Besides an undeniably cool retro soundtrack I really don't get all the praise this game gets. The gameplay is essentially Pokémon but instead of actually battling during the way too frequent random encounters you instead tickle the enemies or compliment them then play an asteroid-esque mini game to avoid taking damage. I get that it's subversive and uses common video game tropes to create these "I see what you did there" moments, but just being subversive doesn't make something good by default. There needs to be a good game supporting the subversion and I just don't see it here.