I think this is the only mainline Pokemon game I've completed? This rating should stand true for all the games I've tried to play though; in the end I really cannot deal with the barebones plots and writing and the tortuously slow and shallow combat in a genre where that's the main appeal. The monster collecting isn't a bad idea other than the tedium caused when you realize that there are several hundred of them to catch all of, but there's literally nothing else here. honestly i really don't blame jrpg haters if this slop is their only exposure to the genre lol