the music is really good and the visual style of the game is peak imo. but also the game's style of humor i find really... grating

and the writing style overall is hit or miss for me

visually it's basically trying to be pokemon, and i don't hate it. mechanically it is not a monster battler but otherwise it borrows a lot of concepts from that direction and the gameplay loop is kinda working for me

it's pretty much a jrpg with a 1v1 turn-based battle system, and the strategy element is focused around learning moves and tailoring a limited moveset to combo various effects, particularly status effects

it does a neat thing when you're inflicted with a status effect where the gameboy pallette of the screen changes and a filter gets applied to the music, both of which are different depending on which status effect it is, which i thought was really cool

the story doesn't have much going on, at least not during the demo

the humor is coarse and edgy in a way that didn't really land for me

there's a really off-putting interaction slightly over halfway through the demo where a random npc who... seems to represent critics of the game??? he goes on a 4th-wall-breaking rant about the game's writing and then literally shoves a stick up his ass

which

i put the demo down for a while after that

i'd had mixed feelings up until that point but the vibes of that moment were really rancid and it kinda tipped me over into actively disliking the game's sense of humor

"got problems with the jokes in this game? this is you"

ok

i don't think i can wishlist this

as much as it pains me because there's a lot this game does right. but knowing this is how they handle criticism kinda sours the whole experience