokemon!
Thoughts on Pokemon Black 2 & White 2?
Let me know below! See you with more soon! ~

[karlotty]

Yes! Thank you! Hugh feels like the main character and we are just his neighbor who happens to be "good" in pokemon battles. ❤

[andrewlopez]

I'd love a black and white 1&2 remake those games were so fun still have them till this day

[Pownchao]

Man, I hope that the gen 5 games are revisited as a bundle of 1 and 2 in the future. Also hope they add that Hilbert/Hilda fight they chose to not include in the sequels.

[teammelodies]

Pokemon white 2 holds a special place in my heart.
It was the first pokemon game i ever played, and i loved it.
One day i should see if i can play it again

[KenBladehart]

Regarding N's tiny screen time. Apparently, hes searching for Hilbert/Hilda... who is searching for N
What a stupid goose chase

[monkeydluffy]

The sequel was a lot of fun I remember beating it many times cause there were moments in the story that made me happy

[Cyanize]

can def confirm with this being my first pokemon game, did not need black and white to have a fun time. I remember restarting my playthrough everytime I beat the game just to try to beat it with a different team and it would entertain me for years and years to come. There are so many reasons for why this game shouldn't exist but it does and it's so cool and i'm forever thankful it does.

[jaretco]

IMO; this is the best Pokémon game. No other games; not even the ones afterwards, comes close of being as an near perfect Pokémon game as B2W2 has. To me, this is still the definitive Pokémon experience. I hope there be an new Pokémon game that can rivaled or even be better than B2W2. But so far, none of them have come close.

[JoeFilms]

That Marine Tube is AWESOME. I really love how they designed that, it reminds me a bit of the underwater sections in Halo 2. I'll need to play this someday!

[IamMeHereSee]

I used to dislike that Team Plasma went from a nuanced collection of members ranging from the deluded, the well-meaning but unaware, and the evil to just outright evil in Neo Team Plasma, but I guess that's alright. Even so, I wish thr Shadow Triad fight was a triple battle of your 6 vs their 9. Missed opportunity.

[fishurprise]

I played Pokemon Black 1 and 2 and I admit of using boosts because I'm more into the lore than the gameplay.
That being said when I played Black 2 first thing thought up to me is "How's the first mom doing?".
I finished the game and went straight into Nuvema Town, met Cheren for a bit then went straight into the Black 1 house.
I kid you not I cried when I met her again and it hurts me most the fact that the protag in Black 2 is not the same in Black 1.
Peak game. Just missing Hilda or Hilbert in the sequel.

Additional note: I wanted to hug the Black 1 mom

[LunaticEyes]

Where else to go when you reach the top of the mountain than to shoot for the skies, am I right?

I may have joined rather late into the Pokémon marathon here, but I am glad that YouTube recommended me part 1 of your Unova adventure in the time I was (and still am) revisiting Sinnoh. Both Black & White and Black 2 & White 2 combined together make for a, personally, PHENOMENAL generation that has still aged well even to this day. If Black & White had amazing presentation, they decided to crank it up to 11 with how much they decided to add to the region and even tweak what was already there. The sequels even decided to make one of the best post games we will see for a while in Pokémon... because as much as I want to count the DLCs of Sword & Shield and Scarlet & Violet as postgame, and as much I personally enjoy the games, I would really rather have a good postgame in the main package than to add it as DLC for the extra money.

I really do wish that the sequels carried the momentum when it came to part 1's story, but alas what we have is a pretty average, though still good, story that is only really novel because of how much has changed in 2 years since the first games. Hugh is a pretty cool "rival" character with his own motivations and reasons to become stronger that has nothing to do with the Pokémon League and becoming Champion, a contrast to Cheren. Though, I cannot say that I like him more than I like Cheren and Bianca because of how much there is to their stories and arcs as they go in their own personal journey to become the people that they are today.

I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed Colress though! He's sometimes overlooked in his debut game because of his minimum screentime in the actual story, but I enjoy how much of a morally grey character he is. He isn't a villain as much as he is an obstacle by chance, being aligned with Team Plasma only to further his research and find the answer to maximizing and bringing out the full strength of Pokémon. He has zero interest and even disagrees with Neo Team Plasma and Ghetsis's views and goals to the point where he opposes them and helps you out at times along your journey. He's just a guy with his own interests and will do what he thinks will help with his research. Can't help but love the guy, especially in his future appearances.

Black & White will forever remain as the Pokémon game with THE best story of the mainline games for me, while Black 2 & White 2 will be the games with one of the best postgames and truly the definitive version of the Unova region as a whole to explore. Together, they really make for one of the best Pokémon games. One thing that you didn't mention (or am unsure if you ever got to find out) is that once you beat all the tournaments and get through the World Leaders Tournament where you can fight ALL the Gym Leaders from the regions in one tournament, you unlock the Champions Tournament, allowing you to fight the CHAMPIONS of ALL THE PREVIOUS REGIONS, and they have their own remixed versions of their themes just like the Gym Leaders! You can even fight Red too, which is simply insane to think that they included all of this when they didn't even have to.

