Gen 5 is the best generation of Pokemon, and I love these games so much. Myself and my editor Cloé have worked hard to condense my entire Nuzlocke into one video. This video features everything in Black & White, including the event Pokemon and postgame content. It's an absolutely wild ride and one of the hardest things I've done in a video game. This video is also now the longest fully edited video we've ever released on the channel. I want to play Black 2 & White 2 someday, as those I believe to be the best Pokemon games ever made. They follow on from these games, which I believe are a close second for me - I hope everyone enjoys the video :)

The vanilite being named felony reminded me of an infamous law in the United States where it was illegal to put an ice cream cone in your back pocket. This was because people used them to lure horses back to their property to avoid being charged with theft. The concept was that if the horse followed you on its own, then you can’t be fined for stealing it.

As a completionist I will never not be salty that to "catch 'em all" you need several different games, several copies of the hardware, an internet connection, Japanese citizenship, teleportation powers, time travel and most unrealistically of all, friends.

Did you know that originally N was going to have 2 special abilities? Other than being able to speak to Pokémon, Masuda said that he was also able to see the future. They scraped the idea since they felt it would overshadow his ability to talk to Pokémon, however there are hints to this in his dialogue when he references "the future I see" and notably in his Decisive Battle theme you can hear the sound of a clock ticking. Black and White are masterpieces, in my opinion, yet I wonder how wild the story could have been if they scraped less ideas.

Fun fact for those who don't know: the egg you receive as a mystery gift will hatch into either Ash's Pidove, Cilan's Pansage, or, as Daniel demonstrated, Iris's Axew.

fun fact: every evil team leader has a crobat which evolves via friendship, Ghetsis however has a Hydregon that has frustration which deals more damage the less friendship it has, and it deals max damage meaning that Ghetsis is the only abusive evil team leader to their pokemon, truly representing how much of a liar he is. It's also weird as N can talk to pokemon which either means that Hydregon has been forcefully silenced, likely by threats of more abuse or Ghetsis used his own abuse to instill the idea that everyone is abusing to their pokemon

N losing to you twice then saying ‘I know what I need, the legendary Pokémon Zekrom’ is like someone getting into magic the gathering, losing twice with a beginner deck then spending $5000 on a competitive deck to kick your ass.

I love the fact how dialga, the god of time, is dancing on a stage with a bunch of rodents covered in costume props

Fun fact: Reshiram is part Fire and Zekrom is part Electric because they represent plasma, the mixture of fire and thunder. It's also why the villain team is named like that.

Fun fact: When Cheren tells N "you talk too fast", it's because N's text speed is always one speed faster than your's. Even when yours is already at the highest speed. There's an old lady NPC later that uses the same idea, but slower instead.

For anybody who wants a Japanese factoid, N is pronounced "en", the sound for a common kanji, 縁. This kanji can simultaneously refer to fate, opportunity, and the spiritual, familial bonds between people. There was no good way to translate this into English.

When alder asked “do you wanna fight the strongest trainer in unova” i was thinking “well the strongest trainer in unova is currently just here on a vacation”

I love the detail about how N actuallys DOES "talk to fast." He has the fastest text speed in the game, one that i believe is completely unaffected by the text speed options.

Black and White were absolute gems that didn't get the love it deserved when it was released, glad it's getting it now

The fact that RT almost jeopardized the whole run just to kill Shitface during the N fight is hysterical

The "GO POKEBALL" followed by a Quick Ball is this playthrough's equivalent of "This is my badge and it proves that I am a lawyer!"

I love how involved the gym leaders and professor are in black and white. They actually help you and make plans to stop team Plasma while most other gens they just sit around doing absolutely nothing to stop literal terrorists. The fact that most of the gym leaders have side jobs and interact with the player outside their gym as part of the story rather than sitting around all day in their gym, waiting for the protag to speak to them, lose, spout random bullcrap about friendship then disappear from the rest of the story really make you connect with them more. I had to say, character wise gen 5 may just have the best roster of character both side and main of any pokemon game.

