I felt like it was going to take forever and ever to get anywhere, especially since any attempt to flee an unwinnable battle puts you back at home, with a whole maze full of monsters to navigate through over and over again. It felt very much like the idea of old style Pokémon I have in my head, which I realize is a terrible indication of any kind of quality since I absolutely no not of which I speak. Someone please tell me I’m not the only one who makes cheat sheets for these types of games?Īll in all, at least for me, it seemed … fine … if you’re into this sort of game. Thankfully, there are only five types, and they’re color-coded, so if the descriptors aren’t working for you, you can just make a cheat sheet with the colors. Most of these games give their critters elemental designations, but Monster Crown elects to use an even more obtuse system of adjectives. Or I could be just bad at this type of game, and most folks will triumph without issues. There are wild monsters pretty much everywhere, and this is good, because you’re going to need to battle pretty much all of them to level up your team to a point where you have any prayer of beating the boss monsters. I didn’t get far, by all the monsters I offered pacts to took them. You can swap to other active monsters on your team anytime it’s your turn, and if you want to add a monster to your team, instead of throwing a ball at it, you simply offer it a pact to either accept or decline. There’s a permadeath option for those hard core monster tamers, but it is off by default, thank god. You choose which monster to take into battle, and then your monster and the wild monster take turns trying to beat the snot out of each other. Maybe most folks play these types of games with a controller, even on PC, but at least the keys are re-bindable.Ĭombat is typical of the genre. If you’ve been playing a variety of genres with a keyboard for any period of time, I feel like this is never the control scheme you want. Surely it must be possible to make a game controller friendly without relying on the right hand on the arrow keys, left hand is for Z and X scheme that makes me dislike a game from the get go. Mind you, I’m already a bit grumpy at the keyboard controls. It ended pretty much the way you’d expect. Here I am absolutely about to attempt to pick a fight I am in no way ready for. This is why I was not the right person to take a look at Monster Crown, but also why I couldn’t stop myself. However, the fact remains that, other than a lingering infatuation with the Siralim series of games and a mighty obsession with pet battles in World of Warcraft, I have bounced hard off of every creature collection RPG I’ve ever played. Maybe it’s just because I want a horde of cute little monsters to help me take over the world. Maybe it’s the fact that the people in my life who love them are so passionate about them. ![]() So why am I always trying to get into creature collection RPGs? I honestly couldn’t tell you. Sure, I occasionally dabbled in Super Mario Bros or Duck Hunt while visiting friends, I didn’t own my first Nintendo console until the Switch, and the only Pokémon games I’ve ever played were Pokemon GO! on my phone, and New Pokémon Snap, which is definitely not a creature collector or an RPG. This darker, more mature creature collector has a retail price of $19.99, and will take around 13 hours to complete the main quest, according to HowLongToBeat.ĭespite being of approximately the right age to have had a Nintendo childhood (or at least, Nintendo teenagerhood), I did not grown up in a console kind of home. ![]() Monster Crown is another creature-collecting RPG which is heavily influenced by the Pokémon games, and because of this, I might be the absolute worst person to be taking a look at it. And like every other type of game that makes a big impression, there will be many who try to make a game just as good – or better, even – than the original. Even if you’ve never played a single Pokémon game, you can probably identify one or more of it’s signature creatures. There’s no question about it – Pokémon is a cultural phenomenon.
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