I genuinely don’t care man replaying this for the billionth time now that I got the Steam Deck, aka playing it PORTABLY was magical. It’s got jank but I fucking adore it. I think it’s one of the most enduring games ever. Booting it up, getting a few emblems, raising a chao, improving ranks, it’s soul. You don’t have to agree with Shadow but the mob can’t make me love him. He is my brother. We are both dragon energy. I don’t agree with everything anyone says. That’s what makes us individuals. And we have the right to free thought.

I loved the base game. Not so much this. It’s far too small for what you’d expect from DLC; too few areas, which are too small from an exploration point of view, and then very few new monsters. It can’t run off of the idea of returning species like its inspiration, Pokemon, does with DLC, so that lack of new content really shows. I’d wager this took me less than two hours. I’m just kind of resoundingly numb here and disappointed. If it’s on sale, you’re not doing yourself harm by getting it, but it isn’t brimming with substance. Very lucky it’s an amoeba to a game I loved.