Review bombing this game is really sad and not fair to the dev. Ignore the Paid Battlepass Outrage Andys. It's a 7.50 usd cosmetic only, largely pointless battle pass that nets 10 dollars of the in game currency back at completion. So if you give them a tip, you can have every battle pass forever if you really want it... It's also endgame centric, so if you just want to beat the campaign, complete the Tempedia (Pokedex) and dabble in endgame casually... I don't know, don't buy the battlepass? People with a thousand+ hours in this game complaining that the dev asks for live servicing fees in an very fairly priced and entirely optional way are totally bent.

Temtem is what modern Pokemon should be at the bare minimum. Everything that hardcore Pokefans have wanted Gamefreak to do in that classic gamestyle for years is on display here. Pokemon obviously has an infinite budget and better monster designs (although a lot of this roster is pretty sweet) but everything else in Temtem blows mainline Pokemon out of the water in terms of depth, challenge and playability. I haven't been able to stomach finishing a Pokemon campaign since the DS, giving up on nearly every entry since Diamond/Pearl but Temtem has brought me back.

If you are somone who wants to still enjoy Pokemon but finds Gamefreak's games to be stuck in the 90s and with campaign difficulty tuned to braindead overleveling, mash A to win monotony, Temtem is what you want.

Review bombing this game is really sad and not fair to the dev. Ignore the Paid Battlepass Outrage Andys. It's a 7.50 usd cosmetic only, largely pointless battle pass that nets 10 dollars of the in game currency back at completion. So if you give them a tip, you can have every battle pass forever if you really want it... It's also endgame centric, so if you just want to beat the campaign, complete the Tempedia (Pokedex) and dabble in endgame casually... I don't know, don't buy the battlepass? People with a thousand+ hours in this game complaining that the dev asks for live servicing fees in an very fairly priced and entirely optional way are totally bent. Temtem is what modern Pokemon should be at the bare minimum. Everything that hardcore Pokefans have wanted Gamefreak to do in that classic gamestyle for years is on display here. Pokemon obviously has an infinite budget and better monster designs (although a lot of this roster is pretty sweet) but everything else in Temtem blows mainline Pokemon out of the water in terms of depth, challenge and playability. I haven't been able to stomach finishing a Pokemon campaign since the DS, giving up on nearly every entry since Diamond/Pearl but Temtem has brought me back. If you are somone who wants to still enjoy Pokemon but finds Gamefreak's games to be stuck in the 90s and with campaign difficulty tuned to braindead overleveling, mash A to win monotony, Temtem is what you want.