Pokémon Black and White versions

UGH.
Why the hell are they still using the super slow battle system? The home console games had a nice way of running the battles. The damage animation happens AT THE SAME TIME that the HP and battle message displays. I don't understand why after 5 generations, we still don't have this on the handhelds. We're still using the freaking "attack animation (slight pause for the hit blink) → HP reduction (sight pause) → Battle message" crap. Makes battles longer than they should be, also a pain for wifi battles because all of those slight pauses become more apparent and drag out longer.

Not sure how I feel about moving 2D sprites. Right now it looks too jerky and unnatural. May take some getting used to. I like the movements for the console games, but not sure what I think about 2D sprites moving around like that.

Not sure if I understood you right, Dusk, but RSE did have EVs for HP, iirc.

Every Gen had EVs, it's just nobody really looked into that crap before GBA era because they were too busy using the internet to talk about Pikablu instead of game mechanics.


Edit -

On another note, I like how the HP bars start draining as soon as the Pokemon starts flashing. That was always annoying as pineapple, watching a long animation end and then your Pokemon sits there losing HP for 10 seconds. The animations seem faster, too, though that's only from a sample size of three attacks.

Really now? I was watching this earlier live, so didn't have a chance to rewind. It seemed to me that it still followed the old battle style. Give me a sec, checking the youtube videos. In any case, the HP reduction and battle message should happen at the same time that the animation is going on. I really don't see any reason why they couldn't do this. If they don't want their pretty animations to be covered by the battle interface, then they could always use the bottom screen to display HP and such while during the attach phase if the battle.