- Joined
- Mar 24, 2017
- Posts
- 150
I just finished playing thru the Lilligant section, and I realize there's a whole heck of a lot of game left (but I'm trying to play a lot of these with little time, so I'm gonna review based on what I've seen):
So, below the spoiler tag, my review:
So, below the spoiler tag, my review:
First, I'm floored by the size and scope of this game. It quickly became clear to me that you absolutely mapped out the overwhelming majority of Sinnoh for this experience, and I was really impressed by that! I had so much fun running through Sinnoh in the bits where we got to run free and battle the trainers and run into the wild Pokemon.
I thought building a game around the mining minigame was very interesting too. I was always excited to see a new fossil or plate when I dug it up.
I like how you brought in the Hisuian stuff to the Sinnoh present, and how things unfolded. What bugged me during my playthrough was how long I had to wait between the interesting story beats. Between the 5 mining operations and the wild pokemon that kept appearing walking to each one, I found myself getting frustrated. It was funny for a while but then became annoying how at the end of each "day" Roark would ask if the team found anything and they would keep saying "Same old boring stuff" day after day. I was hoping at least the mining items would get more interesting as time went on...I ended up ignoring things like shards and light clay when I realized there wasn't much point to digging it up.
I really am interested to see where the story goes, especially since you have all these iconic characters in a sandbox (Riley, Team Galactic, Prof Rowan, etc.) doing interesting things with a new tale. It seems like you have the story spanning the full region too, which is also very cool. I just wish that the progress wasn't gated behind slow progression that often didn't give much instruction beyond "just do the same thing for this day, maybe the next day will have something cool".
Still, I did have fun, and this jam entry surprised and delighted me in ways I didn't expect. Congrats on making a game with this big of a scope! I can't imagine it was easy.
I thought building a game around the mining minigame was very interesting too. I was always excited to see a new fossil or plate when I dug it up.
I like how you brought in the Hisuian stuff to the Sinnoh present, and how things unfolded. What bugged me during my playthrough was how long I had to wait between the interesting story beats. Between the 5 mining operations and the wild pokemon that kept appearing walking to each one, I found myself getting frustrated. It was funny for a while but then became annoying how at the end of each "day" Roark would ask if the team found anything and they would keep saying "Same old boring stuff" day after day. I was hoping at least the mining items would get more interesting as time went on...I ended up ignoring things like shards and light clay when I realized there wasn't much point to digging it up.
I really am interested to see where the story goes, especially since you have all these iconic characters in a sandbox (Riley, Team Galactic, Prof Rowan, etc.) doing interesting things with a new tale. It seems like you have the story spanning the full region too, which is also very cool. I just wish that the progress wasn't gated behind slow progression that often didn't give much instruction beyond "just do the same thing for this day, maybe the next day will have something cool".
Still, I did have fun, and this jam entry surprised and delighted me in ways I didn't expect. Congrats on making a game with this big of a scope! I can't imagine it was easy.
