Monster X Monster

It could use a bit more english and explanation TBH. I'm of course comparing this to Darkest dungeon and also Deep Sky Derelicts (can't compare it to "Slay the spire" as I never played it) and they both had a bit of terminology going that didn't make much sense but you got the info needed quite easily. This game relies on your knowledge of how Darkest dungeon handled the term "weakened" to get what effect it has in this game as it's quite bad at explaining a lot of things. I don't get what "Taunt" does in this game, the description is: "Gain 8 blocks Gain 3 forward" I couldn't play it even if I tried with the fourth bloke in the queue, which could make sense as he'd be tanking at the front, what use it'd have on anyone else outside of "rear bloke" I don't get as the ones in front won't even let you try to use the card... Final verdict after playing for "no time at all", only beating one of the heroes is: If you're going to play it as an english speaker/reader, wait and see how things go, it is in my opinion not worth buying but it's not really worth refunding if you already bought it either...

This game has an interesting concept but it lacks a lot of polish, too much to even be considered EA and the version numbers back up that claim for me. This game is heavilty StS and darkest dungeon. except their is so little polish you might as well have been handled a plank of wood and be told to have fun with that. The tutorial is unhelpful, you only do one battle and see very little of the rooms. when you get to one of elites of the game the tutorial goes nope the characters retreat and you are back at the main menu. its just a bunch of text boxes anyway. Movement in the game is restricted with only cards and before fights. like in darkest dungeon however unlike that game, you can not manually move your fighters during a fight to lets say if you made a mistake or an enemy moves the monsters so the attacks are out of range, which can happen a lot. so hope you like having one party memeber be useless every fight. early elites are unbalanced, they cripple you so hard after an encounter your only chance is to find a rest spot. the energy system makes no rhyme or reason how it gets bigger, upgrading cards isn't so much of a an approvement that i recommend it outside of a few body parts. and thats not because the upgrading is bad. though you can only do two monsters at a time. its just the cards are bad. I see this game get a pass cause its full of memes and is cheap and its cute, which the cute thing is certainly true. the artsyle is charming even though that doesn't come without its the typeface it uses I found to be really hard to read card names and effects if it used to many words. Also this game straight up rips the potion sounds from Slay the Spire, as well as the Menu layout for StS relics or in this game body parts for your monsters. ontop of that is also straight up rips some items and events from Slay the spire aswell. it takes the darkest dungeon close ups with attacks but does them worse and they feel slower too. ontop of that sound design was Meh, as well as effects, it was jarring and awful that when you boot up this game what i assume to be the dev's voice or something comments "Do you like what you see" and then again he speaks up during te final boss of the first stage which is just discount dio. and does a gratting wadududa effect with his voice during the bosses first attack. speaking of which IF YOU HAVE EYE PROBLEMS do not play this game cause the final boss's second phase is too do A time stop where he stops the game does the time stop sound effect from JoJo but at earsplitting volume it still sounds bad evne when you mess with the sound settings. and makes the screen go on a high contrast filter as the screen warps. and everytime this happened my eyes hurt. and he will do it forever long that boss fight will last so your looking 5-7 times of hearing that sound and that effect over and over again. Also I found a good bit of bugs during my time playing the game on the shop screen the game doesn't get rid of overlays, you can keep clicking the items on screen and watch them paste over eachother as the screen got darker and darker. changing anything in the settings after you saved them caused whatever fight you were doing to restart the experince bar at the end of runs is interactable for some reason, you can cause to go up or down, it doesn't change anything sadly. a card i used got stuck and even though used stayed frozen on screen till the fight was over. you can cause the main screen to go a bit nuts with the pointer if you just fiddle around with it. I think thats mostly it. anyway thats my review Half-baked meme filled clone that shouldn't be on the storefront at its current state but only gets reviews from memes and low price. though i bet you can say the same thing about a few titles on steam, they have everything after all.