>>44153229>Gym Leader rematchesAlready in older games
>You get to battle against the stat trainers that you teamed up with earlierAlready in older games
>Infinite rival rematchesAlready in older games
>Hundreds of new Pokemon spritesAlready in older games
>WAY faster engineShould've been in the first game
>Battle Factory>Battle Arcade>Battle Castle>Battle HallThe battle frontier is already in older games
>New Wifi areaOne that every complained about and got boring after 15 mintues
>New wifi activitiesNo there wasn't
>Entirely new GTSShould've been in the first game as all it did was make Emerald's VS record available share through wifi
>Daily Pokemon Center NPC battlesAlready in older games
>Looker>CharonDidn't do anything significant and they don't even have pokemon to battle
>Distortion WorldDidn't have a single pokemon in it and takes 15 minutes at most to explore
>New Pokemon FormsAlready in older games
>60 new Pokémon added to regional Pokédex, including the new Gen 4 evolutions that had previously been limited to postgameAlready done in older games
>This means drastically different trainer battles and wild PokemonAlready in older games
>Several new legendaries available, such as Regice, Regirock, Registeel, Zapdos, Moltres, and ArticunoAlready done older games and the Regis are an event
>Legendaries that were knocked will later reappear.So casualization?
>Animated back spritesAlready in older games
>Animated trainer spritesFair enough, but only some trainsere were animated