Cassette Beasts

non è perfetto ma il combat system è decisamente una ventata d'aria fresca nel mondo dei monster collector. ne vale la pena

Came expecting a Pokémon-like game, but left with one of my favorite monster-collecting RPGs. The fusion mechanic is brilliant, the music is incredible, and exploration constantly rewards your curiosity. 100% was worth every minute. Highly recommended! 🎵📼

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use to enjoy monster catching games, and love the creatures that has represented as the themes of music.

玩了很久盗版的，补票了，歌曲和艺术设定集都买了。画风合我胃口，歌曲也特别好听！我现在跑步的时候都听里面的歌

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An exceptionally good game! It's modeling itself heavily off Pokemon but it's honestly better than anything Nintendo's made in the past 20 years. Battles are 2 on your side (your custom MC and a buddy party member) vs 1-3 enemies. You can fight groups of wandering beasts in the wild, but there's also enemy "trainers" who in true Pokemon fashion attack when you enter their field of view. You got gym leaders to conquer and story superbosses and so on. You capture beasts by recording them onto cassette tapes (see game title) which requires one of your party members to channel a capture tape onto an enemy. While they do so, the enemy is prevented from dying so they can't be killed and lose the capture or escape, which is very nice. The lower their HP the higher the chance of capture, and the other party member can hit them and apply debuffs to raise the chance even more. If the capture fails you can just try again as long as you have the capture items. It's a superior system. The battle system is rock solid. Each character gets 2 AP per round and attacks cost varying amounts. There's a web of various type advantage/weaknesses and how they are implemented is quite interesting. Hitting an enemy with an attack of a super effective type not only does more damage but it applies specific debuffs based on the type interaction, like fire attacks on plant type also apply burn, or water on earth inflicts def down. Attacks of disadvantage types do less damage and apply positive debuffs to the target. So this adds a whole other dimension to picking the right attacks. There's a whole bunch of chain interactions that can happen as a result of this that can produce some unexpected benefits, like proccing an enemy's thorns in order to get positive buffs on your character from the type backlash. You can merge your two beasts together into a super form that combines your movesets, HP, AP gain, and types, which usually is a good thing but not always. It also combines the buffs/debuffs of your team which might result in you doing tons more damage but also can result in you being crippled with debuffs unable to hit anything. I like that the choice is very strategic. There's tons of strategy in the combat system overall and some really broken stuff you can do with clever ability set ups. Each of your party members can use any of the beasts in your roster (they do this by transforming into the beast) but if they run out of HP, the beast "faints" and overflow damage gets dealt to the person's human form. You can do this to enemy beast users as well, which sometimes allows you to blast an enemy trainer, skipping the rest of their beast roster and winning the battle early. You have healing items that you can use to heal your tapes but you can only restore HP on your human forms by resting at a base. After the intro tutorial and story quest they really just turn you loose on the world and let you explore how you want. There's a big map to wander with tons of enemies scattered across it but plenty of chests, puzzles, caves, and secrets. After capturing specific enemy types your character learns permanent abilities that enhance their ability to move around the map out of combat, from hovering, wall climbing, and other stuff. It's very enjoyable exploring and clearing the map of all the treasures and activating permanent shortcuts and fast travel points. You can receiver "rumors" from people at town that point you to a lot of the points of interest on the map which helps a lot. I like how there really isn't a set order of dungeons that the game is guiding you through - you really can just sequence break yourself across the map and unlock things immediately if you want to. The battle music is really good too. They do weaving of the normal music and superior lyrical versions well. Just an great addition to the genre. It's shocking how games like this and Palworld are pushing the design forward of monster capture games while certain other companies stagnate and bilk their playerbase.

So I don't normally go out of my way for 'creature collector' games, but Epic gave this one away some time back and after it sat in my account there for a while I finally got around to trying it. When I did, It pulled me in like few games have in recent years. I don't normally pay all that much attention to game soundtracks, barring a few exceptions, but the music has my appreciation as well. There aren't a ton of songs, but they fit well. I always enjoy games with customization options, and this one does a good job of offering you choices in how to setup your tapes while at the same time making sure that almost any experimentation you do isn't going to make you regret it. Try your only instance of an attack out and you don't like it? Just peel it back off and into your inventory. Decide to replace one of your long held tapes late game? There's virtually no grind to get a new one up to snuff, since most of your leveling happens on your character, not on your tapes. Story was good, characters were memorable, and I liked the game enough to pick it up here on steam. (which, I ought to note, required absolutely no fiddling with files or migrating my save; I just started it up and was able to continue the file I started on Epic on the same machine) Emphatically recommended.