Although Nate is probably kind of a bit more memorable? He's got hair over his hat and that weird baggy shorts over his maybe-bodysuit. As usual, the female protagonist looks a lot more unique than the dude one - the colour palette for her outfit and the Princess Leia hair-buns make for a far more memorable character design. That's really what made these two memorable. I mean, Rosa could just be fashionable and be wearing a skirt-over-pants deal, but Nate's definitely wearing some sort of weird bodysuit under that funky-looking jacket.
I was actually briefly around when B2/W2 news were starting to break, and I remembered that people were all speculating that B2/W2 will bring back diving or something since Nate and Rosa seem to be wearing some skin-tight bodysuit under their outfits. I'm not sure what the term for those little white dangly-bits on her shorts are, but that also helps to make her a bit more distinctive.īlack 2 and White 2 take place a couple of years after the first round of generation 5 games, so your protagonist is just spoken of by some of the NPC's while you get to pick one of these two new kids to run around Unova. His female counterpart, Hilda, is a bit more memorable to me because while she's kind of a generic anime teenager, at least her black-and-white getup and her shorts make her distinct from all other Pokemon human designs. Hilbert has a messier set of hair, I suppose, but I actually feel like he's easily the most forgettable of your playable avatars, I'm sorry. He's wearing a distinctively lighter shade of blue, but the designs of the likes of Red, Ethan, Lucas and Hilbert over here all fall into what's more or less similar designs if you squint. It's not really going to matter, honestly, but it's interesting to note that it's with Unova that they're actively trying to be representative of non-Japanese countries.Īs usual, I really don't have a whole lot to say about Hilbert, the male protagonist of the first round of games, Black and White. Of course, they're all ultimately drawn in a very anime-esque art style, so it's really hard to note if any of the fair-skinned characters are supposed to be Japanese or Caucasian in ethnicity. Surge, Fantina, arguably Phoebe and Dahlia) but with Pokemon itself being an international franchise, it's interesting to have that in the back of our minds. So far, in the past generations, most of the characters are honestly very easily assumed to be ethnically and culturally Japanese other than a few specific exceptions that the games point out (Lt.
#POKEMON BLACK AND WHITE GAME CHARACTERS SERIES#
One thing to note about the fifth generation is that Unova is the first region in a mainline Pokemon series (Orre's cool, but it's considered quasi-canon by Nintendo, I feel) that is not set in a Japan-based region. I might have to fix that soon, I could do a little reset of my old White 2 cartridge. I also never actually played any of the Unova games beyond the story modes, so I don't really have much of an opinion on any of its post-game characters. which is why a lot of information about the fifth generation didn't actually stick because there's a fair bit of information overload. As I mentioned before, I played both Sinnoh and Unova games in one huge 'catch up' month before the release of Pokemon XY, and it was also a time where I consumed a lot of information in one go - the games, the manga, the new Pokemon, a bunch of online Nuzlocke comics. But fifth generation does have one of my favourite stories out there, even if it is admittedly a bit heavy-handed at times. My favourite is honestly probably the fourth. I don't think fifth generation is my favourite generation of games. I very rarely see any ratings that put Generation V in the middle of the pack, it's either considered a masterpiece or an abomination.Īnd.
And I feel like the fifth generation is one of the most contentious ones, with so many people swearing up and down that they're the best games Pokemon has ever put out, while some people swear up and down that they are the worst. The two sets of games in this generation - Black & White, as well as Black 2 & White 2 - are interesting in that ever since Kanto and Johto, these are the only games that have ever technically been 'sequels' of each other instead of a remaster. The fifth generation is interesting in that it's one of the two generations to really try to have a more elaborate, longer story and actually explore a bit more themes than just 'evil team tries to take over the world and capture a legendary Pokemon'. And here we go with the fifth generation of Pokemon games and their human characters.
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