The daycare a small area to wander around in, and as you progress, you get HM moves which you can use to unlock more areas. All the battles are ‘puzzle encounters’ where you fight one pokemon at a time, and without more team members, it kind of shows off how weak the pokemon battle system is with only one pokemon. Worldbuilding-wise, it takes liberties that are kind of annoying, like having potions and super potions able to be used by pokemon. Lucky eggs are defacto currency, used to trade to chanseys for heals (unnecessary, since you get autohealed if you black out), to Riolu for hints, or for a hidden corsola for super potions. It felt like a lot of the time was eaten up by fiddly switching pokemon around, because for some reason you can only have ‘four’ in your ‘party’ and the rest go in your ‘pc’, all of which are accessible at any time.
The end of the game has the ditto providing an egg to the daycare man. If you say no, he rips it out of your hands anyway, which feels needlessly uncomfortable.
