Continuing on the bashing tain...
Getting thrown off a volcano into a beach. Not even going to try with logic there.
Not getting the police involved with the Rhena girl. Smart Decision manamon trainer. You are so selfish on your journey to becoming the master that you false sympathy for this girl, and even say, I will prove to you that you can do what you want, by defeating your father. Because war is the answer to everything. Fun fact that war happened to be with the religion leader, therefore influencing religion starting wars and influencing murder of creatures. Fuck you religion!
At the beach there is a high maximum security factory. But you can still walk up to it without getting gunned down? They think as long as he can't get in, no security needed, yet it's the most secret base of operations? Ok, ignoring logic again.
And let's totally ignore how Octorous was able to use 9 manamon against you in a battle, and even if you won the same outcome happened, and by some luck he dropped one of his manamon. You have encounted this guy like 6 times, and you didn't stop to think, hey, there's a dangerous guy around this country, let's report him to police...
Another thing I don't understand. How did the organization know Melony existed and what was the purpose of taking her? Oh, and while we are talking about siblings, what the fuck is the deal with your mom fucking Octorous? The fuck? Have you ever seen a single movie where the good guy and bad guy have a mom who fucked on both sides? And where is she in all of this? Now I need to know! It's been awhile since I've played, maybe they did mention her whereabouts or if she was dead. Just Octorous, leave the grandma alone! I don't even want to know her history of sex! Leave me out of it, don't tell me that story!
One last complaint. Some of the maps are just like pokemon red and blue. Haven't played those games but several people I know have and they have told me they have noticed it.
That's all my bashing, let's end this with 3 things I like about this game that made it stand out.
Full party brawls. As Jade said, going against 5 or 6 manamon at once can be a challenge. I fell like the 3 biggest challenges were at the top of the volcano, near the top of the Tangerian tower, and near the top of shadow kingdom. Those battles were epic!
The traps in the game are cool. There are so many different kinds. Electricity, fire, lasers, guards, and even time limits to different areas. I really like that. The time limits make the game much more interesting.
The sound design and the music. Aaron Baker likes good sound design, and he does it well. And the music... He is one of the best people when it comes to music in his games. He puts a large variety, many different styles, and even has music change during cut scenes which not a lot of audio game developers do. He skills with an rpg game are really good. Well the writing portion not so much. I mean in Paladin of the sky, they are 20 feet away from a gun. Somehow at the last second Ross manages to shield Shuana and make them both doge. I learned in forensics that bullets travel 1200 feet per second, some guns even faster. You are 20 feet away. That's bareally a hundreth of a second to dodge, and he helped someone dodge, by moving in front of them. Completely ridiculous. On top of that, Simon gets shot in the shoulder and survives like nothing happened to him. What the hell man. Twenty feet away will kill no matter what part of the body was shot!
That's my rant about manamon and then Paladin of the sky. A lot for Paladin, but this is a manamon topic.