Would have rated higher but the first rat battle was taking forever. Turn based is cool but the battles should be a lot quicker, especially the first one.

Cool - I ran from the first battle...

The pixel art graphics are pretty neat, though the setting (a dirty bunch of shacks in the desert, it seems) are rather ugly. Not that an area has to be nice, mind, but it's just that the grays, browns, and dull greens aren't a very pleasant palette.

That's not a major problem, though. A bigger problem is that there's almost no game here. It's a Pokemon clone in the most superficial and dull sense. Battles are waaaaaay too long, sapping any fun that may have come from winning because it's just so much tedious button-mashing busywork.

Also, the text is too big for the text boxes, with many words being awkwardly cut off. The text could have been reduced 4 points or so to require less button-pressing to skip the text.

Overall, there's just not much of a game here, I'm sorry to say. The timelapse was very interesting to watch, though!

I like where you were heading with this and I like the sprite set and colors.

Can see where you're aiming with this, couldn't find a way to interact with anything... X for bag/beast menu didn't seem to offer any more - wasn't obvious how to do more