Oh and more music although they did a good job on the port I just would like more original songs or remixes For a way to change the music when you're walking around or battling. Much like how l dragon quest did it?
Game is great but I am pissed I haven’t finished it due to the weird setup for the final boss. I tried several things but eventually gave up shortly after. Hopefully I can come back to the game at some point and give it a proper finish and try the DLC
Also Ed as someone who subscribed to you when kindred fates did their Kickstarter you have no idea how happy and proud of what you’ve been able to achieve here’s hoping 2024 will be another great year and that you’ll have even better success in it
Cassette Beasts’s sticker system was revolutionary. Mixing and matching the stickers allowed you to get to a point where you can make some crazy combos that end up almost breaking the game. But it made you feel like you were the one who “designed” the monsters to make it powerful, instead of the game just handing you a super broken thing. You had to work for it and I think that’s what sets this game apart from the rest for me.
I was really happy when I stumbled upon your channel because monster taming is probably my favorite genre. I love Pokémon and the Dragon Quest Monsters series. I’ve tried so many monster taming games over the years and I’m always looking for more. I’ll definitely be watching your channel.
Thanks again for your Cassette Beats review. Totally glossed over its trailer, but end up being one of the most fun games I tried this year. Will get DQM once it enter on sale. Meanwhile, thinking in getting Monster Sanctuary and Adore.
Thank you for putting me on to a lot of great games this year cassette beasts was by far my favorite game to play this year even compared to aaa like ff16 and spiderman 2. Glad i found your channel hope you have a happy new year and too many more great monster tamer games next year as well.
Cassette Beasts might by my number 1 game of the year period. If I had a chance to play more of Alan Wake 2 and DQM:DP that would probably change, but I don't see that changing by end of the day.
A game i'm enjoying (not sure if it counts as Monster Taming) is Slime Rancher, addicted since i bought it for Christmas in a Sale. Also thanks for your content over the years and i enjoy posting the Paldecks.
I started playing Pokémon again a few years ago during the COVID. My first love is fly fishing however I needed something else to occupy my mind after watching everything on streaming channels and bought a DS and started playing the old Pokémon, then I got a switch and started looking for a new Monster Taming games. Found your channel and watch your review for TemTem. Bought it and LOVED it. Then I heard about Dark Prince and pre ordered it got it and started playing. I fell behind your play through at the outset because of all the monster you cold combine. I’ve been playing when I can, but not as much, because of work and my own RUclips stuff, but I am about 40 percent done with the games and have played almost 100 hours just synthesizing monsters. It is by far the best monster taming game I’ve played since the original Dragon Warrior Monster game from back in the day. Still sad the green dragon is only a E tho. Great work and keep it up.
I found this channel from like one month and i have watched all the old and new vids and became one of my fav channels and i wait for everything new from u .... much love from egypt
Hopefully, there will be a new Digimon world game This sounds crazy but I miss the original pooping sounds and cry's that your Digimon would make Oh and how they evolved in the original seem more intense in MY OPINION of course
I got DQM a few days ago and have not been able to stop playing, it's so charming and fun. I'd say my only real complaint is Rose's early game personality, it's kind of creepy, but the game itself is great.
I'm still confused about the Coromon Demo being boring and the pineapple heads of the main chars. I think the only surely good thing for me here was Cassette Bests. I'm in some kind of love hate relationship with Dragon Quest.
DQM 3 Professional, DQM Cobi and Tara’s marvellous mysterious key are games that only released in Japan but had 3 times the content and polish of Dark Prince. I’m pretty made they were made first but not released to English.
I can recommend Coromon in terms of quality / style / story and design. I grew up on all Pkmn games - lately tried Monster Sanctuary ( iz good ) and Nexomon ( also good )
5. Was originally going to buy this game but the negative reviews made me hold off. I am not sure how much I would enjoy the mechanics of this game even as a huge digimon fan, but maybe I will wait for a sale and give this game a go at some point 🤔 4. No idea how much I would like this game given the management sim aspects but hey it’s coming to switch so it may be worth my time! 3. So excited to play this game for the first time, probably going to be the first game I start in 2024! 2. The only game on this list I played and while I did love it, I did have a few issues with it, namely the progression feeling a bit more Zelda than Pokemon, and the setup for the final boss being convoluted to the point that I have not finished the game. May go back to do it if I can figure out what I need to do but not thrilled I didn’t beat the game in one playthrough! 1. I used to love this series, wasn’t dying to buy this game at launch but I will likely buy it on sale at some point! I also need to finish watching your guide videos on the game since it seems like they made some nice updates to this game since the last entry!
