It's a gacha, so we know where this is going. But I wanna compliment the team to make something original for once instead of over focusing on Pokémons like every single other spin-off does (rightfully, sure. But this created variety for once).
When this game got announced around the same time as SwSh, I was incredibly excited. I was in the middle of my Dragalia Lost binge so I was confident in a Nintendo-published gacha game. Turns out it was completely incompatible with my phone.
I started actually playing it around 2021 and I was taken aback by how utterly vapid the presentation and gameplay was. It's doesn't play like a Pokemon game, but instead like an idle game with charge-up on every action. The music and story in this game don't do anything for me, and on top of it all, it's one of the least generous gacha games in terms of monetization. While the vast majority of the characters represented in this game can be summarized with "I love battling and I want to be friends :DDD", some characters are actually expanded super well from their original game. Notable examples are Silver and N, and as of recently Volo. The best way to play Masters is to autobattle everything and save for a character you like. No point in taking it any deeper than that.
I started actually playing it around 2021 and I was taken aback by how utterly vapid the presentation and gameplay was. It's doesn't play like a Pokemon game, but instead like an idle game with charge-up on every action. The music and story in this game don't do anything for me, and on top of it all, it's one of the least generous gacha games in terms of monetization. While the vast majority of the characters represented in this game can be summarized with "I love battling and I want to be friends :DDD", some characters are actually expanded super well from their original game. Notable examples are Silver and N, and as of recently Volo. The best way to play Masters is to autobattle everything and save for a character you like. No point in taking it any deeper than that.