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Whimsicott

I piked up my copy of Pokemon White yesterday (The 8th) and I thought I would give my first impressions of the game. The game follows the standard Pokemon RPG formula, Get your starter, get some more, battle, gym, catch, battle etc etc, but this time there is many noticeable changes. The game this time around is a lot more story heavy. The bad guys, Team Plasma have noble reasons for what they are doing - unlike in other Pokemon games, where the main antagonists just wanted all of teh epic pokemans.

You'll also notice the graphics have been given quite a huge update, in-battle sprites are animated and look great, battles no longer look like you're fighting with still images. There is a whole mess of new moves, as well as old ones and all the pokemon you meet until the end of the game are brand new.

Although with this many Pokemon, designs start to get a little weird.                                                            

Take this one for Example. This fucker is 041 of the new dex, Tympole.
You may be thinking right now "WHAT THE HOLY FUCK?!" And quite frankly I don't blame you. Thankfully this is the only one of the designs that is truly THIS bad, but there is some others that aren't so flash hot.

I thought to myself "Maybe its just because I've got so much nostalgia for the old Pokemon, the new ones seem a bit weird" yeah thats all fine and good, and then you see some awesome looking pokemon like Whimsicott (above), and Zebstrika (below).

Zebstrika

But wait, that's not all! Before Pokemon black and white, my favourite regions where probably Johto and Hoenn, then the rest. Now its probably Unova (isshu) Johto, Hoenn and the rest. The new region is packed full of stuff to see and do, it looks great and its huge. Each of the game has an exclusive city, and one city that changes based on the game.

I could keep talking about this game for ages and ages, but frankly I just want to get back to playing it, If you've been thinking about getting it, get it. If you've never played a pokemon game in your life, this might not be the best one to start with, but may still be worth checking out. And if you've already got it stop reading this and go play it!