Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire: First Impressions

On Friday, November 21, a.k.a Nintendo Day, the remakes of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire were released. I was fortunate enough to get a copy of Omega Ruby. I was fairly hyped for this game. It has lived up for the almost 2 hours I've played of it.
Hoenn's never looked better. The environments look great. The models, while reused, add a great amount of charm to the battles.  The music is very faithful to the original soundtrack. I also liked the redone artwork seen before and after a trainer battle.
The game also has a diverse amount of Pokemon to catch similar to Gen. 5. I would also like to give Game Freak a huge pat on the back for not shiny locking legendaries. That was a great re-welcome after X and Y's awful shiny locking on all legendaries.
There are definitely some annoying Gym battles, like Brawly. But, the vast amount of improvements make these games a warm welcome back to Hoenn.

Review coming eventually.