- Publisher: Nintendo
- Release Date: Mar 6, 2011
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 873 Ratings
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Positive: 624 out of 873
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Mixed: 146 out of 873
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Negative: 103 out of 873
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Sep 8, 2023Treasure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sep 7, 2023
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Aug 23, 2023
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Aug 1, 2023Good but im not too fond of the "only gen 4 pokemons in this game" thing, its a bit lack luster
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Jul 19, 2023
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Jul 17, 2023The pinnacle of 2D Pokemon Games, and most likely the best of all mainline pokemon games. Rich story, lore, good map design, banger music 11/10
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Jul 11, 2023This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jun 26, 2023Now this is a pokemon game right here. One of the very best ever made. So many new polemon. Great story. The sprite art is top tier. A game I'll always go back to for a new play through.
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Jun 2, 2023Il migliori giochi pokemon, quando ci mettevano ancora il cuore e le competenze tecniche
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Jun 1, 202396/100 .
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May 21, 2023Très sympa. C'est un Pokémon classique mais un Pokémon est toujours sympa et amusant au point que je pourrais presque mettre le même commentaire à tous les Pokémons.
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May 18, 2023This an BORING GAME! B2W2 is so much better. The progeinsoions is so slow. The fire starter suck, the anime suck, this sucks. Pokemon black is not a good game, probaly one of the worst. 4/10, and B2W2 is a 10/10
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May 18, 2023
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May 13, 2023Lo peor en toda la saga, pokémon feos, una historia pretenciosa y mal escrita, y es la región de las barreras y los bloqueos absurdos, no hay lugar a donde ir sin que el juego no sepa justificar adonde puedes ir y adonde no, ademas que es fácil en todos sus lideres de gimnasio, no existe reto alguno.
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May 8, 2023This is my first pokemon game and I say I had a pretty ok experience. It's fun to discover new pokemon, new evolution etc. The gyms are creative and the soundtrack is good. But it doesn't have the deepest gameplay of all time it's mainly to chill and have fun with your siblings and friends.
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May 4, 2023This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Apr 15, 2023Pokémon sucks in 2023.This game,it's instead the best of the main line. N is the best character of the series and even Komor and Belle are perfect rivals.
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Apr 14, 2023Best history, best antagonists, and my favorite Pokemon as legendary of the game.
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Mar 15, 2023Without a doubt the best game in the Pokemon series. The decision to limit the Pokedex to only new Pokemon definitely helps freshen the experience. The characters are all interesting and the game has the best story in the series. The only downsides that come up are the sometimes questionable level curve and the occasionally lacking Pokemon designs.
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Mar 6, 2023I would give this game a 10 but the sequel honestly is a bit better. Still an amazing game though!
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Feb 6, 2023
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Feb 5, 2023
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Feb 1, 2023The BEST game from the franchise that was ever released. The designs and the story were so cool, and the fact that none of the old Pokemon are there before the post game is very, very clever to make an old game feel fresh. Recommended to everyone who wants to play some DS games.
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Dec 16, 2022Black = 5/10
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Nov 30, 2022Was not a fan and made me kinda drop pokemon entirely for a while. Nothing memorable.
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Nov 13, 2022I just finished beating Pokémon Scarlet (believe it or not), and I, naturally, started to wonder "Is this really Pokémon at its best?","Should this be the direction for all of the future games?,"Do I want it to be?". I just want to say, that Pokémon Black
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Nov 7, 2022La generación pokémon con la dificultad más alta de toda la saga y una banda sonora de locos. Lástima que, al compartir plataforma con la anterior, no innovó tanto, y aún con esas, sacaron una segunda parte de ellas. Sería utópico pedir otra generación que rete tanto al jugador como lo hizo está. Son otros tiempos...
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Aug 15, 2022
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Jun 30, 2022
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Jun 21, 2022Easily the best story Game Freak has ever written, with the most compelling characters in the franchise.
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Jun 12, 2022
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May 27, 2022This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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May 12, 2022Pokemon Black is a Good Pokemon and My First Pokemon.I dont Know why is it so Much hate on the Game.
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Apr 7, 2022
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Feb 15, 2022Really good main game, people will say it is linear, but that's just the layout of the map. The routes offer a satisfying amount of exploration, unlike Swsh, for example. It's only lacking in meaningful post game content.
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Feb 2, 2022
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Feb 2, 2022I really liked playing this game as a kid but now everyone praises it so much it feels over rated and i feel like if i give it anything more then a 9 ill be one of those joining it in the over hype
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Jan 30, 2022garbage. i regret purchasing it, even unworthy of being pirated. to this day the bottom of the barrel of the entire franchise
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Jan 13, 2022This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Dec 29, 2021Best legendary's and It as a great ending and Its Evil team in this game Is the most Actual Evil people. If your a Pokemon fan and haven't played this game U need to now.
