>>12346656Not really, and I say this as someone who LOVED all of the previous PMDs and wasn't too buttdevastated about the lowered roster size.
The 3d shit looks terrible, the text scrolls unbearably slowly - REALLY slowly, like that alone is a gamebreaking feature for a game with SO MUCH text - and the dungeon overlay somehow manages to take a step backfrom older PMDs. Enemies are closer or further from you (visually) based on what angle they are to you, despite being one square away; it can be hard to tell at a glance whether or not a given enemy is in attack range, and that is absolutely unforgivable due to how well previous PMDs handled it and the constant combat.
While -I- wasn't too fussed about it, it's also worth noting that the roster is bloody tiny; huge swathes of Pokemon got left out, and not even all 5th gen Pokemon made it if I recall correctly. How much that MATTERS depends on how much you like the included ones vs which of your favorites they didn't bother including, but when the previous game in the series has several times as many Pokemon as the sequel... yeah there's a problem here.
On top of all that the game is plagued by DLC bullshit, which really isn't that surprising in the modern age of nickel and diming idiots raised on iPhones but yet another severe step down from the previous game when that one got along just fine without a bunch of DLC bullshit.
Also there are only 5 starters, but at least they picked decent ones for the most part (fuck Tepig though) so I'm not going to make a huge deal about that other than to say that dropping the stupid quiz=pokemon thing was a good design move, but no longer having ~20 starter options is pretty crap.
I did not like the soundtrack or characterization, but those are primarily subjective complaints so I'm not going to go further into that. Sky had the superior soundtrack by far, though.
Anyways, there should be a demo out on eShop so I'd highly suggest trying that out.
