350,000+ people have played Cassette Beasts
350,000+ people have played Cassette Beasts
Get ready for a meaty read today as we dive into the design philosophy of Cassette Beasts!
350k players is criminally low for this game, especially considering it's on game pass.
It's not a perfect game, but it's exceedingly well crafted. And plenty of large studios (starting with Game Freak) should be taking notes on how to do an open world game that doesn't feel soulless or pointless.
I was thinking about trying it. I've always wanted to like Pokemon, but every video of it I've watched just makes it seem incredibly childish with the most boring combat system I've ever seen.
But, I like the idea of collecting Pokemon and needing to really search to complete a collection. But, I just can't get past the apparently boring combat.
This cassette theme seems interesting, but is the combat interesting at all?
It's much better than Pokémon imo, but if you don't like JRPGs at all you probably won't enjoy it.
I am surprised it's not more.
It's super charming, has many interesting twists on the pokémon formula, a great ost, monster designs are good... it should be up there with other beloved indies.
Well for what it's worth, this post is somehow the first I've heard of this game and I instantly bought it. It looks rad as hell! Idk how this game flew under my radar
Monster designs look super lame. I don't know why every single one of those games has to go this kiddie route. They just end up competing with Pokemon, instead of actually filling other niches. Where are the games with super edgy beasts like dragons, big ass monsters, demons, angels, etc? Maybe let me frankenstein their body parts together that I rip off from the bloody battles to create my own custom monsters and eventually turn them into world destroying behemoths.
Because people like pokemon that's why.
There's plenty of games with "edgy monsters" and I literally always forget them. But a fucking crab with a traffic cone for a shell? I will NEVER forget.
Besides the last franchise that tried to compete with Pokemon on top of adding the edgy monsters was Digimon and that's...questionable at best.