I think this is partly that I'm just not the right audience for this game, but the gameplay of this gets old extremely fast - it sounds petty but all you do is throw things and take photos and I just don't enjoy it.

The environments themselves look nice, as do the Pokémon (including several I had completely forgotten about), but the throwing fruit/orbs mechanic annoyed me with it's guess work for where they land, as did the Rube-Goldberg-Machine interactions to complete certain Photo Requests.

The Requests are the grindiest part of this, with several which seem almost impossible to get without a lot of trial-and-error, and for a game which moves so slowly this is a ridiculous time sink. If you guess what to do incorrectly, it's menu, restart, loading, then wait for the vehicle to move to the correct place again - we're talking 5 minutes for this in some places. Add in the randomness of nearby Pokémon messing shots up and... yeah, it doesn't respect your time.

Again, I'm probably not the correct audience for this, and I'm sure some people love it, but I'm struggling to see why.

Reviewed on Dec 02, 2021


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