I’ve got no association with the game, any developers, publishers, whatever, I just really like the game a lot.
Of the pokemon-likes I’ve ever played, it’s easily my favorite, in part because it’s one of the most creative. In fact it’s barely a pokemon-like, just taking the basic formula and then really doing their own thing with it.
Great story, great gameplay, great vibes, and decent (but not stellar) post-game.
Recommended for anyone who likes monster collector games or quirky indie games.
I really liked what they did with type matching too, and that shines literally are a different type, had an absolute blast with the game, plays really well on the deck (though it absolutely eats battery life), sticker system was really cool too, just in general they really did a stellar job of interesting systems and the story was interesting too.
Thinking about it now, I kinda almost want to call it a Pokémon/Golden Sun like? Golden sun had a really awesome system with Djinns where mixing different elements and changing if they were set would literally change that characters class, granted them totally different powers and stats, I’m operating on memory since it’s been a long time but it’s an amazing game, easily my favourite GBA title and I knew there was another game it was reminding me of.
For the battery life problem, try to force the usage of Proton. The native Linux version got a prety nasty power bug going on.