TemTem is up against a big challenge of taking on the billion-dollar franchise that is Pokemon. It already holds true to ma﷽ny of the feature fans love and even adds-on and improves them.
While Pokemon is much more about collecting than battling at this phase of its lifetime, Temtem went on to make it more about the strategy of the battles but that makes it miss out on the love of the creatures that fans have. More familiar features may seem like borrowing but Temtem already went down that rabbit hole, so it should go all in and make what everyone loves about Pokemon and improve it even more. So here are 10 features we'd like to see in TemTem in the fu⛦ture.
10 Pet Care TemTems 𒐪🥃
One thing that was a widely praised addition to pokemon is the pet and caring feature for Pokemon. The ability to connect to them and play added dimension that many felt like they wanted to do since watching the anime where it was a prom🐽inent part of.
Of course, an incentive would be needed🧔 to keep people using the feature so there sh🅠ould be a bonus for doing so, perhaps more synergy level before a match. But this feature would help connect people more with the monsters they create and making them more expression and memorability.
9 Social Links 🦋
This can work for side characters like the Temtem you ཧown and side characters that you can interact with and do quests for or have to follow you around. If they are to stand out from pokemon's shadow they have to add features that will present themselves as different and side features like that could be used to add to the strategy of the metagame. In a way, it's sort of a feature already on Pokemon with the friendship meter.
8 In-Gamꦯe Accomplishment Medals
Much like trophies sand achievement goals in Xbox and Ps4 games but ones that the game gives to you to use in your TemTem profile. Including a 100 victory streak medal, Beat team ๊boss, clan leader, and etc. Things that accomplish players in their profile so they can show off to other members and👍 give battles more stakes. POkemon sort of does this with stars on a trainer ID after they complete the game or caught the whole Pokedex, except this would reward players for more in-game play and encourage doing more and gaining accomplishments.
7 All-time P🐷layer W/L Lead✱erboard
TemTem is already set for competitive play, but a Win/Lose record board would just add to the competitiveness and fun. So long as cheating is kept under control you could look at actual player stats and your own on an easily accessible leaderboard. It would hel𝔉p those decide if they want to face the random tamer they encountered and also provide some big bragging rights to those being that most losses in the game are permanent. With this carefully in mind, players would have to think a lot more to be able to top the leaderboard on every fight they take.
6 ♏ Job System ꦺ
Righ𒆙t now finding money in TemTem is a big issue. Not enough of it goes around to keep theꩵ game balanced when you factor in recovery items. If a leaderboard is put in place many would face a disadvantage in this stage of the game because of the losses that are encouraged from lack of items and money to get their TemTems to full health. A Job System that either has minigames or you send extra TemTem out to train and come back with money would help improve the system and make it so players aren't running around like broke hobos.
5 🍨 Main Story Fight Warning
With permanent loss in mind, many players complained that they got creamed by the main story bad guy because they didn't have a chance to prepare. For a leaderboard to work, there should also be a warning icon for the player to know a main story battle is coming so they can grin💎d or heal. This forewarning will stop a lot of lost records and aggravation. It would be a simple convenience option for players since they ♛can't retry a match. They could even toggle the option for players.
4 ꩵ Expanded TemTem Variation in the Wild
The reason Pokemon has over 150 pokemon in a region is that the developers realized you wouldn't get enough variation from one grass plot to the next if there was less. It would become a boring experience where you only saw one type of pokemon where ever you went and if the percent chance of𓃲 finding something are was too small it would not be entertaining for people.
This is something TemTem players are suffering through in early access, that can be fixed by adding more variation in TemTem and upping the percentages of when you encounter something rare. The enjoyability of pokemon comes fro that it isn't a grind-fest 🍨to find the rare pokemon, the same should go for TemTem if they wish to get more users.
3 🅷 Easie🔯r Egg Breeding
One thing TemTem can improve on itself and pokemon is the ability to acquire multiple eggs and simply put them in▨ an incubation box where they can hatch on🐲 their own, sort of like with chickens and real life. It would speed up the process of breeding and make it more intuitive for those looking to get into the metagame. It can work like with pokemon bones where you store 30 in at a time through the PC and can have different types of pokemon in there.
2 Raids
With the synergy system, it really benefits from the 2 ꦡversus 2 matches that TemTem bases its battles around. It would be even more interesting if they could include 4 versus 4 matches. It would enhance the system even more and have the ability to have p𒊎ossibly up to 8 players battling each other in an interesting mosh pit of a fight. Ig they are looking to go all out this would make the game extremely interesting with its dynamics that benefit from multiple players.
1 ♈ ꦐ Cooking System
A catch-all fix for TemTem's issues could simply be a cooking system. It's something that can work together with sidequest item collection, Tem🗹Tem friendship boosting, Side character social links, stat boosting, and even money-gathering if you sell the food you make. This 💃is already well apart of the pokemon system and is something that can be put into TemTem too. It could even replace many of the other features listed as a catch-all system, it would also integrate well with the item trading system in the game.