Hot damn. Kind of bummed I stopped playing pokemon right when this came out because I definitely would've loved to try out all of their really ambitious local wireless features. Not only is this the best pokemon game, but it manages to push past the mediocrity of regular pokemon to almost have a fighting chance against the jrpg greats. Almost, it's still a pokemon game at its core. Everything is firing on all cylinders, the music is top notch, all the characters are a joy to interact with and have a good amount of weight and urgency to the story, there's a lot of really fun designs to the new mon's and the locations are gorgeous. Really pushing what the ds was able to do right before it died.