I can't wait to use that sick owl. One of my favorite starters in awhile, and that's saying a bit because the ones from gen's 5 and 6 were all pretty lame to me (except for Oshawatt). I'm still not a big fan of the 3D models much. Gen 5 had some of the most fluent and beautiful sprite animation the series had seen and gave all the monsters a lot of personality. Gen 6 they all looked stiff and a bit boring to me. Even the Genius Sonority Gamecube games game the monsters a lot of character compared to Gen 6 (By the way they should really make a new Genius Sonority game, they're so good). I think it's just the 3DS being an awkward system to render polygons on. Whenever I see models on that system they always look off.
Still looks like a great game though.