Terfle's Thoughts: Black and White

Recently I bought a copy of the game Pokemon White. Though i am not even close to the league yet, I have already noticed some interesting things in the game. Something that hits you straight away, and then again when you reach Castelia city, is the graphics. Every time they release a new pokemon game everyone says 'wow the graphics are amazing' but this time is significantly different. The great 3d effects and the way the camera moves when you walk through some places is a massive step up from the way that the previous games were. As usual the menus and format of the game improved, though unfortunately like when diamond and pearl were released you cant trade over your pokemon, you have to migrate them. Migration is like trading except one person gives a pokemon to the other and can never get it back, sadly migration is permanent. The battle system changed dramatically, the camera now moves with the battle making the experience more captivating, also the sprites are now animated. They no longer stay still, they move, blink and do various other thing depending on what pokemon you use. These features, along with the camera movement, make the battles far far more seamless. They have also brought in triple battles and rotation battles, things that i haven't done enough of to develop an opinion on. As usual the storyline is a little pushy and linear, unfortunately this time you dont get to name your rival, just yourself. The new region comes with 155 new pokemon, in my opinion, quite a lot of ice and dark types. There are some that I like, for instance duosion, a psychic type. I'm not sure wheather or not it is just me but my one seems to have a higher sp. attack than health stat. TMs have now become reusable, something that I have wanted for a long time. I found it really annoying that there were some TMs that you only found once, then could never get back. The down side of this is that the price for TMs has sky rocketed. TMs that just change the weather now cost 50k. I still haven't gotten that far so it is likely that I will be making another of these before I am finished with pokemon white.

Terfle