It sure was a faithful diamond and pearl remake.

I like it, very much better than og DP from what i can tell, but it still retains some pretty weird ass pacing in the pokemon you fight, general difficulty, and i think how some things are done (mainly with pastoria city), and a lot of weird specific things like TMs being limited usable items (then again they do come with multiples so that's fine), and HMs (though it's handled pretty well so no complaints aside from flash and defog, flash isn't one but i hate it anyways.)

I think it's just really neat issues aside, and i think if you want to see what Diamond and Pearl are like, play these. Though it did make me really want Platinum to get the remake treatment cuz i think it does a lot better than DP, but whatever, i like this.

My team was:
-Infernape (Ignis)
-Mew (Sirien)
-Lucario (Oren)
-Roserade (Haven)
-Floatzel (Jet)
-Honchkrow (Gio)

P.S.: I think this playthrough really made me appreciate Floatzel and Mew a whole lot more.