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Dec 11, 2021Una pena que este juego no haya sentado precedente, obra maestra de nintendo, alejada de la formula clasica pero muy acertado
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Dec 2, 2021Pokemon Black and White is sprite-based pokemon at it's best. The world is even more animated than ever and captured in a beautiful art direction and color palettes. Brilliant character designs and consists of many new pokemons, one of the Nintendo DS's highest quality game.
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Nov 24, 2021A really beautiful Game! A good soundtrack and a really good Dising! Please Nintendo give us a Remake for the switch, because thats the best Pokemon i ever Played.
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Nov 11, 2021Good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oct 29, 2021This is my favorite Pokémon game I have played in my entire life, the best thing of this game is the world, it just feels alive and the gym leaders are not only challenges, but they have their own goals and motivations, it's a very special game.
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Aug 22, 2021Amazing. Honestly my personal favorite Pokemon game. Many people say that some of the pokemon they added are really ugly but I don't think that they are really bad. Plus there are also lots of amazing pokemon they added. Also the music is amazing.
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Aug 2, 2021Best soundtrack in a Pokémon game with one of the best stories. I love the fact that you can only use unovan Pokémon as well. It's great to see the game that was so hated by the fandom at the time of its release become so popular and loved.
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Jul 27, 2021Still the best pokemon game ever. No old pokemons in main story and the fact that they spend 1 year just to write plot is great opportunity to show quallity of game. Wish there was more games like BW1
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Jul 17, 2021Great graphics, one of the best plot of the franchise, amazing soundtrack and a great amount of replay value, whats wrong then?
Im not a big fan of the new exp system, the grinding is excessive, lack of innovation, some of the Pokemon designs are horrible, the level curve of battles are a bit excessive sometimes and the pacing is still very slow, so it gets boring. -
Jul 4, 2021
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May 29, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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May 26, 2021Best Pokemon game to date. Incredible story with incredible characters. Animation and music are outstanding. Gamefreak outdid themselves on this one. Oshawott is the best starter ever no cap.
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Apr 19, 2021
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Apr 15, 2021
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Feb 13, 2021
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Nov 29, 2020
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Nov 19, 2020not great game. I did not have much fun playing it. lots of room for improvement
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Nov 8, 2020I like the songs they are very good I also like Pokémon wooper is a good Pokémon
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Jul 29, 2020Simplemente de los mejores juegos de pokemon , desde su historia hasta su soundtrack todo va de la mano para esta gran obra
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Jul 23, 2020El mejor juego de pokémon hasta la fecha, puesto que presenta una narrativa interesante que te hace pensar y un villano más que interesante, a mi gusto personal el diseño de los pokémon si decae un poco respecto a las otras generaciones, pero sigue siendo muy bueno. En lo que es historia y banda sonora este juego es realmente asombroso.
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Jul 21, 2020
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Jul 4, 2020Not perfect, as the ethical questions come across as fake deep and there are some forgettable characters... But still, these are probably the pokémon games that feel the most epic. You also get lots of moments that work by resulting to become memorable fight moments plus building some kind of relation ship with both characters and tour pokemon team.
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Jun 24, 2020The best Pokemon Game ever sorry not sorry. It's the totally truth, even more with the bad games that we're recieving actually
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Jun 22, 2020Junto ao Pokémon Pearl, um baita jogo de Pokémon, muito legal e bacana kkkkk
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Jun 21, 2020El mejor juego se nota el cariño y el trabajo que le dieron a este juego lamentablemente no valorado en su momento fue el ultimo gran juego de pokemon desde de aqui todo se iria a la basura
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May 17, 2020I haven’t ever beaten this game and I recently started playing it for the first time. From what I’ve seen so far this game is amazing and I can’t wait to see what it has in store for me!
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Apr 20, 2020This game was absolutely perfect. Amazing story, amazing music and new amazing pokémon. This game was very challenging, unlike recent pokémon games.
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Feb 25, 2020(This review is in Brazilian Portuguese)
Essa de longe a geração mais injustiçada da franquia. A história é uma das melhores da franquia e um reflexo das ações da organização PETA. A jogabilidade fluir melhor do que os jogos da quarta geração. -
Feb 13, 2020
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Jan 22, 2020A strange title that didn't please the fan but the improvement in graphic, mechanic and storytelling were personally amazing to me.
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Jan 19, 2020Es junto con su secuela lo mejor que pokemon ha dado en la saga principal, completo y muy trabajado, desgraciadamente el juego no fue recibido como se merecía, el juego que la saga necesitaba, pero que el fandom no merecía por no saber apreciarlo, una lástima...
