Why is Pokémon White & Black 2 the highest rated games to date?

basically its packed full of features and optional stuff to do. Pokemon world Tournament where you can battle past gym leaders and champions and Pokestar studios where you star in different movies are the major ones. Also its a direct sequel to black and white so if you liked the story there you get to see how things changed after 2 years but this also means you should play black/white if havent already since its sets up the plot of 2. Another reason is cause it fixed black/white's biggest issue which was it only had gen 5 Pokemon so now in the sequels you can find plenty of old pokemon which made it the largest region pokedex at that point of time.

I love gen 5. I was skeptical of BW after how great HGSS were and I was sad to see that the following Pokémon mechanic wasn't returning when I had hoped it would become the standard moving forward, but after picking up a copy of White from my local supermarket at launch and playing through it I fell in love with it. I loved that the games were willing to explore slightly deeper themes than previous games and I feel it was the peak of Pokémon sprite design.

I was a little sad to find that Plasma's cause was just a front, but to be fair the games were never going to morally condemn the audience of what is ostensibly a children's game for using the series' primary mechanic. Of course the player would be judged morally correct by the end. It could have done with more ambiguity, but it is better than previous installments.

I liked that key characters like gym leaders actually got involved in the plot and took action against the main threat.

And despite the popular opinion of the time and even today, I liked the all gen 5 dex. Especially today, when nostalgia-bait is so common, I felt it was very bold to limit the player to catching and using new Pokémon.

B2W2 didn't appeal to me as much, but are still cut from the same cloth and I enjoyed them immensely. There are still some interesting themes going on and it was interesting to see the world progress the very next game. In spite of my praise of the previous games' dex, it was nice to see old favourites return.

I wish the difficulty modes and been better implemented and pursued further in the series. Having to transfer the mode to a blank cart from someone who had already completed the game was stupid. Who would want to complete the game just to unlock easy mode? I wish I could choose hard mode from the start.

All in all, I cannot recommend the gen 5 games enough, and encourage every Pokémon fan to play them if they haven't already.