More powerful moves require more stamina, which adds some strategy into which abilities you use and when. Instead of a finite number of times each ability can be used before having to heal your squad, Temtem introduces a stat which decreases as abilities are used and increases in between rounds or when Temtem use their turn to rest.
One of Temtem’s best original ideas is the stamina meter. It’s clear that developer Crema thought long and hard about what its team’s dream version of Pokémon would look like and set out to create it – and so far it’s paying off. Wish Pokémon had more to do aside from the main campaign? Temtem has a robust library of sidequests. Sick of having to delete old moves to make way for new ones? While Temtem honors the tradition of only allowing you to equip four at a time, it lets you slot any abilities your Temtem has learned whenever you want so your Temtem have more flexibility from battle-to-battle.
Practically every trope and basic building block you know from Pokémon is accounted for in Temtem and for those looking to dismiss it as a shameless ripoff there’s quite a bit of copycatting to point to.īut Temtem sets itself apart and is immediately enticing in its own right through all the ways it drastically improves upon things that have bothered me about Pokémon for since I became a fan of in 1998. Along the way you work with a professor who gives you your first monster friend, fight against an evil organization that wants to exploit Temtem, and there’s even a dopey rival who always seems to show up at the worst time to challenge you to a battle. You spend most of your time taming cartoonish animal-inspired monsters and leveling them up through battle which causes them to evolve into new, more powerful Temtem (which are, of course, what these monsters are called). Humble Bundle and IGN operate completely independently, and no special consideration is given to Humble Bundle-published or financed games for coverage or scoring.Don’t get me wrong: Temtem draws so much inspiration from Pokémon that it’s impossible not to notice similarities even if you only have a passing familiarity with the creature-collecting genre, and at times that can make it feel like a knockoff. Disclosure: Humble Bundle (which is owned by Ziff Davis, the parent company of IGN) is either the publisher or financier of this game and may receive a commission or fee in connection with sales.
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