The only thing I don't like about DQ Monsters is that I feel like there's nothing to do after you finish the game. And up until you finish the game you can't really synthesize new monsters that easily as well. It's kinda hard :3
Honestly if it wasn't for BG3, a game I also played as a Monster Tamer as I played as a Beastmaster Ranger lol. Cassette Beasts would have been my game of the year. But comes in second.
Dragon Quest Monsters is basically Dragon Quest SMT and that concept alone sounds fucking awesome to me Also excitement at random Monster Rancher mention cuz im heavily biased
Honestly I don’t really consider moonstone island that much of a farming game at. The focus is much more on the adventure and deck building. You basically mostly farm for potions and that’s it.
For some reason, Cassette Beast didn't click with me and my son. Though we love Nexomon (both). For that reason I am afraid to buy Coromon. DQM is the rightful winner offcourse!
Look I loved Coromon and it really is one the best monster tamers out there but Cassette Beasts just has so much not going for it for me. It's got so much passion and creativity behibd it, honestly my favourite monster tamer overall.
Whether or not you like Cassette Beasts depends on what you are looking for in a monster tamer. If you want a game more similar to pokemon, you should probably get coromon, but if you want something that breaks from the formula more and adds a bit of Zelda to the mix, Cassette Beasts is your best bet!
@@JRJuggernaut1the major problem I have with Cassette Beasts is the fact that it misses what makes Mon-Tamers so appealing. Monsters are the stars. Monsters matter. It's not just humans going around and beating up everything that doesn't look like them. There's nuance, in spite of some questionable traits (like forcing monsters to fight each other). Cassette Beasts does away with all that. There's no bonding between humans and monsters. The monsters are just something for humans to beat up and collect data from. And they AREN'T the stars. HUMANS are. THEIR lives don't matter. They're just there for humans to beat up and harvest data from. It's a mon-tamer, a genre that usually shows me a different side of humanity, that does the exact opposite of other mon-tamers. If it was just mildly popular with a dedicated following, I could accept that, but no. People are spewing out endless praise for the game to the point of playing down other mon-tamers. It's treated as a masterpiece that is better than every other game out there, and you MUST play this game. THAT is why Cassette Beasts pisses me off so much. It's a "game about imagination" with a twist that spits in the face of imagination, and it severely overshadows games that FAR better capture the imagination behind the genre. It is, in one hyphenated word: the Anti-Mon-Tamer.
@@baalfgames5318honestly I don’t know how much I agree with everything you just said but you are also definitely onto something. Personally the bonding with your monsters was never the biggest pull for me in this genre but I do agree it can add a lot to certain games! Still, even if I cared more about that my issues would be with the design, something that can definitely be improved but we shall see, but I agree the game got a little more praise than it deserved imo, since it’s not quite the game I think people claim it to be, even if I did really enjoy it a lot overall! Curious to see if I prefer Coromon and Gen I begin playing that soon!
@@JRJuggernaut1 Honestly, i agree with the designs. The Steam page shows them fusing the pangolin with the kangaroo, and honestly, the fusion of those two's the only monster I even sorta liked. The rest just feel so emotionless and there's not even one really good chonk or muscleguy design in the game, which tend to be my favorites.
