They didn't really make many more well designed Pokemon in the franchise, but I don't care, they added in a lot of old favorites. They changed Pikachu's cry to the voice of Ikue Otani, I loved that. I have to say that there was nothing I didn't like about this installment into the pokemon franchise. It is definitely worth the $42 you will spend on it. When I looked at this game I thought that it would be just another installment to make more money, but the autistic genius that is Satoshi Tajiri will continue to strike until he dies of old age or retires from his throne of amazing story telling. Even though the villians did look kind of lame, the leader was on par with Giovanni as my favorite leader, screw it, he is my favorite leader.
Nintendo brought us a much more adult adventure than last time as well. The only question I have for the rest of the functioning world is, why don't you see that Tajiri has realized what you have ceased to. Now I hope that you all end up playing this game in the future, I know that I will continue to play it until they come out with a new one. Though nothing will compare to this masterpiece of a game. And with this gen I will start watching the anime again.