Heya, I beat the entire game! My final playtime was about 11 hours, but I got the credits and everything! I gotta say, the scope of this game was gigantic for the amount of time you had, and there was a lot of work done in keeping us feeling that we were in Sinnoh! There were a few things I had issue with and a few things I did like.
I liked the the general theme of the Ancient Sinnoh/Hisui and looking back at past Sinnoh as our guys learn and get accustomed to that, and I feel like the game would've felt way tighter if it focused on that! Torrent's final little parting message at the end was really awesome, and it was very sweet and good conclusion to his arc. My issues start mostly with the amount of repetition in the game. The mining for example, served a bit as a backdrop of the players occupation, but the day-by-day cycling with very little going on was a little tedious. I think you could've significantly cut down on amount of days you'd have mining so we could get to the fun parts where the story starts to unfold and things happen. I liked the parts where the group went on a field trip to a different place and got to experience some fun events, and I think those should have been focused on a little more! It got worse when at a certain point, I ran out of money for repels and I had to walk to each mining spot while having to encounter mons every few steps, and I think there shouldn't even have to be encounters in those sections imo
A lot of the towns were empty and devoid of NPCs to talk to, which kind of reinforces my point of possibly cutting down on the scope a little and making something a little more condensed, smaller, but with more interesting things to do from point to point. Despite all the above, I did complete the entire game! Hopefully my review was helpful, I'd love to see you take another shot at a project!