@@baalfgames5318 sorry I meant the game design in terms of structure. I didn’t love all the monster designs but my real issue came down to how the game was structured more like a Zelda game than a monster taming game or pokemon clone. I liked the archangel dungeons and boss fights, but the leaders being people you just find on the map and fight I found to be less than engaging!
i wanted to like dark prince, i was very excited to play the demo, but the lack of fine tuning and graphic fidelity compared to echoes of the past was a huge turn off. and yeah i shouldn't hold a spinoff to the same standard as a mainline game, but i just can't get past the bad taste the environment design of the game gives me. it almost comes off as cheap
Played through all of Coromon recently and it's very meh IMO. The story is *so so* boring. It's *really* weak and superficial, which, to me, was a huge shame because the gameplay is not bad. The 'puzzles' for each dungeon are based on timing rather than logic and have zero tolerance for error making it an awful experience, specially on mobile. Took around 28hrs to complete the game and I don't think I'll be playing again :/
I was excited for DQ Monsters for years until I saw it got no budget. I am quite resistant to poor graphics but apart from the models, seeing the 3DS like textures on everything else is so jarring. They established some sort of bar with DQXI so seeing how they went backwards by 14 years with Monsters makes it impossible for me to follow.
I've had no interesting most of these, but I did get Coromon when it originally came out and while I didn't finish it because my brother fell behind and we were playing side by side so I stopped at one point, it was pretty good. Dragon Quest Monsters I've wanted an expanded version of the monster combat system since DQ8, but idk, maybe I've just gotten older but the monsters and stuff just didn't catch my eye enough to sell me on getting it. There's just something about game mechanics built into the side of a game, like monster taming these rare encounters and using them in an arena, that really makes things special. Gives you a reason to explore, find things you cannot beat at the time and revisit, etc, as a bonus to the game you are already playing. Overall, a very lame year for monster taming games for me. REALLY looking forward to the potential AI generation will bring to the table moving forward. Content should be plentiful, fusions can give you several different freshly generated outputs and you choose your favorites, etc. Multi-generational fusions can be a thing and it follows a formula for deciding what each fusion/generation is capable of, and maybe you only get like 3-5 generations before its maxed on the number of times it can fuse. What kind of freaks or amazing monsters could we end up with? Games in general need new mechanics in play, as a lot of games are just stale mechanics that have existed since the 90s or earlier. Recent developments in gaming has shown inventory management and optimization seems to be popular, so maybe monsters could have a Soul of varying shapes and sizes, and every time you fuse your monsters it changes shape and size. The soul itself could basically be a puzzle of spaces with randomized or thematic areas within it that have different benefits depending on what kind of pieces of experience you socket into them. New skills, more stats, passives, etc, could have additional bonuses applied to them based on where you put them in the Soul, but you need to fit the piece in, since different experiences would have different sizes and shapes. Some could influence and affect the other pieces around them too, or not want to be near other experiences, something like negative experiences that are powerful but don't like being around others. Hope to see something like this in a monster taming game in the future.
This is exactly how I feel too. I went down the monster taming list on Steam, and tried the Anode Heart demo which is inspired by Digimon World, one of my favourite games of all time, monster taming or otherwise. But I couldn't get into it, and I haven't been able to get into modern Digimon or Pokemon games either. I feel like we have prettier games but the design behind them is a remix of the old with less of a deeper purpose and intention besides being spiritual successors. The reason why I loved Digimon and Pokemon as a kid was because I felt invested and part of the world, and the world in turn felt alive. The games then from now are "functionally" equivalent, but at the time that was the extent of mechanics and ways of play they could pull to create a convincing world, today you have a lot more to work with and expand from. As an example, why not make a Pokemon-esque game where every individual monster has some color/pattern or even physical variation? Or if you had a monster similar to Diglett that evolves into multiples of itself, why not let it "evolve" by meeting memebers of its own kind that jive with it in the open and then they become an inseperate group? Or armor, why not make your mons wear armor, or clothing that you can see on them. These are just tiny changes that could've been made 10, 20 years ago, let alone what ideas could've come out today.
