I honestly didn’t expect Pokerogue and Pokerogue Dex to pull me in as hard as it did. The first run felt like I was doing two things at once: playing Pokémon battles and trying to remember I’m also in a roguelite where the choices now actually matter later. I told myself I’d do a quick test run—just to see how it works—and then I watched my team get steamrolled by a trainer encounter and thought, “Okay… that was my fault. Let me try again.”