I bought this on a friend's recommendation, and I adore it. Aside from personally being a sucker for the Pokemon genre and rival or enemies to lovers ships in general, I loved that the main character has their own distinct voice and character! While some people might consider that a downside on account of not being a pair of pants, it feeds into my main praise for the game:
The writing fucking rules. Like, it's witty, it knows the genre and plays with it without looking down on the tropes, it's snappy, it made me laugh out loud at multiple points. The voice acting is good, and I was very impressed by the visual direction and art (it reminds me of Gen 4 and 5 Pokemon, that weird point on the NDS right before the jump to 3D where they'd mastered pixel art and had the tech to lace in traditional art to enhance it), but the reason I'm subscribed and hoping eagerly for more is because I can genuinely see the chemistry between the characters and I want to know what happens next.
GOOD GAME!