LumenTale: Memories of Trey

It is just really clunky with little explaintions. There are hidden types for everything that the game just doesnt tell you exist and some guys only evole if you have that type. I hate how the dex is, it tell is supposed to tell you how something can evolve but it only says level+, so you need level and something else, it doesnt say what that something is. It could be a hidden type, move, item whatever but there is no hint towards it. You also fight second stage animon long before you can evolve your own. Layout and menu are just annoying. I really wanted to like the game but it just isnt fun.

Unfortunately this game falls under the "devs didnt get the cyberpunk 2077 memo" category. This is in all aspects an early access game sold as complete, evident from the "early adopter" pack that was given with the first month sales. There are just way too many bugs and annoyances to make a thoughtfully flowing list, check out the reddit for all the technical problems, terrible evolution designs and extremely low spawn-rate for some of the rare encounters. This game somehow is under the same umbrella as pokemon but with the same technical problems as cyberpunk 2077 or even scarlet&violet, where the mons dont get registered, you fall under the map, you get stuck in place randomly while just walking, the lost/shiny mons havent all been released, and worst of all the story is as soulless as those games previously mentioned. Its clear the focus was lost while making the game, and 2 months later none of these problems have been addressed, and the only concern devs have right now is to ban the people that are trying to help others with some of the mons-related bugs/problems like secondary forms of some mons or even the legendaries themself not getting registered. Save your money, or try something better like cassette beasts or palworld.

The game still hasn't addressed being able to properly name your Mons and claimed it was being worked on all the way back in May, nothing has changed. So many other bugs and issues are also just unfixed and untouched. I sadly think the game just isn't worth it if it feels like nothing will get fixed.

I rarely review games that I have not finished, but I decided to make an exception for this one, since after a bit more than four hours in I couldn't bear it anymore, and I think that some people could have the same experience as me. The title is a Pokémon-like monster collector game (although the combat system is more like a classical JRPG), but which requires a lot of farming. And I mean A LOT. The very first boss of the game, a sort of end-of-tutorial boss, is quite hard, and even has the issue that unless your starter is of the "correct type" to fight it, almost all Mons that you find and can capture up until that point are weak to the boss' attacks. Also, although the game has an auto-clear mechanic for encounters, it does not work if the Mons you're facing are too strong, which is basically every Mons you encounter that you might actually want to defeat. And the battles are too long for how much you need to farm. Additionally, there are far too many Mons around the map and they respawn very fast, making it so that it's impossible to clear areas, it's hard to move around dodging them all if you don't want to fight, and you're gonna find yourself completely surrounded after a cutscene ends. That was my experience with it, but looking into the other reviews, many also mention obscure mechanics and a issues with the story. Therefore, although the designs of the Mons themselves are good, I can't really recommend the title unless you're a huge fan of grinding.

I really wanted to love this game. I really did. But it fails in so many aspects that I couldn't possibly recommend it. For starters, it crashes constantly. You'll be in the middle of a battle and the game will shut down. It is even more infuriating when it comes down to lost (this is how shinies are called in this game) monsters. "But saving it before trying to catch it would solve it, right?. No. No it would not. The devs, for some absurd reason, decided that reloading the game should reset EVERYTHING, including the loaded monsters. Shiny hunting is a waste of time. Speaking of wasting your time, this game rather loves doing it. The fights are sloggish, you can't turn the attack animations off and you can't play them faster. The maps are a paradox. They are big, yes, but there are very few relevant locations, and they are NOT fun to explore. Not to mention, some quests serve only to add to the playtime. I remember two instances where the game forces you to play hide and seek. You gain nothing out of it. You do lose some precious time of the ONLY life you'll live on Earth. Yikes. The story is whatever. The game is quite beautiful, however, both in terms of the overall artstyle and the monster designs. In the end, I saw myself forced to uninstall it and remove it from my library permanently. It could be a great game, but its poor performances and some absurd decisions behind it keep it from being one.

It's ending was so pathetic, instead of just starting post tournament it sets you to before the final chapter of the game and you have to just ignore the main quest for the "post" game. There are little resolutions and after trudging through all the story and bugs and no care for your time without a fast travel (with all the back tracking). This game started good then became a 6/10.

Was playing Lumentale when Palworld released. This bastard never stood a chance.

First, I’d like to say that the game isn’t all bad—the creature designs are quite inspired, and in a monster-taming game, that makes a big difference. The story seems to stand out from the “traditional” formula by incorporating elements of more meaningful world-building. Despite all that, I have to say that the negative aspects stand out… glaringly. The game constantly gives off an unfinished feel: there are dozens of bugs that are easily detectable and reproducible (falling into lava, all menus freezing), while others are annoying and random, such as the controls simply stopping working or the directional pad working sometimes but not others. Other problems stem from decisions made by the team that clearly don’t seem to have been thought through from the users’ perspective: an annoying “HMs” system, difficulty that only makes the game more tedious, “random” battles with irrelevant creatures, and Points of Interest that add nothing to the game (not even a description or context). Several features that could have been unique advantages—such as the ability to evolve attacks—soon become irrelevant because you can only do so with certain attacks and not others; traveling by surfboard? You’ll be unable to use the Holoken. It’s definitely a game that might be better in about two years, but it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

Annoying. At first I enjoyed the game but they haven't updated the game to fix things nor have they added their version of shinies to all the monsters in the game? its incomplete and i thought they would push updates out to fix and add such things but, they haven't. Really disappointing.