I'm playing this game at the moment and im very impressed. Not only are the worlds bigger, the combat better as there is a whole pokemon game within the game with tournament 3 on 3 battles aswell. You use card to battle with the monsters on the colleseum mode and can battle other players through wireless.
Leveling the spirits is also something you want to do as it unlocks many of the special moves and skills.
I'm more than 5 hours into the game and im still on traverse town. So far its better than i thought and shaping up to be the best entry in the series.
The only thing some people might not like, but i think its a real improvement over BBS is the drop system. You will be forced to switch character every now and then. You can get skills to delay the switch timer and you can force it your self anytime you want. The thing is, this way it doesnt feel like a grind and the leveling is shared between your two characters (wich was a pain to start over everytime on BBS). Also, like BBS each character has acess to some exclusive areas and both have thier own sets of treasure to find.
Seems like the second 3rd party hit on the 3DS, after RE revelations.
