I want the game, but after reading the spoilers, it made me think the game is too babied. I beat Pearl with all 493 loving pokemon. No gameshark was used on MY GAMES. I had to trade with people who have used gamesahrks or action replays. Took me 560+ hours. Don't ask me how I did it.
Some (allot) of folk don't have Wifi capabilities, sucks to be them I guess.
What got me was the speed boost during battles. No more of that stuffty text loading crap and all those tiny delays, now it's as fast as the GBA versions.
Comparing a fight in Ruby, Kadabra 1-shotting something took under 5 seconds from the start of the fight to finish, including battle scenes, text speed fast.
In Diamond, Kadabra 1-shotting something took about 12 seconds, including battle scenes, text speed fast. The attack was Psychic in both cases (rather fast animation)
You might think that this isn't much of an issue but it gets old fast especially after playing the GBA games. I just couldn't get over it.