I cant believe Von Plasma and his gang would want to liberate all the Pokemon, I hope he doesnt become a prosecuter.

Fun fact about Pansear: Simisear, its final form, was ranked as *Japan's least favourite Pokemon* from a vote they did for ORAS to give players a free Pokemon. Even in 2016, they knew that monkey was pure misery.

The fact that the final battle started losing momentum because you literally got tricked by Zoroark is kind of incredible. When you've planned out as meticulously as you have, the fact one of the Pokemon might not be what it seems makes predicting what they'll do so much more complicated. what i'm saying is I hope Zoroark comes back in a future game

The final "GET 'IM, SHITFACE" against Zekrom as he tosses him to his death gets me everytime lmao

I feel sorry for rt's rivals, imagine losing your first pokemon battle to a guy named *failure*

Fun fact: the inside and outside of Pinwheel Forest are so different that there's an entire nuzlocke clause named after them "Pinwheel Clause" where areas are judged as different not by name but by very different encounter tables and screen transitions between them

a ghost pokemon named "grief" that feeds on the dead, being the only pokemon he had left... that fits too well. great job RT.

I find N's design so charming. Idk it's so visually pleasing. And deep down, he is a good person who got brainwashed growing up.

Thanks to his Ace Attorney gameplays everytime he says "Wait a minute" dramatically i keep expecting him to say "THAT'S DON TIGRE!"

The fact that the last remaining Pokemon of the run both uses souls as the fuel for its fire *and* was named Grief is amazing. Very well played, RT, this game isn't easy.

I like to believe Grief made some sort of otherworldly pact with the other Pokémon on your team, to burn some but not the entirety of their souls for power should it be the last one standing. That was why it managed to scrape by in that final battle. It’s teammates were lost but their spirits never truly left.

Damn, that ending, when N was talking about Mistake, that one really cut deep knowing N just killed Mistake. Honestly that nearly made me cry.

Despite what people say about its regional dex, Unova is always a treat to go through, loved the streams Dan.

I like the idea that the final battle against Cynthia is Grief channeling the spirits of his fellow Pokémon who died along the journey for one last battle with his newfound vigour after defeating Ghetsis.

Honestly, in 2022 this still looks far more impressive to me than anything in the later 3d Pokemon games. The sense of scale the 2.5d provides is immense. I believe this is a massive city in a way that none of the other games manage.

I love the limited 3D graphics in this game, it's so charming

it was so fun watching chat saying "DAN JUST USE THE DIALGA"

This is gonna be very long but I just gotta get it out there. I love everything about N. Ghetsis is the puppet master of Team Plasma, yes, but N is the central antagonist of BW1. But he's your rival, yet also your friend by the end. He also takes a design cue belonging to playable Pokemon trainers with his cap, something all trainers seem to wear in some shape. And on his belt is a sliding puzzle that resembles a menger sponge, a theoretical mathmatical figure with infinite surface area and zero mass. He's got a ton of other math and numerical inspiration in his design. His name comes from the term "natural number," and for the Pokemon he releases that you can catch in B2W2 (if you can manage to get the Memory Link crap to work), they have the trainer ID 00002, which is the first prime number. It's also baked into his final theme. In a blogpost describing its creation, when Masuda assigned Middle C a value of 1, he created the four ascending arpeggios at the beginning of his theme by using notes that then corresponded to the first 8 prime numbers.

The only thing his team is missing is a Ho-Oh named Uh-Oh

Honestly, the thing about this that makes me the happiest is that he did a whole bunch of the events that you can't access anymore Some of those lost events are just incredible, and I'm really upset that I can't get them legitimately

“This is Excadrill’s world, and we simply live in it” is an oddly Badass Line

I didn’t realise how important this game was to Dan until I heard just how much of the music he uses is from this one game. I just associate those songs with Dan so it’s surreal to hear them in another context.

