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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.
I generally do not play hacks or fangames, but I made an exception for this. Really the only thing that holds this back from being as good as Zero Mission for me is a few aesthetic things like the higher-level Metroids being a bit too detailed compared to other assets. This is leagues better than the official Return of Samus on 3DS, which I have a pretty strong dislike for. I can't stand how much that game really wants to make Samus a flashy badass action game hero as opposed to the the traditional, more subdued style of previous Metroid games.
Despite being a remake of my favorite Pokemon games, I think I like these games less than Platinum overall. I find gens 4 and 5 quite ugly, I generally dislike the remixes and I don't like any of the additional dialogue HG/SS added, of which there is quite a bit. In addition to this, HG/SS made the menus significantly less convenient than DPPt, which was one of the best things about gen 4 previously. The idea was seemingly to just put all the menus on the touch screen, but the console has 2 screens, which DPPt utilized far better. The PC box system in particular was absolutely butchered when all they had to do was copy what they already had from DPPt. The real kicker is, despite all the comparison to DPPt, I don't even really like those games in the first place, they were the games that made me give up on Pokemon. Everything about these games just makes me wish I was playing the original GSC instead.