I liked it at first. A lot.
But as time goes on, I begin to dislike it more and more.
1. The male sprite. Nuff ' said.
2. Lack of GOOD Pokemon. 80% of wild pokemon before the National dex are trash.
3. The "Great Marsh". Easy transportation, horrible setting.
4. Corrupted GTS. No way to filter hacks, everyone asks for a Mew.
5. You cannot ask for a Pokemon over GTS, without having SEEN IT. In other words, with the exception of maybe 20 Pokemon, you can catch/evolve every Pokemon you can ask for. Rendering the GTS almost completely useless.
6. Making personal bases underground. Lame. Lame. Lame. The house from Platinum does not make up for this, because you STILL can't choose what goes inside it. With enough money, everyone has the same stuff in the same place.
7. Adding dancing and dressing to contests. Okay, I may understand the dressing, but the dancing is dumb. Also, they should have fixed the dressing part so things actually looked GOOD, and LOGICAL. And not BAD, and ILLOGICAL.
8. Adding evolutions to Pokemon who do not need them. Rhydon, Magmar, Electabuzz, Pillowswine, Sneasel, etc. The only one that was an improvement(Non-stat wise) was Magmortar, and that is solely because it doesn't have the same *** looking forehead.
What Nintendo doesn't seem to realize is that Evolutions do not mean more pokemon. What it REALLY means is less USEFULL Pokemon.
Adding an evolution just leaves other Pokemon in the dust. If they keep doing it, it will render Generation 1 and 2 Pokemon practically extinct.
BUT, I still don't hate it. It brought twice as many awesome things to the table. Wifi battles/trades(not GTS) being my favorite. And the physical/special spilt was a fantastic decision. It actually makes sense now.
Generations 2, 1, 3, and 4 are Perfect, Great, Cool, and Decent. Respectively.