They're good, though competitive seems to have a set pool of Pokemon that are always used with not that much variation in team comps compared to the other games, but you probably don't care too much about competitive. In-game, they're still fun and worth playing, and it doesn't feel as much of a grind as the previous generations. Black 2 and White 2 are pretty much identical except on certain routes there are different Pokemon available at different times. That, and Black 2 has access to Kyurem-B and White 2 has Kyurem-W