I didn't have platinum cause my dad wasn't buying the same game for me AGAIN, and honestly even though I missed out on girantina and did the steps to get darkrai without knowing he's not even in this damn game, this game is still really good. The step from gen 3 to gen 4 really felt like a NEW GENERATION rather than "hey were just putting stuff out for money."

While the same ol' pokemon formula is still there, we got more amazing music, amazing pokemon designs like drifloon, garchomp and our lord and saviour bidoof, contests were more fun, they took everything from the 3rd gen and made it played around with it to make it better. You gotta respect it.