In today’s video, we’ll be discussing Temtem 1.0 as a whole and will determine whether or not i believe Temtem is worth buying!
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Gym Leader Ed I haven't touched TemTem in a very long time, I've been playing Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee again. I've also been too hyped for Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet as well. Maybe one day I'll play TemTem again soon.
It was just far too grindy for me with unskippable trainer battles every other step. I quit pretty early on.
Best with friends
Pretty boring to go through solo for a co dependant person like me, which is why i bought it for my gf too 😛 she loves it too
I've been thinking of getting temtem since a friend recommended it to me and this review has helped out alot thanks!
I played Tem-Tem for maybe 80% of the story before eventually dropping the game. Everything about it was great and I started out with the goal of catching them all.
My main problem with the Switch version is it's sheer reliance on the internet. The main game seems like it could easily run without needing that internet to function. However the inability to grab my switch and play it on the go was mainly my main reason for dropping the game.
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First "Pokémon" I've enjoyed since Gen 2.
Switch version is a broken buggy mess that crashes constantly and it still hasn't stopped me dropping about 400 hours on it and I've still not even started end game, I beat the story then started work on grinding Lumas (Got 3 full odds but only 2 from Sai park's boosted odds), pansuns to get an entire closet of clothing with dyes and the auction house to buy a good team to breed my own team with.
Sadly I did this before the huge perfect egg price crash of 3 weeks ago lol
But anyway I have good enough tems, all over 300 SV's total and that's fine for me as I will never play PVP.
I've been grinding them to 100 and been having such a blast, that now I'm holding off end game until my coop partner hits it (He started the game with me about 4 weeks ago). Which digital game sharing works on this too but you will need to pay a tiny fee for player 2 to be able to trade or such things. Which is still fair as we both got the deluxe version doing game share so yeah beyond fair to pay a tiny fee for player 2 versus buying a whole other copy.
I love everything about this game, the story is actually good, Max sucks though but I love how much Queer rep is in this game and how amazing the community is with that, I love the shots it takes as PETA and at GameFreak.
I love the combat, the gameplay as a whole, just everything and I can't wait (Well I clearly can) to start end game.
Switch version is slowly improving but it still crashes a lot for me, usually after fast traveling and equipping an item in the menu or just entering combat.
But it's still an amazing game.
Everytime I open chat it crashes, but it has been a great game and not unbearable..
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I was interested in this game back when it was like $20. Now it's out of my price range. The devs also seem to be strongly opposed to ever putting the game on sale soooo I wait.
I am glad to hear they added more PvE stuff after the story content. That was the other reason I passed on buying this game. For a while all there was to do after the story was PvP or luma hunt.
I loved the dialogue. If I'd known I'd have wanted to read all of the old Early Access dialogue before it changed.
People seem to be averse to going back to heal at the previous Temporium. Is this some generic thing not limited to Temtem, or is it just because it's empty content which is bad for streaming and let's plays?
I also found myself skipping the dialogue… I think it's because the random no-name NPCs on the long routes each have so much to say that you get numb to pointless dialog. It's like the game is training the players to skip its own text
Great review. I'm interested in playing this but i'll wait till after a price drop. The game having to constantly be online is a bit of a turn off, especially since i plan to only play solo.
Isn't this online only? Useless to me then 🤦🏾♂️
I really enjoyed my time with Temtem, but I will say that it would be so much more enjoyable for me if it weren't an MMO. Let me elaborate.
1) It doesn't run that well on the Switch to begin with and constantly having to be online certainly doesn't help. This is not much of an issue on Steam (not for me anyway), but sometimes, I just like to take my Switch and watch Netflix in bed while playing a monster tamer, and that's just such an inconsistent experience with Temtem.
2) Then there's breeding. I vastly prefer breeding my own monsters over just buying them from somebody else, but the fertility system, while I understand why it's necessary specifically in an MMO, is the single most annoying thing ever sometimes. The amount of times I've vasted huge amounts of Pansuns because I got the wrong sex no less than five times in a row is just too annoying, and don't even get me started on X/Y incubator tickets only raising the odds of getting the desired sex by 50% while being expensive to the point where you're probably better off just buying the monster. Never mind the fact that your eggs take actual time to hatch rather than you actively hatching them. It's just too tedious, but buying your desired Temtem off the market is not exactly satisfying either.
2.5) You can technically take any Temtem and improve its SVs (basically its genes) using items until they're perfect, which I like, but there are two problems with that: you still most likely need egg moves and it's horrendously expensive in terms of Feathers spent.
