Before starting this, I assumed that the whole game would just be the colosseum mode. I only started this up because I was trying to get the legendaries exclusive to this game for my Gen 3 Pokedex, and I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it's much more of a conventional RPG.
The gameplay is a bit rough. Everything in this game from the walk speed to the battle animations goes so slowly that I was able to play it at double speed in Dolphin with no trouble at all. I don't think I could get through all this on a real console.
Still, I'm glad that I did give this a shot. It's got some fun Y2K aesthetic elements and a pretty unique vibe for a Pokemon game. You play a fully grown adult and the setting is the Poke-verse equivalent of a low-magic world. There aren't any wild pokemon, so almost every pokemon you get beyond your starters is confiscated from other trainers that have mistreated their monsters.
The gameplay is a bit rough. Everything in this game from the walk speed to the battle animations goes so slowly that I was able to play it at double speed in Dolphin with no trouble at all. I don't think I could get through all this on a real console.
Still, I'm glad that I did give this a shot. It's got some fun Y2K aesthetic elements and a pretty unique vibe for a Pokemon game. You play a fully grown adult and the setting is the Poke-verse equivalent of a low-magic world. There aren't any wild pokemon, so almost every pokemon you get beyond your starters is confiscated from other trainers that have mistreated their monsters.