I didn't have much special love for Black and White when they came out, I loved some of the new pokemon, hated some of the new mechanics. But when BW2 came out, with the tie-in storyline and the N flashback NPCs, it made it so much better. Nearly every single remake so far, at least as far as I can think, followed the same storyline, perhaps with a few different changes. BW2 was in a region I knew, but with so much new stuff and a new story, it was unpredictable as far as a pokemon game goes, which was a nice change.