3) Making meaningful amounts of money is a drag as well. You can rebattle the Dojo Masters once per week for a respectable amount of Pansuns and it'll also give you Feathers, which is nice. The battles are a little frustrating sometimes unless you have ideal teams for all the Masters, but that's better than them being total pushovers. Then there's Koish fishing. I don't think I have to explain how monotonous this task is, and it's not even that great as a source of income a lot of the times. FreeTem is a great way to make money – if you have the patience of a saint. It's only slightly less monotonous than fishing and the encounter rate in the optimal area has driven me away from this activity altogether. And then we have what I consider to be the most lucrative way of making money: breeding. Which sucks because breeding is, again, very frustrating a lot of the times, and you're also relying on other people to buy your monsters/eggs, which they might not do for weeks. I realize it's not supposed to be super easy to make money, they have an economy to worry about in this game, but it's just one aspect of this game that I find to be annoying. The daily post delivery stuff is okay, but only if you use external resources to instantly know where to go; otherwise, it can be super annoying as well.
4) You can only have one save file on Steam. I'd love to play through the game again, but it's really no fun on the Switch for me anymore and I don't want to lose my progress on my main safe file. I know that we're eventually getting a Nuzlocke mode and I'm super excited about it and it's going to have a separate safe file, but that's very specific.
I will absolutely play more Temtem in the future, I'm just burnt out and a little disappointed specifically by how frustrating the breeding system turned out to be. I also haven't done many of the endgame activities because I get annoyed with the breeding system anytime I slightly feel like preparing for them.
i love combat has no RNG bs, i hate attacks missing so I welcome the stamina resource system 100% acc fully.
the issue i have tho are the temtem abilities, their 1st or 2nd form will have an amazing ability, then their evolution form's ability is totally different and often awful just…why lol. like the Mental type starter 1st form ability it does bonus dmg to sleeping targets and they dont wake up too. tho when it evolved its new ability gives water type stab, wat. apparently its 3rd form becomes part water but it barely learns water moves anyways just feels like a waste smh. or that poison water duck, 1st form abilty gives poison stab and has powerful poison moves so worth it for double stab poison attacks but 2nd form loses this ability for something useless so now its poison moves do less meh. Coromon does this better, as 2nd and 3rd evos just get a stronger version of their ability.
sadly tho, i still can't do co-op with my boyfriend. when he invites me, i get no party invites notifications as it says I am "busy" apparently what they told me. while my invites dont go through at all. I play on xbox series X as does he and he's also on Steam/Steam deck too. tried all 3 platforms nothing works. mentioned to devs since release and no reply from them. my bf got us this game to play together and we still can't =/
I'm playing the game since Early Access and I enjoyed my first playthrough, even that there was a lot of dialogue… Until playing the story again with a second account or playing it co-op with someone else. So I agree, it can become tedious over time, even if you skip everything.
My main issue comes with the learnsets of each Temtem. First I will talk about what you mentioned about the high Stamina cost while giving Houchic Kick + Hypnosis as an example. I'm pretty sure this problem happened when they started to raise the Stamina cost for most moves (+ changing the Stamina formular in general) during EA after raising the max Level, that was either from 50 to 72 or 72 to 100 to maintain the balance for the PvP aspect. This is why I never had that experience as I was playing the early game in an earlier state where the Stamina cost wasn't as high.
Now to my problem: The learnsets of most Tems for the story is terrible! Atleast the starters have something they can work with consistently. But other Temtem gets stuck with low power moves up 'til the endgame. The reason why Umishi is recommened for a playthrough is because it gets powerful moves early on even in its unevolved form. Water Blade is already a good first STAB move compared to other Types (the reason behind this is the move got buffed and added to Oceara's learnset in exchange for the too powerful Aquatic Whirlwind after it got Hurry-wart as a trait, which resulted in Water Blade becoming an early Aqua Bullet Hell for every other Tem that has it which is stupid as Crema states they don't want to change the so-called "story-moves" to make them more suitable for PvP when they could have given Aqua Bullet Hell to Oceara instead of copy-paste it to Water Blade). Water Cannon at Lvl 14 is absurdly strong, even if it means you can only use it once and run out of Stamina, as well as Sharp Rain at 17.
I'm not playing the game often atm as the metagame is set and everyone plays basically the same team. I fought the Club Dojo in Deniz today and the three holograms had the same 6 Tems. While this is fine, everyone is allowed to play what they want, but for me it is getting boring facing the same thing over and over again. Our club also is on a break until the next patch comes to shake up the metagame a little bit (also Showdown helps in trying new things out without spending too much pansuns).
Btw. I like to hear you are neutral towards a RNG-free battlesystem and one that does have it (like Pokémon and Coromon), I hear from many Temtem-fans that the RNG-free battlesystem is what makes Temtem the better game when this is actually up to the preference to each player. While I also prefer Temtem, there is nothing against RNG in battles, it's actually good that they differ in that matter.
