This Game is More Than Just a Pokémon Clone and Deserves Your Attention 

That's actually a good idea

The name Remix is actually used in game already. Remixes are the game's version of evolution for you beasts, and many beasts have branching and hidden evolution routes.

@@WilliamSyler oh right I forgot that was what evolutions were called

they could've called it a mashup

@@WilliamSyler Actually those are Remasters. IMO Bootlegs should’ve been Remixes, and Fusions could’ve been Collabs or something.

Yeah I loved how the battles and music actually are connected like that

@@ConnorRascal Both versions of the music is dance worthy by themselves and some of them just makes me want to dance and sing

@@arachineatzeer7478 If this OST released on cassette, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Like genuinely one of my favorite game OSTs

Wait shinies actually matter now?

@@TrulyAtrocious yeah they do, and they actually spawn a reasonable amount

Yo-kai Watch and an Brooklyn 99 fan! You dropped this king👑

Tell me about it. She does deliver a good "Shut Up, Hannibal!" to him, though. XD

Pokemon wasn't even the first game with the idea. (shin) megami tensei to my knowledge did the whole monster taming thing first and monster taming as an element was also present in games such as dragon quest V. Sure pokemon definitely put it's own spin on the concept and has obviously been extremely influential but it doesn't own the conept

Imo this isn't even a "Pokemon Clone" for me seems like an inspiration from Digimon Frontier, where the protagonist group transform into the Digimon to fight instead of sending them to fight.

Fossil Fighters is such a cool game, I like never hear anyone talk about it

@@ConnorRascal I love fossil fighters SO much :( They need to bring it back :(

​@@willtg4508 they did for the 3ds, but the battle system was changed to be more like Pokemon, they took away the rotation system and all the complexity it gave.

@@aynonymos yep I have that one, definitely didnt compare to frontiers

​@@ConnorRascal Jaiden Animations did a fun video following the story of her playthrough. It isn't really an analysis and didn't talk about the battle system. But honestly the game is carried by its writing and the "capture" mechanic equivalent.

Ah I forgot, ty for pointing that out

Yeah but pokemon is literally like, THE monster catching game, doom was just a good/popular game, but not THE game like pokemon is.

I think it's because after a while, things stop getting compared to what it's "cloning" because it becomes popular and people see that there's a lot of differences if you stop to have a deeper look

@@Zanaki113it was really Dragon Quest first.

It’s explicitly a game aping pokemon. The whole art style pf the monsters is just parodies of existing pokemon instead of just creating new stuff.

@@Theyungcity23 can you give some examples? (Time stamps please)

Yeah you're right Digimon is really different than pokemon, so it makes me sad when people just call it a pokemon rip off or clone.

@@ConnorRascal well people forget digimon was created as a series that themed around the tamagatchi items(without being specifically tamagatchi's but the toys they sold were), but pokemon had come out 2 years prior.

@@Purexfallenxangel90 Ok? That doesn't mean the people who call Digimon a Pokemon clone/ripoff are right. The fact its a spinoff of Tamagatchi kind of invalidates the whole "Digimon is a Pokemon ripoff" even more. I don't know what you're trying to say here dude.

@@ripleyandweeds1288 i was just saying that people forget the original reason why digimon existed (ie tamagachi) and due to pokemon being created 2 years prior is why others think its a "rip off" of pokemon when it wasnt.

@@ripleyandweeds1288 Kinda weird that that offended you, considering the fact that they were agreeing with OP and further explaining how different Pokemon and Digimon are.

I knew the name couldn’t just be a coincidence 😂😂

But were you in the same class/year/whatever they call it across the pond?

Yeah some are definitely better than others

imagine if that game had a community server where people were allowed to make custom fusion sprites so that they could be added into the game lol

Is it on Xbox game pass

@@bluefacestan1826 yes

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Did you just say Nexomon is uninspired and had no care put into it 💀💀💀 to be fair I played the second one so I can't judge on the first one if that's what you're commenting on but if we're both thinking of the same game then that could just honestly genuinely not be *FURTHER* from the truth. I put more hours into that game then some actual canon Pokémon games, and this is coming from someone that has genuinely tried to get back into stuff and hadn't managed to get into something in a way I can't put down in ages. That game is BRIMMING with nooks and crannies to explore, genuinely really funny dialogue, and bits and pieces and quests everywhere you look if you wanna find them, has an incredible artstyle and overall design and really really engaging main story- all while even making sure there's value in replayability and you can customise the game without changing the code in any way straight up in the menu to facilitate niche playstyles of the community like randomised encounters or nuzlockes or even heightening or lowering the difficulty. Like sure it's not a perfect game even if it gets pretty close and you also don't HAVE to like it, but like common my guy💀💀💀 don't just say there was no love put into it. It's very much doing its own thing not just a clone and going way harder at it then it had to.