This was an incredible run with a spectacular final battle, but what I also loved about this playthrough was RT's obvious love for the game and how much he wanted to share that with the audience. Black/White are my all-time favorite Pokemon games, and it was a joy to revisit them with someone who clearly loves them just as much.

Ya know, Gen 5 really did have some of the most events in Pokémon. Especially Pseudo-Mythical events, like with Zorua and Volcarona. Just these weird side events that hype up these actually ordinary Pokémon. It’s cool.

For the record, he got a max attack Excadrill and 1 point off of max attack Haxorus. Forget 3 shiny Bidoof in a row, that’s lucky as hell. Each on the first encounters

The moment Ghetsis said "I AM PERFECTION!", my brain immediately screamed "VON KARMA! NO!". You've broken me, Dan.

Strife tearing through Ghetsis' 2 strongest pokemon on 22 HP while the low health music played in the background was quite possibly the most hype moment I've ever seen in a Nuzlocke.

3:04:05 Ghetsis' theme kicking back in after Strife's death was so incredibly fitting.

Wish someone warned RT that not only does Litwick learn Shadow Ball at a lower level than Lampent, but also Chandelure learns no level up moves. He got locked out of learning Shadow Ball naturally

Dan is able to point out the dangers in the rollercoaster since he’s had so much practice making them deadly

The Ghetsis fight was THE MOST stressed I've ever been watching a Nuzlocke. I legitimately wasn't sure whether you'd win or lose.

I love how despite the fact that Shitface only appeared at the beginning and end of the nuzlocke, he almost always was being talked about in chat. I remember chat having a religious schism over him.

Dude legit went "Hmmm, what could go wrong going legendary hunting during a Nuzlocke?" God bless you Daniel, you magnificent bastard.

2:52:18 "the gym leader are useful!" Meanwhile cress,chilli and cilian: no. Not all of them

N was my first real hardcore cartoon crush and I legit cried when the twist was revealed. I was in denial and didn't play for a whole day

If I had a nickel for every streamer named Dan who likes Pokémon and uses "Failure" as their character's name, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Thanks a lot for this Dan, this was an incredible experience

I think my favorite part of this entire run, minus the N and Ghetsis fights, is that RT specifically chose Oshawott because he thought Tepig was redundant, and proceeded to then desperately need a good fire and fighting type for half of the game lmao

Bro I’ll never not be sad about the Pokémon event being time locked. Like, I get it, and I get the version exclusives, but when your poor with no internet and no friends, ‘s a bit tricky

For context to those unaware things like Metagross in the events were actually copies of the pokemon used by tournament winners hence why the metagross is a shiny and has a competitive moveset

Seems fitting that after all the loss he suffered on his journey, the only thing he had left was grief.

skyarrow bridge is still a holy shit moment for me honestly. they really made the prettiest pokemon game on the nintendo ds.

"no one chooses snivy" me, who's first starter was snivy, and has had it remain their favorite pokemon since: yeah true

My favorite part of this playthrough was when Dialga did a backflip. Truly a masterpiece

What i really like about gen 5 is that for most of the game you are limited to gen 5 Pokemon which means you’re forced to make a different team than the other gens, makes it refreshing

getting ones ass handed to oneself by cynthia is the quintessential bw postgame experience and im so glad RT recognized that

The most shocking part of this run is learning that dialga’s got mad hops

In Pokémon Masters Alder confirms the partner that passed away was a Volcarona and that’s why he has the new one cause he has an attachment to the species

Fun fact: the train station in Nimbasa has two boss characters, Emmet and Ingo, that you only fight if you get 20 wins in a row. If Ingo's name sounds familiar to anyone, it's because he appeared in Legends Arceus, as the warden to lady Sneasler. He's the guy who has no memories. It's bizzare to me that they yoinked one of the side characters from this gen for P:LA. In the post-game he also serves a similar function to the battle tower in other games, as he hosts the path of isolation, a battle challenge!

