There's a great progression to the journey, and even the typically punishing Elite Four Pokemon trainers you'll encounter don't present too much of a grind-inducing difficulty spike. There's a new order to the locales you'll visit a better order, as it turns out, as Black and White 2 has the - for lack of a better word - smoothest campaign yet. In Black and White 2, your journey will take you through new paths of the Unova region, to remodeled gyms and transformed cities. The set-up is familiar, but the quest itself is actually quite different. You set off from a previously undiscovered corner of Unova, pick your obligatory starter, and begin your quest to collect all eight gym badges while thwarting whatever nefarious, misguided schemes that Plasma can cook up. In the interim, the antagonistic Team Plasma has lost both leadership and direction, and a new, choose-your-own-gender protagonist has come of Pokemon-training age. Pokemon Black and White 2 picks up two years after its the original Black and White. THE SET-UP IS FAMILIAR, BUT THE QUEST ITSELF IS DIFFERENT
It's all wrapped in a package which still closely resembles the very first installment in the franchise - but Pokemon Black and White 2 possess some of the best ideas to come to the series so far. There are an enormous, unprecedented number of Pokemon to capture and train. There's a new plot, which for better and worse doesn't resemble that of the original Black and White. Pokemon Black and White 2 isn't a rehash, despite its unchanged title and setting. That describes Pokemon Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, and Platinum - but doesn't quite capture what Game Freak and Nintendo have done with Pokemon Black and White 2. The past four Pokemon generations were tertiary installments with the same exact setting, characters, and (with few exceptions) plot of its base games.
Pokemon Black and White 2 is not the bold reinvention of the franchise that fans have been anticipating for over a decade - but, at the same time, it's also not Pokemon Grey. Pokemon: Black and White 2 doesn't add much to revolutionize the series, but it's more approachable than Pokemon has ever been.