Monster Crown

so many bugs in this creature collector game

On the routes, monsters just sort of constantly spawn in your vicinity and run right for you. I imagine they wanted to avoid the random encounter style of pokemon, but came up with something way worse. After being bombarded by non-random encounters along the path to town, you then find that the not-Pokemon Center isn't free. I did not find any source of extra money on the road, so I cannot speak to how realistic it is to heal your monsters with any regularity. Battles are slow; I didn't see any battle speed settings. Hope you enjoy "Advantageous Attribute!" being displayed for two seconds every single attack. The one saving grace is that it doesn't appear that losing results in Game Over, so it arguably isn't that unforgiving, it's just not fun.

Janky bug-ridden slow mess that can LITERALLY softlock your game in every menu. Slow prompt responses and inconsistent skip button mechanics means you are going to be missing a lot of important choices and dialogue options Worst of all the devs KNOW their game is a janky mess and still instead of fixing it they do a cash grab for a sequel. I wanted to like this game so bad, it promised so many good mechanics but I've had to restart my game from scratch 3 times because of railroad softlocks. I don't mean reload my game, I mean restart my game from scratch and losing all the monster friends I have gathered. I've played Pokemon since Gen1, Digimon, Monster Rancher, and I wanted so much for this to be a reminder of those times, and from the art and the hype it should totally be that But so janky, unintuitive and frustrating that I cannot even try a fourth time.

i played sin eater first. since it was so good and i am awaiting the endgame updates, i decided to play the original while i waited. Very worth playing, there are a lot of things this game actually does better than the sequel. like the chief tamers and level capping. It does suffer from some indie game jank that can softlock your save but the developers did work out a solution with the press 9 to go home, which is amazing and convenient

Nothing like a game so bad I can start the review before beating it. And oh brother, Monster Crown is bad, barely reaching the level of a gen 1 Pokemon romhack and struggling for beta if not alpha functionality. MC is a throwback, a 16-bit 2D game trying to look 8-bit with catchy if simplistic music, a strange little world to explore and a deeper than it seems system of gathering dozens of fun little monsters to dog fight with. MC needs to be legally distinct so monsters seek strength and agree to pacts(pokeballs) to serve humans, gyms are chiefs, the pokecenter charges you, that kinda thing. It's a modern but medieval world absent any authority past your own monster gang but kings still rule and gangsters(two separate groups) run around as 1920s mobster pastiches. It's got that sub-$10 indie soul I appreciate in a flawed but admirable title. MC will be shedding the word admirable very soon. It's not bad at first, just a little weird and I can respect that somebody took a crack at the good ol' monster battler formula. What I can't respect is how unpleasant it is to play. Things start off dodgy but forgivable. Clunky UI, constant sound errors, busted scaling in buildings, poor dia…

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