Pokémon Friends (2025)

I feel like I've played enough of this game to give a fair review. This is from the experience of someone who bought the entire bundle for $33ish. It honestly feels like they did the bare minimum when making this game. It's hard to get excited about collecting dolls and decorating when you can't choose which yarn you get for playing, meaning you also don't get to choose what dolls you get. This also makes completing missions for NPCs harder since you're reliant on luck. It would've been nice to be able to choose which mini-game to play, but we don't get that either. It's hard to level up and get better at games when you just have to hope it appears in your queue randomly. I can't imagine playing this as a F2P player when you are limited on how many games you can play because the lower difficulties are a slog. The fact that it's a pokemon game, a series that emphasizes interacting with others via trades and whatnot, but there's 0 integration with friends. It'd be nice if we could trade with friends or in the very least see their PBs or see what days they've played the game. If you were hoping for a game that would make you sharper mentally, then you'll be disappointed. The mini-games are basically the kind that you'd play in brain age or any of the free games that claim to raise your IQ. Overall, a disappointing game, especially in relation to the price. For $10, it is probably a nice distraction, but I don't think the full bundle is worth.