I liked it, and I think it’s probably better than Platinum, but Sinnoh remains my least favourite region, and it’s not even close honestly. The general QOL stuff is very nice, especially HMs being on your Poketch, and the game speed is as fast as it should be (unlike the slow ass Gen 4 engine). The music is another highlight, the remixes are all on point. I didn’t dislike the art style when the games were revealed like everybody else, I thought it was fine. And now actually playing the game I’ve grown to like it, it’s cute and fits the series well, and the battles in particular look great tbh. But despite the good points, this is such a faithful remake that it can’t actually save Sinnoh from being bad. The script is almost exactly the same as the original and as such, the story and characters are still largely uninteresting. Galactic is probably my least favorite evil team because the grunts aren’t funny, and all throughout the game they do the most random unrelated shit that has nothing to do with their end goals (kidnapping the bike shop’s owner, kidnapping the dude that works at the Valley Windworks, bothering some random dude over honey, stealing Dawn’s Pokedex). And then all of a sudden they have the Lake Trio with 0 build-up, we’re not even there to see them get captured, and that’s when all the Galactic shit starts to go down into the finale when Cyrus tries to create the new world. And that finale is also super lame in BDSP (compared to Platinum anyway) cause you basically don’t even do anything, the Lake Trio just randomly show up to free Dialga, Cyrus challenges you to a battle cause he’s mad about it and then he (along with his team) leaves with no repercussions for his actions lmao. Speaking of Galactic, they are also emblematic of what might be my biggest problem with BDSP: the variety in trainers Pokemon is fucking ABYSMAL. Galactic only uses 6 lines of Pokémon throughout the ENTIRE game: Stunky, Glameow, Wurmple line, Zubat line, Bronzor, and Croagunk. That’s it. And you fight so many Galactic grunts that it becomes so fucking boring. Speaking of boring, wow the middle part of this game. Almost nothing happens in terms of the plot. All you do is cross long ass routes fighting underleveled trainers that are using the same Pokémon over and over. Because Sinnoh’s dex is just so bad. It’s a bit improved on your end, as in you can catch more different Pokemon compared to the original, but that doesn’t apply to trainers, so those are pretty much stuck using the Geodude and Machop lines until the game ends. And oh yeah, let’s talk about the next problem: the level curve. It’s terrible. Holy shit it’s so terrible. The beginning of the game is actually fine, but once you beat gym 2, you start overleveling so fast it’s insane, and it’s especially weird because the gym leaders mostly keep up with you over the course of the game, but the trainers? NOT EVEN CLOSE. How do I go from fighting a gym leader with a level 30 mon straight back to entire routes filled with trainers who use level 20-25? Wtf? And speaking of the level 30 gym leader mon, gym leaders 3 and 4 BOTH have their ace at that level, even though you have multiple routes between them. Why? So yeah I haven’t been this overlevelled in a Pokemon game since XY (with exp share on), there were points where I was 12 levels ahead with a full team of 6. Now I’m an EXP share defender until the day I die, but in this game they just put that bad boy on while changing nothing about the original DP’s awful level curve, thus making that problem exponentially worse. And what’s even dumber is that the Elite 4 actually started having the same or even higher levels than me. I get that the Elite 4 is supposed to be challenging and all that but why only bump up the levels on trainers now all of a sudden? So last thing I’ll complain about is the story and characters because yeah the game is just not good on that front. Barry never does anything interesting or has anything interesting to say, and he’s somehow still the best character in the game LMAO. What other characters are there even? Dawn? Professor Rowan? Cynthia? Cyrus? The Galactic commanders? Show up maybe a couple of times to do pretty much nothing, alright, fantastic. And the plot is just the standard Pokemon game plot but with no good characters so it just falls completely flat. So overall, BDSP does some stuff to make Sinnoh better, but most of what makes it bad is still in tact and thus it only remains an alright Pokémon game in the same way that every Pokémon game is good, and doesn't go beyond that.