If you’re going to play this in 2022 and aren’t wanting to revisit the series’ roots, PLEASE play the mod/slight romhack of this called “Explorers of Skies”. Not going to drop a link just in case especially as I am NOT the creator of it, but check it out, as it adds Pokémon from after gen 4 plus the Fairy type and several other changes to make the game slightly harder but also balance it out??? I know that’s very oxymoronic but trust me on this one. It’s so much more worth it.

Of course this is isn’t to say the OG game isn’t good. It is very much a great PMD game. The original at this point though is basically for people who want to go back to the time before Fairy type was added and DPPt was the most recent game.