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Wait 'til ya hear about held items (another thing that wouldn't have existed in universe yet).

Played a few more hours and it is a lot of fun. Exploring the world is fun and the agile/strong styles are a neat mixup. Also the damage is really weird. Everything feels like it does a bunch of damage even if your pokemons a few levels higher. But it does kinda add a nice challenge.

As far as story (I've only just gotten past the first Noble) I'm enjoying it. As mentioned, I've got a low bar but there's a bunch of characters and the way they're building the story and threat is pretty intriguing. Pacing seems fine but given the nature of the game it kinda seems like it'll be down to you on how fast things move. If you take long breaks to go explore and catch things it's gonna break up the story quite a bit. You might be able to rush it but I think with the way damage scales now it might be pretty hard to not just get wiped by some random pokemon that decides to jump you.