Cassette Beasts

Reminds me of Digimon meets Angel Beats; I wasn't expecting any kind of story and was pleasantly surprised by how fleshed out this game actually was. Awesome for the limited time in between work and real life.

Easily one of my favorite games of all time. And as a trans nonbinary person, the small detail of having "they/them" as a pronoun options means the world to me. So excited for Cassette Beasts 2002! 11/10

A creature collector/ battler with a relationship mechanic that does way more than just following in its inspirations' footsteps. Was genuinely surprised at how much fun this game is and how tactical you have to be whenever you're forced to battle with disadvantages. Battles are done with two party members and it's much, much closer to say, a 2-character party SMT game than pokemon. Since you transform into the monsters yourself and revert back to human form with a separate HP when your current monster gets KO'd, it's important to not get KO'd as a human because then the battle will be over even if you still have full health monsters in stock. (also note humans cannot be healed or revived!) Elemental Types are more than just weaknesses and resistances, but also result in side effects and ailments (fire v. plastic = poison, fire v. water = steam, fire v. wind = tornado wall, wind v. lightning = conductivity, water v. ground = erosion, poison v. steel = poison spikes, etc.) which is kind of insane to think about and these will encourage very strategic team compositions. You can also hit your own allies to deliberately cause these side effects. Capturing weakened monsters are done via a cassette player by one party member who has to revert to human and has to stay human for a whole turn. The other member must choose their move wisely, keeping your vulnerable human alive is one thing, but in later encounters you also have to deal enough damage to the enemy to perform a successful capture. If your human gets hit, it will lower their capture success chance (shown in percentages). One more thing, once you've established a bond with the other party member (by finishing their initial story arcs) you can perform a fusion where both of your monsters will combine to a single large monster with combined stats, HP, typing, action points, and move pool. This is important (and its primary purpose is) in boss battles because bosses have inflated stats and moves that could oneshot your party unlike mobs. Fusion can also help you at times of clutch if you have trouble with mobs. There are also randomised fusion monsters that can be encountered in the wild, serving as challenge minibosses. Fusion can be done with ANY monster even two of the same kind, because the game uses procedural generation to create the fused sprites instead of the devs creating them manually. The result is sometimes cool- sometimes abominations- reminiscent of that one online pokemon fusion generator tool if you've tried that. Overall I think this a very, very solid game if you like creature collectors and looking for an indie game in this genre. Do yourself a favor and try it, I think it's worth it for the challenge and variety alone. This game goes on sale often too. Add in the DLC and easily a 25+ hour game worth your time.

There is an intense flickering graphical error on certain textures as soon as you get control of your character, which makes it impossible to play without getting a headache. This is apparently a known issue with the game, and has gone unfixed for whatever reason. I have no idea what the actual gameplay is like.

好玩，而且还能作弊码开挂。本来前期连续十个磁带没抓住怪物破防了，结果发现官方给了金手指，能减少肝度，非常棒的宝可梦代餐

A ton of fun! Ever since Nintendo took a nose dive I have been looking for fun monster tamers and this one really hits home. Excellent art and mechanics, interesting story, simple and easy traveling, and monsters on map! All for 1 GB? Awesome.

Definitely a must play. The combat is fun and making new builds is very in-depth. Art is nice, the limited 3D is very charming in this game. It is very clearly similar to pokemon, but it's also comparable to SMT/Persona: friendship mechanics, 8 moves total, passives. stat changes being temporary, etc. Definitely it's own thing though. The story is nice but sometimes it feels like its trying too hard to make sure you get what the writers were going for. Nuance is kinda not there for some storylines (Landkeepers) and some companions frequently state the obvious, for example: [spoiler] The theme of fiction turning to reality is prevelant in the game, and many things hint to this. It's fantastic theming. However, Felix obviously states this in his 3 Heart event, after we see his creation come to life, and also in other plotlines depending on how the game is played (Viola comes to mind) [/spoiler] I do love this game and am writing this review before I completely finish it.

Absolute videogames, fiz 100% no switch, comprei de novo pra fazer 100% na steam, lesgooooo