>>55050961the best way i can describe it is like a puzzle mode where rather than just "kill opponent as fast as possible" you're given some sort of objective and you have to use the right moves at the right time (and use the right dialogue option to manipulate the AI's move choice)
it's a fun little side thing but i can understand why most people didn't give it a fair chance, it really did not need a forced tutorial, just something along the lines of pokeathlon's "hey here's this, we'll show it to you so you know it exists but you don't have to go in to continue"