Cassette Beasts

TEMU quality Pokémon game. Writing so bad it makes YIIK seem like freaking Shakespeare. This is not even about mil humour anymore. This is straight up Reddit writing, with our MC being mute and having options that are essentially "yes" and "yes but in purple". Character design is atrocious, you have almost no options for customizing your MC except for the most basic options you could possibly ask for. The design of the monsters looks straight up AI generated, soulless and ugly. The worst designs in Violet/Scarlet are better than the best designs in this. Combat mechanics that are both underexplained and overexplained at the same time. Developers could have gone with something better than Pokémon and Digimon, instead they just decided to make the game about big numbers, which is even more basic than said franchises since they sometimes utilize more interesting strategies. Puzzles that need near-perfect reflexes in a game with controls and physics so inconsistent that I feel like I am being trolled in real time. Add into it a stamina bar that runs out in about two seconds and you have a recipe for disaster. Music that starts boosting vocals out of nowhere, for no good reason, most of which sounding like the most mid-garbage you find on Youtube. No love or soul in this OST. Generally, I don't recommend this game. Emulate some kind of Pokémon RomH. Buy Digimon Cybersleuth. Or if you want an indie JRPG, games like Omori would serve you way better. Buy Undertale for the love of reason. Give your money to developers who deserve it. How does this thing have, at the time of making this review, 94%? Are people really ok with slop now? Do we not hold developers to higher standards? There are free games on itch better than this.

It's okay. But exploring the surface is not interesting. Even when you meet the person or meet someone who challenges you, they talk about their world and you wish they could decorate their space to see vision. Other than it's okay. It feels their world need something. The underground train is bit interesting than surface

It took me much too long to finally decide to give this game a go, "Another creature collector?" the main selling points being the 80s aethetic and the creature fusions just weren't enough to pull me in and I'm still not convinced that the multiplayer experience is worth trying to rope a friend into it. But once I started playing though, the music almost immediately pulled me in with its chillax vibes, The battle loop is reasonably standard, nothing much you can do there, and the fusions are barely a thing since I'm still at the begining but the "Pokedex" has 130 creatures to discover and 130x130 = a mind boggling 16900 different fusions. "Shinies" exist but instead of a simple pallette swap it's a type swap as one of the other 14 types; speaking of types the type chart applies specific buff/debuffs instead of a simple "more or less" damage. And the map, calling this game "Open-world" does it a disservice since open-world + RPG generally means having a world that's just jam-packed with too many things to do that you either have to ignore everything to focus on the main quest only or risk getting max levelled and burn-out from the game having only completed 10% of what's on offer... No, instead this game offers something more like a lovingly crafter metroidvania map; you'll be exploring far and wide way before you unlock that ability that makes you go "Ahah!" and return to all those spots you saw a specific terrain feature or other. Last but not least, coming back to the creatures, the game is really balanced to try and get you to play all of them and I mean, why are you playing a creature collector if you don't want to try them all? Anyways, the point is that since you transform into the creatures your character/player level is the main source of stats, the creature only have 5 levels, 0 to 5 stars, mostly affecting available moves and at 5 stars they're ready to evolve (If there is an evolution which most do) So you're never levelling a creature for 40+ Levels and all creatures in your party of 6 get the same amount of exp from battles and quest. Overall it's just a very chillax game with a good balance of stuff to do + some challenging moments to put your A-Team to the test. Sorry-not-sorry about the unstructured gushing

The concept of this game is great, but I found the implementation somewhat lacking. The in-game menu could do with some quality of life updates as it feels clunky and unintuitive. However, the biggest issue for me is the difficulty. I'm level 10, and level 1 enemies not only act before me, but do a decent amount of damage, resulting in a trip back to town to heal after 2 to 3 fights. It feels like the game is punishing for the sake of punishment. An unfortunate let down.

I like the character, i like the story, i like the design of monster, espicially the music This is not just the game, this is full of vibe Do you feel it the lack of wind but abundance of air we're all in the same ship floating somewhere without any aim but at least we're together as we tether and link our arms as we think that there'sno getting out here i don't know you but we'll make the most of wherever we are now

Interesting gameplay but the aesthetic and characters are unbelievably grating. The main issue is the sticker system UI, your creatures gain moves based on stickers that can be moved between monsters but some stickers can have random upgrades and you end up with hundreds of stickers with no way of filtering them beyond "melee", and you can have so many stickers of the same move but different plus modifiers that don't stack in the menu making it almost entirely unusable

I'm so invested in the story of this game and it has kept me coming back to find things I might have missed in my first playthrough. There's so much to do and the gameplay is so fun! Sure, there is a bit of grinding needed at certain points, but it mostly depends on your style of play!

Идеи хорошие в игре есть, могло бы быть интересно. Могли бы сделать хорошую боёвку. Могли бы хорошо проработать исследование мира и поиск/эволюцию местных покемонов. Могли бы даже историю прикольную сделать, идеи-то были. В итоге вместо реализации этих идей вы получите бесконечные бестолковые однообразные энкаунтеры, которые будут длиться до нажатия кнопки "сбежать", таких же бестолковых персонажей со страниц твиттерских повесточно-ориентированных господ и поганый предсказуемый "мы ни за что не сдадимся и и благодаря силе решимости объединимся в бога из машины"-финал. Хотя ведь есть же база из взаимодействий между собой разных типов существ, получение разных дебафов/бафов от получения урона определенных стихий и всё такое. Есть неплохие арты (если они не касаются людей, божечки-кошечки, какие же здесь стремные люди). Но в итоге вам запомнятся только поганые пятнашки. Мне даже немного стыдно перед собой, что я заставил себя это проходить до конца. И, как обычно, жаль некоторые улетевшие в помойку хорошие идеи. Хотя не знаю, может быть, они кого-нибудь на что-нибудь вдохновят, но предварительно заставят стошнить блесточно-сопливой лужей на пол.