Cassette Beasts

It's ok

I absolutely loved playing through Cassette Beasts! As an avid creature collector fan, I think this was - and to this day still is - my favorite creature collector game! I loved the art style and the 2.5D aspect of the game! I was originally a bit unsure if I'd like the combination of 2D and 3D together (this was my first experience of a 2.5D game), but to my surprise it worked really well and looked really good! The level designs were fairly easy to navigate and moving from one place to another felt fairly fluid! It was a bit of a surprise that the game had the possibility to romance with specific NPCs! It's not necessarily content for me, but I liked that the possibility was there. My only nitpick about it was that if you found yourself in a situation that you would have been able to romance with a character and didn't want to "lock in" with said character because you hadn't met all of the possible candidates yet, there was no way to pick up that romance path once you turned someone down. I would have wanted to get to know all the characters before making that choice, and then initiate a romance with one of them. The game was nice and challenging enough to my taste! Not too hard but not too easy either! Especially the Archangel battles kept me on my toes and made me really want to focus on the battle and what moves and beast forms I'd use! I really loved the battle mechanics and I absolutely lost it when I got to try out fusion for the first time! The fusion mechanic was so awesome and it brought so much more depth into the battles (not to mention ramping up the creature count significantly)! The fact that pretty much all battles were double battles (both sides have two monsters) was really nice and forced to think more carefully what beast forms you should use. Talking of monsters: This game had a very nice variety of monster designs and quite distinct style to them! After finishing both the main game and the DLC I even went and ranked all of them on a livestream, talking which aspects I liked or disliked in each design! There were so many cool creature designs, not to mention the HUGE amount of fusions you could make of them! I absolutely loved the thrill of exploring different fusions and it was so cool to see them for the first time! As a so called "shiny hunter", I really enjoyed Cassette Beasts' spin on the shiny mechanic too! The game has "bootleg" creatures that have a different typing (and thus also color!) to their original form, and that made the "shiny" hunting so much more cool! It wasn't just a cool different colored creature, but actually different typingwise too, which could affect the way you played the whole creature! Despite the actual story missions being single player only, I really enjoyed that you could play with friends outside the main story missions! It's always a HUGE plus for me if I can play a game with my partner, so of course we both had to hunt down some cool bootlegs together between story missions! It would have been even better if I was able to play through the whole game with my partner, but that will have to wait for the next Cassette Beasts title! ;) This game really knew how to tickle my nostalgia with all the cassette player / oldschool references which felt super fun to me personally and my (stream) audience, who consists mostly of people who are 30+! Overall, this game felt so fun to play through and it really got be hooked! It feels familiar enough to the classic monster collecting genre but brings in so much more that it definitely does not feel like a "clone" of the most wellknown title in the genre! This game deserves all the praise it has gotten and so much more! I HIGHLY recommend giving this game a try! It will be worth your time! ... I'll be back for Cassette Beasts 2002! ;) <3

I'm really not an RPG fan, but this games really earned my respect! Great soundtrack, great story, fun characters. amazing graphics, and not crazy long if U really grind at it! Rating: 8/10

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Fun riff on the Pokemon series