This is something that's really, really bothering me about this game. The game is looking way too similar to the originals, even compared to older remakes (particularly HGSS). Everything we've learned about the games is either things we already knew about from the originals (old characters, Contests, Secret Bases), features carried over from XY (Pokemon Amie), and new Mega Evolutions. And not only that, but news reveals are constantly shooting down any possibility for these games to be a significantly different experience over the originals (minimal region design changes, little to no Emerald features, no dex expansion). I'm sorry, but I don't buy games so I can do the exact same things I did before, especially in an era where we've had games like Platinum and BW2 that show us that even a revisit to an old region can do so much more. I play games for the new things that they add to the game, and I'm not seeing much "new" here. I'm still waiting around for the possibility of them revealing a new feature or something in Coro Coro, but considering the amount of old information left to get through and how XY turned out in the end, I'm not holding my breath for one or for it to make up for what this game isn't doing. More than likely, this will probably be the first Pokemon game that I end up skipping.