Once a pokemon fan...
The reason for that is, Ranger is a game where you can REALLY do something to gain experience and 'play' rather then just press the same bottom for a repeat command like in the older games. MD is a dungeon crawler while as Ranger is a puzzle game, dungeon crawler and pokemon game (without the pokeballs) all in one!
When you really think about it, the storyline is familliar but different as well as confusing considering that in this game, in 'their world', there are no pokeballs and everyone lives with pokemon as either pets are helpers, nice when you think about it but it throughs you off if you think it over.
Learning to play this game is insanely easy, as well as figuring out dungeons and puzzles. If you take your time or even learn to be a quick drawer (of a circle), this game is simple to beat.
The hardest battle was Salamance, not Charizard as some people think, lol. As I said, take your time and learn to circle real fast and the game is already beaten.
Level ups, battles and everything inbetween is a wiz. I personally think that the pokemon team made this game alittle too easy... but thats just me.
For people who want a real interacting, enteraining pokemon game? Get it! but wait for the price to go down, it's too quick of a game for 40 bucks and I hate it when that happens.