>>48760532For their first ever attempt at a video game, never mind a Pokemon game, they clearly had a lot of ambition to make BDSP more than "just a faithful remake" but were limited by Nintendo's Black Friday Deadline, and GameFreak and TPC's demands and limitations.
If the deadline didn't exist and they had enough freedom to really do more with Sinnoh while keeping it grounded and feel like a proper evolution of the franchise since Gen 4, they might have actually knocked this out of the park.