Combo Critters 4+

I like finding out which critters are the best and getting them by combining specific critters. The money system makes every battle tense and rewarding instead of easy and boring. I love how every critter matters and whenever you collect a critter, that critter will help you get the best critters, so there is no worries technically when choosing critters to collect, but each time you collect a critter, you have to work for it, and its up to you how you invest your time and money, which adds strategy. Collecting all the critters is not impossible like in Pokemon. The planets you travel to are imaginative and fun to adventure in, which is made a reality by the amazing music! The critters you collect are interesting and goofy at the same time making collecting them satisfying and exciting. All this makes Combo Critters a fantastic mobile game.

The core concept is cool. Basically Pokemon but as just a series of more difficult plants and evolving is just combing creatures to get a new one.
This game gets pretty grindy pretty fast. Maybe my patience for grinding has gotten lower over the years but even as early as the third planet, I'm just grinding battling to get enough coins to combine my creatures into something that will survive against the boss. There are combo attacks you can do that are kinda fun but you have to hit three times to do it and that rarely happens unless you're fighting a boss.
The huge miss for me is the fact that you cannot order your creatures. What?? You can't sort by level and you can't manually reorder them. I tried to sort them by level by clunkily putting them in the combine slot, going to the page I wanted and dropping them off. I left the screen and came back and they had all gone back to the previous messy order.
Good idea for a game but the actual mechanics are infuriating.