One neat feature about these games that I'm unsure if you've heard about or seen (since it went unmentioned in the video) is the Memory Link. I don't think it's possible to do tjis via WiFi anymore obviously, but if you have 2 DS/3DS systems you can access it via local wireless. It reads back on all of the information of your Black or White game and unlocks certain features, like the ability to find N's Pokémon that he fought you with throughout the story and released, the option to fight Cheren and Bianca with their teams from the first game with the fully evolved starter that they had in your playthrough as well! Additionally, you can also talk to some characters who will retell something that went on after Black & White but before Black 2 & White 2 via a flashback to check in on what they've been up in between the games. Every mention of the first games' protagonist during and after the main story will also use the name that YOU gave them instead of it being vague. This is honestly some of the coolest stuff that Game Freak has done. None of it was necessary, but they still decided to include it anyways. It's a shame that some of the online features of both Black & White and Black 2 & White 2 are just... absent now that the online services are gone for these games, but the fact that there is still so much to enjoy about Unova without the online speaks volumes to how good they are.

I've been writing for way too long but there's actually one more thing that I wish to add. In the Abyssal Ruins, there are actually 4 floors. You go up by reaching the purple pillars and getting/using certain requirements. Getting to the first one in less than 190 steps, using Flash on the second one, and using Strength on the third one. You can also get the translated writing which might seem undecipherable, but if you use the Caesar Cipher and use the shift value in accordance to the floor you're in, you will get phrases. All of these will actually reveal actual lore that recontextualizes A LOT about the story that's already been told in the Unova games, and there are even some mysteries that have still not been solved today.

Hopefully some of this stuff was interesting to read and not a slog to get through, I just really like to talk about some of the really cool details in my favorite games. I've rambled enough anyways. Amazing job on today's video, and I cannot wait to see what you will cover next. :)

[selfconfidenceee]

Im proud to say I owned black and white and black and white 2! Loved the story specially and to this day they are my favorite games. Sad that the sales on this game were so low and now people are realizing how good these games were.

[historicflame]

Basically what happened was that after B1W1, N went off somewhere to do something and the protagonists followed after the post game, which is why they're absent
N can sense Kyurem cross-continental so comes to help

[shein]

This is the most beautiful Pokemon game. I pray they remake this and do it justice

[geo_dragon]

Pokemon BW2 are genuinely peak pokemon games; the 2d animations hold up to this day, the content is meaty, both Unova stories come together amazingly in the end, and the OST ABSOLUTELY BANGS!
I genuinely pray one day...that Gamefreak releases a pokemon game with this level of detail, love and passion...guess we gotta wait for something Gen 5 after Gen 10 + It's DLC

Legends Arceus came close i will say lmao

[nightwing]

So for gen 5, when black and came out I was about 13 in March 2011 in the US turning 14 in April of that year when I was in the 7th grade. Just like in heart gold and soul silver I was 12 about to 13 when March when those games came out in 2010 when I was in 6th grade. When black and white 2 came out in October of 2012, I was 15 years old back then and I was starting the 9th grade as well. My little cousin wasn’t born yet, she was born in February of 2013 so when x and y’s reveal trailer came out she had a month before she was born. She’s around 11 now about start the sixth grade. I’m now 27 years old as of 2024. I wished that sun and moon and x and y had sequels to them. Sun and moon were perfect for sequels to came out instead of alternate universe for ultra sun and moon like what we got. As for me, I will always like Pokémon since I was three in 2000 while watching the anime first then played the mainline games. In black and white 2, I was playing black tower and white tree hollow before my little cousin was born in February of 2013. I had finished black tower in the last few months of 2012 and then white tree hollow in the first two months of 2013.

[farwdavid]

Instead of a black and white remake i'd love to see a Legends game from Nintendo. Zekrom, Reshiram, and Kyurem used to be a singular pokemon called the Original Dragon which has been teased in both of the games. If they could make a game based off a storyline where Team Plasma finds some new evil legendary and you have to fuse the three in order to take down Plasma for the last time would be amazing. Black was my first pokemon game, and Black 2 my second. My inner 9 year old would be ecstatic.

[ismaelsolis]

I enjoy so much seeing all the love these games get, having Black 2 be my first Pokémon experience ever I just have so much nostalgia for it. The theme for Aspertia City is just that comfy music when I just wanna lay down and not think about life in general, but I gotta say it has a downside because the post game of any other Pokémon title just doesn’t impress me as much as the one for this game does, but I guess I just got spoiled lol