This game is both an eyesore and has some of the worst dialogue in any game I have played, and on top of that, there is SO MUCH dialogue. The biggest thing that puts this over Platinum for me is that this game is almost two times faster in almost every way. The battles, dialogue, movement, all of it is blissfully quick, you can mash through the inane, repetitive dialogue so fast and the battles are not an absolute slog like Platinum and HeartGold were. This game has a lot of issues, but I certainly enjoyed it far more than gen 4, which was difficult to even finish. I will be playing Black 2 next, which I have heard good things about, though I do not have high hopes that it will be much of an improvement over this.