pros
- I really like just being thrown in the world and told to go play, feels very old video games
- fun jank and movement
- concept is interesting
- mostly plays like ark
- easy timesink for brainless gaming while you talk with friends or some shit
- decent sound design
- you can tell they focused on making the progression loop satisfying, just focusing on making number bigger is pretty fun because of this

cons
- not enough pokemon variety to fill up the amount of map they made
- barebones story and little sense of the world feeling real
- some pals are infinitely more useful than others, issue compounded by the 5 member party limit making teambuilding very limited
- most pokemon abilities are bad/useless
- base pathfinding is very bad
- human enemy ai is just broken sometimes
- some pokemon designs are severely lacking creatively
- dungeons feel tacked on

definitely feels like its early access, doubt its ever actually gonna be finished though! Open world survival craft slop is just what I was needing right now so Im giving this the good old 5/10