i honestly think they put in a lot of effort in this remake. They gave the fans everything that they wanted and more, however it's not perfect. The encounter rate seems to be the worst one yet, I pretty much went through the game the first time spamming max repels because it was so bad. If you use physical attackers, your going to get gayed a lot because many trainer's pokemon have flame body or static. This isn't gamefreak's fault though. They could of added more or better new egg moves, some of the ones are near useless.
However the enviroments are well done and the music has surprassed the original, and was impressive. Some of the new themes such as Ho-oh's theme are amazing and unique. Lugias on the other hand, was awful.
I'd give it a 8/10 probably.