I don't recall the last time i enjoyed drawing circles so much
Gameplay: From afar, this game looks, and sounds, incredibly boring, but in bursts of 30mins to and hour, it's really not bad. While all that is involved is drawing many circles around a pokemon to befriend it, and then using that pokemons ability to help you out in a single situation, and then watch it run away..for some reason it is starngely fun. The game is long enough for the story to take 20hours+, so get some screen protecters, you'll need them!
Graphics: they look quite good. The towns are all in 3D, when attempting to befriend a pokemon, their attacks are in 3D, so if there is a wall of fire, you can go behind it and whatever else in order to draw a stack of circles around the pokemon. All the chacracters and pokemon look good. While the charcters lack some detail, they are done well, and the pokemon look better than the characters, meaning they all look like they should.
Controls: the only controls used in the game is the stylus pretty much, unless you chose to walk around using the D-Pad. These incredibly simple controls make the game easy for everyone to pick up and play with ease and get a quick understanding of how to play the game, and how it works.
Sound: Beware, you will hear a "pokemon's cry" (taken from the Diamond and Pearl pokemon games) an incredibly amount of times. While that's good for the pokemon with amusing cries, but others just end up getting on your nerves! Other than that, there is normally some form of music playing which doesn't get too repeditive..
The Good: easy controls, good storyline, is strangely addictive
The Bad: very long, annoying intro. the constant befriending of the same pokemon can get repeditive and anoying
Final Word: It's not annoying to play, and despite it may look and sound like a complete bore to play, don't jusdge a book by it's cover