this game freaks me out but i love pulling on gacha

oddly enough this game was a lot of fun LMAOSDFKJHSDKHSDKLF
5 stars for nostalgia's sake <3

i see so many people saying this could've been so much more and i can't help but agree.
i love this game but it's hard to go back to because of the gameplay mechanics.
art is 10000000/10 to me tho

i never managed to finish it bc im sooooo sucks at video game but i eventually want to bc its seriously one of my favorite games. might be the nostalgia talking tho...

been playing since release and even even pre-registered and i would love to give this game a higher rating bc i love the visuals, concept and most of the writing (as far as an H game for mobile goes, obviously) but the gameplay is so repetitive, uninteresting and so obviously an afterthought put there to justify the game existing.
let's not talk about the gacha banners' rates and the reruns being paid-gems only (unless you're turbo christ and manage to save enough pink gems when your fav rerun drops idfk lol).
most gacha games are p2w and while at least here you dont necessarily p2w, you obviously miss out on your favorite character(s)' scenarios and illusts if you don't pay when you can't manage as a f2p player.

i love making little guys in this game altho it gets old fast (i did fixate on this game for a whole week tho so fjhdskf)

used to be my comfort game when i was a university student bc i picked it back up after getting a new phone but then turned into a rly convoluted 'watch this ad to do this thing' kinda game what with the very distracting notifications and notices all over the UI.
on top of all the sexism and racism fgjhbdgkjdfhjkfd
p2w and player unfriendly despite the rly cool designs.. sigh

i am an almost day one player (prob started around a month after release) and i could rant for paragraphs about whats wrong w the game (AND THE COMPANY!!) but at the end of the day im weak for the character designs and have been since LINE: cookie run.
id play more if the game wasnt so laggy and had problems w frequent crashing lol

shitty gameplay but at least i can kiss my favorite trainers (in my mind)

was fun and the writing was somewhat compelling until Inazuma released and they took the puzzles to a point where they were no longer fun to figure out and became unnecessarily convoluted.
cons: no plans to do any QoL updates, no skip buttons for the boring event stories and MSQ that only seem to focus on same-faced NPCs every new region we get to, underwhelming if not outright embarrassing anniversary rewards and lack of consideration for a global fanbase that they are aware they have (when in reality they mostly cater to their Chinese and Japanese playerbase). and i could go on!!
pros: elemental reaction mechanic was really fun and when dendro was finally added i decided to play again for a while
(i started playing maybe a week after release in 2020)

this used to be my life when i was a kid

i wish they didnt abandon this game bc i genuinely had so much fun playing it, something that i felt was lacking from previously released pokemon games as of late.
albeit a bit empty, still worth it even if only for the story and the characters (VOLO AND ADAMAN HIIIII <3)