>"In addition, as I mentioned a little earlier, we've been greedy in the amount of gameplay elements we've squeezed in there. There's so much included that I even had colleagues saying to me: "Are you sure you should be going this far with a remake?" In that sense, it's not simply a remake - I think it's more than that."

-Morimoto, Director of HGSS

http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/ds/pokemon/0/5

Well lads, here's definitive proof. The DS era was the last era in which GF put genuine effort into the series. Here we are folks, Gen 7, and nothing has improved since the mistake you all consider 6 to be. Going to 3D was a mistake, the golden age is gone