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Whoa, wait, what? I'm actually updating my journal? Weird...

I'm kind of freaked out by this. I haven't done this in a while...What shall I say!?

Uh...Uh...Think of something...um...

I, uh...I like girls and stuff? That doesn't seem like a quality thing...Oh! Oh! I'll say something about Pokemon Black/White. Here goes.

I think it really sucked. I know I'm in the minority here, but I think it sucked tremendous amounts of balls. Mostly I'm ticked off about the graded scale of leveling. Pokemon has always been a grindfest at times but they really overdid it with this one. I wound up spending twice as much time between gyms because your pokemon get less experience points with each successive level. That made me pretty frustrated with the game. So far I'm sticking with Platinum as my favorite game so far, although SoulSilver/HeartGold had the best endgame experience. And that's the other thing about Black/White: the endgame was terrible. I didn't even bother completing it all the way through, and let's not forget that Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald had a pretty shitty endgame as well. Sapphire was my least favorite one until Black/White came out, but I would gladly take it now.

The new Pokemon were okay, but there wasn't enough variety for me. I'm not too fond of the season rotation, either. I think if it changed weekly that might have made it better for me, but considering I can finish a Pokemon game in roughly a month, the monthly swap didn't really come into play. So it's got a bunch of little flaws that combine to make it pretty unplayable for me. Hopefully they get it better the next time. If they went back to the classic experience point setup, I think that would fix it for me, or at least make it bearable. As it stands, I wish I had waited to buy it used.

And that's my two cents.

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