Honestly what N says is much sadder since the pokemon he is talking about died. Black & White is still one of my favorite Pokemon games and I'm so happy you played it for the channel, Nuzlocke or otherwise.

Fun fact about the whole "Team Plasma is PETA" thing: When BW came out, PETA made a parody game of it. Ghetsis was one of the characters you fight, which confuses the Pokemon you play as. Ghetsis corrects them that he was revealed later to be abusive. Regarding the twist, "It was great!"

Man, I love the limited 3d they used in this game. It's so charming

Still can't believe Dan made it through the N/Ghetsis battles at the end and was left with only Grief

Someday were gonna end up with a full 12 hour RTgame video. And I will watch the entire thing. Probably multiple times

37:45 You really Bungled that up. 38:12 You should always be prepared for when Disaster strikes 1:32:37 I've heard the number 1 killer of nuzzlock pokemon is Apathy 2:35:33 ouch, that battle was quite the Calamity 2:49:10 Getting into that situation at all was a serious Mistake 2:56:46 sorry for your loss, that was a terrible blow to your team. 2:57:27 ouch, a second loss... quite a Calamitwo 2:58:10 I Fear those status effects werent quite enough. 2:59:20 Your party appears to be going through quite the Famine after this battle.... 3:04:10 these last few minutes have been filled with Strife

Honestly, in comparison to the official name of the male player character in this game, Hilbert, the name Failure is kind of a blessing.

Major respect to Cloé for consistently getting these giant edits completed as fast as she does

Ok something I think would be very interesting in a Pokémon game If a rival slowly through out the course of the game agreed with the teams message and turned to their side, leading them in the post game or before the champ fight. It would give the rival a lot more depth as a character, showing them as flawed and shows that, if the evil teams goal is believable, people can be convinced to join it. I also feel it would be a good way to bring your relationship with your rival to a climactic conclusion.

The fact that the pokemon you named Grief was the only survivor Is depressing yet symbolic.

Fucking hell, nuzlockes are always stressful but this literally had me clawing my hair out during the climax

Love how everyone in chat freaked out when that one guy donated the Limited 3d graphics copypasta I'd love to see Dan try a Friendlocke run with some of his friends sometime soon

Dan said he'd play everyone's favourite games throughout the year, and he is absolutely sticking to that claim. Pokemon B/W and B2/W2 are my favourite Pokemon games, and I am so thankful to have seen them again, especially all the events that were lost to time. This video filled me with so much nostalgia for the games, and made me remember why I love them so much. Thank you Dan

I also feel like I’m in one of those touristic buses with RT explaining and telling all the little tidbits of history and facts of the game sprinkled around the nuzlocke, it’s nice

i like what they did for the first gym, its always effective against your starter and you get something effective against it with the monkey so it reduces the idea that "i should take the starter that's effective against the first gym leader" that other games tend to have

kind of a small tidbit but i like how in some of these longer videos for older games (this video, windwaker, etc) you show off old game mechanics and story bits that new players might not be familiar with. it just gives off a nice vibe, someone playing a game they clearly love and showing off everything about it :)

Just seeing the intro made me tear up a bit. This game was my childhood and it means a lot to me

I really love that you did all the special events. I never got to see them myself as a kid so this is really cool. Meloetta’s song just unlocked a core memory, I used to be obsessed with the Meloetta in the anime

Oh god, Grief’s name became VERY meaningful after the Ghetsis battle 😨

All the Pokémon are careful nature because they KNOW they’re in a nuzlocke…

I actually remember the Zoruark event, too. You had to go to Gamestop at particular times of the summer to get your chance at receiving one of the 3 shiny legendary dogs, and you were also given a poster as a thank you for taking part in it. I, unfortunately, had to throw my poster of shiny raikou away bc my family was such horrible sticks in the mud that if they had found out that I drove out just for the event, they would have spent the time to make sure I felt bad and like I wasted my time on something stupid.

