I saw this one on one of the GDQs, and it looked like fun. It's not really my genre of choice, but I'm still a little tempted to pick it up.
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Don't forget to mention the great music! It's called cassette beasts after all!
The OST is fire!
Look up same old story and cross your heart
I dont need to look up, I just said the music is great
Yeah, my bad.
It was meant for other people who would have read the chain of comments
Can confirm that Cassette Beasts is a great game. I haven't been able to try the new update yet but I'm looking forward to it!
I have been meaning to hit up a friend to play the multiplayer mode with them. That was a new thing that was added since I played it
Clicked to ask if you crossposted to discounted game communities, was pleased to see I didn't actually need to ask because you have already done that.
Tbh I didn't intentionally do that, so I think there much be some kind of trigger on this sub to automatically cross-post?
(edit: and to be clear, I'm glad it does!)
Just checked the links, since you said you did not crosspost.
It'll say it was crossposted if it is the same link, even if someone else posted it and it was years ago. This is not perfect of course, sometimes I have posted the same link in three relevant communities and you would think each post would have two links: one for each other community, but each post only has one link.
I really liked what they did with type matching too, and that shines literally are a different type, had an absolute blast with the game, plays really well on the deck (though it absolutely eats battery life), sticker system was really cool too, just in general they really did a stellar job of interesting systems and the story was interesting too.
Thinking about it now, I kinda almost want to call it a Pokémon/Golden Sun like? Golden sun had a really awesome system with Djinns where mixing different elements and changing if they were set would literally change that characters class, granted them totally different powers and stats, I'm operating on memory since it's been a long time but it's an amazing game, easily my favourite GBA title and I knew there was another game it was reminding me of.
I loved the types — the creativity in them really helped this to feel like the love letter to Pokémon that it is, rather than just a clone. It felt so new and fresh, almost like playing Pokemon for the first time.
This is exactly how I feel about it. It feels like the creators love and were inspired by Pokemon, but aren't just making a carbon copy. There are so many Pokemon-clones out there, it's great to see that Cassette Beasts merely took only the most basic foundations of Pokemon and truly built their own original game on top of that foundation, rather than trying to rebuild the exact same structure.
For the battery life problem, try to force the usage of Proton. The native Linux version got a prety nasty power bug going on.
Great game if you like simple turn-based combat, definitely a steal at this price
Just bought it
It's way better than pokemon
Except for Meredith, I hate her
Hahaha yeah it took awhile for her to grow on me but I ended up pretty fond of her by the end of it.
And yes, I liked it more than any Pokemon game, but tbh I think it's such a different thing that it doesn't even feel entirely accurate to directly compare them in that way
Seems cool, thanks for sharing