I really wanted to like this game. The setting, the atmosphere, the story. I loved about 95% of this but that last 5%, the battles, they are just not fun. I like the idea of tuning the difficulty but this is rediculous. Noy only are you weaker then pretty much every single trainer you come across but then the field effects add a whole new level of bullshit, doubling damage, reducing damage, removing immunites and the gym leaders are never on the recieving end of any negatives and get all the perks. Normally you could grind up, use pokemon with type advantage or catch stronger pokemon but you can't really do that either because you grind to high your pokemon don't listen to you, Gym leaders pokemon team is loaded up with pokemon, moves and held items that make type advantage meaningless or the field effect screws you over, and good luck finding stronger pokemon because it wasn't till I played this game that I started using the phrase "good pokemon". I made it to the third gym and all the wild pokemon I ran into with the exception of a few "event" pokemon, were all bug, normal, poison, flying and grass type. I understand that some people like this level of difficulty but this is not for me. It's not even "challenging" at this point, it's just not fair. I never feel like I'm winning, I'm only surviving and that's not fun. I wish all the best to the creator and hope those that enjoy it continue to do so.
