Anybody pick this up yet or play it beforehand through some other means?
 
Gotta say, pretty refreshing to walk through Route 1 and not get attacked by Rattata every step of the way like in every game since the original Red and Blue back in 1998.  All the Pokemon until you beat whatever end game scenario there is are all new so it kind of takes me back to day when I first played Blue and everything felt "new" to me.  Playing this game is kind of like starting over in the series.
 
Seeing the Pokemon animated now is pretty cool and the revamping of a lot of systems in the game (like the C-Gear handling all the wireless comms. work) makes things more convenient.  And holy crap, TMs are limitless use now, probably my favorite new addition/change thus far.  I've only gotten one gym badge thus far but the pacing is a lot better too.  No more of this go to the next town to pick up a package and bring it back to the first town to progress the story so nothing has really been tedious or overbearing so far.  I also like the music and how it changes in battle when your pokemon is on the ropes.  Even better is this sort of "onward to victory" music that plays when you've got the gym leader down to his last Pokemon.
 
Anyway, I've only scratched the surface of the game but I'm really enjoying it so far.  Makes me wonder where they'll go with a 3DS proper Pokemon game in due time.  Kind of wish it was a 3DS title considering the benefits that Street/Spot Pass would bring to a game like this.

I was at EB games (or Gamestop for Americans, I think) and I saw it for sale but I was there to buy Killzone 3. I'll probably be seeing what my friend thinks of it, as he bought it on release, and then pick it up.
 Something about B&W is they expanded on the annoying concept of waiting in real time for ingame events (safari zone/balls from kurt). Now we have to wait for seasons and ugh.

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