Hello, I just finished playing the newest beta and I have to say that my feelings about this game are somehow mixed.
At first, I have to praise some things that I have never seen in any pokemon game before. This hack has some real-life feeling (I'm speaking about many dialogues, death people, police, poisoning the trees, etc.), which alone is very interesting feature and I like it. Also creating of the "back door" in many buildings was definitely nice.
Creating the new moves and implementing the fairy type into the game was also interesting to see, but in some situations I was really confused wondering which move is super-effective against me and which is not. But, at least it wasn't just Tackles and Scratches all the time in first few hours of playing.
The game was also kinda challenging in some situations, considering that starters evolves later than usual (and I had all three in my starting 6) and I also had to level-up the weak Eevee, who hasn't learnt any viable move until I evolved him.
Also I have to praise your work in making consistency in advancing the plot (when majority of the areas unlocks only after doing every quest available before), but on the other side, the player has to return to some places over and over (for example the dark cave, I don't remember the name, but I crossed it several dozen times until I found out what to do around) and after some time it starts to be a little bit annoying. Yes, I understand that you wanted to force the players to think what to do next and where they had already been and where to go next, but sometimes it was too much, especially when I played the game after I had a lot of work that day and my brain was partially turned off.
In short:
+ scripting
+ game consistency
+ interesting story
+ two regions and crossing between them
+ characters (the main character is a real badass, but I felt sorry for Jazzy, she was cute)
+ real-life feeling
+ some areas looks awesome
- returning to some areas over and over
- empty, uncrossable space on some maps (but considering that the game is not finished yet, I can see that it has a reason and something will be added there)
- some pokemon have moves that doesn't make sense (Dragonite with Coin Toss or something like that? wtf?)
Overall, I would say that this hack WAS worth a time and it has a potential to become one of the best. I can't wait for the next release.
I wish you good luck with your work.