Pokemon Black 2/Pokemon White 2

The role models in this game are the young Pokemon trainers who strive to become the top trainer in the world. Beyond that, though, there are seemingly insurmountable obstacles thanks to the work of the evil Team Plasma, who use Pokemon for nefarious and destructive purposes. Nevertheless, players get to prove that they can achieve anything as long as they set their mind to it.

As with other games in this series, players constantly engage in battles with other Pokemon trainers as well as agents of the evil Team Plasma. There is never any violence between humans, and the Pokemon battles are depicted more as a strategic turn-by-turn competition than any sort of gratuitously violent ordeal. The creatures never die. When they are defeated, they faint and can be revived easily at locations throughout the game. In addition, it is mostly the case that Pokemon battles are simply a means of sportsmanlike competition.

The two different versions of this game are nearly identical, but players need to have both of them (or be able to trade with a friend who has the other version) in order to be able to collect all the Pokemon. In addition, the entire Pokemon franchise has been dominated by various toys and promotions designed to get players to buy more than just the games but also the array of related merchandise that is released alongside the games.