I don't usually abandon games but Pokémon Quest just isn't fun enough. Battle gameplay is too basic and passive, letting you only pick what moves your Pokémon use while they move around the stages. On the other hand, while building your Pokémon is somewhat fun, the random nature of how the systems work make it a bit of a chore. Not recommended.

I have to make a special comment about the soundtrack though. It's ridiculously good. It's almost unfair for the composer that such good music is on this game.

A freenium game that just sorta plays itself, and one game I think Nintendo really let rot as soon as it saw that it just won't be that profitable. Pokemon Quest has a really unique premise and style that I really wish was looked more into and I constantly feel like the game would have been better if they simply stopped trying to milk the first gen the way they constantly do.

The game is focused on exploring a cube island with a lot of blocky gen 1 pokemon, and while you can make a team to help explore various levels, the overall influence you have on the team and what they do is very minimal. So minimal in fact that the majority of this game can be played on auto and that's it. Sure you'd have to micro manage a bit, and I won't lie there is a certain charm to watching your pokemon slowly grow stronger to take on the next level, but the game itself isn't actually entertaining.

What is entertaining is the way the pokemon look and how they interact with each other in your base area by doing fun little games with each other like stacking on top of each other or all dancing together. Aside from that though, I really don't have much fun aside from min/maxing pokemon and exploiting the way the game plays. If you're really into team building, but don't actually want to play a game, Pokemon Quest would be a perfect fit for you, but for everyone else, just watch some cute cat and dog videos.