History YMMV / PokemonQuest

* SoOkayItsAverage: How one might react to the game as it has a neat art style, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic good music]] and unlike most Free-to-start games the only real {{Microtransactions}} are DLC for aditional cosmetics but the gameplay is rather shallow if not outright dull and the roster of Pokèmon you are given only covers the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Kanto]] region.

* GameBreaker: A lot of support stones have effects when equipped. The best one of these depending on the Pokemon is 'hit healing' which heals the Pokemon for a certain percentage of its health every time it does damage. Combine this with a multi-hit attack and the Pokemon can heal itself to full health with just a couple of moves!
* SoOkayItsAverage: How one might react to the game as it has a neat art style, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic good music]] and unlike most Free-to-start games the only real {{Microtransactions}} are DLC for aditional cosmetics but the gameplay is rather shallow if not outright dull and the roster of Pokèmon you are given only covers the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Kanto]] region.

* OvershadowedByControversy: The fact that this game -- which uses a style similar to that of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' -- was announced less than a year after the popular ''Minecraft'' mod Pixelmon was hit by a cease-and-desist by Nintendo's lawyers led to fans quickly putting two and two together and guessing that Nintendo shut the mod down to make its own ''Minecraft''-style game look better; as a result, this game pretty much became yet another footnote in the controversy surrounding Nintendo's tendency to pull ScrewedByTheLawyers on fan projects.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: The game uses a blocky voxel style, popularized by ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''Pixelmon'' is an unofficial Minecraft mod that started in '''2012''' and rose to global prominence alongside Minecraft. Initially, it used 3D models that were ported from the Pokemon side series of games into Minecraft before it eventually started using blocky, cube-shaped originals to fit in with the Minecraft aesthetic, essentially predating ''Pokemon Quest'' by 6 years.

* GameBreaker: A lot of support stones have effects when equipped. The best one of these depending on the pokemon is 'hit healing' which heals the pokemon for a certain percentage of it's health every time it does damage. Combine this with a multi-hit attack and the pokemon can heal itself to full health with just a couple of moves!

%% Note: Can someone please give the names for the Farfetch'd boss's moves?

** The secondary final boss of Farside Fjord that you'll rarely encounter is Dragonite. And for good reason: After losing more than half of it's HP, it starts using an aerial bombardment attack that will instantly [=KO=] any of your [=PKMN=] with one hit even when they're at full health.

* ThatOneAttack: Any attack that causes burns is this. All other status effects have their own annoying problems but burns have the double whammy of doing continuous damage AND seriously decreasing the damage you do in the process. A heavy attack-oriented pokemon taking constant damage and only able to deal scratch damage itself is soon beaten.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''Pixelmon'' is an unofficial Minecraf' mod that started in '''2012''' and rose to global prominence alongside Minecraft. Initially, it used 3D models that were ported from the Pokemon side series of games into Minecraft before it eventually started using blocky, cube-shaped originals to fit in with the Minecraft aesthetic, essentially predating ''Pokemon Quest'' by 6 years.

** Before you reach the postgame you'll run into a cave with a bunch of nidoran. Given this you're expecting either nidoking or nidoqueen to be the boss. You're only half right. You have to face both of them fighting in tandem and they each have their own specialties. Nidoking is a close range fighter who uses earthquake and another faster move where he creates a small explosion in front of itself. Nidoqueen attacks from a distance, uses swords dance to buff itself and uses growl to debuff your team. Depending on your teams makeup and the support stones you have equipped your party could get wiped out before making any progress.

** [[spoiler:Blastoise]]'s Bubble move will target and hit your Pokemon so frequently that they'll die before it can be defeated.

* HeartwarmingMoments: Seeing your Pokemon interact with each other, such as sitting on top of others and playfighting, can be cute and a little hilarious.

%% Can someone please give the names for the Farfetch'd boss's moves?
* WereStillRelevantDammit: The game uses a blocky voxel style, popularized by ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''.

** [[spoiler:Magikarp]] will only use [[spoiler: Splash]], which will do a unexpectedly high amount of damage, but then at 50% HP, it pulls out ''Hyper Beam'', which deals damage in the high thousands, to the point of a OneHitKill without the defense buff.

* ThatOneBoss: Some of the possible bosses in the postgame are [[spoiler: Magikarp]], [[spoiler:Blastoise]], and [[spoiler:Farfetch'd]]. [[spoiler:Magikarp]] will only use [[spoiler: Splash]], which will do a unexpectedly high amount of damage, but then at 50% HP, it pulls out ''Hyper Beam'', which deals damage in the high thousands, to the point of a OneHitKill without the defense buff. [[spoiler:Blastoise]]'s Bubble move will target and hit your Pokemon so frequently that they'll die before it can be defeated. [[spoiler:Farfetch'd]]'s swipes deal high damage and can kill your Pokemon in a minute.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: The game uses a blocky voxel style, popularized by ''VideoGame/Minecraft''.

* ThatOneBoss: One of the possible bosses in the postgame is [[spoiler: Magikarp]]. You'll likely underestimate it, but not for long. For the first half of the fight, it will only use [[spoiler: Splash]], which will do a unexpectedly high amount of damage, but then at 50% HP, it pulls out ''Hyper Beam''. This monster of an attack deals damage in the high thousands, to the point of a OneHitKill without a defence buff (and in most cases, with the buff as well.)