Yanno if Dark prince released on PS4/5, i feel like it would not have the frame rate issue and likely be sped up enough by being on an `actual` console that could handle large chunky open zone & poorly optimized games. This is kind of one of the many reasons i am glad i got to dodge the bullet with that game, due to the Demo giving me a `good view` of a potentially CLUNKY experience, unlike how i ended up getting DQ treasures, forced myself to stomach thru the terrible designs to atleast beat the game then deleted it from my storage and traded that game back in then copium it would get `fixed` later, months down the line when much better titles could of released during that span instead. Switch these days outside of games with some `real` black magic in optimization like Astral Chain & Legend of Zelda`s two open world entries, feels like anything that aint on a indie game tier, are just buggie messes right out of the gate or even worst, feel more like mobile games then actual 60 dollar price games, while being wedge into a controller play, if not simply yet another `entry` to some long running series, which a good deal of them feel like giant downgrades, while also trying to shovel DLC in your face to `fix` its problems, then simply deliver a complete polished title to make that 60 dollar price tag worth it. It kind of sucks that Moonstone island & Casette beasts never came to playstation (for now) since i`ve been trying to separate myself from multi-platform crazies, despite owning a PC that i need to replace its graphics card but couldnt due to price scalpers (aka ended up me falling out of PSO2 NGS in the early days), a Switch (only because i could not get a PS5 cause of price scalpers) and then a PS5 (only because i manage to get a friend to sell me an extra PS5 during a previous cyber monday, they acquired at a fair price, even if it was the no disc version, but atleast came with GoW Ragnarok to make up for it that lost of flexibility). Sadly between Grand blue fantasy: Relink, Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Rebirth, Persona 3 Reload (i might have to consider skipping on the latter for a while due to so many titles) coming basically on february, this does not really give me any room to give a second chance that title, Even if they suddenly announce Dark prince is finally coming to Playstation next year. If i can free myself of my remaining switch games, i might be able to finally put the Switch to rest and be further pushed to re-awaken my PC connections (praise Steam & modding scene for extra funsies to REALLY extend the life of solid titles or just straight up fix issues that the devs of said game are too lazy to address), but it just never helps when one can miss out on alot of specific console exclusivity games, but atleast the Xbox does not really have any of that worth to note.
Imagine putting DQM the dark prince in number 1 over cassette beasts, i guess its your personal list so its fine i guess. But I would not recommend dark prince to anyone, the game has really poor optimization, really bad graphics even for switch standards, terrible story and the worst offender of it all: DAY 1 DLC. They literally cut content that should be in the main game to sell it to you as a dlc, and to make it worse, the "mole hole" mechanic from dlc has p2w elements, so if you want to play pvp you pretty much need the DLC.
@@Brahaja mad because i'm right, you can't even make an argument and just go straight to being toxic. Guess the community for the game is just as bad as the game lol
@@eduardolima4171 I’m just dumbfounded that someone could be mad at some RUclipsrs opinion. You could be right, idk, but you need to log off the internet instead of displaying such ire to a stranger over children’s games
@@Brahaja And since when i'm mad at the Gym leader Ed? I didnt show anger anywhere in my comment LMAO. I literally just said that I wouldnt recommend the game to anyone, and especified why, since this video IS recommending it. I felt the need to make sure people know about the bad things too. You are the weirdo here that needs to get off the internet, especially after that first comment of yours that you in fact DELETED, go touch grass.
Basement dweller spotted. Why is it every single time there's a new Dragon Quest the mentally ill haters come out of the woodwork like vermin? Shoo, Away with you. Nobody wants you on this great channel
Wanted to thank you again for turning me onto Cassette Beasts. If not for you, I'd honestly have passed by a wonderful experience.
Oh and more music although they did a good job on the port
I just would like more original songs or remixes
For a way to change the music when you're walking around or battling.
Much like how l dragon quest did it?
Game is great but I am pissed I haven’t finished it due to the weird setup for the final boss. I tried several things but eventually gave up shortly after. Hopefully I can come back to the game at some point and give it a proper finish and try the DLC
I'm developing a monster taming game. I hope that one day it'll be featured in this channel.
Me too 🖤 you can accomplish anything you put your mind too. Wish you a smooth journey with lots of success!!
Also Ed as someone who subscribed to you when kindred fates did their Kickstarter you have no idea how happy and proud of what you’ve been able to achieve here’s hoping 2024 will be another great year and that you’ll have even better success in it
Cassette Beasts’s sticker system was revolutionary. Mixing and matching the stickers allowed you to get to a point where you can make some crazy combos that end up almost breaking the game. But it made you feel like you were the one who “designed” the monsters to make it powerful, instead of the game just handing you a super broken thing. You had to work for it and I think that’s what sets this game apart from the rest for me.
I was really happy when I stumbled upon your channel because monster taming is probably my favorite genre. I love Pokémon and the Dragon Quest Monsters series. I’ve tried so many monster taming games over the years and I’m always looking for more. I’ll definitely be watching your channel.
