Disappointing, indeed. Unless they nerfed the damage it deals, which despite logically being possible (since Hypnosis' accuracy drop in Pt), is probably not the case.
I guess most of all, the experience is what I'm looking forward to. I really enjoyed BW's story, so its nice to see a continuation of that in BW2, rather than a re-write, like the other third versions, before. I opted not to buy a Japanese copy this time around since I thought it wouldn't be all that long until the English games were released... but its still at the very least, another 4 months away... xD;