It's... aggressively fine? Maybe a little under that? To the game's credit, I like that it's a little more involved and interesting than the pretty bland but also "fine" original game, and some of the subject matter they chose to touch does give it some flavor. But I find it difficult to muster any thoughts of substance about it because, well... it's just kinda boring. It's not aggressively bad, it's definitely not good, it just. Exists.

Really the thing that stands out most is that this game is SLOW. Dialogue drags, and most cutscenes have these awkward pauses that accentuate their mostly bland direction. If they tightened it up into a snappy, breezy experience I think that would have gone a long way, but over the course of the game that was definitely the thing that wore me down.

Just... man. I think the concept is great, so it bums me out to see it simply exist at best and kinda fumble (the movie sequel) at worst. Even the cute little short they released with Tim having a little bit of friction with Pikachu over stolen dessert is more interesting than a lot of what they do with it in these games... I dunno.