This game is great and while it does need work it is super fun with friends. While being a big Pokemon fan I was hyped when I first saw this game and it did deliver.
But I keep seeing so many stupid reviews and comments about Pokemon and this game.
On the nintendo fan side you have people coping about the designs saying that they are plagiarized and A.I generated. Which they aren't A.I generated that's stupid and they are not plagiarized just simply inspired, like some of the creatures in this game do look similar to pokemon but not all of them. This is a genuinely good game and I hope that they pump out their updates.
On the other hand you have people hating on pokemon just to jump on to hate on it, saying stuff like "All the pokemon games have been terrible" in which that isn't true Scarlet/Violet were great, granted the fps issue is bad but if it weren't for that it would be an ideal pokemon game. Like man haters are going to hate.
Overall I haven't seen many reviews made people who both like Pokemon and this game. But yeah giving it a 5 stars so it could get a higher avg. rating.

This game is boring as hell I don't understand how people these days play games like this and think that their good. Starting off with what's good with this game, its story is alright nothing special but for sure not bad, the element system is pretty neat, and the graphics for this game is outstanding but that's where all the good stuff for this game ends. My first major issue with this game is that it is a gacha game, now don't get me wrong gacha games are fine when done right but because this game is an adventure game similar to BOTW having gacha elements does not work here. My second issue is that recruiting new characters is a pain in the ass. Firstly grinding the currency to recruit characters is just so slow and it gives you so little of it, like I get it you want me to play the game but damn can you at least make it so that way I can look forward to getting a reward instead of just giving me the bear scraps. Secondly when you do manage to get enough to do a 10 pull the odds for you getting a 5 star character is so abysmally low that its no wonder why the devs had to add in a pity system which at least is something to look forward to but you have to do 90 pulls in order to get a 5 star character, and let's say you got lucky and you pulled a 5 star half of the time it might not even be a character it might be a weapon which might suck for some people, luckily the pity system only rewards 5 star characters. My last issue for this game is that traveling is so slow and some of the quest locations feel so out of place that when you warp as close as you can to the quest location you still have to travel quite a bit to get to where you need to go. Overall this game sucks ass and I bet star rail sucks just as much as this but I am not gonna torture myself to play that, and if you want to try this game out play it with Japanese voice acting cause the English voice acting sucks ass.

This game is great and very fun with friends. Exploring is a blast and the music is good. With each newly captured Pal you will be able to craft something specific for them to use either a saddle, a weapon, or a way to use them as a weapon in battle which I thought was really cool. This game does give me the feeling of wanting to see all the new creatures and see how they look and what moves they get similar to what a new Pokemon game would. Now this game does has its flaws with its bugs, multiple QOL improvements it needs, and the combat can be a bit better but the game is in early access so I'm sure that it will get the tuning it needs. Overall this game is really fun and better with friends so if you have a group of friends and want a game to play with them try this game.
Oh and to all the people coping about this game I should mention that I am a huge Pokemon fan and I really like this game so my opinion automatically beats yours!

This game is amazing but it is suffering from a bit that makes it from perfect. Starting off with the good is that every level has so much charm and creativity in them that when I had to go back and get what I was missing from the level I was happy to replay the level again. Next, the art style for this game is fantastic I love the way the characters and enemies look and whoever did the artwork for peach and daisy needs a raise. The new power-ups are super fun to use as well, I found myself using the elephant power up a lot less than the other two mainly because the elephant power up in my eyes is "Meh" but it still has its strengths. Now for the bad parts about this game starting off with the boss fights, the boss fights were very boring the final boss fight was ok but everything else was just sluggish and boring. They did try to at least give the boss fights something going for them but it wasn't enough to make me go "Wow!" so the boss fights for this game was the only un-fun part about this game. Lastly the badges, the badges is not a bad idea but most of them are useless or you are rarely ever going to use. I found myself only using about three of the badges presented to me mainly because the other badges are not as good as the ones I used. The first ever badge you get is super overpowered and comparing it to some of the other badges will make you only want to use the first one you got. Overall this game is fantastic and I urge you to try it out as it is really fun and I enjoyed every second of it.