As a singleplayer game it's fantastic, I am 25 hours in and have found it to be really refreshing for the monster battler genre. The design is great, in Pokemon I almost always find myself just using 1 or 2 mons for the entire game, this one I feel like I actually am using my entire team, and my starter isn't even my highest level tem! Theres some refreshing desing choices in here such as forcing you to change up your team. Overall its' the 'pokemon for adults' I have wanted for years. I look forward to finishing and getting into pvp!

The battle pass is fine, its purely cosmetic and a way to support the developers, if you don't like it, literally just ignore it, also do not buy it until endgame (it's almost impossible to level it up until then anyway)

As a singleplayer game it's fantastic, I am 25 hours in and have found it to be really refreshing for the monster battler genre. The design is great, in Pokemon I almost always find myself just using 1 or 2 mons for the entire game, this one I feel like I actually am using my entire team, and my starter isn't even my highest level tem! Theres some refreshing desing choices in here such as forcing you to change up your team. Overall its' the 'pokemon for adults' I have wanted for years. I look forward to finishing and getting into pvp! The battle pass is fine, its purely cosmetic and a way to support the developers, if you don't like it, literally just ignore it, also do not buy it until endgame (it's almost impossible to level it up until then anyway)