Pokémon Black Version 2010

Released: September 2010
Genres: Role-playing (RPG) · Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Adventure
Platform: Nintendo DS
Developer: Game Freak
Publisher: Nintendo
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Is it still worth playing?

Released in 2010 for the Nintendo DS as a pair, Black Version and White Version make you a young Trainer who starts with one Pokémon and catches more with Poké Balls, up to six at a time. They train the team to face other Trainers in the region of Unova while stopping the schemes of Team Plasma. The games introduced 156 new Pokémon, a seasonal cycle, rotation and triple battles, hidden abilities and fully animated sprites. The two versions share largely the same plot, and trading between them is necessary to complete the Pokédex. Collecting a team and growing it battle by battle is a simple loop that works now as well as it did.