Great dlc, love the Terrarium as an environment, the world design works well with the pokemon distribution giving me the biggest feeling of "yeah these pokemon naturally belong here" I've ever felt in Pokemon. Lots of great stuff for exploration just like in Paldea.
Battling was really great, every battle being a double battle with actual strategy and items was really interesting to play. Hope they do this more going forward. Actual ending section felt a lot weaker but the environment once again did a great job assisting the feeling.
Story was great too, Kieran is an amazing rival, Carmine is a great supporting character and the new characters are great too. This game really nails its cast overall I feel. The actual Treasure part at the end was kinda meh story wise but it works well with Kieran so it's fine.
Grinding BP sucks ass I imagine it'll be worse for the legends maybe.
The performance is even worse in this one but whatever it's SV.
A few notable issues, but an overall fun time that keeps all the good things Paldea and Kitakami content had for it. In a perfect world, these games had great production and were on better hardware, then I'd have no qualms calling them among peak pokemon and a favorite in general.

Reviewed on Dec 17, 2023


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