Focused on its childish delivery of dull themes, the game lacks the more engaging plot of the previous installments, but remains pretty charming thanks to its earnest emotional edge and likable cast. Gameplay-wise, healing items are now too easily obtainable, particularly through the new town-building element which offers too little, shallow content to be truly interesting. That, coupled with the removal of the hunger mechanic and less Pokémon species to interact with makes the already tremendously repetitive Dungeon-Crawling experience too tedious to entertain anyone but die-hard fans.