This review isn't going to touch on the sketchy admittance of the the developer "taking inspiration" from other games. Yes, all artists are inspired by other artists. But there's a fine line between inspiration and copy and paste. Thus I won't compare it to a particular game since it's been done. Over and over.

It certainly helped scratch the "catch adorable creatures" itch. For the most part, I find the designs okay. Do I have favorites? Sure. There are some that are fairly basic. I do like the pals do not have evolutions. That would have only added more of a grind.

I do love the customization in the game world. You can make the difficulty easier or harder, skip on hunger, earn exp quicker, etc. I want more games to follow suit. Speaking of the world, it's large. Way larger than I thought before playing. I didn't explore much of the two north regions.

Unfortunately, my least favorite aspect was the base building. It's a large part of the game and it's personally not my favorite genre. Toward the end, I was spending more time in my base rather than exploring. It felt more a chore and finally got me to stop playing. My base probably wasn't running efficiently, so possibly not the fault of the game?

I had fun playing and ultimately that's all I really ask for in a game. Entertainment.