Alright, I've been playing Ethereal Gates for some time now, and I figured it was high time I actually made an account here and said something about it. Except when I tried to do so, it said my username was taken, which annoyed me, but I switched to a different one anyway. And then it told me that the email I gave was already in use, which clued me in to the fact that I was in fact already registered here. Oops. Well, anyway, now that that's all sorted out, on to what I think of this game; it is awesome. :) Great graphics, amazing Pokémon, and that box-breaking puzzle in the lighthouse was, IMO, a stroke of genius. I already have a team of six Pokémon (Volpant, Barilbil, Abdoscus, Polbee, Magnut, and Barcush), and I haven't even gotten to the second Gym Leader yet! Oh, and bringing back the Call feature from Colo/XD, that was nothing short of brilliant. Just a few minor issues;
1: THE LAAAAAAAG. I mean, I know it's been mentioned here, but IMO, it bears repeating.
2: I noticed that Maggona's base HP is absurdly low. I think it actually has lower HP than Setik. I mean, maybe it's just me, but in the first Gym, I was healing up Fernling, Barilbil, and Polbee with Super Potions and Fresh Waters and Soda Pops, while all I needed were basic Potions for Maggona.
3: When selecting a move to delete in favor of a new one, the cursor's position is way off.
4: Attack animations like Leech Life, Acid, and Bubble Beam seem to appear on the wrong part of the screen- it looks like the Bubble Beam is coming from some point above Barcush instead of directly from Barcush, y'know?
5: Sometimes the text for item descriptions shrinks down to a ridiculously small size.
6: The Pokédex- a lot of the entries are cut off, the species is replaced with question marks when the entry is shown for something you just caught, and it lists Jinkai as a pure Ghost-type.
7: Dunno if this one was intentional or not, but the mechanic on Route 4 won't heal your Pokémon anymore once you deliver the Machine Part. I mean, it's not a big deal, it just kinda threw a wrench in my initial plans for grinding for the second Gym (bad pun fully intended :P).
But I want to be clear about this- those minor issues are just that- minor. Overall, I love this game, I think it's great, and I'm looking forward to future updates! :)
EDIT: Just made it to the end of the demo (with my Polbee evolving into Allerglen along the way). Maybe it was all the grinding I did, maybe Magnut is just that good, but either way, Beckett wasn't too hard to beat.
