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Just got max trainer card in Black 2, on cartridge of course. It was a fun journey, took me about 180 hours ingame (my file shows a lot more because I forgot sleep mode doesn't work the way it would with a 3DS game, mine actually shows closer to 220 hours, oops). The main body of the playthrough was great, I used a different team for mainstory and postgame, tried a lot of mons I'd never used before. Definitely found a newfound appreciation for BW2, I always liked it but the forced Pokestar Studios tutorial always killed my drive during playthroughs, I really got into this playthrough and made it my definitive Gen 5 file by the end of it. Some thoughts on the stars/trainer card rank criteria in this one:
-Beat Elite Four: Free Space
-Finish Pokedex: Way easier than I thought it'd be, considering it's 649 before taking out the non-required mythicals. I have Diamond/HGSS/BW1 and BW2 carts to work with so between mass transferring spares I had and evolving, breeding and catching the rest, while it still took a lot of time I'd say it only measured up to 1/3rd of all the time I spent. The DNS exploit to keep access to GTS in Gen 4+5 was a godsend, there were a few mons I just don't have access to on those files (multiple Gen 4 starters since I don't wanna newgame my 600hour childhood Diamond file, Glameow of all things, and the genies for the same reason).
-Pokestar Studios: Despite what I said, I fell in love with this mode while going through all the movies. Messed around with most of them and would find a few of the strange-endings on my own, it was a blast. It's a shame the cracks of GF being retards showed so early, the 15~ minute forced tutorial around it is such a gay roadblock, even if it's not that much time in reality + you could buttonmash/ignore text to make it go faster.
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