>>37416253Straight forward but open ended story, an appealing world and character designs, remarkable music, no old-school random encounters, a big variety of activities to do with your monsters like races, contests, cross breeding or grooming, a good "battle system", incentives to make a social community with things like online and offline tournaments and a fleshed out trading market for special items and monsters. In other words take those good ideas from the beta that never flourished and everything that was good about pokemon in the past and improve upon it yourself since Masuda's policy of leaving improvements behind has clearly failed.