But even that, you will occasionally find yourself being dragged back to have something else explained.īut pacing issues aside, you eventually get left to your own devices, and that's where the fun begins roaming the routes, battling trainers and wild monsters in a pixel art wild area. Most of the tutorial is condensed into the first couple of hours, which while a slog to get through, does mean you can mostly leave the training wheels behind once you're done with the first few areas. One issue I encountered is that the early game can feel a tad monotonous. The Journey Begins The story has it's dark moments, but can also be very charming All these little things really give off the impression that the developer is very aware of what players want, and I look forward to seeing how this approach influences the rest of the game's development. You can have eight in a party, rather than six. Your monster can follow you around the overworld. There's a personality quiz at the start to determine your monster. In many ways, it's like the developer has done their research by diving into fan forums, and adding the features long-time Pokémon fans have missed. And while sometimes this tone can be inconsistent from time to time (more on that later) for the most part it builds up to a coherent and interesting world, that I genuinely look forward to exploring. In lesser hands, this could be very try-hard. This is brilliant theming, which lends itself well to the expressive monster designs, making it hard not to have a favorite. Rather than the fire, grass, and water, we're used to we get types such as brute, vicious - and my personal favorite - unstable. I didn't get Ambigu in the personality quiz that determines your starter, but I couldn't turn that unstable boy away Despite having dozens of new monster designs to get used to, I quickly fell in love with them - they ooze personality.
Hell, in the first part of the game, it's mentioned that your Dad had "tricked" a powerful monster into helping him out on the farm, and later on, there's a species which will ambush you if you dare stray from the given path. They're not mindless beasts to be captured - rather they roam the world, living, disrupting, and attacking as they please, and will only join your team if they are convinced to do so using a "pact." Sure, pacts act essentially the same as Pokéballs (they work better if the enemies HP is low, and if you are a higher level) but the fact that they have to accept to a partnership, or will simply scoff at the offer, gives you a different sort of relationship with them. In the lore, monsters have a lot more autonomy than the 'mons we're used to.
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