I actually did go through this whole dex a bit ago when it was said that a localized demo was slated to be heading to the US at gamescom. I always do look through any new critter game's dex, whether or not it's promising on the tin...

Chinese is quite difficult for me to parse/type so talking about the critters here is difficult...! I'll try to include descriptors of little thoughts...

ah firstly, you're astute, it's not my bag much at all... overall a very polished, overly rendered, unpleasant and corporate/mascot-y feeling aesthetic, and very repetitive at that. I appreciate critter-catchers with limited color palates if not straightforward pixels... 3D or cell-shaded renderings have the same foibles as modern pokemon; way too much detail, nonsense, minimalism is dead, little pleasant appealing shapes like a Quilava or Nidoran, you know? And the rendering comes out plastic-y.

I felt like this dex had like 6 entirely different lines of scorbunny clones??????????????????? each unappealing in a different way... and then so many Cool Wolves, the bane of my existence for creature games... [Blue Diamond voice] CAN'T YOU CONTROL YOURSELVES. Every fictional biome should sooner have many rats before it has many wolves. I am often wanting in pokemon-alikes for more fun, simple bugs, small burrowing creatures, and the majority of them would simply rather populate their world with more furries or more big cool wolves. Sad. When I wish some would actually remove the furries and wolves and be entirely bugs and mice.

Little goat Zhuiweiyang was a fine one, just OK. kind looksa subetapet.

I like Emoding, looksa meerca.

Xiaoshuta is a fun concept, I like the idea of a rabbit-seal, though I'm never into those oddly textured cloud-y swirls on designs and would prefer some sort of normal fluff there. Looksa Flight Rising.

mengyou an appealing kindaaaaa digimon feeling... if generic. it is a sort of mage cat. Its evolutions are generic feeling [shrugs] the kind of thing I see on many app games that have you merging dragons or something. Which is also kinda what a lot of the rendering in this game looks like.

Chuitouguan is kinda terrorbird-ish! But not really interesting otherwise.

Fenglingsha I really enjoy this sort of glass windchime, I love chimecho afterall! But evolving it into a sortof manta-ray is very very cute!! Feels like it is becoming an adorned kite, I love that! One of my favorite lines. Not too cluttered, cute. It is looksa mantyke but we forgive it due to its unique gimmick.

Huyouli has a lemur-like vibe, feels unique, doesn't feel too intensely aping anything else, going for its own vibe. I respect! DO NOT LIKE ITS EVO... another stupid WOLF

While Dianqie is not necessarily my bag, the look is unique & I enjoy the animal silhouette beneath the terastalized guff. I have no idea what it is. Some sort of swag penguin. But it earns respect for looking different.

The little lolis Shock me but I also have to kind of respect doing your own thing. Though I guess newer Digimon are also that crazy. Still I am curious about if you own these tiny girls and throw them at dogs or what. Uhm interesting.

Shuishesuo is kinda neat, I like this concept of flying serpent+cobra hood+hooded cape. It's marrying some interesting aesthetics I wouldn't think to combine. So props to that.

Yuanyanzhizzhu is perfectly acceptable buggy spider thing, its evos are fine too. I would place its first form happily in the BG of some sort of environ. The final is a little busy, but the rendering is mostly at fault I feel... I don't think it'd look so bad as a pixel or something simpler. Middle evo quite kyuut and interesting face shape.

Huayuanman and the evo are very unique and cute, some sort of mimic perhaps? I enjoy the inventiveness of the design. Kiss

Tita perfectly acceptable steel-ish thing, cute shape. I don't have sex with these sorts of things but I allow them in the world. It adds to the magic.

now, Moyoushi and its evo, this is actually a favorite in this dex!!! Conceptually very strong and not overly involved, I LOVE the idea of an inkwell squid! I also may be fond because I used to draw with that sort of pen in high school haha. Unique, well thought out, and a good amount of restraint in the design. The weird geometric evo variant however is flop

Maotouxiaozhu resembles some sort of little black, creature? bug? hiding itself in husks ? straw? I am likely missing a lot of culturally obvious symbols here, BUT I love the concept and visually, super fun and cute, lovable, unique (: up there with Moyoushi, where I think the execution and level of detail is restrained and thoughtful. I would place it in environments happily.

Rongrong -- the first creature to make me go uuuoooo aauuuu :D funny little pale thing, buggish, kyoots! Big bink eyes! cute forehead marking.. nub limbs. Simplistic, minimal, cute!! I wish this game had more like this </3 its evos are neat and fun, the final ? almost centaur-like Rongxianzi is very fun... unique! pretty mane...

Shuangdengyu a sortof jester-themed anglerfish, mmwow!! great idea! Good work on execution too. I like it a lot. The evo has some strange ideas of how teeth should work in a mouth??? embedded... IN the lips?? I do not know quite what they were going for...

Chuntuan is a perfectly OK rabbit, it is sad it is fated to become Another Scorbunny

Mobiwuwu is a sortof legless little cute shimmering tube dragon filled with some kind of fluid ? this can be the boyfriend of that cute little albino-looking pink thing earlier that becomes the centaur moth (: The evo has some perplexing details but altogether not unappealing to me, unique and interesting. Fun proportions.