Thanks again for your Cassette Beats review. Totally glossed over its trailer, but end up being one of the most fun games I tried this year.
Will get DQM once it enter on sale. Meanwhile, thinking in getting Monster Sanctuary and Adore.
Thank you for putting me on to a lot of great games this year cassette beasts was by far my favorite game to play this year even compared to aaa like ff16 and spiderman 2. Glad i found your channel hope you have a happy new year and too many more great monster tamer games next year as well.
I don't always watch this channel, but when I do, I find a new game to play.
Thanks for all the content.
Cassette Beasts might by my number 1 game of the year period. If I had a chance to play more of Alan Wake 2 and DQM:DP that would probably change, but I don't see that changing by end of the day.
I got SMT5 and DQ Monsters for Christmas, so i'm pretty good on monsters games.
A game i'm enjoying (not sure if it counts as Monster Taming) is Slime Rancher, addicted since i bought it for Christmas in a Sale. Also thanks for your content over the years and i enjoy posting the Paldecks.
Nice list! Anode Heart was definitely my #1 monster tamer last year so I hope you get to finish it!
Very solid list Ed I was expecting cassette beasts to be #1 but this only makes me more excited to play DQM when i succeed in buying it
I started playing Pokémon again a few years ago during the COVID. My first love is fly fishing however I needed something else to occupy my mind after watching everything on streaming channels and bought a DS and started playing the old Pokémon, then I got a switch and started looking for a new Monster Taming games. Found your channel and watch your review for TemTem. Bought it and LOVED it. Then I heard about Dark Prince and pre ordered it got it and started playing. I fell behind your play through at the outset because of all the monster you cold combine. I’ve been playing when I can, but not as much, because of work and my own RUclips stuff, but I am about 40 percent done with the games and have played almost 100 hours just synthesizing monsters. It is by far the best monster taming game I’ve played since the original Dragon Warrior Monster game from back in the day. Still sad the green dragon is only a E tho. Great work and keep it up.
If only DQM wasn't a switch exclusive😢
I dont mind it, the Switch doesnt really have anything
I found this channel from like one month and i have watched all the old and new vids and became one of my fav channels and i wait for everything new from u .... much love from egypt
Thx for 2023 Ed and have a great 2024. Ps. I hope you find time to finish Digimon Next Order :D it was very entertaining to watch
Happy New Year! Great end of year video :)
Hopefully, there will be a new Digimon world game
This sounds crazy but I miss the original pooping sounds and cry's that your Digimon would make
Oh and how they evolved in the original seem more intense in MY OPINION of course
The evolutions actually felt like a big deal in DMW1
Just came across your channel, instantly subbed.
I've been telling everyone to play Digimon since forever. It's such an amazing game. I play it for stress relief.
Thanks for the recommendations. I have played Coromon before though.
I got DQM a few days ago and have not been able to stop playing, it's so charming and fun. I'd say my only real complaint is Rose's early game personality, it's kind of creepy, but the game itself is great.
I'm still confused about the Coromon Demo being boring and the pineapple heads of the main chars. I think the only surely good thing for me here was Cassette Bests.
I'm in some kind of love hate relationship with Dragon Quest.
DQM 3 Professional, DQM Cobi and Tara’s marvellous mysterious key are games that only released in Japan but had 3 times the content and polish of Dark Prince. I’m pretty made they were made first but not released to English.
Great work as always
I can recommend Coromon in terms of quality / style / story and design.
I grew up on all Pkmn games - lately tried Monster Sanctuary ( iz good ) and Nexomon ( also good )
Next Order also just came out on PC for those with no Switch
Seems like the best pokemon-like games are all releasing in 2024. 2024 will be a good year for monster tamers.
Cassette beasts be bussin
5. Was originally going to buy this game but the negative reviews made me hold off. I am not sure how much I would enjoy the mechanics of this game even as a huge digimon fan, but maybe I will wait for a sale and give this game a go at some point 🤔
4. No idea how much I would like this game given the management sim aspects but hey it’s coming to switch so it may be worth my time!
