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I never cared much for the villains or the rival in Platinum (which I luckily played before DP). What I really appreciated was the landscape and look of the game. Shit was more varied than before, landscape and pallette - and, yes, the snow is a big part of that. I enjoyed that it was a long, arduous journey across the rural countryside. Pokemon, for me, has always been about the journey, and I liked the idea of just fucking off into the wilderness with your 'Mons, battling the wilderness, as well as trainers, from one end of the region to the other.
I had enough of routes that were just built around the idea of walking along a path lined with trainers or walking through grass patches to dodge trainers. Water routes are another story.
The pace is slow, but after RSE starting every battle with a sprite crawling across the screen at a snail's pace, it didn't feel slow at all (and again, I dodged shit like DP's surf speed). I also prefer an atmospheric slow burn in TVs and movies, too.
Also, deity Pokemon were neat, but Arceus was underwhelming.
They could lay off the bass guitar in the soundtrack though.
