Oh yeah, I was waiting for the Wheel of Wonders to hit this game, and it was so worth the wait! The game is fricking awesome and the roguelike gameplay is well done and really fun! I loved customizing a loadout that fit my playstyle and that there were a lot of directions that you could go (upgrades based on types and based on secondary effects. I did appreciate the gameplay not being too shallow and also being not too difficult as well! The difficulty close to perfect for me, although I would've appreciated a smidgen more depth (Double Battles would be fun, maybe some new kinds of bosses too lol). I also did like how the game was very much balanced around forcing the player to engage with the Relics to progress (without forcing them of course, you'll quickly realize you definitely need them to beat the bosses), so you make sure the player has to have fun lmao
Of course, I think a lot of people could've made a strong Pokemon roguelite game with good gameplay, so as long as they had a good concept of battling, but what I absolutely adored about the game was the setting!! The visual and graphical polish is incredibly clean and it really makes it feel like a full fledged package, great consistent colors and theme in the overowrlld and even the menus! The character designs are all complete winners and I absolutely adored how all their little details came out in just sprite form (Verbena's hair and earrings, Lumbo's stature, Bruco walking animation being entirely unique with his stupid bag) and I'm honestly so upset I didn't get to see more from the game's story, setting and characters!! I was very sad that they didn't have trainer sprites, but I understand that probably was a time limit issue and absolutely not anything else (considering how beautiful the game looks you easily could've done it if you could). I would even say all my biggest gripes with the game is just not being able to know more and experience more of it
Overall, great game! I had a ton of fun breaking the game with stupid strategies and the game is so colorful too!