3. So excited to play this game for the first time, probably going to be the first game I start in 2024!
2. The only game on this list I played and while I did love it, I did have a few issues with it, namely the progression feeling a bit more Zelda than Pokemon, and the setup for the final boss being convoluted to the point that I have not finished the game. May go back to do it if I can figure out what I need to do but not thrilled I didn’t beat the game in one playthrough!
1. I used to love this series, wasn’t dying to buy this game at launch but I will likely buy it on sale at some point! I also need to finish watching your guide videos on the game since it seems like they made some nice updates to this game since the last entry!
Well, I'm gonna have to play all of these
Dqm is awful compared to Cassette beasts story. You should've had Cassette beasts at #1! They deserved it.
The only thing I don't like about DQ Monsters is that I feel like there's nothing to do after you finish the game. And up until you finish the game you can't really synthesize new monsters that easily as well. It's kinda hard :3
Honestly if it wasn't for BG3, a game I also played as a Monster Tamer as I played as a Beastmaster Ranger lol.
Cassette Beasts would have been my game of the year. But comes in second.
Dragon Quest Monsters is basically Dragon Quest SMT and that concept alone sounds fucking awesome to me
Also excitement at random Monster Rancher mention cuz im heavily biased
If cassete beasts was real it would make this world more fun
Honestly I don’t really consider moonstone island that much of a farming game at. The focus is much more on the adventure and deck building. You basically mostly farm for potions and that’s it.
For some reason, Cassette Beast didn't click with me and my son. Though we love Nexomon (both). For that reason I am afraid to buy Coromon. DQM is the rightful winner offcourse!
you will love coromon, believe it!
Coromon is awesome 👌 well worth it
is IOS steam version of coromon is cross save?
I want all of these
WHAT is that first song from… so familiar omg
Look I loved Coromon and it really is one the best monster tamers out there but Cassette Beasts just has so much not going for it for me. It's got so much passion and creativity behibd it, honestly my favourite monster tamer overall.
Whether or not you like Cassette Beasts depends on what you are looking for in a monster tamer. If you want a game more similar to pokemon, you should probably get coromon, but if you want something that breaks from the formula more and adds a bit of Zelda to the mix, Cassette Beasts is your best bet!
@@JRJuggernaut1the major problem I have with Cassette Beasts is the fact that it misses what makes Mon-Tamers so appealing. Monsters are the stars. Monsters matter. It's not just humans going around and beating up everything that doesn't look like them. There's nuance, in spite of some questionable traits (like forcing monsters to fight each other).
Cassette Beasts does away with all that. There's no bonding between humans and monsters. The monsters are just something for humans to beat up and collect data from. And they AREN'T the stars. HUMANS are. THEIR lives don't matter. They're just there for humans to beat up and harvest data from. It's a mon-tamer, a genre that usually shows me a different side of humanity, that does the exact opposite of other mon-tamers.
If it was just mildly popular with a dedicated following, I could accept that, but no. People are spewing out endless praise for the game to the point of playing down other mon-tamers. It's treated as a masterpiece that is better than every other game out there, and you MUST play this game. THAT is why Cassette Beasts pisses me off so much. It's a "game about imagination" with a twist that spits in the face of imagination, and it severely overshadows games that FAR better capture the imagination behind the genre. It is, in one hyphenated word: the Anti-Mon-Tamer.
@@baalfgames5318honestly I don’t know how much I agree with everything you just said but you are also definitely onto something. Personally the bonding with your monsters was never the biggest pull for me in this genre but I do agree it can add a lot to certain games! Still, even if I cared more about that my issues would be with the design, something that can definitely be improved but we shall see, but I agree the game got a little more praise than it deserved imo, since it’s not quite the game I think people claim it to be, even if I did really enjoy it a lot overall! Curious to see if I prefer Coromon and Gen I begin playing that soon!
@@JRJuggernaut1 Honestly, i agree with the designs. The Steam page shows them fusing the pangolin with the kangaroo, and honestly, the fusion of those two's the only monster I even sorta liked. The rest just feel so emotionless and there's not even one really good chonk or muscleguy design in the game, which tend to be my favorites.
