This game is similar to Pokemon, better battle system and difficulty but it has some major issues with the tone of the game that hold it back from being better than an actual Pokemon game. The mmo elements are not great either, the best use of it was the mental gym puzzle that was so difficult we had a bunch of people complaining about it and trying to follow each other and failing for about 30 minutes lol, it was actually a pretty great time. But the side quests were pretty bad, and although there was chat, nobody really used it other than to advertise trades. We aren't in the glory days of mmos anymore sadly. It's a decent single player game though, you can easily ignore the multiplayer aspect for the most of the part.