It's a truly fantastic game. In fact, it makes me wonder why the hell this wasn't what Diamond and Pearl were...why couldn't they have multiple items registered to Y, or have always-moving sprites, or have proper 3D overworld sections, in D/P, if it's the same system? Even the little things like inifinite TM use and in-pokecentre marts make SO much sense that it seems bizarre it took until the 5th gen to happen.
Even the pokemon stylings seem fresh and inventive again. Many D/P pokemon seemed useless or pointless, or unexciting, but these are creative, with cool types.
I'm also really impressed they managed to take it somewhere in terms of legendaries. I really thought after Space/Time in D/P that they'd have nothing else to explore. Then they do Truth/Ideals.
My only concern? What the hell do they do 6th gen to top it? I know it'll have 3DS visuals, but the game is ridiculously perfected now.
EDIT: Also, I was a little underwhelmed by Unova as a region. I loved the bridge, and Castelia, and a lot of it had some big wow moments. And of course the 3D use is excellent. But I thought the routes and caves were mostly small and straightforward, and many of the towns were small and samey. Compare it to R/S's towns, which ranged from treehouses in palm tree forests to houses on floating logs in the see and these towns, Castelia aside, are very bland. My only complaint - and the storyline and campaign is so fun and action packed that you don't really notice (I'm at 57 hours now, which is when you start to notice things like this!).