@@baalfgames5318 sorry I meant the game design in terms of structure. I didn’t love all the monster designs but my real issue came down to how the game was structured more like a Zelda game than a monster taming game or pokemon clone. I liked the archangel dungeons and boss fights, but the leaders being people you just find on the map and fight I found to be less than engaging!
All good choices.
Loved the vídeo, just the way i like it.
Lol we all knew dq monsters and cassette beasts wud be top 2 but u wud have a hard time choosing which 1 for top spot😂
Wish D.Q.M. The Dark Prince was on steam
Sept 11
i wanted to like dark prince, i was very excited to play the demo, but the lack of fine tuning and graphic fidelity compared to echoes of the past was a huge turn off. and yeah i shouldn't hold a spinoff to the same standard as a mainline game, but i just can't get past the bad taste the environment design of the game gives me. it almost comes off as cheap
surprised anode heart isnt on the list
I never got to play through it fully
Played through all of Coromon recently and it's very meh IMO. The story is *so so* boring. It's *really* weak and superficial, which, to me, was a huge shame because the gameplay is not bad. The 'puzzles' for each dungeon are based on timing rather than logic and have zero tolerance for error making it an awful experience, specially on mobile. Took around 28hrs to complete the game and I don't think I'll be playing again :/
I was excited for DQ Monsters for years until I saw it got no budget. I am quite resistant to poor graphics but apart from the models, seeing the 3DS like textures on everything else is so jarring. They established some sort of bar with DQXI so seeing how they went backwards by 14 years with Monsters makes it impossible for me to follow.
I wish moon stone island came out on switch 😢
Its coming in spring!
@@GymLeaderEd thanks for letting me know! I can't wait to play it! ☺️
other than digimon and dragon quest those games look very "Modern Audience". Guess Japan does it best
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I've had no interesting most of these, but I did get Coromon when it originally came out and while I didn't finish it because my brother fell behind and we were playing side by side so I stopped at one point, it was pretty good. Dragon Quest Monsters I've wanted an expanded version of the monster combat system since DQ8, but idk, maybe I've just gotten older but the monsters and stuff just didn't catch my eye enough to sell me on getting it. There's just something about game mechanics built into the side of a game, like monster taming these rare encounters and using them in an arena, that really makes things special. Gives you a reason to explore, find things you cannot beat at the time and revisit, etc, as a bonus to the game you are already playing.
Overall, a very lame year for monster taming games for me. REALLY looking forward to the potential AI generation will bring to the table moving forward. Content should be plentiful, fusions can give you several different freshly generated outputs and you choose your favorites, etc. Multi-generational fusions can be a thing and it follows a formula for deciding what each fusion/generation is capable of, and maybe you only get like 3-5 generations before its maxed on the number of times it can fuse. What kind of freaks or amazing monsters could we end up with?
Games in general need new mechanics in play, as a lot of games are just stale mechanics that have existed since the 90s or earlier. Recent developments in gaming has shown inventory management and optimization seems to be popular, so maybe monsters could have a Soul of varying shapes and sizes, and every time you fuse your monsters it changes shape and size. The soul itself could basically be a puzzle of spaces with randomized or thematic areas within it that have different benefits depending on what kind of pieces of experience you socket into them. New skills, more stats, passives, etc, could have additional bonuses applied to them based on where you put them in the Soul, but you need to fit the piece in, since different experiences would have different sizes and shapes. Some could influence and affect the other pieces around them too, or not want to be near other experiences, something like negative experiences that are powerful but don't like being around others. Hope to see something like this in a monster taming game in the future.
This is exactly how I feel too. I went down the monster taming list on Steam, and tried the Anode Heart demo which is inspired by Digimon World, one of my favourite games of all time, monster taming or otherwise. But I couldn't get into it, and I haven't been able to get into modern Digimon or Pokemon games either. I feel like we have prettier games but the design behind them is a remix of the old with less of a deeper purpose and intention besides being spiritual successors. The reason why I loved Digimon and Pokemon as a kid was because I felt invested and part of the world, and the world in turn felt alive. The games then from now are "functionally" equivalent, but at the time that was the extent of mechanics and ways of play they could pull to create a convincing world, today you have a lot more to work with and expand from. As an example, why not make a Pokemon-esque game where every individual monster has some color/pattern or even physical variation? Or if you had a monster similar to Diglett that evolves into multiples of itself, why not let it "evolve" by meeting memebers of its own kind that jive with it in the open and then they become an inseperate group? Or armor, why not make your mons wear armor, or clothing that you can see on them. These are just tiny changes that could've been made 10, 20 years ago, let alone what ideas could've come out today.