The final battle with N and then Ghetsis was one of the most intense things I've seen in a Nuzlocke. It felt like it was a world ending battle and actually had emotion behind it. If you had lost, you'd effectively be done and have to reset if your backup teams weren't good enough. The villains would have won. And then the "You guys want to see the riskiest sweep of your lives?" was a very anime protag final stand moment with the panic low hp music, holy shit what a stressful scene. I can't believe how close that was.

POV: you're screaming in agony at RT over the way he pronounces Snivy

Fun fact, when this game first came out I was so excited to play it, but it was released in Japan first. So my dad got me a copy in Japanese. A language I don't speak. So I have no idea what the story for this game is, or what any of the pokemon from this region are called. Excited to find out lol

rewatching to prepare for the sequel, i wanna get the whole saga at once

That N/Ghetsis fight had me CLENCHED the whole time, holy shit. Great content

Ghetsis is really starting to remind me of a certain prosecutor… YES, FOR YOU SEE IT WAS I ALL ALONG~! “Von Karma, no!”

"Snivy is simply doing his best yet no one chooses Snivy" I choose Snivy. Hell, I chose Snivy twice! in White and White 2.

This run was crazy! I don't think I've ever been so on the edge of my seat while watching Pokemon gameplay. Well done RT, very well done. And seeing all of the events and such was great fun! (Edit: Inspired by RT's fun, I've decided to start a new playthrough of White 2. My first catch was a Patrat; she's been named Shitface 2, with love. The legend never dies.) Here are some of the funny things I saw chat say during the streams, in no particular order: (on Galvantula telling N a boggling amount of information, despite being new on the team) raigathescot: Galvantula learned this on the web THGensou: If Bidoof is God, does that make Shitface the Antichrist? pol_yurt: nothing weird about a handsome looker showing you his rod dorodoreal: Tornadus, this is Von Karma's Chemical Windmill, we need you right now, we also have the money this time pumpkin_sheep: SHITFACE LOOKS DOWN IN ANGER ON RTGAME RGA001: Only Grief survived. Mishap is his therapist all of the Toad and Dread emotes spammed as Cynthia and her piano drew closer menacingly potatoleadr: this is all part of the plan, as Dan runs around to get the egg, Shitface will grow in power! s4pg: Name it Twonadus ribps: You got 2 calamities, give us Shitterface apollyon_00: WINGULL WHITE (about Shauntal) mantis24513: She's a ghost writer both diamonddarkkitty and xXKarkyXx pointing gun emotes at Cheren (during the rematch, as vengeance was being exacted for killing Calami-One) And finally: crispy_shroom: @rtgame Fun Fact! There is a canonical Unova Zodiac. Your birth month aligns with Whimsicott! ...That one isn't funny, it's just incredibly cute and I'm sure RT would love to know that. Not sure if he saw it.

Something I've been thinking about, getting Rivalry on Haxorus actually ended up being your downfall in losing Samurott. If you had gotten Mold Breaker instead, Haxorus would've bypassed the Sturdy on Sawk, so if you had set up some more Dragon Dances on Throh, you could have potentially sweeped Marshal's entire team. Rip Mistake.

I honestly don't see RT making fun of this game as much as the other ones he's played. This game was just too good.

This game was one of the best in the entire series.

I really like that this doubled as a Let's Play where Dan gets to share his past experiences with the game and shows off different events.

I didn't expect to get so nostalgic watching this. Pokemon Black was my first Pokemon game, I have over 650 hours in Black 2 alone, and I rewatched a particular White 2 lp so many times I got sick of the soundtrack. Seeing you go off the beaten path to showcase more things in this game, things I did back in the day like the dream world, dream radar, and meloetta event, was really special. I've heard a lot of people dump on Unova over the years so hearing your palpable love for these games and clear desire to show them to people really touched me. Sincerely, someone who chose Snivy

I've only ever played two Pokemon games, Emerald and Black. It's a long one but I'm definitely watching all of it over the course of like a week. Thank you RT for the hours of free entertainment.