90% of the effort went into encrypting the save so no one can cheat or even alter the most mundane things and 10% effort to make a game.

Unfinished, unplayable beta test of a buggy mess...wasnt even worth the 2 euros i spent on this absolute sh#tpile of a """game""" if you want a good creature collector; go play Casette Beasts instead.

This game has an identity issue, where its most intriguing system is dragged back by the farming sim that accompanies it. There are a lot of systems and ideas that have clearly come from other games, but they are subpar to where they took them from, and adds no new synergy between them. I am going to be rather critical, but there are a bunch of design choices that annoy me, and it almost made me quit playing the game prior to the 10 hour mark.

The game introduces you to the basics of spirit taming and farming. Then proceeds to remove all the basic tools and drops you onto the main island that has no spirits on it. Your broom breaks and the game forces you to use a balloon to drift between islands. This combined with the Day and Night Cycle makes exploration slow and boring as you now need to drift to new islands while still needing to return to the main island by the end of the day. There is a single mine for some ore and beyond that I haven't seen another one since. The game also artificially locks-out crafting recipes by having them sent to you via mail at a pre-set time OR as a reward for a quest. But you would have no idea of this, leading you to "drift" around for about an in-game month not knowing how to progress. For some reason they also hide your skill tree.

The 'Pokemon' spirit taming/collection combined with the card-based combat is just alright. It functions fine with a few head-scratching design decisions. You can build an ideal team that you take into combat. Then you also can tame or hatch extra spirits that when fed, generate materials to use in crafting or to sell.

Complaints

• Instead of just simply opening your menu to manage your spirits, the game forces you to open a radial menu to hold a medallion in your hand. You then must press and hold for 2 seconds to enter a separate realm, where you then must physically walk to each spirit to feed/heal them. WHY? It adds ~7 additional seconds of wasted time when the spirit management should just be in your normal menu like Pokemon.
  
• The act of taming requires that you feed a spirit often multiple times during your combat turn. And you can't feed spirits when they are in the "dizzy" (armor-broken) state. WHY?
  
• There seems to be no combat scenario where you actually bring your spirits to fight other NPC tamer teams. WHY? The entire game just only has open world spawns and dungeon bosses....that's it.

Not much to say here except that it's just not better than any of the similar games. The sell box isn't even a box that you drop items in, instead you have to manually select the number of items you want to sell with no buyback option. Some of the NPCs start off already flirting with your character for some reason. Nothing new or innovative here.

I think the entire farming and dating aspect can be removed at it's current state. The game should have focused on exploration and combat by having other towns and NPCs that you can find by exploration, then introducing interesting dating characters and quests. There are too many items in your radial menu that you actually have 2 (that should tell you your game design is bad!).

• Remove the balloon item (since once you get the broom you will never use the balloon again, same with glider)
  
• Remove the medallion, and really most of the other tools (hammer, fishing rod, staff, etc... since it is all half-hearted implementations)
  
• Remove the forced day/night cycle as it doesn't add anything to the game.
  
• Spirit management is poor. Some NPCs ask you to give them a spirit for a quest turn-in, but then the game requires that you have the spirit in your active squad to turn in. WHY? Just let me turn in the tamed spirit from my Spirit Storage directly. Now I gotta go pull out my medallion again, remove a spirit, run all the way to storage to pickup the one I need....

Moonstone Island is a combination of Pokemon and Stardew Valley. It has card based battles and the ability to tame creatures, and also has farming/mining/fishing sim, relationship building, and decorating. It has a bit of everything and is a perfect cozy game to take at your own pace.