Originally Posted by Role-Player 
I got Spectrobes after winning a competition held by a portuguese videogame magazine. Took me five minutes of gameplay to take it to a store and get rid of it. The Pokemensch-derived gameplay wasn't really what drove me away
Y'know, it is interesting - I was driving my kids to some sports thing the other day and asked if they thought they would ever touch Spectrobes again and they said 'no' … they got Pokemon Diamond & Pearl and that rendered Spectrobes obsolete in a second.