I'm cool with the genre. I like the battle system--similar enough to the basis, but different enough to make it more strategic and eventful at the same time. I like the break from gym-gym-gym-gym-gym-gym-gym-gym-league well enough. I can only take more of that in the form of remakes. The graphics in the GBA/DS games were just fine, and I had been hoping for some 3-D...
But this style was heavily panned in Ranch, I can't imagine it being better-received for Melee Scramble, why are they defacing a fine sub-series with it? I think a realistic style would suit it better. Like Twilight Princess, even, or better! At least something along the lines of the painting-type visuals on the file select screens (the first games' were better than the second set's, stylistically speaking). This Mii-esque stuff is just plain hideous.
Yeah, it's WiiWare, low capacity and all... A terrible choice to begin with.
I'm also disapproving of what seems to be a predetermined party of all the same type. No coverage at all! Gym leaders, elite four members, and people Captain Jim battles online are all easy to beat for one fatal flaw, and this is it.