When asked to choose a Ground and Steel type Pokémon, many would choose mons like Excadrill or Steelix, while only a select few will think of Galarian Stunfisk. That is, my friends, what separates the brave from the cowards.

This is quite literally what says on the box and then some; a take on Sudoku in which you guess Pokémon, be it by their types, region, sub-category and more, and it can be a real head-scratcher with how specific it can get with certain combinations in which very few mons fit in. It couldn’t get simpler than this, and it manages to be pretty fun, not only really testing the memory of fans of the series like myself, but also it can get really tricky with having only 9 attempts, meaning you can only really ‘’win’’ by doing it perfectly first try, and the uniqueness stat which really invites you to try to think about mons many others would normally forget about. It just takes five minutes to do it each day and the novelty will eventually wear off like so many games of this style already have proven, but that’s more of an inescapable condition with the kind of game this is rather than a true flaw, hell, the only real gripe I could have with this would be how the original franchise catalogues some of its monsters, and that’s not even a fault of this game specifically.

So yeah, game good! It takes a simple idea and keeps that one while introducing enough to make it interesting and even sometimes funny, and discussing the ‘’doku’’ of the day with others after doing it can be pretty fun and get you to learn facts about the franchise otherwise pretty specific or obscure…

Having said that I have only one request, specifically to Game Freak… MAKE NECROZMA COUNT AS A ULTRA BEAST IN THE GAMES YOU GODDAM COWARDS, IT WOULD MAKE SO MUCH SENSE WHY THE HELL IT ISN’T PROGRAMMED AS ONE ALREA-