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Jan 2, 2020
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Dec 31, 2019
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Nov 21, 2019How can you not love these games? This is what pokemon should've been from the start. A nice basic storyline that questions morality of not just villains but yourself for basically enslaving living creatures. The soundtrack of this **** is the best to date of the entire series. If Platinum wasn't so amazing I'd definitely choose these as the single best games in the series.
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Nov 20, 2019Hand holding started here. Difficulty in this game sucks, being the final boss the only "hard" battle, and it's in fact easy. Pokémon got boring with this generation. Unova map is linear as hell.
For me this is one of the worst Pokémon games. This game doesn't have the essence of Pokémon, even the interface is boring and dull. -
Nov 16, 2019to this day, this is still my favorite pokemon game. i don't think gamefreak will ever make a pokemon game better than black and white.
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Nov 16, 2019The second best Pokemon series game for me. Some things were cleared, but many many completely new additions were added and the plot was the best for the Pokemon mainline game. Difficulty and post-game were excellent too!
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Nov 14, 2019Easily the best of Pokemon, with beautiful sprite art, a compelling cast of characters, and 150 new Pokemon to discover in the world of Unova.
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Nov 8, 2019It has made my childhood happier; because of it, 10. I could never complete the Unova Pokédex, though. Landorus and Thundurus are the ones that are missing. It makes me feel incomplete :(
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Sep 4, 2019
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Sep 3, 2019
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Jun 26, 2019Story: 9, Gameplay: 8, Graphics: 8.5. The new graphics, new pokemons and new mechanics and especially the story in this game are great, a great start for Generation 5
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May 22, 2019
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May 21, 2019I always never liked that the Pokemon from previous generations weren't in this game.
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May 3, 2019Music: 4.5/5
Game Play: 4/5
Graphics: 4/5
Story: 4.5/5
Time-Value: 5/5
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Dec 2, 2018
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Nov 23, 2018
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Nov 16, 2018This game will always hold a place in my heart. The is probably the most ambitious entry into the franchise yet, due to implementing a completely new Pokedex with all new Pokemon to enjoy! The music is amazing, maybe bias is talk but the must is probably the best in the series, alongside Black 2 and White 2.
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Nov 2, 2018With many new ideas Pokemon Black is definitely a good game however many of its new Pokemon are quite forgettable and the experience overall just isn't as memorable as its predecessors
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Oct 20, 2018Huge dose from nostalgia right here. I have soo many memories with Pokemon Black and White. Game Freak made a huge step in the franchise by putting only new Pokemon. A very nice story. Many improvements from the 4th generation. Definitely my favorite Pokemon game.
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Oct 7, 2018With a truly captivating story and a plethora of things to do, this game is undoubtedly one of the strongest in the franchise. While the graphics are rather hit or miss, this game is still spectacular.
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Jul 6, 2018Los diseños de los pokémon son los peores de todas las generaciones, no se puede utilizar pokémon de las anteriores regiones, pero recompensan muy bien con los paisajes, lo gráficos, la música brutal y una excelente historia, que para mi es la mejor de toda la saga.
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May 24, 2018Pokemon Black Version is a great Pokemon game with my favorite pokemon: Tepig. It has a great story, great gym leaders, and 156 new and amazing pokemon to catch! But it isn't the best.
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Apr 27, 2018Para sua época, foi muito interessante. Boa região com boa variedade apesar da falta de pokemons antigos até a liga. A história é cativante e as cidades e rotas muito criativas e com a variedade causada pelas quatro estações adicionada.
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Mar 23, 2018
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Mar 22, 2018
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Jan 13, 2018Black was a less memorable pokemon game but a solid one nonetheless. After loving Pearl (which is still my favorite pokemon game), this game wasn't as impressive but I still enjoyed it.
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Jan 1, 2018Pokemon Black and White offers great music, a strong story, awesome pixel visuals, and the biggest new roster of Pokemon ever seen. However, its crippled by major balancing issues, as multiple challenge spikes will frustrate you to no end. I found myself going at a steady pace, but still getting stuck on every single gym I came across, I really hope I'm not just bad
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Dec 11, 2017Pokemon Black/White (and their sequel) are such perfect core series games on the DS, and I don't care what others say about them otherwise. In fact, they're so great, they're just begging Game Freak to remake them in the future!
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#1 Most Discussed DS Game of 2011
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Jun 5, 2011Learning from the past without ever taking his eyes off the present, this is the pinnacle of the series to date and proof that sometimes you don't need a revolution to give new life to a franchise.
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Apr 30, 2011Game Freak did it again. Pokemon Black Version is a masterpiece, delivering all the superb gameplay elements that fans of the series learned to love over the years. The only drawback is the dated technology it uses, something that will surely be addressed in the future versions for the 3DS.
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Apr 18, 2011Actually a Pokémon game with some news. The online modes have been polished, there's new pokémons, quick, better animated battles and better graphics.