God, this game... is a sad tale. Explorers was a hard act to follow, and this game was definitely going through some new engine and new console growing pains along with everything else new it was trying to do. I honestly don't remember much of the gameplay itself, because I played it an absurdly long time ago, but oof. Removing the personality quiz and only giving you five starter choices wasn't great!

With those criticisms given, I actually really dug the story and characters. It wasn't as good as Explorers, but it was definitely good in its own way, and the cast was genuinely pretty good. I think the biggest problem I have with the story itself is that you could make it any other kind of isekai and you wouldn't really have to change anything. It feels like a game that happens to have Pokemon in it rather than a Pokemon game.