I wanted to like the game. I genuinely wanted to.
To start, I usually don't play JRPGs and maybe that's a big reason why I ended up dropping this title after a while. The most JRPG I've played are the Persona games.

For the most part, the combat plays fine. It has some complexity in it, but there's also some randomness to it that you have to compensate for by switching out your monstie and your weapon type mid-battle as you go. It's mostly those two things that I dislike. Some monsters are resistant to two weapon types and I suddenly have to choose between those or a weapon type that works but uses an element that the enemy is resistant to. The monster is going to use an attack type that will beat out my monster's primary attack type, but the monstie that specializes in that attack type is weak to the element the enemy monster is using. I really dislike this aspect of the battle system.

There are definitely ways to build around it and it seems like that's where the bulk of the gameplay is focused. You'd have to get a bunch of eggs and hopefully get the monstie genes you want and transfer those over. Egg hunting just feels far too tedious to me and I don't find it fun. It feels too much like a gacha game.

The story is probably the worst offender. It's not that it's bad, it's just extremely simple. It makes me think that this game is primarily made with kids in mind and that's fine, but it's not something I could personally sit through.

A lot of people like this game, but I'm unfortunately not one of those people. The monstie gene building process feels too tedious and the battle system has elements of randomness I really dislike. There's a well working system here, I just didn't find it fun in the end.

I wanted to like the game. I genuinely wanted to. To start, I usually don't play JRPGs and maybe that's a big reason why I ended up dropping this title after a while. The most JRPG I've played are the Persona games. For the most part, the combat plays fine. It has some complexity in it, but there's also some randomness to it that you have to compensate for by switching out your monstie and your weapon type mid-battle as you go. It's mostly those two things that I dislike. Some monsters are resistant to two weapon types and I suddenly have to choose between those or a weapon type that works but uses an element that the enemy is resistant to. The monster is going to use an attack type that will beat out my monster's primary attack type, but the monstie that specializes in that attack type is weak to the element the enemy monster is using. I really dislike this aspect of the battle system. There are definitely ways to build around it and it seems like that's where the bulk of the gameplay is focused. You'd have to get a bunch of eggs and hopefully get the monstie genes you want and transfer those over. Egg hunting just feels far too tedious to me and I don't find it fun. It feels too much like a gacha game. The story is probably the worst offender. It's not that it's bad, it's just extremely simple. It makes me think that this game is primarily made with kids in mind and that's fine, but it's not something I could personally sit through. A lot of people like this game, but I'm unfortunately not one of those people. The monstie gene building process feels too tedious and the battle system has elements of randomness I really dislike. There's a well working system here, I just didn't find it fun in the end.