Replayed for a nostalgia trip as I really liked this game as a kid. There is a lot to like still, the fossil excavation mini game is satisfying and the use of minerals means the game doesn't require any grinding particularly. I think my favourite part is the input cards and I wish more games did that as it's such a cool idea. However as a pokemon rip the variation of creatures is very lacking, you can expect to find only one or two new spectrobes on each new planet (there's about 7 planets). The combat is ok, it was fun to learn all the different mechanics of pairing different spectrobes together but nothing is executed particularly well and it was rare that a fight felt satisfying. The story was also fine, good enough to keep you engaged and thankfully doesn't force you to read through a novel's worth of dialogue. Fun for a trip down memory lane, but you're not missing out on much by leaving this one alone.