am broke i cant buy them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yanno if Dark prince released on PS4/5, i feel like it would not have the frame rate issue and likely be sped up enough by being on an `actual` console that could handle large chunky open zone & poorly optimized games. This is kind of one of the many reasons i am glad i got to dodge the bullet with that game, due to the Demo giving me a `good view` of a potentially CLUNKY experience, unlike how i ended up getting DQ treasures, forced myself to stomach thru the terrible designs to atleast beat the game then deleted it from my storage and traded that game back in then copium it would get `fixed` later, months down the line when much better titles could of released during that span instead.
Switch these days outside of games with some `real` black magic in optimization like Astral Chain & Legend of Zelda`s two open world entries, feels like anything that aint on a indie game tier, are just buggie messes right out of the gate or even worst, feel more like mobile games then actual 60 dollar price games, while being wedge into a controller play, if not simply yet another `entry` to some long running series, which a good deal of them feel like giant downgrades, while also trying to shovel DLC in your face to `fix` its problems, then simply deliver a complete polished title to make that 60 dollar price tag worth it.
It kind of sucks that Moonstone island & Casette beasts never came to playstation (for now) since i`ve been trying to separate myself from multi-platform crazies, despite owning a PC that i need to replace its graphics card but couldnt due to price scalpers (aka ended up me falling out of PSO2 NGS in the early days), a Switch (only because i could not get a PS5 cause of price scalpers) and then a PS5 (only because i manage to get a friend to sell me an extra PS5 during a previous cyber monday, they acquired at a fair price, even if it was the no disc version, but atleast came with GoW Ragnarok to make up for it that lost of flexibility).
Sadly between Grand blue fantasy: Relink, Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Rebirth, Persona 3 Reload (i might have to consider skipping on the latter for a while due to so many titles) coming basically on february, this does not really give me any room to give a second chance that title, Even if they suddenly announce Dark prince is finally coming to Playstation next year.
If i can free myself of my remaining switch games, i might be able to finally put the Switch to rest and be further pushed to re-awaken my PC connections (praise Steam & modding scene for extra funsies to REALLY extend the life of solid titles or just straight up fix issues that the devs of said game are too lazy to address), but it just never helps when one can miss out on alot of specific console exclusivity games, but atleast the Xbox does not really have any of that worth to note.
Coromon bored me in the first 30 minutes.
Imagine putting DQM the dark prince in number 1 over cassette beasts, i guess its your personal list so its fine i guess. But I would not recommend dark prince to anyone, the game has really poor optimization, really bad graphics even for switch standards, terrible story and the worst offender of it all: DAY 1 DLC. They literally cut content that should be in the main game to sell it to you as a dlc, and to make it worse, the "mole hole" mechanic from dlc has p2w elements, so if you want to play pvp you pretty much need the DLC.
lol shut up, you doofus.
@@Brahaja mad because i'm right, you can't even make an argument and just go straight to being toxic. Guess the community for the game is just as bad as the game lol
@@eduardolima4171 I’m just dumbfounded that someone could be mad at some RUclipsrs opinion. You could be right, idk, but you need to log off the internet instead of displaying such ire to a stranger over children’s games
@@Brahaja And since when i'm mad at the Gym leader Ed? I didnt show anger anywhere in my comment LMAO. I literally just said that I wouldnt recommend the game to anyone, and especified why, since this video IS recommending it. I felt the need to make sure people know about the bad things too. You are the weirdo here that needs to get off the internet, especially after that first comment of yours that you in fact DELETED, go touch grass.
Basement dweller spotted. Why is it every single time there's a new Dragon Quest the mentally ill haters come out of the woodwork like vermin? Shoo, Away with you. Nobody wants you on this great channel
Who miss coromon
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DQM #1? That game was so so so painfully boring
I disagree but youre allowed to have that opinion
1º is cyber sleugh digimon
It didnt come out in 2023
@@GymLeaderEd the great mods for it did
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