Truthfully if the game worked the way my brain wants it to I think some pokemon would probably be impossible to hit and certain strats would be insanely good but I’m just constantly finding myself saying “why do some of these moves feel like they aren’t really doing what they’re designed for?”

Honestly this is mostly a salt thread resulting from multiple failed attempts and the lingering disappointment that I don’t love the real time combat as much as I wanted to.

I think I’m too fighting game brained for this, haha.

And then eventually you just kinda beat it by virtue of getting tons of XP on failed attempts and brute forcing it through bigger stats.

Yeah it’s still challenging 10 levels higher because of sheer attrition, but it does feel like I undercut it a little. I dunno.

Switching is necessary to counter the next foe’s starting ‘mon, but you’re guaranteed to eat TWO attacks depending on what attacks they have, which can screw you over anyways.

And the restaurant is kinda small, so dodging is a crapshoot. You just gotta oneshot them before they do too much damage.

Dude you are so right that would’ve been really cool.

Also some of those levels are ANNOYING. Eirika’s is TERRIBLE.