Packed with a whole lot more cool content than its predecessor, but falls juuuuust short of my hopes. I wound up having to make a "trash" deck just to fight all the Team GR people who had restrictions on what cards you could use, which got annoying pretty fast. Still, it's a fun time as long as you don't try to binge it. I managed to make a neat lil' deck with some of my favorite gen 1 mons (though I really wish more gen 2 ones had made it in outside of the few promos...), and that was a lot of fun to use. It doesn't 100% invalidate the original, but it definitely feels like a much more expanded version of it at times rather than a proper sequel. In any case, it still has the awesome soundtrack and nice bright visuals you'd expect from this little miniseries, and the deckbuilding variety for the various NPCs is impressive. Definitely a step up in terms of people actually trying to cover their main type's weaknesses, which was something totally missing in the first game.

This title's definitely worth checking out if you liked the first one or if you had a passing interest in these two games in general but you weren't sure where to start. It's a lot of fun! I'd imagine real-life Pokémon TCG players who are curious about its history would get a kick out of this one, too. Hell, even people who just like the mainline Pokémon games might enjoy this since it's got a lot of the vibes of gens 1 and 2 and isn't too complicated of a card game to learn off the bat. Really, this game has a pretty wide appeal... which makes it all the more sad that it was never localized.