So you're saying the game is even doing a good job of copying the Pokemon fanbase.
They take a lot directly from Pokemon, but i would have been fine if the Toxic parts of the Pokemon fanbase did transfer over too.
GF/Nintendo can easily handle some disgruntled fans, but a small indie studio could be seriously hurt if said toxic fanbase decides TemTem slighted them in some way and start harassing them like they did last year for Pokemon.
Criticisms have been shared on this very page without being shot down. When the criticism is about actual game issues nobody argues against it. But is this game on Era feels like it will be another Dark Souls 2 where absolutely any and every thread will be full of people coming in and being negative cause it's not pokemon. Yes it's fair to say the game closely resembles pokemon but it's been said hundreds of times and will continue to be said hundreds of time and it just get's annoying to read.
People are free to say what they want though, and when they so closely copy something its natural to make the comparison, being hostile to them will just turn them away from temtem.
For you it might be the "hundreds time" you read it, but for them its probably the first time they said it.
I would say the majority of TemTems audience is people who played pokemon at some point, so they would notice things they dont like that pokemon did right for them and voice them as such.
No, no plans for that atm.
If you are viewing this game from the finished experience lens, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Come back once it leaves Early Access next year, and even in the current form, it is far far better than the average indie early access experience.
Building the core experience, even if it is a derivative/clone, is the most important part right now. The game can always expand with more areas, stories, events, characters, challenges or monsters.
I know its (barely) in early access and what that means, i was backer #1309 back in 2018.