@@Art-enjoyer_Fern Well, conversely, I haven't played the second one - I played the first one, and soon lost interest. Not saying it doesn't have some kind of value or care put into it, but you can't claim, with a straight face, that it isn't designed to be a Pokémon clone. It may be a GOOD clone - that's a matter of taste - and it may have all manners of sterling qualities on top of that, but it's still a Pokémon-game with the serial-number filed off, impossible to play without comparing it directly to its obvious inspiration. Cassette Beasts, though - which I've by now played and finished - ISN'T trying to be Pokémon, but very much its own thing. The similarities essentially stop at 'collectible monsters' - everything from how the monster-catching is handled, how you level up, how monsters get stronger, how items work, how you explore the world... it's all clearly distinct, and shows that the developers were trying to make a cool game about collecting monsters, not Pokémon: Steam Edition.

Nexomon also has a bunch of mobile ports

My man- Nexomon and Coromon aren't THAT much shit, jeez. I played Nexomon myself and loved it! G'jeez.

As someone who is a huge Coromon fan i disagree. Is it inspired by pokemon yes, but calling it a rip-off is just rude to devs who put a lot of time and effort into it.

I'm glad I'm not the only one lol

@@ConnorRascal i was kinda surprised when the next words about it matched the thoughts I was having. "Wasn't that kinda the theme of Fran- oh my goodness he went there!" Legitimately happy to see it referenced like this.

Which indie game are you talking about btw?

HOLY SHIT LIMBUS COMPANY MENTIONED

I’ve noticed this with quite a few videos talking about games that do “Pokémon but better.”

It is more like smt than it is pokemon, but it is more common(for me at least) to see games like this compared to pokemon because of how massive and well known of a franchise it is. But yeah you probs right

Sadly considering everyone who hails pokemon black and white would've literally loved smt4 if they knew it existed.

REAL

Sorry I didn't want to show too many to not rob the joy of discovery from anyone who was going to check the game out. I guess I should have showed a couple more

That would be a spinoff at this point. I am sure you know the dangers of changing the genre of a main series, right?

@@jirehtheprovider make sense. they might do a experimental on that

I wouldn't mind a spinoff in the Réburst universe

Yeah that's how I've heard it, but I've met some people who will die on the hill that's its like arSeus

@@ConnorRascal Hey! I'll be that guy! so *cough here I go.. If the original Japanese names are to be considered, because ya know, it's a Japanese game, then it is arSeus, [アルセウス] a-ru-SE-u-su. The [セ] is pronounced SE, not K. The english version being VERY similar (Arceus), doesn't really help your case my guy 😆. Nobody would argue about, for example "Gardevoir" since the original japanese name is very different. Gardevoir IS its own english name, but that's not the case with Arceus you know.

Yeah, that sounds more accurate, they were scanning creatures in Chaotic, not catching them

… How did I not realize that at first? O_O

Damn, you just made me way more interested in this game.

Baldurs hate isn't an indie game in the slightest, it's made by a large and well known studio

That's totally fair, different people have different preferences and vibe with different types of games

Kind of

My problem with TemTem and some other monster catching games are that the monster designs themselves aren't all that interesting. It feels like a lot of them just go with the "animal but with an element approach" and it turns out pretty bland. It's why I dropped Monster Sanctuary. Even though the game was mechanically really solid, none of the designs felt interesting to me

@@darienb1127 exactly

I haven't, I'll check it out!

There are two games in the series so far, one on the 3ds and one on steam. Both are fun, but it is not fully needed to play both to enjoy them.

How do you figure? MH Stories' Battle System is vastly different from this. For one, you have limited control over your monster's actions, unless you're riding them. However, you can predict what your monster is going to do because every monster has a certain personality and focuses on certain types of attacks. Which leads to the next point. You choose between three attacks: Power, Speed, and Technical. It works in a triangle system, Power beats Technical, Technical beats Speed and Speed beats Power. This comes into play when two monsters attack each other and basically go head-to-head, they deal damage to each other, but the monster that wins the clash does significantly more damage and fills the Kinship gauge. There's alot more to this than that, but you can see that it vastly different from this game.

I think the name was a reference to some piece of literature, but I'm not sure so don't take my word on that

Yeppp

Why though

Sometimes they are a clone. Cassette beasts thankfully isn't one

@@chronodis competition is epic. cuz then we win. look at GTA. they have no competition, so they get to do whatever they want, and we lose. competition makes companies have to keep improving to grab our attention

@Subreon yes but clones aren't competition, they're cheap copies that commonly get ignored