Inferior version to the sequel, but I still enjoyed it. Typical Pokémon game in terms of gameplay, story was good, music was phenomenal, setting with 3D graphics looked shockingly well, and locking out of older Pokémon until the postgame was good to stress the importance of Unova. Did have a few problems with it though.

The seven sages were all irrelevant, the rivals would battle you constantly, the gym leaders would almost always make you run an errand before actually fighting them, and the story is just inferior to its sequel.

Overall, not bad. I don't think it lives up to all the hype, but comes close to it in my opinion.