I have perhaps an unfair amount of anger towards this game, and I think it's because it's called Gadir Deluxe. There is nothing deluxe about this game. The ai is bad, music is meh, characters are nonexistant, plot is forgettable, the gameplay is fine, and didn't run into a single bug or tile error tbf. this game has a rougelite mode with expeditions, but they're mostly useless. Until you either get the 8th badge or make it to the league building, the item selection isn't great, and they never sell more kinds of binding crystals either. This wouldn't be so bad if the expedition process itself was short, but it's not. once the final shop counter unlocks, though, they do sell the classic comp items; life orb, air balloon, assault vest, etc. but that's at the end of the game, and if you weren't using it at all you've now have to cuck yourself from challenging the league for half an hour to get some comp items, comp items I personally didn't even end up using. I wonder how much faster this process would've been if I had some "secret codes" from the discord, but it's still a shit minigame regardless.
I fucking hate the money problem in this game. It's such a "dev created a problem and solved it poorly" thing. ultra balls are 2k each, full restores are 8.5k each. you have to pay for info on encounters in caves and other areas, which can cost up to 2.5k. buying tickets for the expedition can go from 4.5k to 14k. But don't worry, by just fighting every trainer you can reach a wallet amount of 500k. You should never need that much money, that is leaving the game on in empyrean to buy fucking trading card packs amount of money. You know what's insane? The dev put in a museum side quest where you can register gadir regionals for 5k each as a solution to the money problem they created. Sure you also get the visual of a full museum of pokemon, but I hope you use one ultra ball each on those mons, 2k a ball you start losing money quickly.
There's not much to say about bond stones, it's just the dev trying to fix mega stones and failing. If I wanted to use the stone for the gay duck, I would be locked out of using aqua step, it's iconic move and important to get moxie going, because using the stone gives it the contrary ability. fucking why. what kind of absolute moron just gimps a pokemon like that? You also get that final starter stone right before the final boss, thanks for shitting in my hand at the crucial moment game. More then halfway into the game they introduce different kinds of stones, ones that boost attack more and ones that boost defense more. Idk where those are, and frankly you don't need them. You will get way more milage out of just giving them the usual type boosting item or expert belt, etc. I just need you to imagine putting the effort of "fixing" mega stones, giving most if not all pokemon a blue, orange, and lighter blue glow effect, only to make it practically worthless. idk, maybe his favorite mon didn't get a mega so instead of the logical solution of just making a fan mega he ditched mega stones completely. This game is just so not worthy of the word Deluxe. It's far from the worst thing that's been played this year but it just makes me angry. It doesn't help he shills his own youtube, his discord, and some other youtuber in the game. This goes on a list of games where you see it on someone's top 10 and you wonder "have you only played 10 games this year?"