I want to give this game a better score, I really do. I could easily spend a long time playing this for the character customization alone, plus with the dock its always been a lifelong dream of mine to play pokemon on a tv and its just awesome. But besides some cool locations and a couple really good songs (Hau's battle theme) theres just a lot missing with this and how long its taking me to beat despite being a big pokemon fan is proof enough of it. It doesn't feel like a step up in any way and it lacks a lot of the charm from the previous ones. 3D pokemon leaves a lot of opportunity for some really cool shit and it sucks that its potential is being wasted on this pretty bland and boring story