I think within the next couple of years Nintendo will release a switch revision or a switch 2 so i hope some of the older games including Temtem gets patched to take advantage of the stronger hardware
I stopped playing Temtem cause the devs are some of the biggest assholes I've ever seen. They hate their player base and actively do things to drive people away from the game on purpose.
How is this vs Nexomon 1&2? I found Nexomon through this channel and loved them; binged both
I’ve always found your temtem videos very helpful. I recently was struggling with deciding which tems to get rid of the. I saw your vid on that quest. Very informative thanks for bringing reliable info to the playform
One very important thing, the game is VERY TEDIOUS
My wonky internet connection didn't make it a catch for me on switch, but on Xbox the game ran smoothly and I was able to progress to Arbury. Definitely one of the best monster taming games out 👍🏿👍🏿
Haven't really been playing the game as much as I thought I would. I might start playing again someday. Doubt it though.
I thought about giving Temtem a chance. After all, it's not it's fault that people referred to it as a Pokemon killer years ago. But this review suggests to me waiting a little longer might be for the best.
The online portion was one of my concerns. I mean, what if your internet goes out while you play? I usually don't care about multiplayer. I just want to play.
As for RNG… Well I feel like an RPG like this benefits from it. Critical hits have been a thing for so very long! Taking it out of the equation is kinda not great. And if what you said is true, and since you tackle the monster taming genre I trust you a lot, it sounds like even without it there are issues. Sounds like Stamina is a real pain in the neck here.
Sad to hear the story isn't great either. I mean, I don't ask for the most epic tale. But something that I can still enjoy. I know it's just your opinion, but from what little I know, I feel I wouldn't like it either. I know that people would disagree with me, but friendly rival all the way!
Thank you for telling us what you think about Temtem! I think for now I will stick to Pokemon, Nexomon and Moco Moco Friends! Because the biggest deal breaker for me is the online portion since I would play alone anyway.
Pros –
Colorful, They/Them inclusion**, Some Monster Designs, Doubles Format
Mid –
Maps are very basic, Music is very basic, Sound effects very touch n' Go, Traveling is very slow; gets faster but it takes a long time to get to that point. Like a LONG time.
Cons –
The plot is dryer than Death valley, MOST characters are forgettable and have bloated ( or repetitive ) dialog, Battles are long and intolerable, Levels / Damage scaling is poorly treated often making long battles even longer, Many mechanics are poorly executed ( Hold moves ) , Move pools are either bloated or have nothing no in-between. Always -online play style. MMO features take a hard backseat ( literally needlessly implemented to justify the 'always online' need ) You CANNOT change your characters Name or Physical appearance later. Small thing you can change like hair , clothing, n stuff like that. But your running animation / idle animations are FROZEN so is your name. Unless you wanna nuke your save.
** There are times the dialog will "forget" you chose They/Them and will default to He/Him . This also happens for She/Her from time to time. This may have been patched but it's so fine-comb it may be hard to notice / find. Just know it's an error.
Overall – Tem Tem is what happens when you take a game like Pokemon Coliseum and suck the soul out of it. Of course, this is just one persons opinion. I was also very critical with Coromon which came off to me as just a slightly up-scaled pokemon romhack ( with sprites that looked like they were from Lake Kindrid of Gaiaonline ) . I'd give TemTem a 5/10 . Wait for a sharp price drop before buying. Do not buy the "season Pass" . The Devs are pretty much as bad as Nexon ( Mabinogi / Maple Story ) and will 100% feel nothing about charging you 20+$ USD for pixles that do nothing.
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I've just seen a video about this game that's about a month old saying about how incredibly grindy the game is, about how you never have enough in-game money because you get so little & the prices for the in-game shops are so ridiculously high.
I was wondering if the info the video gave is still accurate or if it's outdated.
Which monster taming game has the most competitive roster of mons x quality battle system?
I lost interest in this game after hearing people's experiences with the game being tedious and some stuff about the devs (Also the price). 😛
(Can't remember specifics about the devs, so I may be thinking of another game. Not certain (Regardless, I've definitely seen much worse devs))
I think the game need more real co-op activities in the endgame, do a dungeon all in different ways and nothing co-op like fight 2 or 4 people vs a boss is sad right now…
Overall, not really! Ifound it very tedious on a lot of parts (oh my god the walking) and the low qualiti of life improvements compared to pokemon.
Scarlet/violet will make everyone forget this game exists.
IF they ever make a temtem 2 then it might be relevant again.
I found the dialogue very funny thought, it was also VERY liberal to lgbtq and thats mostly a good thing even if at times in this game it felt forced.
I saw TemTem in store for the first time this past weekend, lol. You need a Nintendo switch online membership to play online, so it technically costs more to play if you don’t already have it.
You had me until frequent crashes… Hopefully it gets patched up a bit more