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Pokemon Black and White burned down the old Pokedex for a full generation and made Pokemon feel weirdly new again.
Pokemon Black and White launched in 2010 on Nintendo DS. It burned down the old Pokedex for a full generation and made Pokemon feel weirdly new again. It sits on the canon-defining RPG backbone that decides regions, monsters, battle systems, and the assumptions every other Pokemon project eventually reacts to.
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Its 2010 release on Nintendo DS immediately became part of the benchmark fans used to judge its whole generation.
Why it matters
Mainline Pokemon releases are the load-bearing beams of the franchise. If you want to understand why the rest of Pokemon looks the way it does, these are the games that set the rules.
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